Fallen Earth data file trick
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:21 am
I have been wanting some updated maps for Fallen Earth for a couple months now. The ones I have found online appear to be from Beta and are not accurate. So, I started playing with the game directory trying to find the files. As many of you know .. nothing. There is a data.ifs file that is the only thing that updates each day, so it must be in there somewhere. That is where XenNTaX came in. This is the only forum I could find talking about the data file. I joined today; thanks for accepting me so soon. I read all the posts about FE and went through the tutorial for QuickBMS.
I must have opened a file Mythic doesn't want you to edit, because upon reload of the game I saw a message saying "checking the ifs game files" and I had to download all the files ... 40,159 of them. Well, I'm a fat redneck so that sounds like an invitation for dinner at Texas Roadhouse to me. Upon return, the download had frozen and stopped at around 8000 files. I reopened FE and it started "installing" the files I had downloaded. While that was happening I started trolling through the FEUpdater folder. I found a treasure trove of directories and files ... including one named maps that included a ton of .tga files. I started looking for the files I wanted and they started disappearing on me. Once it finished installing, it started downloading again. I checked the folders again and many of them were empty, but a few were getting new files. So, the installation process deleted the previously downloaded files after they had been compiled into the data.ifs file and started downloading the new ones. This makes sense, updates would need to be downloaded and installed and deleted too.
Ok, enough with the story and on with the trick .. after all that is it pretty easy to figure out. Delete your data.ifs folder and eveything in your FEUpdater\download file, reopen FE and watch it download all the files you have been looking for in the data.ifs file TA-DA.
** WARNING **
Don't do this if you want to play the game tonight/today. I have been updating now for two hours and I am at 16,500 files.
Notes:
*The files appear to download according to thier creation date .. all the way down the seconds.
*The installation\deletion takes place immediately after the download. You cannot wander off and wait for it to finish.
*I forsee one problem getting all the files: the download, installation and deletion happen so fast it will be difficult to capture the last files. I hope the installation order will be the same as the download process and maybe I will be able to copy the last files.
I know I don't know enough to get all the info I need, so this post is also me asking for help. The TGA files I already have won't load and there are tons of extensions I don't know how to deal with ... yet. I am happy to share info and help anyone else who is trying to get more info on this game. Once I finish with the download and have all the files, I will reply and tell you anything else I have discovered.
Thandalar
I must have opened a file Mythic doesn't want you to edit, because upon reload of the game I saw a message saying "checking the ifs game files" and I had to download all the files ... 40,159 of them. Well, I'm a fat redneck so that sounds like an invitation for dinner at Texas Roadhouse to me. Upon return, the download had frozen and stopped at around 8000 files. I reopened FE and it started "installing" the files I had downloaded. While that was happening I started trolling through the FEUpdater folder. I found a treasure trove of directories and files ... including one named maps that included a ton of .tga files. I started looking for the files I wanted and they started disappearing on me. Once it finished installing, it started downloading again. I checked the folders again and many of them were empty, but a few were getting new files. So, the installation process deleted the previously downloaded files after they had been compiled into the data.ifs file and started downloading the new ones. This makes sense, updates would need to be downloaded and installed and deleted too.
Ok, enough with the story and on with the trick .. after all that is it pretty easy to figure out. Delete your data.ifs folder and eveything in your FEUpdater\download file, reopen FE and watch it download all the files you have been looking for in the data.ifs file TA-DA.
** WARNING **
Don't do this if you want to play the game tonight/today. I have been updating now for two hours and I am at 16,500 files.
Notes:
*The files appear to download according to thier creation date .. all the way down the seconds.
*The installation\deletion takes place immediately after the download. You cannot wander off and wait for it to finish.
*I forsee one problem getting all the files: the download, installation and deletion happen so fast it will be difficult to capture the last files. I hope the installation order will be the same as the download process and maybe I will be able to copy the last files.
I know I don't know enough to get all the info I need, so this post is also me asking for help. The TGA files I already have won't load and there are tons of extensions I don't know how to deal with ... yet. I am happy to share info and help anyone else who is trying to get more info on this game. Once I finish with the download and have all the files, I will reply and tell you anything else I have discovered.
Thandalar
