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Hey all, since the Windows 10 EOL is happening next month (10/14/25), I want to raise visibility about my Dark Island strategy mentioned in my OP a few years ago. The technique has been a flawless success all of these years and I'm happy continuing with this technique moving forward. Even though...

This is pretty cool. I don't remember ever seeing this flaming sword thing. Looks amazing.

@Manny it's listed as part of my 1.07 - 1.08 analysis post. Look for Galaxy's name in the OP.

Someone put a photo of their D2 LOD Beta CD on Reddit haha. That's cool.

Yup what @galaxyhaxz said. There are no fundamental changes between 1.09b and 1.09d so much so that in the Singling documenting I mention that characters between 1.09a-1.09d are forward and backwards compatible (the same applies between 1.05a/1.05b/1.06a/1.06b), which is usually why I say that...

And no mention of Cactus .. tsk tsk tsk.

Sounds good. Yea I remember doing this exact set up for several mods when I was porting them. It's a relatively common set up it seems lol. Some of them also use D2GL or these other type of stuff. For all of the Cactus Ports Collection mods I only test against the following: Works perfectly out...

I don't have any objections to it but since these files are outside of our control, I have to have a disclaimer that files downloaded outside of The Moving Caravan (or as part of files downloaded on my server) are done so at your own risk. Furthermore, any files linked in the forum cannot...

I found the section of the Chris Wilson x David Brevik interview where they were speaking about D2 vs D2: LOD. It starts at 45:55 and lasts until around 50:00.

Yup. You can try adding the BaseMod dll to one of the load library lines in the plugy ini and see if it works. The other way is to patch the DLLs so BaseMod gets loaded, and then add PlugY.dll into one of the BaseMod config dll lines. I think BaseMod comes with a patcher. If you do that it will...

You'll want to change the PlugY behavior so it doesn't hijack the save path. Cactus should be the one controlling that since it will be easier and will provide protection for your saves. This is a fix I automatically do for all of the mods I've ported to Cactus. Example: Porting Fixes The mod...

Beautiful and strong? I need to get me some Succulent action!

Hey @Ethaniel, There is no one specific way to port a mod and not all mods are compatible with Cactus. Not because Cactus changes anything, but I would say it's because a lot of mods due weird things. The farther the mod goes from the way Diablo II normally works and expects things to be in...

Thanks for testing this @Manny. You've confirmed my suspicion that this was a bug that existed since LOD launch.. which means it actually existed since LOD beta because 1.07 and 1.08 are actually beta builds as per my analysis. One being an early beta build and the other being a late beta build...

That would indicate that this may possibly be a 1.09b bug then. Given act 5 was introduced in LOD, it's possible that 1.07/1.08 might also have this. If someone can test in 1.09d and 1.10f that would be useful as well. If it works in 1.09d that means that they silently fixed that because that...

Ah interesting. It would be good to try this on Windows since the game was designed for it. It could be possible that the flag might work on Windows but not through Wine. If someone with Windows (preferably something below 11) wants to give this feel free and report back. If I don't hear back I...

Not sure about this, but I would recommend not using that flag. I don't remember 100% but that may be a debugging flag as well. Does this also happen without using Singling (or are you already doing this without Singling)? Also what version of Windows are you on?

Nice. Yea I love playing Character-based SSF.

Lol you crack me up. Character based SSF or Player based SSF? Meaning are you gonna share the items you find with your other chars (twinking) or no twinking. I'm assuming no twinking. And welcome to 1.05b. It's been a while since you've played this patch for real lol.

Ah ok. As long as Cactus is in the D2 Root folder you should be able to call it C:\Diablo II. This is also the default installation strategy in step 1 (all files copied to into the D2 root directory) and there is a message about weirdness in there already if the files aren't together. So I guess...