[September 3, 2023]Abyss Patcher

[hiesavel]

Hey Blade/other coders, remember back in the old days *nogi patchers had an option to really turn off the music? Mabinogi always plays music, even on zero volume - which seems a waste, so I wonder if you can make this patch now?
Besides - you even added such useful features that allow to change patch options on the fly, so this could be really an in-game feature (which is in 99% games by default for god' sake).

I suppose it's not possible to make this automatic?.. I mean when you turn volume to zero Abyss would really turn the music off and when volume is greater than zero - music starts playing again.

[「★Ｓ２９★シ」]

Hey Blade/other coders, remember back in the old days *nogi patchers had an option to really turn off the music? Mabinogi always plays music, even on zero volume - which seems a waste, so I wonder if you can make this patch now?
Besides - you even added such useful features that allow to change patch options on the fly, so this could be really an in-game feature (which is in 99% games by default for god' sake).

I suppose it's not possible to make this automatic?.. I mean when you turn volume to zero Abyss would really turn the music off and when volume is greater than zero - music starts playing again.

I found an old src for the mute sound, Since it was an ez mod I remade it in a flash in mod_shaker format

//Mute the Pleione Sound Group [MNG]
[PSGMute]
Search1=D9 44 24 04 D9 41 54 DA E9 DF E0
Search2=80 79 04 00 75 04 32 C0 EB 14 FF 74 24 08 D9 44 24 08
Search3=D9 EE 56 D9 44 24 08
Search4=D9 EE D9 44 24 08
Replace1=D9 EE 90 90 D9 41 54 DA E9 DF E0
Replace2=80 79 04 00 75 04 32 C0 EB 14 FF 74 24 08 D9 EE 90 90
Replace3=D9 EE 56 D9 EE 90 90
Replace4=D9 EE D9 EE 90 90

Let me know if it works for you
I suppose blade can add this to his patcher anytime if he wants to

[vb286]

Step are you using the windows language packs as a reference?  Or are you just using the files?

[hiesavel]

Let me know if it works for you

It worked, but it also disabled sounds too. It may be a simple mod about disabling all stream sound playing.
Playing instrument still works because it's midi from dls-bank I guess, not stream from wav/mp3.
I wanted to have sounds still on of course. And maybe to have all three mute options separate in "final version".

I vaguely remember that the patch that I used even made volume control grey. I think. It means it was more umm.. Fundamental? Sigh. Hard to discuss something when you don't know how it technically works.

More general question - did you consider to revive other old features as well? I see that sometimes it happens which is very nice.
Sadly I don't have old patchers now and can't remember what else could be taken from there.
Except for mimic targeting. Actually I don't know Blade's opinion about this one in particular, because he seems to have a policy of sorts about Abyss being a tool for more comfortable gameplay, not cheating. So the question is "is it considered a cheat and if no - can it be implemented in modern client?"

[Blade3575]

okay, idk why but whenever i have abyss installed i crash whenever i try to commerce. is there any way to fix this?

Have you tried removing your data folder to make sure it's not something in there out of date?

It worked, but it also disabled sounds too. It may be a simple mod about disabling all stream sound playing.
Playing instrument still works because it's midi from dls-bank I guess, not stream from wav/mp3.
I wanted to have sounds still on of course. And maybe to have all three mute options separate in "final version".

I vaguely remember that the patch that I used even made volume control grey. I think. It means it was more umm.. Fundamental? Sigh. Hard to discuss something when you don't know how it technically works.

More general question - did you consider to revive other old features as well? I see that sometimes it happens which is very nice.
Sadly I don't have old patchers now and can't remember what else could be taken from there.
Except for mimic targeting. Actually I don't know Blade's opinion about this one in particular, because he seems to have a policy of sorts about Abyss being a tool for more comfortable gameplay, not cheating. So the question is "is it considered a cheat and if no - can it be implemented in modern client?"

