2011-01-15, 05:16 PM
Another thing, the version I got of SOM came from a japanese TORRENT...... I discovered som, then I discovered this wonderful site, and johns patch..... so the ISO I have even has the origanal textures......... John did a bunch of adds when he did his custom work.......... ( he did not like the crappy grass textures ect.........) so the key is NOT adding ANY patches , (even the 1.1 patch or the ones that came from, FROM software:) that is the only way to work with the REAL som_db.exe............ I figured out why the source comments were question marks.......when John reassembled the package with all his goodies...... he did not recompile using a japanese compiler...... the compilier not reconising the kanji, just replaced ALL the coments with little question marks...... when I broke the source EXE's down I used that Jap res hacker I posted, and I recompiled with that same compiler ( IMPORTANT) I did not apply ANY patches on the install....... and boom all the kanji remained intact:) then me and babylon.com went to work:) once again I think the little coments He made to sorce alters the memory values, and that is why we have two versoins , of SOM_DB.EXE....... good luck , I just wanted to eloborate a little, ) So I made sence this time).....................ML