let MaNGOS 10258 support China's WOW version 3.2.2-12484?

[Auntie Mangos]

hello,everyone! this forum is really a good place and many nice people are here!

recently, chinese players would have their WOW version from TBC 3.1.3 update to WLK 3.2.2-12484.

i followed this great guy's guide here: http://getmangos.eu/community/viewtopic.php?id=7318 ,luckly,

everything goes fine ,and it worked well on my WOW 3.3.5a-12340 version (though the post recommended 3.3.3a,

but my 3.3.5a also did well,due to my data update?)

but when i used my China's WOW version 3.2.2-12484, it came to this error "can't validate game version",

i almost know this error would happen , though ,it is said that someone can modify the MaNGOS file to make

the newer version MaNGOS support lower version WOW . i used the search function of this forum, but due

to my bad english ,i can only find the the "sharedefine" file contain some statment about version problems,

but i really messed up, can some of you nice guys help me with this problem? or give me a link about this?

that will be a great favor for me ! thank you everyone reading this post!

[Darkruler]

Well, when Tom_Rus made his 3.3.5 branch. he commited this and that should be everything needed to make the core accept the client version

BUT a lot of Opcodes and other stuff related to the communication between core and client have been changed (or so i think, didn't check all commits following up on this one)

so you'll have quite a lot problems but atleast you should be able to login

[4diamond]

thanks!

after your advice:

first , i modified the 2 files in src folder ,and then compile MaNGOS again.

second, i followed the "windows setup installation" guide, i used new *dll ,*exe and ad.exe , but when i run mangosd.exe file, it crashed, the "server.txt" for error

message says"there are 8 dbc files not compatible......wrong game version?"

i guess all these problems were due to which i violently modified the MaNGOS sorce file, is that true?

[vladex]

well thats because the current dbc and maps require 3.3.5 data , so i suggest you update it, or get a 9600+ version or something like that

[Darkruler]

you'll need to revert any commits done by Tom_Rus which changed anything to DBC*.cpp and DBC*.h where * can be anything so that the fields in the 3.2.2 DBC files correspond with the fields in the source files again

[Patman128]

I think the big problem is that the Chinese client is completely different from the other clients. The DBCs are different, there is no WotLK expansion (AFAIK), etc. I think you would have to modify mangos-0.12 to make it work.

[VladimirMangos]

expansion not important. mangos fine work with original 3.0 client without any expansions.

[fiver]

mangos git 9134 can support to zhCN 3.2.2

[comedyend]

mangos git 9134 can support to zhCN 3.2.2

Can NOT!!!

I have try it:|:|:|

[VladimirMangos]

possible chinese client have different build values.

If so then need

1) update relamd for accept related build:

Look in src/realmd/RealmList.cpp and add your build into

static RealmBuildInfo ExpectedRealmdClientBuilds[] = {

2) you need make mangosd accept your build:

Open src/game/SharedDefines.h and update EXPECTED_MANGOSD_CLIENT_BUILD

Just for note: ofc, you must use revision more near by supporting client for expecting all work correctly.

mangos git 9134 can support to zhCN 3.2.2

I not recheck but possible this correct case.