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Just throwing random thoughts here. I'm still thinking about the problem of finding the Duels ZED key, and I was wondering: isn't there a tool that allows to make a memory dump "over time"? In theory it doesn't seem out of this world: it should intercept all writes in memory and copy the written data into a file, so that if a program writes "Hello world" in memory, then substitutes "world" with "friend", in my dump file I'll have "Hello world" somewhere, and "friend" somewhere after that. Maybe this practice exists and has a name that I don't know so I can't search for it... or maybe nobody thought about that yet, but it would seem strange to me.

sorry if my post is irrelevant
i need your help in getting the videos from magic duels origins
since i've finished all 5 stories, i can see all the videos
but i need it as a file for our next expo in our town, so i can display it
i've tried to extract the ZED files (which is i think it's where the videos is) but i failed. i've tried the zedtozip (seriously, i totally can't use it, sorry, i'm a total dumb here) and failed.
so, i need your help to extract it. in a dumb ways
thanks

You can't. ZedToZip works for DotP2015, but the decryption key for the ZED files in Magic Duels is different. That's exactly what we are missing here in order to make Magic Duels moddable.

Speaking of which, is anyone still working on that? I know it's not an overnight thing, just knowing that someone's looking for it is enough for me. I'm still hopeful that the limit imposed in 2015 is absent, but we won't know until we can open it up.

Xander9009 wrote:Speaking of which, is anyone still working on that? I know it's not an overnight thing, just knowing that someone's looking for it is enough for me. I'm still hopeful that the limit imposed in 2015 is absent, but we won't know until we can open it up.

Spirolone said that he was working on it. He also said that he didn't know how to add ids greater than 999, so the profile might be built in a way to prevent more cards from being added...

regodian wrote:sorry if my post is irrelevant
i need your help in getting the videos from magic duels origins
since i've finished all 5 stories, i can see all the videos
but i need it as a file for our next expo in our town, so i can display it
i've tried to extract the ZED files (which is i think it's where the videos is) but i failed. i've tried the zedtozip (seriously, i totally can't use it, sorry, i'm a total dumb here) and failed.
so, i need your help to extract it. in a dumb ways
thanks

Yes, we can!
You need an hex editor (for example HxD or Xvi32); open MOVIES_000.ZED in hex editor and copy bytes of each video in a different new file; you can find beginning of a video searching for "42 49 4B 69" hex sequence (BIKi); after last video you'll find a subtitles file; rename any just created file adding ".bik" extension and use a Bik player to view it! If you need help, let me know!

GrovyleXShinyCelebi wrote:

Xander9009 wrote:Speaking of which, is anyone still working on that? I know it's not an overnight thing, just knowing that someone's looking for it is enough for me. I'm still hopeful that the limit imposed in 2015 is absent, but we won't know until we can open it up.

Spirolone said that he was working on it. He also said that he didn't know how to add ids greater than 999, so the profile might be built in a way to prevent more cards from being added...

In these days I didn't work on it, but I hope I'll can try something in future...
I experienced problems with ids over 1023 but they add more bits for any card in decks, then I think 1023 it's not the limit; but I don't know how to edit profiles to unlock cards with id over 1023 still...

spirolone wrote:

GrovyleXShinyCelebi wrote:

Xander9009 wrote:Speaking of which, is anyone still working on that? I know it's not an overnight thing, just knowing that someone's looking for it is enough for me. I'm still hopeful that the limit imposed in 2015 is absent, but we won't know until we can open it up.

Spirolone said that he was working on it. He also said that he didn't know how to add ids greater than 999, so the profile might be built in a way to prevent more cards from being added...

In these days I didn't work on it, but I hope I'll can try something in future...
I experienced problems with ids over 1023 but they add more bits for any card in decks, then I think 1023 it's not the limit; but I don't know how to edit profiles to unlock cards with id over 1023 still...

