[DiscordArchive] There's been a few versions of the patching programs over the years, I'm not familiar with the one y
[DiscordArchive] There's been a few versions of the patching programs over the years, I'm not familiar with the one y
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There's been a few versions of the patching programs over the years, I'm not familiar with the one you are trying to analyse. However, I would guess that if it handles updating any version to 1.12 it will try to contact Blizzard servers to find out which patch it needs to download and install for the version your client is on. That's how the launcher works.
Let's take a step back - why are you trying to update from CD to 1.12 in the first place? Why not use one of the many 1.12 direct client downloads?
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:31 PM #1Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:31:45.581000+00:00
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There's been a few versions of the patching programs over the years, I'm not familiar with the one you are trying to analyse. However, I would guess that if it handles updating any version to 1.12 it will try to contact Blizzard servers to find out which patch it needs to download and install for the version your client is on. That's how the launcher works.
Let's take a step back - why are you trying to update from CD to 1.12 in the first place? Why not use one of the many 1.12 direct client downloads?
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I want to replicate the original patching behavior as precisely as possible. Starting from a clean cd version and using the ingame update feature as in that particular version, no launcher not backgrounddownloader was present
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:33 PM #2Archived author: IceReaper • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:33:08.543000+00:00
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I want to replicate the original patching behavior as precisely as possible. Starting from a clean cd version and using the ingame update feature as in that particular version, no launcher not backgrounddownloader was present
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afterwards i want to mimic the proper sdk/server-side patch creation mechanicsm, so i can build and deploy proper legacy patches from git
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:34 PM #3Archived author: IceReaper • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:34:15.456000+00:00
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afterwards i want to mimic the proper sdk/server-side patch creation mechanicsm, so i can build and deploy proper legacy patches from git
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The blizzard updater would do that for you, using a newer version of the official tools. It still works with vanilla. You can skip the blizzard downloader
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:35 PM #4Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:35:33.353000+00:00
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The blizzard updater would do that for you, using a newer version of the official tools. It still works with vanilla. You can skip the blizzard downloader
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It's a ton of work to reverse engineer these tools, better to use the known versions and it should provide everything you need
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:35 PM #5Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:35:58.006000+00:00
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It's a ton of work to reverse engineer these tools, better to use the known versions and it should provide everything you need
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I have a Jenkins job that builds the installer and client updates from git repos
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:37 PM #6Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:37:36.494000+00:00
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I have a Jenkins job that builds the installer and client updates from git repos
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You might even be able to open the BNUpdate with a MPQ editor, see if there's data you can extract, and use that as the skin for the newer version
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:40 PM #7Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:40:23.404000+00:00
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You might even be able to open the BNUpdate with a MPQ editor, see if there's data you can extract, and use that as the skin for the newer version
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Hm.. in long terms having a custom BNUpdate would be preferred anyway. I mean its job is simply to apply an update to the game files. Ill give the download a look
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:42 PM #8Archived author: IceReaper • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:42:28.308000+00:00
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Hm.. in long terms having a custom BNUpdate would be preferred anyway. I mean its job is simply to apply an update to the game files. Ill give the download a look
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That's what the blizzard updater does.
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:42 PM #9Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:42:42.427000+00:00
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That's what the blizzard updater does.
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The blizzard downloader is an entirely different program
rektbyfaith
04-23-2021, 12:42 PM #10Archived author: stoneharry • Posted: 2021-04-23T12:42:54.429000+00:00
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The blizzard downloader is an entirely different program
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