Wow! That's awesome! I wonder what they mean? I don't care if I'm wrong about my original statement. The possibility existed but unless some of those blocks are marked that way because of damage, it would be interesting to know what they contain since I guess they aren't as obsolete as they seemed.

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Captain Maim wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 03:12

Wow! That's awesome! I wonder what they mean? I don't care if I'm wrong about my original statement. The possibility existed but unless some of those blocks are marked that way because of damage, it would be interesting to know what they contain since I guess they aren't as obsolete as they seemed.

Maybe the blocks are not marked that way because they are damaged, but the .x file is corrupt because those blocks are there?

mch

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Micha wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 04:18

... I've got +400MB of (battle) testbed files and +1GB in my ended games folder ...

Gb+ Stars! archive ... that's impressive!

Micha wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 04:18

I found 5 of your bogeys.

Interesting. Can I look on these files/turns? Non-AI turns containing these blocks and corrupted files are the most interesting things to look at.

[Updated on: Mon, 19 July 2010 13:58]

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m.a@stars wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 00:58

XyliGUN wrote on Sat, 17 July 2010 12:53 What I'm really like to do is StarsPlayerAPI, which, I hope, would allow others to make cool things (starting from "notebook", which will read data directly from xy/m/h/x files, mm automation tools, like managing your pop and minerals, and probably somebody can bring up a better client). And, necessarily, a submitted-x-file checker/sanitizer, to keep any bugs/cheats from taking over the game.

Sure thing. I'll have to do it anyway, when I'll load x file data I'll need to verify any command which it contains, just because x file can be "broken" (or "hacked" ). So, I guess cheat checker will be available the same day as my API will be ready to read x file.

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XyliGUN wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 13:02

Micha wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 04:18 ... I've got +400MB of (battle) testbed files and +1GB in my ended games folder ... Gb+ Stars! archive ... that's impressive!

I save all .x .m and .h file all years for all games ...
The result.txt was 16MB.

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Micha wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 04:18 I found 5 of your bogeys. Interesting. Can I look on these files/turns? Non-AI turns containing these blocks and corrupted files are the most interesting things to look at.

Sending you a link.

mch

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Micha, thanks for the files. I'll look at them ... hopefully a bit later today.

As for rings1.x8 - are you sure it's corrupted? Does Stars! refuses to open it? I cannot verify it with Stars! since there is only x file from that game, but I was able to read and extract all data from that file completely with no errors. There is also no unknown blocks in that file.

I cannot say at the momement if all values inside the blocks are valid (this can be verified only after x file checker will be ready), but its' structure looks correct and as far as I can see there is nothing unusual in their values. The only strange thing about that file is its' "save & submit", which is usually 2 bytes long, but sometimes (I saw it before in my game files) it appears to have 12 bytes, and it's also 12 bytes in rings1.x8. I don't know if that's only a problem, but if there is no other errors it could be fixed pretty easily by removing that block (it's not neccessary, and only created when several save 7 submit was done while doing a turn).

PS: The rest of the rings1 turn files (and password) will be nice to have to verify it completely.
PS2: And BTW, I'd like to know a passwords from the games you sent me, just to be able to open them in Stars!.

[Updated on: Thu, 22 July 2010 11:13]

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XyliGUN wrote on Thu, 22 July 2010 11:12

Micha, thanks for the files. I'll look at them ... hopefully a bit later today. As for rings1.x8 - are you sure it's corrupted? Does Stars! refuses to open it? I cannot verify it with Stars! since there is only x file from that game, but I was able to read and extract all data from that file completely with no errors. There is also no unknown blocks in that file.

Hum, oops, wrong file. It was past midnight and I already colletected 25+ other errors and corresponding files.
Anyway, should have been rings1.x1 and other files should have been there like with the rest of the games I sent. That rings.x1 file has a block 11, 22 and 41 and *is* corrupt (won't open). Sending it to you in a short while.

As for "penta 2449", that's the turn for which I don't have an .m file ... should be in one of my old mail archives, will take a while to dig out and I'll be leaving on vacation tomorrow so don't expect it for at least a week.

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PS: The rest of the rings1 turn files (and password) will be nice to have to verify it completely. PS2: And BTW, I'd like to know a passwords from the games you sent me, just to be able to open them in Stars!.

As soon as you have signed the non-disclosure document that was attached to the mail you'll get the passwords. As m.a is used to say:



mch

[Updated on: Thu, 22 July 2010 07:55]

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OK, Thanks to Micha block #25 (we should call it "Micha Block" or "Block by Micha") is now decoded. Block #25 is actually manual load/unload task, but for amounts larger than 32000 (that's why it was so rear), in case of penta.x8 file it was fuel load/unload beetwen two large fleets.

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XyliGUN wrote on Thu, 22 July 2010 15:44

OK, Thanks to Micha block #25 (we should call it "Micha Block" or "Block by Micha") is now decoded. Block #25 is actually manual load/unload task, but for amounts larger than 32000 (that's why it was so rear), in case of penta.x8 file it was fuel load/unload beetwen two large fleets.

Hah! Great. Let's call it penta block. Kinda fits with 25 as well.

mch

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After looking thru your files Micha, I only found blocks ##25 and ##41. Penta Block is decoded and I'd skip block #41 for a while, since it's not seems ever found in the non-AI turns.

The rest of the files with unknown blocks seems to be corrupted as well as one that you don't send m file for. I guess it's impossible to fix them, since it's not a real x file it's a mess of data (for example block 7 can never been in the files others than xy, since it's a game definition, but it is in penta.x10, and that is just one example).

But anyway thanks a LOT for finding penta block!

So, blocks ##11, 15, 18 and 22 still not found. If somebody met them plz let me know.

[Updated on: Thu, 22 July 2010 11:33]

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Well, I have some progress (can read almost everything from m, h, x, and access data using COM object properties, but cannot write yet), but for the last couple of month I have pretty busy schedule with my current project, hope to continue within next couple of weeks.

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