Bug#916496: xcom-ufo: cannot build package from GOG 2.0.0.4 installer

[Tim Allen]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 09:38:51AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 13:47:54 +1100, Timothy Allen wrote:
> > I extracted the installer with innoextract, and manually copied the
> > directories listed for Nightly builds in the OpenXcom documentation[1]
> > to the place where OpenXcom looks, and successfully began a new game
> > and played a mission. I don't know how exhaustively OpenXcom checks its
> > datafiles at startup, but it seemed good to me.
> 
> Thanks. It looks as though the GOG package contains different
> (original/unpatched?) versions of ROLAND.CAT and the five GEODATA files in the
> "obsolete" group. I don't know of anywhere that we can download
> replacement/patched/updated copies of those files, but if the ones shipped by
> GOG work in practice, presumably they're good enough?

I found a site[1] claiming to host the official 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4
patches, alongside a bunch of other unofficial patches. It turns out
that the ROLAND.CAT that game-data-packager was looking for (MD5:
7194c14...) is part of the UFO 1.4 update. The site says[2]:

# This patch fixes many stability issues, some game stopping research
# bugs And removed the startup copy protection. However it also replaces
# the sounds with ones that are not as good as the originals.

The BIGLETS.DAT and SMALLSET.DAT files don't appear in any
patch, official or unofficial, expected hash or otherwise, so I have no
idea where they came from, or why the Steam and GOG releases differ.

The "obsolete" ENGLISH.DAT, FRENCH.DAT and GERMAN.DAT that the GOG
release includes come from the 1.2 and 1.3 official patches. The
versions that game-data-packager expected aren't present.


I mention this all just for completeness; thank you for updating the
game-data-packager package!


[1]: http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/ufo-enemy-unknown/patches/
[2]: http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/ufo-1.4/