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Just when you think life will throw you a bone, it tosses you a pickle. What good is a pickle?!
You see, we’ve been experiencing technical difficulties. The latest item to break is the Battle City Updater. It’s looking for files in a location that no longer exists.
And I can’t fix it. I cannot update the updater. It refuses to compile. It’s unupdateable.
And if I can’t update the updater, I can’t update Battle City…
But at least I have a pickle.
In summary, we need to build a new updater. Or, just force folks to re-download the game every time there is a new version.
Also, ideally I could use such an updating device to update my mood, because this latest catastrophe has got my panties in a bunch. And I’m normally quite neat.
Workaround: If you download the latest version of Battle City, the game still works. As a temporary solution, open the game using bc.exe rather than BattleCity.exe. This will bypass the updater and launch the game directly.
When i try to log in it says “This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling this app might fix this problem” I dont understand why its not working for me this is the second computer ive tried logging into BC with. Weebo, Deceth, or Wahoogie PLEASE HELP ME AND FIX THIS PROBLEM.
I cannot figure this out im stumped or stupid….is this the end of all i ever wished for? Or is this the begining of Battlecitys life?….The ball lays in weebos hands…and in the community. I guess I will just have to wait to find out. Weebo we need to find Hanzie and get him on the development team.
Found hanzies old site. His e-mail is
hkankaan@cc.hut.fihttp://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~hkankaan/BattleCity2/index.html
Battlecity 2 was a little project worked on by (As far as I know) Hanzie solo. He got the basics done, but never progressed passed that, which is a shame as it looks to have some promise. It’s been inactive for the past 5 years.
Quick update on the updater: It’s gone! The Battle City Updater is no more… Plz send rescue!
When you download v3.5.7c, the updater will not be there. This will make life simpler for new players who won’t bother to try clicking bc.exe when the updater fails to launch the game.
As a side project, we need to build or find existing open source software to use as an updater going forward. Until then, players will need to keep re-downloading the game every time there is a new version.
From now on, if you need to re-download the game, you should get an error that says, “Outdated version, please re-download Battle City”.
You guys couldn’t compile the updater? Where did you get stuck? The updater works just fine and is actually pretty simple to use
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