I'm playing WoW in Taiwan servers. The upcoming patch is 2.0.9, which is a patch for TW servers only. I hope if any1 can help me wid this patch plz, cuz I followed the guide for the evil patch 1.12.3 b4, and it worked very good. Hope some experts here could help this time too.

Thx in advance~

tawan only patch :'( bad news

;( I want my 2.0 patch!!!

HAH

yah am also wondering; btw am playing on taiwan server since this weekend (21 rogue already) haha we got a guild here that speaks english but they r all 60.
so ya am waiting for the patch to go live and see how to mod it cuz 2.0.9 is a regional patch and i cant find it anywhere else for the eng client

OMFG !

U R luna for real ?

sup man

sup dawg
of course i stumpled into this forum finding info about 2.0.9 seem i will need to use taiwan version to play, bah am farming anyways

cool. If there's a good ping i might come an create a UD DZ ... i wuld call it deadanus

lol sure bro

but problem is you can't play english version ??

ya thing with the 2.0.9; they say that after 2 weeks from the 2.0.9 "invasion of the outland's demons?" then they switch to 2.0.10? so by then you can use full english client; am finding a workaround but:
1. server has to be up
2. I need to finish downloading BC on both taiwan and english ver.
3. not enough HDD space

lol....
and, dead, besides crapped ping to tw, we need payment method.lol

^^^^^ what naklin said.

i'll unleash Susu fury upon the taiwan net

I'll tell you if i got news.

Hello,

I have just registered on these forums, as I have searched the net for a way to play WoW using my English client, and I stumbled upon this place!

Currently, Taiwan WoW is going to release the "Before the Storm" patch, which essentially means we get to play with the TBC talents and spells, but we are NOT given access to the Dark Portal, level 70, and we can't play the new races; that is until April 3rd the official launch of the Burning Crusade.

Just to let you know, the current TW version is NOT 2.0.9 but 2.0.11 (just updated). That's AGAIN different from the US version (2.0.10), and the difference between the two may continue for the foreseeable future.

So I am here searching to see if someone can make a patch just like 1.12.3 that enables us to play with the English client, that would be truly appreciated.

P.S. Zpider and Luna I think have seen before. Maybe you stayed briefly at the 血之谷 (Blood Valley) server? Or perhaps a guild named 'Zion'?

Just an update. I have both the Chinese and English versions installed, and they are both updated to the latest patch.

The English client version: 2.0.10 (6448)
The Traditional Chinese v: 2.0.11 (6489)

Logging with the US client gives me wrong version error.

couldnt have said it any better, agreed corebit.. me n zpider are both on blood valley

i for one cant play at all... im basically chinese illiterate, if thast even a word.. one of you computer geniuses out there im sure you have a solution for us TW wow'ers.. i need to use the US client or i just cant play

thanks

can catherine make us a patch?

I am waiting for my Eng. Burning Crusade to be fully downloaded in order to try to patch it and see the differences, can you guys check out what files are exactly changed? :S
and i think cath hasnt been here for awhile, i think he left the country altogether lol

ahh ok, cool hope you can fix it for us Luna ^^

BTW, I am in Stone Spike (?) realm not on blood valley ah would have been great to play with u guys hehe

upgraded my taiwan client from 2.0.9 to 2.0.11
so far the modificated files on the patch were on the following files:
/data/patch.mpq
/zhtw/patch-zhtw.mpq
/entw/patch-entw.mpq

scan.dll
wowerror.dll
wow.exe
repair.exe
launcher.exe



I must get the eng. installation downloaded prior modding this out.
*some random thought* I notice that the taiwan client has a directory named enTW, maybe it is possible to copy/paste some files around from english client and paste on tw client, and make the game in english? or an option to play on english...(wishful...)

check contents INSIDE the MP files.
the chinese 1.12.3 patch was just 4 files inside the .MPQ that we packed into another MPQ which in return is loeaded by the custom loader.

if you could re-pack them, maybe can get the custom loader for 1.12.3 to work for your 2.0.xx version
just a thought.

Sure man, thanks for the tip; never done those stuff before. but~~~ gotta wait till the file finishes downloading; which, is exactly 40 hours from now.

