Recent content by galaxyhaxz

I also want to get a CRT for retro gaming, both PC and console. It's hilarious how expensive they are now. I remember around 2006 or so when everyone transitioned to LCD you'd see CRT TVs/monitors being thrown in people's trash cans or given away in large numbers for free.

Ah the good old T60. The newest and last laptop you can possibly get that had a 4:3 aspect ratio. It's funny how hard people tried to hold onto that by creating the "Frankenstein" T60 which uses the T61 motherboard for newer specs. I thought about getting a T60 years back but it just wouldn't be...

You can't rack bows and thus Windforce in any patch. Racks were capped at 75 by 1.09. Area levels were actually quite low in pre-LoD, then 1.07 uncapped them, 1.08 very slightly lowered them, 1.09 nerfed them back to similar before pre LoD, 1.10 slightly raised them again. But only 1.07/1.08 had...

As you've seen for yourself, you basically *won't* find them either as 1.08 has abysmal drop rates on top of the broken MF. Racking is pretty much the only option. As for how people got them on battle.net, my understanding is that many of the super rare elite uniques like Arkaine's Valor and...

The irony of all this is that diablo 2 actually runs *better* on linux/mac via Wine than it does with modern windows versions. Windows vista introduced the glitched colors, and 8 removed securom support, 10 broke API in various versions iirc. Even on windows 7, patches prior to 1.03 do not run...

Ha I remember running into that years ago and doing the same thing. The reason why is prior to 1.09, %X damage to demons/undead displayed different, going off what the total damage would be rather than what it's adding. So the gloves are no different, they just display the stat different in that...

Yeah, hero editor defaults to giving everything 10 defense, and I think also making items indestructible. I think the 1.07 runewords were randomly generated. In 1.07.41 there were no runewords at all except ancient's pledge. Then 1.07.44 (the version we have on the CD) started filling them...

Orbs get either life or mana as their staff mod. You can see between the two you found, that's the stat that differs.

I might be able to take a look at doing it this weekend. Something to keep in mind though is that depending on how legit you want the game to be, it will determine how you implement the command. Even though 1.08 doesn't have a player command, drops are still affected by the number of players in...

Shrines are treated as curses, just positive. It's removed/overwritten by the negative curse.

Yep I only changed the ones mentioned in the patch notes, because most 1.08 uniques were actually much worse, so I brought forward the ones I liked. You can check the text file too if you want, all of my past mods provided the text.

I think Harlequin is the only one fixed or "changed" from the original 1.08 version. The rest of them didn't have any bugs and so are identical. The other unique items with bugs were not ported/brought into the mod. I have a list of them I dug up from my archives. Here they are:

I remember reading up that during the battle.net beta from March 2000 where only 1000 testers were invited, they would grind like hell to try to get to the highest level possible. While the demo only has the first few areas, the battle.net beta had the entire act 1, and I think all classes too...

Mana on Harlequin Crest was intended to be there in 1.07 and 1.08. The problem is that there were a handful of typos in the stats of unique items that cause the stats to not show up. The 1.09b Final mod fixed any of the typos for the uniques that were brought forward. Most likely they decided...

Could be several reasons, but I'd guess it's because racking in 1.07 is boring and super time consuming, and getting them in 1.08 is pretty much impossible without Souls (which is basically a cheat code). So having them in 1.09 lets you have an actual proper patch to play where the more desired...