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Hello!

It has been almost 6 years since I retired, so many good memories from that time and some names that I recognize here. Since then I've studied at a university in northern Sweden, changed course from architecture to computer schience and am now months away from finishing my studies and days away from landing a well paying job as a system developer (we just have to talk about how I'll finish my studies on the side of it and how much I'll earn).

First, me being drunk wearing a self sewn cape à la Game of Thrones.


Second, opposite. Meaning sober and wearing actual clothes.


Also, I'm back to say hello! So hi everyone! C:

[20:58] <The_Pastmaster> Moby: KK in Swedish means **** buddies. :3
[20:58] <Moby> DANI KK PLS

[01:21] <Baggerboot> Beltir: What's wrong with your ass? You keep talking about it all the time
[01:21] <Beltir|Gone> Had surgery, still have a large hole

hohoho

Talked about Minecon with my dad, and he said that Disneyland got conference halls and stuff outside of the park, so I don't think Minecon tickets will include entrance to Disneyland.

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And then the people who clutter up the "Applying to be a Moderator" thread will take your roles.

Clearly nothing can go wrong.

Exactly! Greats minds think alike.

Welcome TheWhiteWolves!

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Pricing link? Or are you just Mr. Moneybags?

Or I'm good at finding cheap enough options?

I'll stare with you Piratebay :3

I forgot mine as I never use it! \o/

See here for MCNostalgia 2.0, sonicrules1234 is taking over for now, perhaps indefinitely. I'm tired of Minecraft, and will see you all again in a few months when I grow bored due to the lack of new games. Thank you, all.

I am not responsible for any damage you do to your computer using these tools. If you don't trust them, you can look through their code yourself, just open them up in a text editor.


MCNostalgia is a tool that takes binary difference patches and applies them to the latest version of Minecraft, essentially reverting it to an older version, without ever distributing any .jar files illegally. Binary difference patches are made by taking the differences between two files, one is the source/old file (in this case the latest version of Minecraft), the other is the output/new file (in this case an older version of Minecraft). To patch the files, MCNostalgia requires Minecraft to be unmodified, that means no imported textures even.

Installation - Heads up, this is really really simple, for both Windows users and Mac users, got it?
Windows Users

1. Download the 'Windows' version of MCNostalgia and the patches. If you really want to use the python form instead, download the 'Other' version and make sure you have python installed.
2. Extract the archive to any folder.
3. Run MCNostalgia, it should enter Configurator mode.
4. Choose which options you would like enabled, if you want it to work with different directories than the default ones, you will have to modify the config yourself. It is recommended that you leave errors and logging enabled. Close MCNostalgia and run it again.

Mac Users

1. Install Python 2.7.X (NOT 3.X.X) if you don't have it already.
2. Download the 'Other' version of MCNostalgia and the patches.
3. Extract the archive to any folder.
4. Run MCNostalgia, if it doesn't run from a double click, try running it via terminal or a shell script with the command "python MCNostalgia.py", it should enter Configurator mode.
5. Choose which options you would like enabled, if you want it to work with different directories than the default ones, you will have to modify the config yourself. It is recommended that you leave errors and logging enabled. Close MCNostalgia and run it again.

Linux Users

1. Install Python 2.7.X (NOT 3.X.X) if you don't have it already.
2. Install bspatch if you don't have it already, using "sudo apt-get install bsdiff" (or something similar, it differs between flavors)
3. Download the 'Other' version of MCNostalgia and the patches.
4. Extract the archive to any folder.
5. Run MCNostalgia, if it doesn't run from a double click, try running it via terminal or a shell script with the command "python MCNostalgia.py", it should enter Configurator mode.
6. Choose which options you would like enabled, if you want it to work with different directories than the default ones, you will have to modify the config yourself. It is recommended that you leave errors and logging enabled. Close MCNostalgia and run it again.

Other Users
MCNostalgia also hopefully supports SunOS/Solaris and other Unix systems, to match Minecraft. However, I am in no way positive if python or bspatch supports your OS, nor if this tool will even work. It probably will, so long as python does, but I'm not sure. For the most part, it should follow the Linux instructions.

Usage
Patching - Since so many people are having brainfarts, this is what you use to go back to previous versions.

1. Choose a version in the patches and copy all the ptch files as well as the checksum file into the bin folder where you extracted MCNostalgia to. The files, not the folders.
2. Run MCNostalgia
3. Choose Patcher
4. Play Minecraft!

UnPatching

1. Run MCNostalgia
2. Choose UnPatcher
3. Play Minecraft!

Changing Verbosity Settings

1. Run MCNostalgia
2. Choose Configurator, this will run the Configurator again for you to configure the settings again.

Custom Setup
So you want to have this tool, for example, patch minecraft that's not in your application data? Well, crack open MCNostalgia.ini and let's take a peek.
appdata = blahblahblah - This line points to where minecraft.jar, lwjgl.jar, lwjgl_util.jar, and jinput.jar are
bin = blahblahblah - This line points to where the backup and logs will be saved, and where the .ptch files should be
As a reminder, I am not responsible for anything you break by altering these settings.

