Card ID Changer

[Dave]

yeah, i hope they come with a new post with all the new files soon. It's hard, to keep up with which files to use.

[oito]

May I suggest something?

With Mok's db_v1 patch (and, i assume, with db_v2 too), after running the deckbuilder for the first time, it creates a Manalink.ini file. Open it.

Where it says:

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ReadByName=0

replace by:

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ReadByName=1

Now open your decks in deckbuilder: regardless of the card's ids, it will load the correct cards now (because it ignores ids and uses the card's name to look up the correct card). Now you just need to save your deck and the .dck file now contains the correct ids. After doing this for all your decks (doesn't take that much time), you can now go back to ReadByName=0, if you prefer.

There are sometimes some mistakes (when it doesn't find the card by name), but they're usually few and easy to fix (it tells you which).

Just saying... I used that to convert more than 600 decks from the different versions I had, and it seemed to work ok.

Mok's db patch: http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=6150

[0rion79]

It may work, but I prefer not to play for now and to wait for next release, so we'll be able to have only one single file and to fix all problems without messing up with game's setting. Also, I wonder if we'll be able to fix special letters. if not, why don't we simply edit the CSV and use "AE" rather than Æ?

[stassy]

I think it was due to the fact that Mok didn't want to mess with his locale settings which were in us english (and thus couldn't show properly special chars)

[Sonic]

It may work, but I prefer not to play for now and to wait for next release, so we'll be able to have only one single file and to fix all problems without messing up with game's setting. Also, I wonder if we'll be able to fix special letters. if not, why don't we simply edit the CSV and use "AE" rather than Æ?

I fixed all the characters problems and the long dashes "—" missing from the cards rules text in the xls file Mok adapted for use with the db_v1/2 releases. These are fully working versions with the corrected text, but without Gargaroz's latest src updates.

As far as I'm aware Gargaroz is now working with this xls file and all the corrections will be included in the next release as well.

[0rion79]

Great! So I'll wait a bit more. Maybe it will be the case to privately message with Gargaroz and include all files and patches and ID changer & stuff in the same thread of the next official patch.