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DB Help Needed - 8/24/2007 9:08:35 PM

1971mv

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I decided to download DB2000 V10 but now when I load the game I have only limited scenerios available. All scenerios for example Fight to the Death and The Merge are missing. Also I am getting an error message ***ERROR*** Warning! Scenerio database signature does not match current database! Aborting Load.
Any help would be appreciated.

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RE: DB Help Needed - 8/24/2007 11:58:11 PM

Flankerk

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You can generate a signature file using the editor, or if you do not have that, one can be generated for you easily enough. Simply ask on Harpoon HQ.

The HHQ scenarios are available for download separately, see

http://www.harpoonhq.com/?page_id=12

Many of the original CD scenarios are available there, but most are original.

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RE: DB Help Needed - 8/29/2007 3:21:09 PM

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There is a beta test version of 10_0_1 on HHQ, you might have got that one by mistake.

A different work around for a scenario that's older than your database - make sure you have the new database selected in the configuration tool. Exit the configuration tool.

Start the Scenario Editor. Load the scenario. Save it with a different name.

That should let you load it and play with a newer version of the database. It should work, but of course if it uses a unit that doesn't exist in the new version you will still not be able to play it with the new version of the database.

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RE: DB Help Needed - 9/1/2007 4:54:45 AM

1971mv

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To BF,

I am just not getting what I have to do to load the new DB so I am always playing the Standard DB under Patch 3.8. The furthest I got under playing DB version 10 is stand alone scenerios those seem to work.

Scenerio/Selection/DB10 is picked in the configuration screen
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Harpoon 4- Picking this option deos not work this is where the Error comes in concerning the signature.
Standalone Scenerios- This option works
Tutorial- As does this one
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Standalone Scenerios Range from:

1) Watch the First Step to Tattletale that is it.

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RE: DB Help Needed - 11/7/2007 6:57:49 PM

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On your desktop you will have an icon for the Harpoon Launcher. Double clicking on it produces a screen with a big "Harpoon" running across the top part. Bottom right is a small option labelled "H3 Config". Click the "H3 Config".

That loads up a little program (The Config untililty) to set the resolution, rules, database, sounds on/off, videos etc etc etc.

You can't select a different database while Harpoon is actually running. You select (or stick with the set one).

Now, to ADD a new database to the one you have;-

1) Make a new folder in the DATABASE folder of Harpoon. Rename it to something relevant.

2) Copy the new database files into that folder. If the database is set up for ANW, it should be selectable from the Config Utility straight away.

3) DB2K - you need to do more work. For a start, it will need a signature generated by the Database Editor. For another, it will need an database.xml file edited to let it be selected by the H3 Config Utility.

If you study the database.xml file, you will see it's pretty easy to just save a copy of one and edit it to taste. You can use Notepad.

The reason why DB2K is such a hassle is that there still isn't a MODERN DB2K version that's been tested and found compatible with the ANW version of Harpoon. That decision belongs with Ragnar Gathan, the database's author, and the reasons are complex but can best be summed up "Ragnar has issues with ANW." As I understand things, it's still the way he want DB2K to be distributed. I honestly haven't heard from him for a while so maybe he's changed his mind.

The .xml file and the signature are features of ANW, and were not necessary in earlier version (instead you had to edit .ini files in a similar fashion to editing the .xml file.

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RE: DB Help Needed - 11/7/2007 8:19:33 PM

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The latest DB2000 is available here:-

http://www.harpoonhq.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2733

This is in beta form but should be compliant with 3.8/9.
Feedback and testing welcome. If you find problems running it with the older scenarios we will be working on those. We will also likely be getting out some 3.8 specific scenarios soon enough.

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