Greater map size

[whitesushi55]

I was browsing the chinese war3 forums for a Sword Art Online RPG map and happened to chance upon one which is 32mb big. Having initially thought the map wouldn't be load-able inside war3, I quickly scanned the page and to my surprise, there was actually a patch that allows maps bigger than 8mb to be loaded. I downloaded it, patched my warcraft and tried it with the 32mb map, it worked. (As a Garena player, I am not sure if the patch would work for BNET players in the sense that BNET might reject such edits) Wow, honestly this is a pretty exciting discovery for me and the implications of not having a map size limit is amazing.

1. Infinite models (Throw in as many custom models as you want and make each unit, each building and each spell more unique)
2. Infinite triggers (Replace the entire interface... well TKoK is close)

These 2 basically add up to the ability of creating one of the most customised RPG maps out there, and be able to play it.

Well I am certain that this is definitely not something new, probably been out for a year or two already but there's definitely people who aren't aware of this and it's always good to share some interesting pieces of news eh. Do drop a reply and share your thoughts on this, whether it came as a surprise to you if it's your first time reading about it, or how it is already old news if you are already well aware of it. Lastly, I doubt the SAO rpg is the only map that is utilising this patch and would appreciate if anyone would care to share some others they are aware of.

[Sankentyosu]

How does the patch work - do you know?
Like what it modifies and such so that it allows larger map size. Sounds like an impressive accomplishment for whoever made it.

[whitesushi55]

Attached is the patch. All you have to do is to extract it using winrar and copy + paste the game.dll into your war3 folder, replacing the existing one.

I am unsure if bnet has file checks but for garena/cracked war players, this should work and you will be able to host/join maps greater than 8mb after you restart your war3.

(edit by Bart) No guarantee that the file is safe - use at your own risk.

[rynerlute]

Do you happen to have the original source of this file? It seems the file patches WC3 into 1.24, and I would like to know if maybe theres an updated patch....

[XD!]

@rynerlute i tested it also makes >8mb maps in LAN for 1.26a, if that's what u mean. If you mean if its still regularly updated, idk, it's in chinese. I'm hoping an english discussion related to the patch and just found this and a russian patch in hiveworkshop.

@whitesushi55 i can host LAN games. But I can't join my Ghost hosted bot games. Was gonna try using !fake player from ghost one to play maps
-_- but I can't see my bot hosted game

[rynerlute]

I mean whenever I start War3.exe, and then look at bottom right I would see 1.24.??.???? but when I restore my original game.dll I it reverts back to 1.26

[XD!]

mb mb. i see it now too, so i'll try test it w/ 1.26a maps that wont work in 1.24 patch when im no longer lazy... currently i'm looking for forum thread iirc it's in hiveworkshop forum, i forgot who posted it and and the thread name but I know it it's a file named 780_231_reg.rar
I don't know if it has some virus but the poster claimed it's used for a >8mb maps such as a map named I forgot as well but it's a Russian map, iirc >40mb.

Found a related guide but it's too complicated for me.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/grav ... ost1515756

Any1 have an easier 8mb limit size patch english guide?

[KangTooJee]

this patch isnt new... it patch ur game.dll to exceed 8 mb limit..
if u want to download here is the link
http://kangtoojee.blogspot.com/2013/12/ ... tcher.html?
backup ur game.dll first if something goes wrong

[XD!]

is there an available file in zip version?

1.26 version, host map with filesize 8mb up:

8MBupPATCH1.24.zip

virus check: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c610 ... 388834844/

edit: see my next post

[rynerlute]

is there an available file in zip version?

here i googled it thru the filename i downloaded

1.26 version, host map with filesize 8mb up:

8MBupPATCH1.24.zip

virus check: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c610 ... 388834844/

Thank you for this..........