I wasn't aware any kind of modding for Origins had been managed. That's good news in itself.

spirolone wrote:

regodian wrote:sorry if my post is irrelevant
i need your help in getting the videos from magic duels origins
since i've finished all 5 stories, i can see all the videos
but i need it as a file for our next expo in our town, so i can display it
i've tried to extract the ZED files (which is i think it's where the videos is) but i failed. i've tried the zedtozip (seriously, i totally can't use it, sorry, i'm a total dumb here) and failed.
so, i need your help to extract it. in a dumb ways
thanks

Yes, we can!
You need an hex editor (for example HxD or Xvi32); open MOVIES_000.ZED in hex editor and copy bytes of each video in a different new file; you can find beginning of a video searching for "42 49 4B 69" hex sequence (BIKi); after last video you'll find a subtitles file; rename any just created file adding ".bik" extension and use a Bik player to view it! If you need help, let me know!

wow man, thanks for the help, i don't even need any bik players. i just open it with media player classic and it's work. big thanks

GREAT NEWS!!!!!
I received a private message with the key!!! It comes from a new account named "imfromthefuture" and I wish to thank him publicly: THANKS!!!
Here is the message:

imfromthefuture wrote:

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Have fun

I already verified it works!
I attach updated ZedToZip, but I think I'll create a new thread in Utility section with encode/decode tools for Magic Duels...

That's awesome! Thank you imfromthefuture! And of course thank you spirolone for the quickly updated tool.

Thank you imfromthefuture & spirolone!

Does this mean this tool can be used to check the ZED files from the recently updated Duels to see if any of the BFZ cards have been already packed in (ready for activation)?

petercal wrote:Thank you imfromthefuture & spirolone!

Does this mean this tool can be used to check the ZED files from the recently updated Duels to see if any of the BFZ cards have been already packed in (ready for activation)?

I see 251 cards in the player's card pools which matches the original 251 cards available according to Reddit, so I don't think they're added. My game may not have updated, though.

EDIT:My wad was seemingly last modified August 18.

EDIT2: Unrelated - I'll definitely test sometime soon whether or not we can appear to add the entirety of the CW's bulk.

Thanks a lot imfromthefuture, whoever you may be, and spirolone for the quick integration! I'm going to open the ZED files as soon as possible. Can't wait to see how double-faced cards are implemented.

EDIT: I have changed my Duels library and my D15 Tool (maybe one day I'll make another tool specific for Magic Duels if it's worth it) so that they can use external keys for decrypting ZED files. DATA_000.ZED is very large this time and I get an OutOfMemoryException if I try to preview it while running the tool through Visual Studio, but it works if I run the tool by itself.
All that's left to do is make the tool able to create ZED files with the new Data.bin. It's larger than the old one, I guess it's because the file list for DATA_000 is so large... unfortunately, it seems it doesn't work with the old code that used the data from DATA_041: I generate a ZED file but it's unreadable.
So, here's a question for spirolone: would it be possible to make a single program that works for both DotP2015 and Magic Duels and can use Data.bin from ZED files of both generations? If not, I can accept to throw away the backwards compatibility and make a new tool that works only with the newest Data.bin, but I would still need the Java source of your MDO_CreateZed, could you please share it?

thefiremind wrote:... unfortunately, it seems it doesn't work with the old code that used the data from DATA_041: I generate a ZED file but it's unreadable.
So, here's a question for spirolone: would it be possible to make a single program that works for both DotP2015 and Magic Duels and can use Data.bin from ZED files of both generations? If not, I can accept to throw away the backwards compatibility and make a new tool that works only with the newest Data.bin, but I would still need the Java source of your MDO_CreateZed, could you please share it?

It didn't work cause this instruction:

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byte[] filesFromData = new byte[1746];

In my code it was at line 18. I changed it for new Data.bin cause length of that part is variable (it contains two files: Header.xml and FileData.xml) and I wrote 0x1F43F. Now I changed that instruction again, to gain backwards compatibility:

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byte[] filesFromData = new byte[(int)(data.length()-422)];

If you need whole code, let me know and I'll share it, but I think you will not need it.