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Ok I am making a MOD obviously but whenever I try to load the Memgraft patch it always says "Missing Custom\mgpatch.mgd... I checked and its there but its called my custom name "Mercury Mirror.mgd" What is wrong??

The limitation of MG (apart from the obvious ) is that it HAS to find the MGpatch.mgd file (mgd = MemGraft Data file). Any other name = no can do.
The only 2 things you can change are the MPQ it uses and the EXE that loads and injects the MG patches.

So all I have to do is rename "Mercury Mirror.mgd" to "mgpatch.mgd?

Addition:

Ok well I tried that but it didnt work...

yes its exact name is "Custom\mgpatch.mgd"

Make sure you are using the correct mpq. You have to add the Custom/MGpatch.mgd in the MPQ you specified as a replacement for patch_rt.mpq in the last tab. You can't do it in ANY MPQ you want

Umm I lost you...

ok... you have all the tabs right ? Units, Buttons, Action, Req, Unit Req etc...

You have the MISC tab with the mpqs that you need. You can replace patch_rt.mpq there with the one that your mod needs. To use it you'd need to copy-paste patch_rt.mpq to that filename and add the MGpatch.mgd in that mpq.

Since I assume that you didn't change it by your questions, I will also assume you already amde your mpq, but didn't tell MG to use it. Which is why you can't find it. At which point the only thing you can do is to bytehack the EXE file MG made to change patch_rt.mpq to the file you have. REMEMBER THAT YOU MusT KEEP THE SAME BYTE AMOUNT so renaming patch_rt.mpq to "super_duper_mod.mpq" will mess up the EXE. Also remember that if you don't know what you're doing you might do more bad than good, so if you are scared better just remake the whole thing in MG (preset saving doesn't work except for the first version of MG, not for the other 2).

As for bytehacking change patch_rt.mpq to MercMirr.mpq. The EXE name doesn't matter. Also remember that the mpq should not have spaces for safer results. (the EXE doesn't need to have the MPQ name).

It is not about the version. MG first does a version check on StarCraft.exe and if it fails the check it lets the user know. His error was one specific of what I said.

Hm. Is the file name Custom\MGPatch.mgd or mgpatch.mgd, with the file it's in as custom? Case might matter; I'm not sure.

That's actually the scenario I covered. I can't be wrong Unless the problem is that he doesn't have it in his SC folder.

The error about the version mismatch is a popup that informs the user of the needed version and the version they have. And I didn't mention the fact that both the exe and mpq need to be in the SC folder as that is obvious I'd say

And no, nothing in windows is case-sensitive (apart from the programming languages ) and maybe some other insignificant stuff I can't think of right now

Are you sure Memgraft does a version check? When I'm on the wrong version it either gives me one of those error report things, or it waits till I start a game and then crashes.

I had it once. Still, an error sating that mgpatch.mgd is missing can't be confused for a version mismatch crash

So it's either what I said (wrong mpq) or what DoA said (wrong folder/placement)

Its mgpatch.mgd


It has nothing to do with the version.




Ive put the correct mpq file in the Starcraft Folder. Thought the .exe isnt in the starcraft folder. That doesnt matter anyway right?


I would post my MOD folder but Staredit isnt allowing me...

As DoA and I said, both the MPQ and the EXE must be in the SC folder.

The MPQ must be in the MAIN SC Directory. You can place the EXE anywhere. WHen I test my mods, I take my test mpq(which I named MPQ.MPQ), and replace my mgpatch everytime I updddde my mod's tech tree.

I'd say the condition is to have SC installed and not just copy pasted (e.g. have registry entries that get lost after a format even though SC still works)

Where the files must be to run correctly is not obvious. And only the MPQ needs to be in the SC dir, as said. The .exe can be anywhere.

The fact that file names are case insensitive has nothing to do with windows. When files are added to an MPQ, the string is converted to uppercase before the hash is calculated. It's thus due to how the MPQs work, not anything windows-related.



It must be "Custom\mgpatch.mgd". You can't skip the "custom\" part of it.

I was making hints how windows is not a case sensitive OS
But yeah I won't comment on MPQs since I don't know much about them (apart from the obvious)

Word Typo... the exact script is this,"custom\mgpatch.mgd"


Im thinking this has something to do with stargraft or memgraft not WinMPQ. For I have tried 4 times to rename the mgppatch.mgd to "custom\mgppatch.mgd","Custom\MGpatch.mgd",custom\MGPATCH.mgd", and "CUSTOM\MGPATCH.mgd"... none have worked. Not that I expected that capitalization would matter.

In Stargraft I do my modifications.

Then I save as "MercMirr.pat"


In Memgraft I open my Stargraft .pat file and my edited stat_txt.tbl file.

Then I go to my misc tab and I change the "\patch_rt.mpq" to "\MercMirr.mpq.

Then I go to the menu tab and click save release.

I name the .mgd file "mgpatch.mgd" and I save the .exe "MercuryMirror.exe"

I add my .dat files. to MercMirr.mpq

I add my mgd file

And I copy/paste the mpq file in the Starcraft Folder...

I run my .exe (not in my Starcraft Folder) and...It says same thing

What is wrong??


Could the modified .tbl file be doing this?

As said, case does not matter.


It has to do with MemGraft. What I'm wondering is how you fit MPQDraft into the picture. You shouldn't use it, unless you're using version 1.09b or 1.10 of StarCraft, in which case you do not use MemGraft in the same way.

• Did you add the custom\mgpatch.mgd to MercMirr.mpq? I assume you did, but you didn't include that step in your last post, so I'm just checking...
  
• You used \ in the filename, right? Not / ?
  
• Are you sure you have the right version of StarCraft? If you use MemGraft 1.13e, you MUST have StarCraft 1.13e. I don't know if you need Broodwar, but I suppose it could be a problem if you haven't got it.
  
• Is the StarCraft dir the same as the one you installed it into? The reason I'm asking is because MemGraft looks in the Windows Registry to get the path to SC, and if you have moved SC, the path won't be right. If the registry path is incorrect, you will probably be prompted if you want to install SC when you insert the SC CD, instead of being asked if you want to play the game

Here's a tutorial on how to do it. If it still doesn't work after you check what I just said above, then follow it EXACTLY.

He said "Then I go to my misc tab and I change the "\patch_rt.mpq" to "\MercMirr.mpq". There's nothing wrong there?

Yeah I noticed just now.

Templar, do you happen to have 2 SC folders: one to dev and one to play by any chance ? (I assume yes since you can't use MG on 1.14)