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I have been trying to hack out the time limit on the earliest TTO demo with a hex editor. I have tried changing all occurrences of 1933 to a larger date and that doesn't seem to have helped. If I try adding the number of days to 1930, it refuses to load. Does anyone else have ideas of what to try changing either separately from what I have tried or combined with that?

Search for 13 instead of 1933. Years at least for TTD(Patch) are usually 1920-based

Will try 13 next, I tried 12 since under my tests, it was crashing at 1932. I could only find one instance of 1920 in the exe. I have upped the three occurrences of 12 that were nearest to 1920 to 14 to see what happens.

Let's hope it works..

Could it be that there is a Demo flag that must be turned off?

Well upping them to 14 didn't change anything. I also tried changing every 12 to 14 and obviously I broke something as the game refused to load. I highly doubt the starting date of 1930 is important now that I checked intro dates for the release version of TTO and the first RV's are introed in 1926. I have no idea where to look for unlocking the other vehicle types and don't expect help with that.

That isn't so important compared to fixing the crash. Maybe if we packet sniff the game while it changes to 1932? The interesting part is, the year change works, but it crashes one day after.
Maybe we can set the start date to 1933?

roboboy wrote: I have no idea where to look for unlocking the other vehicle types

Gurluas2000 wrote: Maybe we can set the start date to 1933?

Use the force Gurluas2000 ... use the force, you can do it.


Edit:
Force is in this case start wars related only.
I would not want you saying at some point but he said it was OK ...

Gurluas2000 wrote:That isn't so important compared to fixing the crash. Maybe if we packet sniff the game while it changes to 1932? The interesting part is, the year change works, but it crashes one day after.
Maybe we can set the start date to 1933?

I think I tried that, but will try it again by replacing 10 near 1920 to 1940 in the morning. Would be interesting to know what Owen tried when he tried.

Indeed it would.. Maybe there is a flag we need to change somewhere?

Is the structure similar to the TTD exe?
The TTDPatch people must have documented it thoroughly.

I have never looked at the TTD exe, I don't believe there is much documentation on it even though I doubt it would help. I give in for now unless a dev can give me more sugestions on where to look and what to look for or tools to see why it crashes as I have no clue about debugging on DOS(Box).

Edit, I present a savegame saved on the 1st January 1932 the day before the crash. I may try and set it's date to a latter date, or even open it in OpenTTD.
Edit2, OpenTTD refused to open it.

roboboy wrote:I have never looked at the TTD exe, I don't believe there is much documentation on it even though I doubt it would help. I give in for now unless a dev can give me more sugestions on where to look and what to look for or tools to see why it crashes as I have no clue about debugging on DOS(Box).

Edit, I present a savegame saved on the 1st January 1932 the day before the crash. I may try and set it's date to a latter date, or even open it in OpenTTD.
Edit2, OpenTTD refused to open it.

Did setting it to a later date help?

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