User:Araxestroy

Hi, I'm Troy. I started and maintain the sc2kfix plugin and project.

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1995 load crash bug

It looks like this particular crash is a null pointer dereference caused by trying to retrieve the CSimcityView HWND before the CSimcityView class instance actually exists. I probably won't get around to fixing this one since there's a whole modding framework to be written.

Loading requirements

Intercept at int __thiscall LoadGame(void *this, int *a2, char *Src) -- 0x4025A4 -- and check the extension; jump to 0x4302E0 for .sc2

1. Load everything into the structures
2. Load pszCityName
3. Call void sub_402743(void) -- recalculates border connections, updates power and water consumption, loads bond information, does some pollution modifiers I think?
4. Call void sub_402EF5(void) -- updates dwTileCount
5. Call void sub_401FFA(void) -- does something with regards to graphs, I think? Needs investigation
6. Call void sub_430C00(void) if we need to "uncompress" XLAB -- should only need to be done on manually converted save files
7. Return a non-zero from LoadGame intercept