I just got back into modding and recently installed the latest version of Tiara. I've done everything as mentioned in the posts before this current one--updating HSUpdate, opening DATA Packer and modding every single file, and opening HSLaunch and Mabinogi as Administrators--and I'm still left with a Hack Shield Error message. Any remedies on such?
Once again I'm not in any way affiliated with the actual development of this mod but here is what I did in detail to install and make my mods work. Hope it helps!
Follow these steps and hopefully it'll work then:
1. Uninstalling mods: Run 'Data Packer.exe', hit Remove Mods, should say 'Restored' and close. Run 'Unofficial Tiaras Uninstaller.exe', select yes to remove all the prompts. Now your mabinogi folder should be unmodded; however, files are sometimes leftover so you can delete everything in the mabinogi folder and copy and paste over your backup (make sure the backup is patched up to date first).
PS - Should run the unmodded/backup version to make sure it runs properly/can log all the way into the game (Just run 'mabinogi.exe'
not 'Client.exe'. No need to run any hackshield first (should come up normally)
2. Run the installer for Tiara as admin (Unofficial Tiaras Moonshine Mod Divine Knights-V198.exe). Make sure you install directly into your Mabinogi folder (the one that has mabinogi.exe in it). Also make sure it is not creating a new folder to contain all the installed file in the mabinogi folder (mods wouldn't apply then).
3. On the selection menu for mods I suggest you check Abyss and the Logue mods (not sure if you need these for tiara to work but i'm pretty sure you do/doesn't hurt to check them). The rest you can choose yourself. (I suggest keeping the login screen Tiara icons so you can tell if the mods were applied when you run the client)
4. Hit next and the mods should start downloading into your mabinogi folder.
5. Now your installer will pull up Abyss.ini. This is the preference text file where you can toggle on and off certain mods. You can also do this in game by right clicking on the client window for options or typing in slash commands once you're in game. In this preference text file you should toggle on and off the mods you want. 1 = on and 0 = off. The mods are generally explained sufficiently in the preference file and they also explain the ones with parameters you can set. Make sure that the following is toggled on:
;Forces the Client read from the data folder before the pack files.
DataFolder=1
^If that is set to 0 then you will not have mods applied at all.
Hit save and close the file when you're done.
6. Now your installer may freeze here (that's okay) or it may pull up command prompt and run a bunch of text (this is fine too). If it freezes just simply close it via task manger (or right click close seems to work too). In either case you should then check your mabinogi folder to see if it looks like this:
http://imgur.com/a/ugpIL/embed#0If it looks like all the folders and files are in the correct places then you did step 2 correctly. If you find an extra folder where all the folders/files of the mods are in (data, autobot, data packer.exe, all the zh folders, etc.) then you did not do step 2 correctly and created a folder in your mabinogi folder. This can be fixed easily though by simply copying all the content in the created folder and pasting into the mabinogi folder (hit overwrite for all prompts). You can then delete the new folder that was made.
7. Now you run 'data packer.exe' as admin. Make sure hackshield/crackshield is not running while you're doing this (there should be no blue shield icon in your icon tray on your taskbar). Dialogue box will come up and you click 'Find'. Bunch of files path names should show up and you then hit 'Modify'. They should all say Modded now. Close the packer. Now your mods will be applied and should work.
8. Now to run the actual modded game there are two ways: 1. Run from original client launcher (mabinogi.exe
not Client.exe) or 2. Run from the launcher created by the modders (_mabinogi.exe)
Either should work just fine (right click run as admin). Before you run either you MUST run 'HSlauncher.exe' in the modded folder (you must do this everytime you want to play mabi from now on). This will run crackshield which you need to login past the 2ndary password screen (should show up as a blue icon in your icon tray on your taskbar). If this is not running then you will not be able to log in once you hit the 2ndary password screen. I believe the mod also automatically install a shortcut for the HSLauncher on your desktop along with the launcher shortcuts. You can use those or simply run from the folder/pin to taskbar etc.
Do not run HSUpdate.exe (you shouldn't ever need to I believe). <-- Pretty sure this is what is messing your hackshield up (my best guess)
A. For _mabinogi.exe (MabinLauncher Plus) (looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/BAsSRpu.png)
For 'Locale' make sure to select US:North America (This is the regional server you're trying to login to)
Make sure Server Version is the same as Local Version. If they do not match then you have not patched your Mabi with the newest patch yet. If that's so then you can hit download
patch/download language.pack to do so (you could also just run the original launcher and let it patch and then close it). Currently we're on version 199. If your versions match then
you can hit Launch and it should all work. Also this one lets you multiclient if you want to do so.
B. For mabinogi.exe (Original Launcher) (looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/zbvnf0c.png)
Simply run the launcher and it'll automatically launch the patcher (Client.exe) and then you can hit Play. Should work then.
9. Note that crackshield will keep running once you log out of the game (can close it by clicking twice on the icon in your icon tray). Don't forget to turn it off when you apply new mods/update mods next time too.
10. If things still don't work make sure to run all the above said .exe applications as admin (right click admin) or try turning off antivirus/firewalls that may be blocking any files/programs used in the mod. You should check the settings/permissions before just simply turning the whole antivirus/firewall off. Otherwise maybe the server restart/maint yesterday messed up the current mod version (they didn't patch anything and my modded mabi works still so I doubt it's this).
11. Post a screenshot of your hackshield error message. <-- this will help the real pros figure out what's wrong
Hope it works!