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Ezrail
SWAT_OP-R8R
Aldenmar Odin

I finalized the Solurus Systems installer for the 1.181 version.

Seems the Freelancer.ini is bugged. I discovered it when I was adding the Advanced hud mod. It looks compressed but there is no…

So let me guess, they didn't tell people in advance that Diablo Immortal was for mobile ? My, how embarassing...

Ezrail Early morning good news. Seems I managed to crack the decompression for the DBCP0003 files. I still need code tweaking and more confirmations but we're very close to restoring the Solurus Systems 1.181.

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Could be. Should be all fine. I'm trying now to figure out the DBCP0003 format. If this gets done, we can recover the entire 1.181 mod.

SWAT_OP-R8R Hey, I wanted to ask you something.
Going thru the filelist.bin, it lists the files separated in 3 categories:
FILE -> untouched
FLDR -> compressed
ORIG -> original (maybe, from a previous version)

Now, checking file lengths for ORIG files, I…

Ezrail Just managed to decompile Lancer's code for DBCP0002 files with ChatGPT and Ghidra.
We also got the filelist.bin, which was DBCP0002 compressed, with the full paths for each file.
I don't know if we'll have any success with DBCP0003, but if we…

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No, not very trustable. Told me100 times "Why I'm confident" while failing every time. But a great teacher nonetheless. I am still learning electromagnetics and transformers with her. Now she's giving me a tour of Ghidra... as we're…

Don't trust this woman too much. Lately, she's been agreeing with others far too much and not recognizing her own mistakes — I think she's a little overwhelmed.

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Oh, this is interesting.
Let me tell you what I've been doing.

I'm trying to create my own save file. Freelancer Save Editor doesn't work in Windows 11, so I made an XP VM and it does work there.
I am able to set some initial rep, that is…

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Thank you so much!
It installed correctly.
Opened it up with OpenSP mod from FLMM 1.31
Installed Advanced hud for 4K resolution!

Still have to edit location and give myself more cash...

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Unfortunately, this is the least of my worries. Our problem is Lancer's custom compression.
We managed to rule out Zlib and LZO, and we're currently looking at LZSS, but I'm not expecting too much. And this is just regarding the…

I'll try tomorrow a new tactic. I've seen zlib.dll has been done with DBCP0003 and it matches the size inside is the size of the zlib.dll from vanilla freelancer.
I think I should apply a zilb compression of the vanilla one and see what we're dealing with…

This is the only thing we came up with in 3 days of work:

Magic: "DBCP"
Version: "0003"
UnpackedSize: 3005956
PackedSize: 2381860
Data: starts at 0x10

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While we working earlier, we got to this funny number, 3005956 while working on the EXEFreelancerexe . This matches exactly the size of the Frelancer.exe of the version you are hosting, the 1.13. ChatGPT presumes we are dealing…

Wrong line here. Thought I was talking to ChatGPT.

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Oh, but there is. You may have looked on a few unencrypted files.
Freelancer.exe (aka EXEFreelancerexe) is encrypted itself. It begins with DBCP0003. 572 files are like that. Many are encrypted with DBCP0002 (1265 files).
2921…

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Google drive link to SSM1181.tar

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There is no link. I have it on my hard drive, since a very long time ago actually.
It's a big 7z archive. and inside is a "Packed" folder, in which there are all the files. I belive it is not an update, but a full mod release.
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Hi guys, I'm just trying to return to Freelancer and I understand there won't be any way to replay online old mods, but those mods work in open SP.

I found in the archive the old Solurus Systems mod 1.181. While I do have the big archive, I do not have…