It's a very tedious patch to find. Any kind of reference to the edit finds a ton of similar things. That's why this hasn't been implemented before.

[「★Ｓ２９★シ」]

Step are you using the windows language packs as a reference?  Or are you just using the files?

A little bit of both. Mabi has it's own text coding when it comes to bitmap. In TTF It's not a problem because I have a lagless 20mb ttf font that contains almost every single unicode character ever in computers. Korean, Russia, Hebrew, Arabic. You name it it's there.

I do prefer bitmap however and my small imaginary OCD keeps appearing when I keep seeing the question marks on my edited interface.english, So that's why I'm very tempted to unlock full bitmap.

It worked, but it also disabled sounds too. It may be a simple mod about disabling all stream sound playing.
Playing instrument still works because it's midi from dls-bank I guess, not stream from wav/mp3.
I wanted to have sounds still on of course. And maybe to have all three mute options separate in "final version".

I vaguely remember that the patch that I used even made volume control grey. I think. It means it was more umm.. Fundamental? Sigh. Hard to discuss something when you don't know how it technically works.

Never remember seeing the volume control gray. Someone really hates music~ Then again, This game is actually playable for the Disabled (Deaf) so it kinda makes me smile to see that.

/* Mute Options */
MuteStream                  = 0
MuteSample                  = 0
MutePSG                     = 0
MuteEnviroment              = 0

^

Which one was it for the music, so I can just make that mod just to disable the music.

[Chocobubba]

Is it just me, or would it be far simpler to just replace all the ingame music files with blank .mp3s, like all the animal sound removal mods do?

That is, assuming someone wanted the music permanently off.

[「★Ｓ２９★シ」]

Is it just me, or would it be far simpler to just replace all the ingame music files with blank .mp3s, like all the animal sound removal mods do?

Haha wut?

You can just delete the whole MP3 folder if you want to and mabi would still work

[Chocobubba]

Haha wut?

You can just delete the whole MP3 folder if you want to and mabi would still work

Ah, I forgot about that. I'm so used to things not liking it when files go missing.

[hiesavel]

So that's why I'm very tempted to unlock full bitmap.

I actually want that for a long time. But there's at list one problem besides the enabling different locales.
Have you seen how the font file is organized? It doesn't look like your normal font file table and more - look at all non-capital characters in upper section. Some of them are shifted on Y axis. But in-game the renderer draws them correctly like it was simple "get a char from x:y and place it". What do you think about that?

Never remember seeing the volume control gray.

Was long ago, so I may be wrong.

Someone really hates music~

Yeah and then I want to destroy the world itself. Later.
I like everything to be configurable (that's why I'm here in the first place) and it has to actually work, not pretend that it's all done (I'm talking about default "still playing even on zero").
Besides have you ever been to Dun? What music? Non-stop interrupting of it from instrument players? That's music alright, ha.
Which also reminds me of another question - if you technically mute instrument playing would game still interrupt BGM when someone does it?

Which one was it for the music, so I can just make that mod just to disable the music.

Was that a question? Music is "Stream", but actually in-game "environment" is also controlled by music slider. You can mute them separately? That would be great actually - to mute music and still have environment effects. Like I said - can you make all those like options?

Is it just me, or would it be far simpler to just replace all the ingame music files with blank .mp3s, like all the animal sound removal mods do?
That is, assuming someone wanted the music permanently off.

..And I never said so in the first place, so it's not "simpler", it's irrelevant.

Ah, I forgot about that. I'm so used to things not liking it when files go missing.

You're not very wrong here. Music and sounds are alright, but replacing some textures (of big objects at least) with zero ones can make the game go on a huuuge lag. Maybe something about resizing algorithm.
And if you replace WMV's with zero files - the game will freeze. So you need to make some empty WMV in proper format if you want to do something like that. But in most cases it doesn't help much - a lot of movie-playing apparently has timers without an option to exit (all Shakespeare ones at least), so if you made one-second movie with a black screen or some picture - prepare to look at it all that time.

