09-27-2005, 04:34 PM
Hi, Thenryb,
I'm glad you replied before I got back here! As soon as I read LennyLen's reply, I thought, "Gee, I'm sure I played some HF solo-MP," but based on my multiple strike-outs last night, I might have concluded it was just my imagination.
After reading your reply, I thought, "I wonder if that hacked .dll is even still available anymore?"
I just discovered yesterday that Henjo's site is apparently gone. Hadn't checked to see if it was still around for a year or two, but couldn't access it last night or today.
Then scratched my head some more, remembered what a pack rat I am, and checked my Diablo Downloads directory. Lo-and-behold, I not only have that a copy of that modified .dll, I also have a tiny .exe file that will patch the HF file to allow MP play (at least solo-MP worked, I never attempted to play HF on-line).
As I remember the story, HF was concieved to allow MP play (I think, even on b.net), and the appropriate code was put into HF, but shortly before HF was released, Blizzard objected, so Sierra left the code in but just disabled it. Therefore, all that needed to be done was to inactivate the inactivation code! Or, maybe, reactivate the MP code; maybe that's why the two different methods of obtaining MP play that I downloaded?
Anway, re: the issue of an error message. Getting a different computer name only happened to me once (ever since then, I've made a point in a new Windows installation to choose my original Windows computer name, just in case I ever wanted to play pre-1.08 Diablo :whistling: ), and that was over 5 years ago, so I didn't remember exactly what happened. You are probably right that the characters just don't appear.
Anyway, I'm glad someone else knew about this, so I didn't think I was slipping even worse than I know I am! :P
Regards,
Dako-ta
"We should have our minds open, but not so open that our brains fall out."
- Allen Ross Anderson
Thenryb,Sep 27 2005, 02:30 PM Wrote:But there is a modified dll which allows you to play HF and multiplayer mode, and Jim and I used to play it a lot together on Kali. ... I suspect Dakota's theory about the computer name probably has some validity. What I remember about the computer name thing is not that you receive an error message but that your characters simply do not show up when you launch a game. ...
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I'm glad you replied before I got back here! As soon as I read LennyLen's reply, I thought, "Gee, I'm sure I played some HF solo-MP," but based on my multiple strike-outs last night, I might have concluded it was just my imagination.
After reading your reply, I thought, "I wonder if that hacked .dll is even still available anymore?"
I just discovered yesterday that Henjo's site is apparently gone. Hadn't checked to see if it was still around for a year or two, but couldn't access it last night or today.
Then scratched my head some more, remembered what a pack rat I am, and checked my Diablo Downloads directory. Lo-and-behold, I not only have that a copy of that modified .dll, I also have a tiny .exe file that will patch the HF file to allow MP play (at least solo-MP worked, I never attempted to play HF on-line).
As I remember the story, HF was concieved to allow MP play (I think, even on b.net), and the appropriate code was put into HF, but shortly before HF was released, Blizzard objected, so Sierra left the code in but just disabled it. Therefore, all that needed to be done was to inactivate the inactivation code! Or, maybe, reactivate the MP code; maybe that's why the two different methods of obtaining MP play that I downloaded?
Anway, re: the issue of an error message. Getting a different computer name only happened to me once (ever since then, I've made a point in a new Windows installation to choose my original Windows computer name, just in case I ever wanted to play pre-1.08 Diablo :whistling: ), and that was over 5 years ago, so I didn't remember exactly what happened. You are probably right that the characters just don't appear.
Anyway, I'm glad someone else knew about this, so I didn't think I was slipping even worse than I know I am! :P
Regards,
Dako-ta
"We should have our minds open, but not so open that our brains fall out."
- Allen Ross Anderson