Build and Shoot

Here's a modified "client.exe" that instead of going to the now defunct page "http://ace-spades.com/news/", it will go to "http://buildandshoot.com/" when exiting the game.

client.exe

If you are in fear of viruses etc, and do not want to download this, then feel free not to, it's not required and is only for those who are sick of having a dead page open up every time they quit the game.

-TZK

Alternatively you can set 'news' to 0 in the config..
If you could get the 0.76 browser pointing towards BnS's master server, I'd be interested.

What he said: ^
I turned the news off a loooong time ago, because that shit bugged the hell out of me.

Nice, everyone should indeed modify their Voxlap version Ace Of Spades to get rid of superfluous baggage.

If you could get the 0.76 browser pointing towards BnS's master server, I'd be interested.

After some looking around, it looks like I can do this, do you have the URL of the master server handy?
The original master address seems to be this: http://staging.ace-spades.com/serverlist.json

-TZK

I was originally going to do this, but decided not to, since it's technically changing IP.

TheZombieKiller wrote:

If you could get the 0.76 browser pointing towards BnS's master server, I'd be interested.

After some looking around, it looks like I can do this, do you have the URL of the master server handy?
The original master address seems to be this: http://staging.ace-spades.com/serverlist.json

-TZK

The new JSON format is different from what the AceLauncher uses, so just using a hex editor won't get you very far :P

How did you deal with the CRC32 check? For acclient I changed the last 4 bytes using brute force so it would match.

I'm not sure if redistributing packages is allowed.

I didn't know about setting news = 0, but I found Alt+F4 to exit the client didn't have any annoying popups.

@GreaseMonkey
Weren't really any problems to get around, I just edited the string with Notepad++ (I prefer it to Hex editors) and made sure it matched the length of the original string, if it was too short, add spaces on the end, too long, too bad.

-TZK