I've made a rough hack that will allow ABGX to automatically find SSv2's and patch them for you, rather than you going through the tedious manual way. I say rough because I did almost no testing on this. It seems to work for the most part, but I wouldn't trust any error messages it gives you and I also don't know what would occur if there wasn't an SSv2 to pick up (its supposed to just inform you, but it could also infinite loop; I haven't tested). It's main purpose is to just find an SSv2 in the database, if it exists, and patch it. If it actually works for everything else...then whoopee.
I personally think that it's not going to mess anything up from what I've seen (IE you'll be just as safe using this as you would using the original), but for safety I'm including the Aeth mod. I also included his 5th and 6th wave changes in this.
To use, copy my abgx360.exe version into wherever you installed abgx. Press Launch on the GUI as usual. After it's finished (or after you see it patch the SSv2, you can just close it), you can then copy over the Aeth version or the original and do a double check to make doubly sure of your stealth status. To quickly facilitate this, just put 2 folders in your main ABGX install, each one containing an exe. Then just copy and paste over as you need them. You don't need to close the GUI inbetween switching the exes.
So why did I do this if it's easy to patch SSv2 yourself? Well short story is, my friend is TOTALLY computer illiterate and could just not grasp the concept of downloading the ss and dmi files and manually inserting them (He's 30 and got his first computer a few months ago). But he does know how to open ABGX and hit launch...thus I made this so he could continue using ABGX and stay safe on live.
How does this benefit you? If you're like my friend above...it should be obvious. If you can already do it manually, then this should still save you significant time (that's what I plan to use it for). It's a whole lot easier to just copy and paste an exe twice rather than going to the website, navigating to your game, dloading the files, selecting them for manual insertion, and then doing it.
Lastly, I don't care if it has bugs. I don't care if it doesn't work exactly like the original. It's main purpose is for SSv2 patching. If it ends up being perfect, so be it. Don't bother complaining if something is wrong (besides SSv2 patching) because I'm not working on it anymore. The code is a jungle of ass with terrible formatting. I got to the choppa and I'm staying there. Besides, it's not hard to copy over the original exe again.
Anyway, enjoy...I hope you get some use out of this.
Originally posted by McEgan: I got to the choppa and I'm staying there.
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By the way, this is an option I always felt that ABGX should've put in the application to check a box allowing it to patch with SSv2 files from their own site. Seems like common sense to me, as the application connects to the net anyway.
