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How would people react to a donations -> vr mods gig?
So I got a DK1 back in October and right away I hacked Morrowind to run on it with a modified DLL, but then halfway abandoned the project due to the small amount of people who played it, plus IRL stuf...
Well, every game is different in terms of the memory hacking required, but most games will still use a modified d3d9.dll that will generally be fairly similar with its function overrides. I suppose I could consolidate it all into a program that automatically downloads, updates, and installs the mods, but that would probably be a much larger undertaking. On the other hand, it would also allow me to push out fixes for games that still get updated regularly.
As for the subscription idea, I suppose it could be a viable model for ongoing support-- I hadn't considered the fact that unlike Morrowind, the games that people will want me to hack will likely still be patched in the future, which would require me to go back and fix the hack to work with the new code. I hesitate to force people to subscribe just to get updates though... plus they could just get them from someone else who subscribed unless I put some sort of anti-piracy in it.
I guess I could make a whole website for it, and code all the dll's to check for updates during DllMain, and have some sort of progress bar system on the website where it would show each game that I'm working on, showing how much has been donated and how much is necessary to add special features or ensure further updates and stuff.
As for the subscription idea, I suppose it could be a viable model for ongoing support-- I hadn't considered the fact that unlike Morrowind, the games that people will want me to hack will likely still be patched in the future, which would require me to go back and fix the hack to work with the new code. I hesitate to force people to subscribe just to get updates though... plus they could just get them from someone else who subscribed unless I put some sort of anti-piracy in it.
I guess I could make a whole website for it, and code all the dll's to check for updates during DllMain, and have some sort of progress bar system on the website where it would show each game that I'm working on, showing how much has been donated and how much is necessary to add special features or ensure further updates and stuff.