GO TO SLEEP, MAN!!!!!

for the MPQ files. you will need the MPQ viewer, in order to VIEW the files, allright. if you dont have it, i have it.

you then have to compare then WHOLE BLOODY game or at least latest patch files only (hope for you it's that... thats shorter). so be ready to waste some GB temp on your HDD.

the tricky part is not finding the "additional" files. the tricky part is basically that you would have to "create" a new .MPQ file. 9/10 times, this file is recognized as faulty / corrupt by the game, and it wont accept it.
i dont know yet if the custom loader (which is nothing more than an executable wrapper, basically, and and mpq loader) will accept those custom packed mpq files without checksum verification.
if it does, then basically you do the additional .mpq with the files that are inside the twn client, add that patch mpq to the us client (renaming) , copy over the typical patched files from the root you already found, copy over the chinese .exe (for version verfication on server side) and launch the loader. with some luck it may work.

if i had a traditional CHN version, i would be doing some tries for you. but i am lucked out for that.

other possible thing to do, is to check if the files that have been added / updated (the TWN specific files, not the one in the root) contain game relevant information or just some crappola shit. version check does not occur on them.

if they dont contain crap that is IMPERATIVELY needed for the game, you could try the loader thingie directly, without additional .mpq, just by replacing the files in the US root (make backups) with the ones from the TWN root (those modded by the last patch).

there are still other things to try. but as you are in a trial-by error phase and we dont know where to start with, thats a start to twiddle with.
also, if the original author of the .exe wrapper doesn't continue on the custom patch solution, i would be happy if he / she could be contacted / found by anyone, and he /she could tell me which language used for writing the wrapper and tool used for creating the mpq (being accepted by the game), and send me the source code. i would then continue on it, and we would not have trouble for forthcoming patches.

hpoe i can be of help.
c ya all


FOR THE HORDE!

2.0.11

this fuckin sucks balls...

lol........... i know what you thinking... meh thinking same.

HELL, YEAH..... BYE BYE "SUCCUBUS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am a farmable mob now. a scarlet monk.... BOOYA!

u are some kind of medieval shaolin.. dats cool

have you SEEN thos "no-haired" bold level 32 losers in scarlet monastery? (mostly library wing to the right)

they are pisspoor... gimme something that can kill my MAIN, not something my alts pet can solo now.
*cry*

i wanna be Neltharion........

i'd liked to be vael

you wanna be a b*tch and the most hated thing in the whole game?
lol

yup i tried the old 1.12.3 loader and those 4 files and couldnt log on with it

looks like we have to use the chinese version for a while

btw im on the 米奈希爾 server, horde of course

and deadanus, u being an anus again?
and if u do come to tw servers come to my server to keep me company

btw both the Eng/TC original and BC versions of wow can be downloaded

hmmm seems like Luna may come up with a solution yay! keep up the good work!

horde for lyfe!

hmmm , for some reason the server was delay till tomorrow . And notice about a new patch this afternoon , maybe to revert back to 2.0.10

maybe, maybe not.
fact remains we might find a solution. i found the original author of the crack, not catherine. was not so easy, but like stated before, nothing is impossible.
So the author of the original wrapper file is a chinese peep (here is where communication barrier will kick-in). I left him a few msgs on his mobile, as he has not been online for a few months on the forum he used to be. another peep gave me his supposed mobile number. the source code is written in simple C with some MSVC support. the source code was available on one site (chinese BBS), free to DL and to compile. that owuld have been perfect, but the link is dead now after 4 months.
people, scourge the net for it. i have been seeing excerpts of the code, and his code is a must!!!!! because he actually managed to circumvent the warden with it. so he found secure entry and exit points for the wrapper in the memory adressing.

we can make something out of it, hopefully.
who has some basic coding knowledge?
would be good to know.

this sucks

Bazza... im waiting to see if i can play in english...
but that could be cool.

Thing is i might come back to WOW when chinese servers are TBC and when english is sorted out...

mrsus wrote:

hmmm , for some reason the server was delay till tomorrow . And notice about a new patch this afternoon , maybe to revert back to 2.0.10

No, usually the servers never reverts. They say on the news panel that they are merging some of the realms so they need one more day to finish it. They should have merged it before and not to do all that on a single weekend............those bastards...

i dont believe in revert either

Thanks, Naklin for your help! It is very appreciated.

I have tried many things including copying various MPQs and the enUS, enTW, and zhTW folders to both US and TW \data folders, but they don't work. An error pops up saying something about \DBFilesClient not matching.

Here's STILL HOPING the next major content patch (2.1.X.X) will be the same for US and CHINESE versions. I hope this version disparity is only a temporal measure.

they just have to make life harder for us dont they.. why dont they just stick to the same version numbers god.. pisses me off

the old the9 VS blizzard problem

Upon experimenting with the in-game options on the taiwan client, I found out an option to change the voices language between english and chinese; so I logged out and then
Copied the folder /data/enUS from the US client to the taiwan /data folder.
Logged into the game...; went to options screens and it gave me a new language option: English (in-game text was on chinese). Of course I chose it and when accepted the changes it prompted me to restart game.
Did that and....well the game doesnt opens now unless I delete/rename the enUS folder.

The report said:

ERROR #131 (0x85100083) File Corrupt
Program: D:\World of Warcraft Chinese 2\WoW.exe
File: DBFilesClient\AreaTrigger.dbc



NOTE* I did have had the option to switch to English, and it was one small step... gotta keep on trying...