[Rydian]

Could the on-screen white text be moved?  Everything from "Welcome to Dunbarton" to the info text about music buffs just gets in the way.  It messes with stuff when I'm trying to dye (it goes over the interface), it doesn't go away if I hide the UI, etc.  Even moving it near the top of the screen would be nicer.

Could all the filler info in item descriptions be automatically cut? All the reforge and upgrade and stuff stock info just takes up space, sometimes more space then the result takes up.
http://s17.postimg.org/wekb2ovbz/mabinogi_2013_08_13_016.jpg
I know this could be done via editing the xmls and text files, but so could minimap zooming, the difference is that with a patcher you don't need to update new files/entries if it's just faking the read, so it's easier on the user.

[vb286]

Could the on-screen white text be moved?  Everything from "Welcome to Dunbarton" to the info text about music buffs just gets in the way.  It messes with stuff when I'm trying to dye (it goes over the interface), it doesn't go away if I hide the UI, etc.  Even moving it near the top of the screen would be nicer.

Could all the filler info in item descriptions be automatically cut? All the reforge and upgrade and stuff stock info just takes up space, sometimes more space then the result takes up.
http://s17.postimg.org/wekb2ovbz/mabinogi_2013_08_13_016.jpg
I know this could be done via editing the xmls and text files, but so could minimap zooming, the difference is that with a patcher you don't need to update new files/entries if it's just faking the read, so it's easier on the user.

I don't know if I remember correctly, but Noji party used to allow that white banner to change it to something else.

[hiesavel]

X and Y axis are not a problem anymore. Considering how I already fixed it for Abyss when the bitmap patch was cutting the top part of the letters.

I'm not talking about global shift (by the way your patch is not very good in some parts of interface, so I still prefer just 1 pixel shift in dds itself. not perfect, but I ~90% got rid of the cut top), I'm talking about this:

It's the fact that enabling it and enabling the renderer to load the image is the issue. See the game likes to make those special characters as "?" On purpose. Lets say I boot the game up in Japan mode and I type in Kana. If I change part of the code to say "No, this can only be loaded on USA" then it instantly changes all of my Kana characters to "?". In USA mode it's a bit different, I can tell the client "Hey load this in USA" and the client will accept it, but all of my question marks will appear as blank. I need to find a way to make renderer load the Kana image as well but I haven't gotten a clue. Not even tracing helps me. All the coding is already there and done, To enable it is the hard part.

There are no bitmap dds's in NA client other than Korean and English. You have to get one from Japanese client I guess and same for Chinese. But you wanted to make it fully universal, with supporting of all (or many) locales - and that's why I asked about this particular shift of some characters. Because for example there is no Cyrillic, so you'll have to make such bitmap yourself. And the question is - how. Because some chars are shifted, some are not - but renderer uses them all just fine, so it knows which ones to shift back. But what about custom font? In Russian Cyrillic alphabet there are 33 characters, and for example there is a character which looks like small "y", but there is no "q", etc.

Hope you can find what you need

Thanks, will test later.

[「★Ｓ２９★シ」]

There are no bitmap dds's in NA client other than Korean and English. You have to get one from Japanese client I guess and same for Chinese. But you wanted to make it fully universal, with supporting of all (or many) locales - and that's why I asked about this particular shift of some characters. Because for example there is no Cyrillic, so you'll have to make such bitmap yourself. And the question is - how. Because some chars are shifted, some are not - but renderer uses them all just fine, so it knows which ones to shift back. But what about custom font? In Russian Cyrillic alphabet there are 33 characters, and for example there is a character which looks like small "y", but there is no "q", etc.
Thanks, will test later.

