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Topic on Talk:Emperor: Battle for Dune

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I think there was a miscommunication because I was not trying to imply your website was directing anyone to unofficial materials. Only that someone erroneously appended to the end of the official install fix, the tail end of another procedure that comes from pirate sources. This in turn was misleading people into believing the official patches provided benefits only obtainable without unofficial patches. I can now see however that you have already put it all together and started making corrections before I even had a chance to respond.

I was going to point you to read the .txt provided with the official install fix as "proof" steps 6-9 were derived elsewhere unrelated to the fix but I can see you're on top of it. Even though I was a total jerk about things you looked into my commentary and saw I wasn't just flapping my gums. I want to thank you and just say that makes you the better person between us. I was already going to submit with my retort an apology for my needlessly aggressive posture and for making things more difficult for you. The fact that you went ahead and made the corrections before I got around to apologizing and providing clarification speaks volumes about you(in the best way possible)


My only remaining suggestion (since you preemptively made most of the changes I was going to suggest) is to put the installation instructions at the top so that everything appears in the order a new player would have to follow. Otherwise, you did a great job cleaning up all the inaccuracies.

The game is 20 years old and no one has made money from it in ages, my primary concern regarding piracy is user safety. I didn't want people trying in vain to get NOCD to work because of incomplete details and then go aimlessly searching for a fix on google leading them to malicious binaries. If an authoritative source says something is possible but they can't get it to work they might go turn to a source with malicious intent trying to find a solution. That was my primary concern and it has been addressed.

I can only assume someone at some point was under the mistaken impression the SafeDisk patch removed all CD checks and becuse of this it would make steps that were previously only applicable to restoring cutscenes with an old crack suddenly applicable in the general sense. This has to have been the original motivator behind merging these two sets of instructions but as it was done unders a false premise it simply created a set of instructions that didn't accomplish what it promised. You've elimianted all of those problems so I have nothing else to add outside than my previous comments about the order of operations.

One last time, thank you for cleaning up this wiki, thank you for setting your frustrations with my intolerable behavior asside. I sincerely appreciate it and apologize for any headaches I may have caused you. Clearly a person of principles.