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Mirh (talkcontribs)

There are allegedly 3 versions (unclear how that relates with the AccessDigital parameter).

FOSS tools for editing .par files are there and here, with an unwrapper and decrypter available for the later versions

Removing the RequiredToPlayV1 value from the InstalledDistro entry should remove the Origin client hard requirement. Some games may still *actually* require to communicate with it to work.

p.s. bonus for cryptography nerds

EA Application supersedes Origin

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27.96.195.5 (talkcontribs)

Looks like EA Application has gone 'live' recently - presumably links to Origin (including on individual game pages) need to be updated for this? Eventually Origin will be decommissioned, according to EA.

27.96.195.5 (talkcontribs)

Although on Mac Origin is still the EA platform, it seems.

Origin multiplayer = blaze API?

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Mirh (talkcontribs)

http://blog.nofate.me/?p=28

https://web.archive.org/web/20140824053141/http://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/battlefield-3/114580-blaze-backend-relations.html

AFAICT from tons of references in the SFXGame/Online files mass effect 2 used it, so maybe it was the first to ship it?

EDIT: a lot of the older games instead used to rely on the FESL, or Theater (or Plasma at least in the case of BFBC2) protocol

EDIT2: that was only some kind of glue between backends, insofar as you can see it working (and crashing) with both the older gamespy titles and the new ones using the so-called Nucleus accounts. Blaze was probably the next step, cutting the old cruft and just integrating with their own new system (whose monicker, fun fact, was at a point even more important than Origin itself)

Mirh (talkcontribs)

So, I got stuck for almost a year on the same Origin version. The client was correctly finding there was a newer one available, but every time I restarted to update.. it simply launched normally as if nothing happened. And I tried to get out of this situation by studying its behavior and logs in %PROGRAMDATA%\Origin\ (note: cleaning everything, including also stuff in %LOCALAPPDATA% and %APPDATA%, didn't help at all)

Origin::Services::SelfUpdateService seemed fine before restart.. The only somehow suspcious thing was bootstrapper complaining about Error OpenSession: failed to send request on the initial online version check. Maybe they slightly changed API?

Anyway, long story short the only thing I could come up with after a day of fights was that UpdateTool.exe is supposedly launched with either /SelfUpdate /Beta:false /Version:updated.new.build.version or "\"X:\whatever-folder-origin-is-installed\Origin.exe\" /Installed:updated.new.build.version /StartClientMinimized" /FinalizeSelfUpdate parameters.

.. And today I found it's probably deprecated completely, since a normal working update seems just to care about starting this now "C:\ProgramData\Origin\SelfUpdate\Staged\OriginThinSetupInternal.exe" "/InstallPath:X:\whatever-folder-origin-is-installed" /locale:it_IT /Version:updated.new.build.version /DesktopShortcut:false /StartShortcut:false /Autostart:false /Autopatch:true /Autoupdate:false /TelemOO:false /Beta:false /IsBetaBuild:false /Handoff /WaitForExit /UpdateDataSource:download


I also found out just about every Origin version is available from here or here.

And I spotted games themselves are served from similar positions (e.g. this is BF3 AK expansion, while this is some whatever Apex thing)

I am wondering (provided one had some way to force auth), if older versions of games couldn't still be available?

Mirh (talkcontribs)

Changing a game's language

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RaTcHeT302 (talkcontribs)

I want to switch Battlefield 2 from Italian to English, in order to use a mod.

Blackbird (talkcontribs)

Isn't this done in registry?
So it is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Electronic Arts\EA Games\battlefield 2
"locale"="en_US"
"language"="English"

RaTcHeT302 (talkcontribs)

I was going to tweak it through the registry, but I was hoping Origin would have an option already available like Steam.

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