EQ File Patcher

[Speedz]

Originally Posted by trevius

It would be nice if the emulator site here had something that would create the shortcut and maybe edit the eqhost.txt file automatically so new players would only have to download a file and run it in order to play on the Public EQEmu servers for the first time. I can make a batch file to edit the eqhost.txt file easy enough, but making a good shortcut that would work for everyone is a bit more complex via batch files only. Being able to switch from server to server that each use custom files without having to run from separate directories would be good as well.

I have a tool that I think would fit this description, but I am having issues with megaupload in trying to host it and it's source to you guys. Here is a screeny that shows its basic function. It is written in C# (as everything I'll ever make is).



As it shows, you enter one or more url at a time and can save it to a master list, select on the list and move it to a temp display that shows how the host will look. Then can save it or save and play. This also automatically passes the "patchme" so you never have to create a EQ shortcut. Just launch the game from here.

[Speedz]

woohoo figured it out, got it to upload finally. I guess it didn't like rar format or something....but anyway it will be in another thread.

[Fritzism]

Just something quick about the RAR extraction here, I just realized you can get it to dump the contents of a RAR into the EQpatcher.exe dir by changing the lines in patchlist.txt from (for example):

1 RAR patch1.rar to 1 FLD patch1.rar.

The only issue about that method I can see is that the RAR (patch1.rar in this example) isn't being deleted after you finish the patching. Is that what you were having problems with?