TTD startscreen

Arundel · Post by **Arundel** » 24 Nov 2002 12:21

I'd like in the next patch or in TT2 for the startscreen (where you select the game) I'd like the background to switch between different scences on TTD/TT2, like the sub-artic, then the sub-tropical and you get the picture.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 24 Nov 2002 13:20

So you would like this in the next version of the patch ?
That's why i moved this thread here !
Does anyone else want a changing background ?

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 13:59

Owen told me that the start-screen is a saved game...

He told me how to get it and how to access it, but I could't figure it out.
Owen, can you post the saved game here in the fourms? Thanks mate.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 24 Nov 2002 14:09

not difficult
you can find it here:
http://www.ttdpatch.com/tools.html#saves
it's a zipfile called titles.zip
but it's not a savedgame that you can access, it's called title.dat

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 14:11

Thanks spiff

But, it doesn't work, it's not a saved game nor a scenario..

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 24 Nov 2002 14:13

you're welcome, it's that what you were looking for i presume

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 14:14

It's a .dat file... not a .svO or those kinda files...

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 24 Nov 2002 14:18

no i told you, it's the menu screen, you can't do anything with it , just extract it and the trucks don't crash anymore

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 14:21

Oh, ok, but Owen told me that I can play with that 'saved game', we'll wait for his reply.
Anyway Thanks spiff!

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 24 Nov 2002 14:28

Yes, go under dos and copy title.dat to TRP00.SV1
then you can load it , i just did

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 14:39

Can you post the saved game here? Cus I don't know how to do that

Spiff Congrats,

you are aproaching the 2000 posts!

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 24 Nov 2002 15:20

here it is
and number 2000 is coming up today , i can feel it

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 15:40

Thanks, you still got plenty of time I believe....

So, we can get any of our saved games, change them into .dat and we can change the startscreen? Is that it?

Observer · Post by **Observer** » 24 Nov 2002 16:03

I guess so.. havent tried it yet... but I will

Observer · Post by **Observer** » 24 Nov 2002 16:55

Now I did...
I tried renaming one of my savegames to title.dat and run the game..
I only get the green scenariobase as a background...
so it means.. it does not work

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 16:56

Post by **orudge** » 24 Nov 2002 18:42

SV1Codec is your friend.

Creating your own TITLE.DAT

Ever wanted to replace the game that is used as a background for the TT's main menu with one of your own games? With SV1Codec, you can.

The key is the -td command line option. If you specify it while encoding a 'big' file, as in:

sv1codec "Fubar Transport.big" -td

SV1Codec will encode it as TITLE.DAT (overwriting an existing file if there's one, as usual -- you backed up the original TITLE.DAT, didn't you?), with the file checksum adjusted so that the file will be considered valid by TT.

To encode a 'big' file, you have to decode an existing savegame first. You can, however, transform an existing savegame into a 'big' file in one step, without decoding:

sv1codec -c -td trt42.sv1 title.dat

or

sv1codec -c -td trt42.sv1 ./

Note that you must use either the output file name ("title.dat") or the output directory ("./", which refers to the current directory) if you use this syntax.

It may be a bad idea to transform savegames that use TTDPatch extended vehicle array feature into TITLE.DAT unless you never run TTD without TTDPatch; if you run TTD on itself, it will crash when trying to load such an 'extended' TITLE.DAT.

Observer · Post by **Observer** » 24 Nov 2002 19:35

Thanks for being so alert Owen....

This is nice !

Mati · Post by **Mati** » 24 Nov 2002 19:39

This is so cool!

Observer, I wan't a screen of your Start-screen!

Post it here when you are done

Observer · Post by **Observer** » 24 Nov 2002 19:41

Im not going to at the moment.... maybe later ...
(btw post 200

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