On 29 December 2010 23:18, Ralph Versteegen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 December 2010 07:31, <[email protected]> wrote: >> james >> 2010-12-28 10:31:07 -0800 (Tue, 28 Dec 2010) >> 366 >> Revert my PW2 backcompat patch from revision 4048 >> Doing it this way is bad because it causes all old versions of custom to >> prompt >> for a password BEFORE displaying the future file version warning. >> >> Result would have been people editing their game in a nightly, >> then going back to Ypsiliform and wondering why their password >> suddenly and inexplicably stopped working. >> --- >> U wip/common.bas > > Oh, that has nothing do to with your patch. It's due to the change to > the new password format. I did mention the problem in whatsnew.txt > (and in IMPORTANT-nightly.txt, so everyone is meant to know about it). > It's really unfortunate that we've having this problem of Custom not > showing a warning yet again. I think we'll just have to live with it; > maybe this will help drill into people's heads that they should never > downgrade! >
However, I just realised that if you did downgrade to an older version, the older version would not change genPassVersion back to 256 (yet another WTF in the password code), so newer versions of Custom would treat the game as unpassworded, as genPW4Hash would be 0. My response: serves them right. _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