My goal is to unlock the full official bitmap by devcat's standards. Obviously I dont think devcat has ever made Cyrillic characters in bitmap form ever. I just want to unlock the CJK, Since that's all devcat has made.

and Asian Bitmap is on all clients.


data/gfx/gui

>big5_8bit.raw   (Taiwan)
>big5_8bit_mask
>gbk_8bit       (Chinese)
>gbk_8bit_mask
>korean
>korean_outline
>s-jis8bit        (Japanese)
>s-jis8bit_mask
>s-jis32bit_mask-1 (New CJK?)
>s-jis32bit_mask-2
>s-jis32bit-1
>s-jis32bit-2


Edit: I lied, I guess they did make some Cyrillic alphabet in bitmap





That's nice. So it supports russian too? Now I'm REALLY tempted to unlock it on USA ._.

[hiesavel]

and Asian Bitmap is on all clients.

Oh, that's how it is. Why did they put it in raw.. ..Another question with simple answer "because devcat" I guess.

Edit: I lied, I guess they did make some Cyrillic alphabet in bitmap
That's nice. So it supports russian too?

On your first image it looks like random garbage - some symbols are cropped from the side and even mixed with Greek ones.
Correction - 3rd string seems to be part of Greek and 4th - real part of Russian alphabet in capital letters (АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМН and then more "wasted" part of this string looks like the end of it too). 4th string seems to be second half of Russian alphabet in non-capital letters. But again for some reason very cropped from sides.

But if you managed to make the second image then maybe you are right (and the symbols are not cropped and look fine). And you see, that's why I was asking about that Y-shift of some symbols - on your second image some symbols are shifted without (or with very little) correction.
Like an ancient mechanic typewriter.
Well of course it would be not bad to have it functioning even like this - still a valuable accomplishment.
Good luck.

Also keep in mind that ~Cyrillic alphabets of different Slavic languages differ from each other (and by the way some relatively Slavic ones are now using Latin). So I'm wondering if it can do properly some Ukrainian or Belorussian for example. After finding working Russian in it - who knows.

[vb286]

For the most part I do believe Russian has a bitmap in Type Font.  I don't believe, however, it is used often.

[hiesavel]

[PSG]
Search1=D9 44 24 04 D9 41 54 DA E9 DF E0
Replace1=D9 EE 90 90 D9 41 54 DA E9 DF E0

[Enviroment]
Search1=80 79 04 00 75 04 32 C0 EB 14 FF 74 24 08 D9 44 24 08
Replace1=80 79 04 00 75 04 32 C0 EB 14 FF 74 24 08 D9 EE 90 90

[Stream]
Search1=D9 EE 56 D9 44 24 08
Replace1=D9 EE 56 D9 EE 90 90

[Sample]
Search1=D9 EE D9 44 24 08
Replace1=D9 EE D9 EE 90 90

..And it doesn't work.
If I mute everything but Sample - it all plays like there is no patch at all.
Log -
Patch PSG.1 SUCCESS
Patch Environment.1 SUCCESS
Patch Stream.1 SUCCESS

Well I didn't test environment sounds, but music and instrument are definitely playing.

[Red Panda]

I tried updating today and changed LoginScreen to 0 and deleted my data folder, and same problem is popping up, with the client not loading afterwards. Help?

[Blade3575]

I tried updating today and changed LoginScreen to 0 and deleted my data folder, and same problem is popping up, with the client not loading afterwards. Help?

Disable all mods. Check if the problem persists. If it doesn't still happen, start enabling the mods until you find out which is problematic.

[Red Panda]

Disable all mods. Check if the problem persists. If it doesn't still happen, start enabling the mods until you find out which is problematic.

Sorry, I'm new so how exactly would I start disabling? Would I go to Abyss.ini and toggle everything to 0?

[Blade3575]

Sorry, I'm new so how exactly would I start disabling? Would I go to Abyss.ini and toggle everything to 0?

Yes. That's exactly what you do.

[Red Panda]

Yes. That's exactly what you do.

So I did what you said, and still nothing works.

