RM2K3 DOUBLE BATTLE SPEED HACK (RELEASE)

Okay, I've gone back through and completely rewritten the main part of the DLL, and it is now Windows 7 Compatible (Tested on Windows 7 Home Premium with Hellion, and Vista should work now too)! I think what I've done should fix those errors that nearly everyone was getting before, and I've simplified the injection process.

If it didn't work before, try it out now! My complex algorithms predict a 75% higher compatibility rating.


Edit: Also, for WolfCoder, the speed multiplier is now set by a variable in the source, with the format of 2 is 2x, 3 is 3 times, etc (you can probably go in and edit it to be a float if you need finer grain control). It can also be read and set through standard function calls by the injector, so if you use a more complex generic dll injector then the included one you can set it without rebuilding the source.

Still working on that! Making a patch is way harder then just injecting the dll. I've figured out how to increase the size of executable headers and add the dll to the import table, but I'm going to have to go into the assembly code and call a setup function for it somewhere.

If it makes you feel any better, I just scanned everything with ClamWin and Kaspersky, no threats found. Yeh, your antivirus is probably going !DLLINJECTOR SECURITY THREAT RED ALERT RED ALERT!

Also, I'm just about to upload the new source.

There partially is. I pulled two ancient tools out of my old archives, one that I used to change the executable's header size, the other to add the dll and a setup function to the table that loads dll/sets function addresses. I've just got to get around to finding a decompiler that I can use to decompile/recompile the assembly (I have a couple decompilers and a couple compilers, but they don't work well together, and the microsoft sdk for MASM is completely useless. Once you decompile the RPG_RT.exe into assembly code with it, you reach the error limit of 100 when trying to compile the new code you have because of syntax errors, and the build is aborted without giving much helpful error code), then find a good place where the game first starts loading (or maybe stick it in the title screen?) to insert a code cave and call the setup function in the DLL.

There's not tool to do exactly what I need though, the only tool that comes close that I know of uses a method to patch the executable that won't work with my detoured functions, and the author himself has said that to make a perfect DLL permanent executable injector (patching a PE to load new dlls just like the regular ones) would probably take him more than a years worth of work to get working right.

Also, source is now up, and out of curiosity what antivirus are you using?



Also, tomorrow, for the meantime until I manage to patch the actual RPG_RT.exe, I'll make a nice launcher in Java that'll launch the game and then properly time injecting the dll itself and everything. That way, you'll only have to click on one file to start the game with double battle speeds. Come to think of it, I might also look up general techniques of dll injecting, find one that works for this, and then right a little open source program specifically for injecting this dll into RPG_RT.exes.