History
1.0.4 26/09/2011 - Fixed issue with people using single quotation marks in folder names.
1.0.3, 19/09/2011 - Added line telling people where to put their patch files if MCN can't find them. Added versions to checksums. Added timestamps to logs. Individual patches are now zipped individually, so you no longer have to download five files for one version. Logs are now saved constantly, instead of when program is closed (because that didn't always work).
1.0.2, 29/05/2011 - Now catches all errors, rather than just where they were likely. Errors should now print line number as well. Fixed issues with macs. If the back up already exists, it will try to back up again anyways, to ensure it has the files to patch. MCNostalgia will now close after running the Configurator; this is to prevent the issue where the other options stop working after the Configurator is run.
1.0.1, 29/05/2011 - Improved OS detection. Checksum file is now read when you start patching instead of only when you start up MCNostalgia, so you can hot swap the patches and checksum file while MCNostalgia is running. MCNostalgia no longer quits upon starting if there is no checksum file in the bin folder. Included msvcr90.dll for those of you who don't have it.
1.0, 28/05/2011 - Partial rewrite. Fixed issues with macs and linux(hopefully). Added checksums. Got rid of alerts as they were only used in two places. Added exe version for Windows so they don't have to get python. You will have to redownload patches for this version, as each set of patches now include a checksum file.
0.7, 25/12/2010 - Minor fixes, patches are in a separate download now so that they may be updated without having to redownload the tool itself
0.6, 24/12/2010 - Removed two debug prints, added checks for missing ini/ini options
0.5, 24/12/2010 - Python implemented, more idiot proofing
0.2, 22/12/2010 - First public release, minor improvements to batch scripts
0.1, 21/12/2010 - Test release

Credits
CyborgDragon: Me, durr.
okushama, ZeuX, amh7912, lahwran, GenuineSounds: Testing
Notch: For making this game
_303: For pushing CyborgDragon to port it to Python for multiplatform support (I'm lazy)
InsanityBringer and lahwran: For getting InDev working!

Currently Available Versions

Downloads
Do not post these links else where, as it can only end up hurting users and me alike. It can hurt users from lack of information, and it can hurt me from potential loss of profit. It also hurts users because I delete the old files and links every time I update MCNostalgia, and so the links, being placed elsewhere, become broken. Instead, link to this thread.

By downloading, you agree that you have read this section(MCNostalgia), in its entirety, and that if you ask a question answered in this section, you are informed that I may ignore you.

You need both MCNostalgia and the patch files.

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MCNostalgia 1.0.4 - Windows
MCNostalgia 1.0.4 - Other
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Beta 1.8.1 Patches - Individual Downloads

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Legality
A lot of people question the legality of this. Well, it is not directly redistributing the minecraft jar files. It is the differences between the latest jar files and older versions. The difference("patch") files will not work without the files that need to be patched, in this case, the latest version of Minecraft. They will not work with anything else. Now, this clears it of one part of the forum rules, but not the illegality. Well, to clear that up, I've contacted Mojang multiple times, and they have been made aware of it at least twice, their response wasn't much, but I take it as a "do what you will." If they ask me to take it down in the future, I will.

Video Tutorials
Windows

Mac

Linux
Currently looking for somebody to do a video tutorial of using it on linux, from installing bspatch to running it. Both using terminal and not, preferably.

Everyone rep this post plz, I'm testing something.

THANKS.

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Neat. Pictures!



^ Me a couple weeks ago.

You look like Björn Gustavsson.

El Superjefe:

There is a new option (currently available only to administrators and moderators, not sectional moderators) to mark an individual post as spam. There is also the option to mark a post as "not spam".

There is an automated process that checks every new post for spam, this process is currently not running, but we need to train the filter for when it is running.

The idea is that when a post is marked as spam it will "train" the filter and similar posts in the future will be marked as spam. If you mark a post as not spam then it will teach the filter that the post is "okay".

This is not a minecraftforum.net spam system, it's a global spam system. It is used on hundreds of thousands of websites/blogs/forums. It should be used to mark global spam, not minecraft forum spam. If spam would be spam on another website then you mark it as spam.

Examples of spam:

"Watch Olympics online"

"Buy replica rolex watches today"

"Credit cards with CCVs"

"Cheap Viagra"

Examples of (shitty posts) that aren't spam:

"Bump"

"Join my server"

I HOPE YOU GUYS LEARNED TODAY WHY NOT ALLOWING BUMPS AND SPAM IS GOOD AND WHY BUMPS AND SPAM ARE BAD.

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This seems familiar...

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I know for a fact that the moderator ( I will let him have anonymity. :3) to issue my last suspension did so out of personal reasons. I completely agree with the OP here that reports should be anonymous.

I tried to tell an administrator but he defended the enraged moderator.

But since moderators stick together I don't see this ever happening.

I hate all the staff, any opportunity to fire someone is an opportunity I relish. If you have real evidence of a moderator or administrator being unfair (as in, using their position to abuse members) then I will absolutely deal with it. I do however suspect you don't, but if you do please PM it to me.