Code: [Select]

;If you enjoy these mods please feel free to donate: http://blade3575.net63.net/Abyss/donate.html
;To uninstall Abyss delete the following files:
; dinput8.dll, HSLaunch.exe, IJL15.dll, Abyss_patchlog.txt, and Abyss.ini
; Then rename IJL15.dat to IJL15.dll

[PATCH]

;Automatically detect when Client.exe is unpacked by hotpatching kernel32.dll
DetectUnpack=0
;If DetectUnpack is 0, wait this amount of time for Client.exe to unpack in milliseconds.
; Will likely be different for everyone.
UnpackTimer=7000

;Forces the Client read from the data folder before the pack files.
DataFolder=0

;Enter your user name or email used to sign into your account along with your secondary password.
; Patch by Plonecakes.
; Example: If you log in with the credentials:
; Username: Blade
; Password: 3575
; Secondary Password: 0000
; You would type YourUsername=YourSecondaryPass (e.g. Blade=0000) like below.
SecondaryPass=0
Blade=0000

;Load any DLL you want here. The DLL's you want to load must be in your
; Mabinogi folder. Separate the DLL's with commas.
; Example: LoadDLL=HackSlash.dll,mod_sharker.dll
LoadDLL=

;Change the color of names when the Alt key is pressed.
; Patch by spr33, converted to work by Blade3575.
; First 2 digits are transparency, 3rd and 4th are red, 5th and 6th are green, 7th and 8th are blue.
AltNameColor=0
Human1=0xFF00CCFF
Human2=0x00000000
Elf1=0xFFFFC0CB
Elf2=0x00000000
Giant1=0xFF00CC00
Giant2=0x00000000
NPC1=0xFFFF6600
NPC2=0x00000000

;Enabled the use of Bitmap fonts instead of Vector fonts.
Bitmap=0

;Fixes cutoff of text when using Bitmap.
; Patch by Step29.
BitmapPositionFix=0

;Blocks the ad from appearing when exiting the game.
; Patch by Plonecakes.
BlockEndingAds=0

;Allows you to cancel Lance Counter when you want.
CancelLanceCounter=0

;Removes notice when changing channels.
; Patch by Step29.
ChMoveDescCut=0

;Clears fog from all dungeon minimaps.
; Patch by Plonecakes.
ClearDungeonFog=0

;Show individual minutes on the clock instead of intervals of 10.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
ClockMinute=0

;Changes the sky light to:
; 1 = Midday
; 2 = Midnight
; 3 = User Select (1-24)
ControlDayTime=0
Time=12

;Reduce the level of CPU usage, optionally only while minimized (1~100).
; Patch by spr33.
CPUReduction=0
CPUReduction_OnlyMinimized=0

;Show negative life instead of DEADLY.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
DeadlyLife=0

;Change the default range attack:
; 1 = Magnum Shot
; 2 = Arrow Revolver
; 3 = Support Shot
; 4 = Crash Shot
DefaultRangeSwap=0

;Disable Alt+Enter key combination to toggle between full-screen and windowed mode.
DisableAltEnter=0

;Enable full-screen antialiasing.
; Patch by Step29.
EnableFSAA=0

;Enables you to open more than one Client.
; Patch by Plonecakes and Blade3575.
; Select the window individually, don't Alt + Tab.
; This will prevent hotkeys from not working.
; You must use an edited launcher or any other launcher that's not the official to
; launch more than one client.
EnableMultiClient=0

;Allows you to view names when holding down alt from far away.
; Patch by kotarou3.
FarAltDisplay=0

;Allows you to take as much time as you want to find dye colors.
; WARNING: Bar will go down, but won't stop you from finding colors.
; Patch by Step29 with help from thatguysteve.
InfiniteDyeTime=0

;Allows you to open windows while you're dead.
; Patch by kotarou3.
InterfaceWhileDead=0

////////////////////
//Start Item Hooks//
////////////////////
; Item Hooks by creator of kirisame.
;Item ID.
ID=0

