Old deck builder after some cleaning

[gmzombie]

couldn't have said it better myself. but remember that it wasent just myself that drudged on it was the help from a lot of peeps here in the forum. It was great to see everybody help out in their own way that they could. Hell i don't think ive seen this forum that active in a long time. But even though we are over that milestone we should not slow down. Now is the time with the momentum to get some of the much needed small problems/bugs out of the way for good, in my opinion before new cards are added. Much like

mok said to dump the magic.exe into ida, make a list of all available functions, slowly add names to all functions and all globals (DISCUSSING it), at some point when most of it is done start to move cards and engine functions into C, one by one, replacing old functions with hooks to the rewrites, checking for regressions. At some point most of the engine should be running from C code with possibly gui stuff left in the exe, then modify the engine to support things that were unavailable or were plainly not possible (real effect priorities, switching targets and so on) then and only then add more cards.

[Sonic]

Ok, I consider beta version of manalink stable enough to move on. Thanks, if was funny couple of weeks revisiting the project on which I wasted so much time once

What can I say?.. It's been a gas.

All the best... Sonic.

"Regrets, We've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
We did what we had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

We planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
We solved it Mok's way."

[0rion79]

Oh, Mok! Are u leaving once more? I'm really sorry about that because you have really revitalized this project and led to a new age of it. Maybe we should call it Manalink 3.0 now, due to the big changes that came with you.
All the best and thanks a lot from me too!
Please, keep in touch, preserve your account here and visit us every some and then.

It could sure be named like this since now you are able to use Deck.exe and Shandalar.exe with no issue so far.

[0rion79]

Excuse me, but is it just me who's missing basic lands in the latest deckbuilder, enabling the "read by name" option in Mok's "manalink.ini" file ? O_o

[Aswan jaguar]

I see basic lands with that option enabled.

[oito]

Excuse me, but is it just me who's missing basic lands in the latest deckbuilder, enabling the "read by name" option in Mok's "manalink.ini" file ? O_o

I've seen it happen too, but I guess I just saved the deck, closed magic.exe, reopened, and it was back to normal. I was also intrigued...

[0rion79]

Until now, when I have to add new basic lands, I always have to set that option back to 0.

[oito]

Until now, when I have to add new basic lands, I always have to set that option back to 0.

Who uses basic lands anyway? (ihih, joking)

EDIT: well.. maybe it's better to only have that option activated when converting decks to the current IDs, and generally avoid it otherwise, if that effect is indeed due to that option.

[foolosopher]

Well I thought that topic
Manalink BETA update : 2000 limit NO MORE !
would be the "goodbyes" but here's a thanks from me also, I never thought I'd meet you,and you came back at the right time, leaving quite a few things to work on.As for the asm steps, (I think I got gmzombie's illness for magic ) could you become a bit more specific, I know that IDA and PE can list available functions, why do we need the naming part? Anyway, I think that a few people are into this, so don't get very far...

[0rion79]

Hi, I think I've found a bug with this latest patch. Having the new slot for entering keywords is just great, but I've seen that after using it, basic lands disappear from the card list even if that field is cleaned (with CANC or DEL). May you confirm?

[oito]

Hi, I think I've found a bug with this latest patch. Having the new slot for entering keywords is just great, but I've seen that after using it, basic lands disappear from the card list even if that field is cleaned (with CANC or DEL). May you confirm?

Yup. I confirm: using the search bar triggers the bug.

It's not too serious, though. Restarting magic.exe clears the problem. But, yeah... until it gets fixed, whenever you need to use the search bar during deckbuilding, you'll probably have to end up saving and restarting before adding basic lands. It's nice to know what triggers the bug.

[0rion79]

I have just realized that it affects all cards with no ability text, as vanilla creatures (Savannah Lions).

[stassy]

It's not as powerful as jatill's (you could input several words and it would search at once for any or both in name or text, which current cannot), but still good enough for filter major selection

[gmzombie]

Well I thought that topic
Manalink BETA update : 2000 limit NO MORE !
would be the "goodbyes" but here's a thanks from me also, I never thought I'd meet you,and you came back at the right time, leaving quite a few things to work on.As for the asm steps, (I think I got gmzombie's illness for magic ) could you become a bit more specific, I know that IDA and PE can list available functions, why do we need the naming part? Anyway, I think that a few people are into this, so don't get very far...

I think the naming steps is to help identify what part is card code and what part is something else so we would know what to leave in the exe. ive been working on it for a couple of days now and ive got some info besides the card code areas, which we already know. ive found i think where the phases are from initializing the turn till the end of turn phase. This particular find may be useful in redoing the stack, or maybe not im not sure but i tell you what my original idea of removing card code out of the exe and recoding it to c was dead on. Now if someone wnats to help start naming the only thing ive been doing is writing down the origin of said function ie 0043a370=init turn 0043a4c7 is the end of function. i just went off of what might be said in that area.this particular one said init turn.

[oito]

I have just realized that it affects all cards with no ability text, as vanilla creatures (Savannah Lions).

Yup, it sure seems to be that. It kind of makes sense that vanilla cards with no rules text might get "trapper" after using a filter: whatever you input in the filter (apparently, even empty string) fails to trigger those cards. Oh well... I guess it could be worse