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<blockquote data-quote="dropgoal42" data-source="post: 507998" data-attributes="member: 61788"><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"><span style="font-size: 12px">ok guys, i tried to work with the various xml files in data.gob. it was very confusing dealing with those CMN names and the string ids. but i did manage to find an xml file that had 2 sections of half length, one with "5 mins|10 mins|20 mins" and one with "5 mins|10 mins|20 mins|40 mins", each with different CMN names and string ids. the games menus were accessing the one with only the "5 mins|10 mins|20 mins" options with no 40 mins. so i added a "|40 mins" to the end of that one, and i did notice the change in the menu, but the clock didn't slow down when i selected the 40 minute option. i also tried renaming the string ids / cmn names and was getting string id missing in the game menus as a result. so that was a nice attempt i made and i thought i hit the jackpot for a moment, but couldn't quite get the in-game clock to be 40 minute halves. (i still have a suspicion that there is some way to do this through the xml files in data.gob because i was getting changes in the front end of the game, and there was a 40 minute half reference in one of those xml files there, even if the game wasn't cooperating)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"><span style="font-size: 12px">so at that point, although i was making progress and learning how to mod EA rugby on PC, i still wasn't getting the 40 minute half option to actually work even though i got it to show up in the game. so i decided to attempt to try to get 40 minute halves by trying to slow down the clock externally through cheat engine, kinda like how i did world championship rugby with the trainer. however, unlike that game, i didn't find any trainers available that gave you the ability to pause and restart the clock for the EA rugby games. so i had to figure this out on my own. and i did! basically i made my own trainer through cheat engine. i researched how to find the clock value (it's a float) and i created hotkeys that were programmed to start or stop the clock whenever i wanted, then generated those hotkeys as a trainer. now i'm at the point where the trainer works and i'm configuring the millisecond delays that i tell the computer to press the keys in the trainer that start and stop the clock at so the clock essentially runs at a slower speed. it's a bit tricky, but it's pretty cool.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"><span style="font-size: 12px">so although i didn't quite figure out yet how to do it through xml editing (although i think i'm close), i did manage to technically accomplish my goal of playing 40 minute halves on the EA rugby games thanks to cheat engine. i'd be glad to share my method or the trainer i created to get this to work. but i also still hope that maybe there still is someway to actually get that 40 minute half option working through actual modding of the game files. as it stands, i'm just glad to finally be able to play some 80 minute classics in this great rugby engine!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Times'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dropgoal42, post: 507998, member: 61788"] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=Times][SIZE=3]ok guys, i tried to work with the various xml files in data.gob. it was very confusing dealing with those CMN names and the string ids. but i did manage to find an xml file that had 2 sections of half length, one with "5 mins|10 mins|20 mins" and one with "5 mins|10 mins|20 mins|40 mins", each with different CMN names and string ids. the games menus were accessing the one with only the "5 mins|10 mins|20 mins" options with no 40 mins. so i added a "|40 mins" to the end of that one, and i did notice the change in the menu, but the clock didn't slow down when i selected the 40 minute option. i also tried renaming the string ids / cmn names and was getting string id missing in the game menus as a result. so that was a nice attempt i made and i thought i hit the jackpot for a moment, but couldn't quite get the in-game clock to be 40 minute halves. (i still have a suspicion that there is some way to do this through the xml files in data.gob because i was getting changes in the front end of the game, and there was a 40 minute half reference in one of those xml files there, even if the game wasn't cooperating) so at that point, although i was making progress and learning how to mod EA rugby on PC, i still wasn't getting the 40 minute half option to actually work even though i got it to show up in the game. so i decided to attempt to try to get 40 minute halves by trying to slow down the clock externally through cheat engine, kinda like how i did world championship rugby with the trainer. however, unlike that game, i didn't find any trainers available that gave you the ability to pause and restart the clock for the EA rugby games. so i had to figure this out on my own. and i did! basically i made my own trainer through cheat engine. i researched how to find the clock value (it's a float) and i created hotkeys that were programmed to start or stop the clock whenever i wanted, then generated those hotkeys as a trainer. now i'm at the point where the trainer works and i'm configuring the millisecond delays that i tell the computer to press the keys in the trainer that start and stop the clock at so the clock essentially runs at a slower speed. it's a bit tricky, but it's pretty cool. so although i didn't quite figure out yet how to do it through xml editing (although i think i'm close), i did manage to technically accomplish my goal of playing 40 minute halves on the EA rugby games thanks to cheat engine. i'd be glad to share my method or the trainer i created to get this to work. but i also still hope that maybe there still is someway to actually get that 40 minute half option working through actual modding of the game files. as it stands, i'm just glad to finally be able to play some 80 minute classics in this great rugby engine! [/SIZE] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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