;Max quantity an item can stack to.
Bundle=0

;Shows numerical quality of an item.
Quality=0

;Shows the time a field boss will spawn on a Fomor Command Scroll?
SpawnTime=0

;Shows the return position a coupon will bring you to.
CouponPosition=0

;Show true durability of an item.
Durability=0

;Shows the hex colors of an item.
Color=0

;Shows buy and sell price of an item.
Price=0
//////////////////
//End Item Hooks//
//////////////////

;Shows last position of assistant characters.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
LastPosition=0

;Changes the login screen.
LoginScreen=0
Generation=17
Season=4
SubSeason=0

;Shows the time Fine Reforges expire? Possibly only used in other servers.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
MetalwareExpiring=0

;Enable zoom icons on all minimaps.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
MiniMapZoom=0

;Allows you to change to the same channel.
MoveToSameChannel=0

;Disables Nagle directly.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
; Requires you to Relog or CC to take effect when changing it ingame.
NoDelay=0

;Lets you access the Housing board through the Party board.
PartyBoardSwap=0

;Prevents Party signs from automatically closing.
; WARNING: Disabled by default on reports of people being banned for its use. Use at your own risk.
PartyTime=0

/////////////////////
//Start Pet Patches//
/////////////////////
; Pet Patches by creator of kirisame.
;Stops system message when pets are hungry, in need of help or attacking.
Hungry=0
Deadly=0
Attack=0
///////////////////
//End Pet Patches//
///////////////////

;Allows you to land from any height when flying.
; Patch by kotarou3.
RemoveLandingHeight=0

;Allows you to right-click yourself.
; Patch by Step29.
RightClickSelf=0

;View Combat Power by pressing Alt.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
Scouter=0

;View stars in collection journal.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
Scrapbook=0

;Modify the quality of screenshots.
; Patch by spr33.
ScreenshotQuality=90

;Shows FPS in the upper left hand corner of the Client.
; Patch by Step29 and Blade3575.
ShowFPS=0

;Shows purchase and sell price of items.
; Patch by kotarou3.
ShowItemPrice=0

;Show ping indicator on the celtic knot menu.
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
ShowPing=0

;Allows the use of slash commands.
; Patch by Plonecakes.
; Example: Type "/housing" in to chat, without the quotes.
SlashCommand=0

;Talk to your ego when it's not equipped.
; Patch by kotarou3.
TalkToUnequippedEgo=0

;Allows you to view NPC equipment.
; Patch by Step29.
ViewNPCEquipment=0

;0=normal, 1=union of zoom range, 2=fixed zoom range
; Patch by creator of kirisame.
Zoom=0
ZoomMin=200
ZoomMax=6000

//////////////////////////////////////////////////
//DEBUG

;Enable the menu modification and CPU limiting threads.
; Patch by spr33, modified to work by Plonecakes.
ExtraThreads=0

;Enable debug logging, use this when posting your log if you have a problem.
Debug=0


[Blade3575]

Oops, forgot to get rid of that top thing. It's not implemented since it was only causing problems..

You check the first post for troubleshooting?

[Red Panda]

Oops, forgot to get rid of that top thing. It's not implemented since it was only causing problems..

You check the first post for troubleshooting?

Which top thing and is it okay to take it out?

And I couldn't find the troubleshooting info in the OP.

[ShaggyZE]

Which top thing and is it okay to take it out?

And I couldn't find the troubleshooting info in the OP.

he's talking about

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;Automatically detect when Client.exe is unpacked by hotpatching kernel32.dll
DetectUnpack=0
;If DetectUnpack is 0, wait this amount of time for Client.exe to unpack in milliseconds.
; Will likely be different for everyone.
UnpackTimer=7000you can delete that whole secion

have you tried updating hackshield by running C:\Nexon\Mabinogi\HShield\HSUpdate.exe? make sure CrackShield (HSLaunch.exe) is closed when you do this.