UPDATE: I opened the /enUS/patch-enUS file and replaced AreaTrigger.dbc from /enTW; and saved it. logging into game it no longers bothersme with areatrigger.dbc; but comes up with animationdata.dbc; I can't find the chinese version of this file.

I get the feeling if I can get to compile all these files in the patch.mpq the damn game will be in eng.

UPDATE 2: found animationdata.dbc, and it then prompted me for string_________.dbc, found that too and compiled all altogether........then it asks me again for string________.dbc........AINT WORKING!!!!........

Tried again but this time the other way around, ...on the eng. client instead. So far, no progress...
unlike vanilla wow this time blizz compiles a lot of dataes on the mpq files.

keep on going man Also, try to keep a written log of what you did so it can help people un the future.

THX

Found this while surfing regarding wow and languages

You can change your German version to English. Blizzard provides a language pack on their site. Pretty hard to find though, you can find it under account management (you will have to log in) if I am correct. Download the pack and install.

Remember you still have an European version and will not be able to play on American servers: US version is for US servers only and European version (be it English, French or German) is for European servers.

There are also German servers availabe where I guess everybody speaks German so you don't have the problem with not recognising objects and places.

Yah! I found it: https://www.wow-europe.com/account/download.html
It will prompt you to log in (with your game account and there you can download the language packs)


I know it is irrelevant to us maybe since Asia does not offers any language pack, me guess.

I am pretty sure we only need to change what's in the "language" folders themselves (enTW, enUS, zhTW, etc). I have peeked inside the core MPQs in the \DATA folder and they contain NO language localisation files. I think TBC has made it easier to change to other languages. You can even change language pack from inside the interface options now.

Most of the language localisation info is stored in the \GlueXML and \DBFilesClient folders. My guess is that somehow the game does either:

1. Warden does version/date check, or
2. maybe it is incapable of reading them.

Option 2 is highly unlikely though. As the 1.12.3 patch contains english DBC files. I agree with Naklin that an EXE file is needed to bypass the Warden.

german and english belong to the same server.

I got a friend in my country that play on the US server that lend me his account before, but the account to login the website and the account to login the game is different.

The guy that give my friend his account left and only give him the account to login the game, and not the website.....

as for the europe website, I'm sure someone here got an account....right?

I know I'm not helping much but I'll ask my friend about it. in the mean time keep trying.

regarding GlueXML..... GlueXML is ONLY taking care and influecing the login proecedure.
meanaing: all the part of the game, from it's launch, until you are actually IN the game. login, chracter selection, etc.

don't focus on GlueXML. Also, because all GlueXML data is locked and secured by blizzard, in order to avoid keyologging things and people to play with their login screens. All those files are compared against a checksum and are not allowed to be changed or different from the version that is acccording to the .exe (chinese, US, etc).

if you check forums and tutorials for modding and writing add-ons for wow, you easily find the lists of all sections / parts, files of the game which are locked, meaning it will perform a checksum check, and thus we cna't mod it really, except with an external loader / wrapper, like we have now in 1.12.3, which for now is still not an option.

the language packs, seem more like speech, etc to me.
i am on biz trip now, so i can't go on looking until end of week. i dont have TWN client, but i do have US TBC client.
I wouldn't care less for the voices, etc. but i do care for in game texts, itemlinks, and so on.
This data uses a LOT of spae, and sound does as well. keep looking for the big chunks.

but first things first: decompress ALL .MPQ files (with directory strucutre) from both versions (winmpq is good). then run a directory compare over the 2 roots and see where some have different files (size) and where some have additional files or are missing files. there are also programs for that.

good luck during this week.

Naklin wrote:

regarding GlueXML..... GlueXML is ONLY taking care and influecing the login proecedure.
meanaing: all the part of the game, from it's launch, until you are actually IN the game. login, chracter selection, etc.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I was referring more to the entire \Interface folder. Where all the XML, LUA, TOC files are stored.

Naklin wrote:

the language packs, seem more like speech, etc to me.
i am on biz trip now, so i can't go on looking until end of week. i dont have TWN client, but i do have US TBC client.
I wouldn't care less for the voices, etc. but i do care for in game texts, itemlinks, and so on.
This data uses a LOT of spae, and sound does as well. keep looking for the big chunks.

No, the language folders have MORE than just speech. Voices are only stored in the Speech-XXXX.MPQ. There is a bunch of OTHER files in there too. This is a change from original WoW (before TBC). You can check them out for yourself. The core MPQs (in the DATA folder) now store only model, texture, skin, sounds information. I can't find any language related file there.

Also, I don't think there is any "database" file other than the DBC files, because I can't find any . Item and quest information is probably handled server side, and the client only links to that information? :Theory:

Finally, the 1.12.3 patch solution MPQ only has DBC files. As much as I try using the same technique, it gives me an error.

So I fear without the EXE file to skip the filecheck, we are stuck

hope a solution comes to light before the official BC launch in TW... or else i cant quest.. no way am I grinding to 70