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Starcraft Broodwar Update and a Lesson Learned
CWal37 | 1:35 PM on 09.11.2008 7 comments


If you log into battle/net it will upgrade your version to 1.15.3. Not sure how many people here still play it besides me, but it is very nice to see Blizzard still supporting this game so long after it's release.

And here's what it does:

"Bug Fixes
- Fixed a communication bug affecting third party leagues.
- Alt-F6 no longer stalls the game on Windows.
- Game now works correctly on versions of Mac OS X which do not support 256-color mode."

Nothing major really, but once again just nice to see the continued support, even in the face of Starcraft II.

Interestingly enough I learned something from this update as well. When my game refused to update because of some error I thought it was the fault of Blizzard. It turns out though, that it was because my Starcraft folder had simply been copied over from an old installation, and was therefore missing a registry key needed for updates. Once I added a few strings, a key and modified the key's path, it worked. SO now I know that not only do I need backups of my program files folder, but I need to pay closer attention to my registries as well.



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DibbityDan's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 15:08
DibbityDan
Wow. That game still had errors? You'd think after all this time they wouldn't even be worth fixing.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 15:32
Char Aznable
Blizzard, I love you. Continuing to support a 10-year-old game with updates and patches is awesome.

I'm about to start up StarCraft again for the first time in a year, since my Xbox 360 recently red ringed. "Use map settings" games, here I come. What is your account on b.net? I'll add you, if I can remember my old password and log in.
CWal37's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 16:45
CWal37
@Char Aznable

CWal37, it's my unified tag, PSN, Steam whatever. Also, awesome, I just played a bunch of Use Map Settings games.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 18:48
pedrovay2003
I always sucked at Starcraft. I have both it and Brood War, but yeah, I was never able to actually beat anyone. :P
alex90909's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 20:18
alex90909
did the error you got have anything to do with checksum? im having an issue updating it right now and cant figure it out.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 07:11
Char Aznable
"Operation CWAL"

Any connection there?
CWal37's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 18:06
CWal37
@Char Aznable

If there is it's entirely subconscious. I always thought it was based on my name.
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