That darkpatch.dll won't work with the German version. You have to take the EngRel.exe provided in the mod package of which converts the game to English. But the sound samples should still be German, only the text will be English.
Do you also see entries of ".CUR" or ".ANI" files in "Dark Omen\Graphics\Cursors" redirected? FindFirstFile is usually part of the "Your DO install is incomplete" check.
Looks like Cursors are created with "LoadCursorFromFileA" and if this doesn't go indirectly through CreateFile or MapViewOfFile it's not redirected.
And looks like the cursors are only initialized on Dark Omen startup, so changing the mod would not change them back.
Actually I like that they aren't redirected because this is imo a user decision which kind of cursors they want.
About the Battles.ENG size issue. Looks like the buffer where the map list is copied to has a fixed size but the application doesn't check it and the additional map data is written into other Dark Omen data structures and corrupting them o.O
No idea why but I can't get the pre-battle scene (where you select army and map) to open. It automatically closes and returns me to the first multiplayer-scene (Play/Edit Army). So I will try to fix this blind.
In theory I know what must be modified . Will increase the limit to 200 entries.
I analyzed this error two weeks ago because I had no setup available and the same issue.
Go to "Programs and Features" and click "Add/Remove Windows Features". And under "Outdated/Inherited components" (No idea how it is called in English) tick "DirectPlay".
Global CTL functions sounds interesting. Conviniently Dark Omen has one function to do the function number -> address mapping so in theory it should be feasible to simply parse a 2nd CTL file which contains "global functions" and then to hook this lookup function... Will check how hard this is.
Olly your requests are probably too complex for single opcodes. That should be achievable through smart ctl usage I assume.
Cuthalion: proper random is easy to add Guess I could also provide old opcodes which take a register argument instead of only constants, will add more flexibility (e.g. for addmagic) How is the unit race specified in wh32edit?
Annotating should be mostly complete. There are still some empty dicts (e.g. "Voice" for all the audio stuff) or almost empty (e.g. events) dicts. Feel free to fill them and to post them here so I can add them to the script.
You find this at line 460+.
Ignore game_status and alignment, I fill them later.
Please also take a look at the new scripts and try to figure out what some Unit and Control Flags could be. I have notes about them but most of them are uncertain, so want to see others opinion before I add my flawed data.
Edit: Have to recheck arguments of type "ID. Some of them actually check the UnitID, not an incrementing number (enemy+ally). But thats just a visual issue, doesn't impact the functionality
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. Will increase the limit to 200 entries.