Fallout critter patches

From Vault-Tec Labs

Contents 1 Introduction 2 MD5 hashes 2.1 Fallout 1 US 2.2 Fallout 1 GER 2.3 Fallout 1 UK (GSP White Label) 2.4 Fallout 2 US 2.5 Fallout 2 GER 2.6 Fallout 2 UK (GSP White Label) 3 Installation instructions 3.1 Win32 3.2 Mac 3.3 Linux

[edit] Introduction

This short guide will show you how to patch your German and UK CRITTER.DAT to a US version one; and it explains why it's important to do so.

The problem is caused by the fact that Interplay removed all "bloody" animations and all children from the localized version of Fallout I and II. They didn't only change a flag in the .exe which makes it impossible to turn the violence-meter above 3; they also deleted all the graphics from the .dat archives to ensure that nobody changes the .exe file with a hex editor to set the violation-meter back to the US version.

The FIFE team created these patches so the users of localized versions can convert their CRITTER.DAT into the US version. This way all the missing animations and the children are now available and can be accessed by FIFE.

[edit] MD5 hashes

Here are the MD5 hashes of different versions the Fallout DAT files listed.

[edit] Fallout 1 US

• critter.dat: 767E37C1D1DA2167C704C3991E251947
• master.dat: A77331BC7B66AD04DF81D76874CEA9D7

[edit] Fallout 1 GER

• critter.dat: 479427F5CBC55B233688C607D18DAD16
• master.dat: 72847815DAEE788CAC9AD61E6A691113

[edit] Fallout 1 UK (GSP White Label)

• critter.dat: 9ac5274bf96f1a37e5a0a0178f4a5719
• master.dat: e88668df95f6b9e952938aac01983b3a

The UK version is missing children, but has full gore assets.

[edit] Fallout 2 US

• critter.dat: 9b16e92ac88d168e81126b72e6f9ab3c
• master.dat: f20539c899e702848d0f70b0a2d94181

[edit] Fallout 2 GER

coming soon

[edit] Fallout 2 UK (GSP White Label)

• critter.dat: 9b16e92ac88d168e81126b72e6f9ab3c (same as US)
• master.dat: b1d16ac9345694aaf28426ee2b5cb304

[edit] Installation instructions

The patches are available in the Download section. Get the right package, depending on Fallout version (1 or 2) and the language (UK or GER).

Mac and Linux users will need to install xdelta. The command lines shown below will only work for the (rather old) version of xdelta provided there, as newer version have at least changed the syntax. The Win32 patch comes with a bundled xdelta executable, so you don't need to download anything but the patch.

[edit] Win32

• Make sure you do a full install of Fallout.
• Extract the downloaded package to your <Fallout> directory.
• Run the extracted batch file, e.g.: fo2_ger_us.bat
• The CRITTER.DAT gets patched now, the original file gets renamed to CRITTER.OLD.
• Delete the CRITTER.OLD after testing that everything works as planned.

[edit] Mac

• Create a new folder on your desktop: patch
• Copy the CRITTER.DAT from your Fallout CD into the patch folder
• Rename the CRITTER.DAT to CRITTER.OLD
• Patch the CRITTER.OLD with: xdelta patch fo$fallout_$language_us.patch CRITTER.OLD CRITTER.DAT
• Here is an example for the UK version of Fallout 1: xdelta patch fo1_uk_us.patch CRITTER.OLD CRITTER.DAT
• Copy the patched CRITTER.DAT from the patch folder into your <Fallout> directory. Overwrite the existing CRITTER.DAT.

[edit] Linux

• Create a new folder on your desktop: patch
• Copy the CRITTER.DAT from your Fallout CD into the patch folder
• Rename the CRITTER.DAT to CRITTER.OLD
• Patch the CRITTER.OLD with: xdelta patch fo$fallout_$language_us.patch CRITTER.OLD CRITTER.DAT
• Here is an example for the UK version of Fallout 1: xdelta patch fo1_uk_us.patch CRITTER.OLD CRITTER.DAT
• Copy the patched CRITTER.DAT from the patch folder into your <Fallout> directory. Overwrite the existing CRITTER.DAT.