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Recently, I've had an unholy infatuation with trying to host .gsc mods once again on 1.14.
Unfortunately, its impossible but not because of the reasons you may think. So, I created this thread hoping to one day be able to return and pick off where I left off, or at least fill in others so they don't have to go at it blind like I did.

This will be done Q&A Style because it's easiest that way.

Q. Why is it impossible?
A. Because we cannot make a .self with npdrm properly (as far as I know) and because of that, the whole process is ruined.

Q. What do you mean we can't make a .self? We have "make_fself_npdrm".
A. Yes, fself, as in a fake .self file. It's a fake signing process and it cannot be read by the game. Thus it results in the gaming closing when trying to turn the extracted .elf back into a .self with no edits.

Q. Do you have any examples of it being a fake .self?
A. Well, yes.

Different Headers.
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Q. What if we simply replace the header and footer like we had to do before with patch_mp.ff
A. I tried it, but also this should uh... be a nice example of what the problem is.
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That was why it was impossible. Now I will address some commonly asked questions around here.

Q. Was the .GSC compiler removed/disabled?
A. It was not removed (it's on the disk, not in a patch file) but it was disabled. Though I found something in the .elf that hinted at re-enabling it. (scr_beginloadscript) ^_~

Q. Are there different servers for 1.11, 1.12, 1.13?
A. No, they all use the same server but they separate clients based on the build version. Once again, if we could create actual .self files using .gsc would be as easy as editing 3~ things. (This is Activision we're talking about here.)

Q. Are there backup patch files stored in the default_mp.self?
A. Yes.

Q. Are the files in default_mp.self loaded automatically or checked and if they fail loaded from the .self?
A. I'm actually not sure. I looked for anything that could resemble a hash and found nothing.

In closing, I may be entirely wrong, but based on assumptions, work I've done, and tools that were available, there seems to be no way to re-pack a .elf file into a proper npdrm .self until that happens, its unfortunately .cfg city.

I'm not quite sure. Simply because all default_mp.self's contained their "hotfix number or whatever you wanna call it" inside the default_mp.self before the build date, changing them has no effect but it's odd that it would be offline if it were truly a hotfix. In the same sense my hybrid 1.13.26.0 default_mp.self should let me play 1.11 games but that doesn't happen, I get put into matchmaking looking for players with only the same build version as me.

Also, no that's not true. Why? because I took a heavily modded 1.13 self online and it worked out just fine (Changed at least 80 different strings randomly for my own tests). The server cannot scan your ps3 and the .self is not self aware (no pun intended) to send any type of checksum with the server.

So far though, I would like to see some type of backing on your cod4 hypothesis because I never heard about that so a link would be nice.

hmm I don´t know :|

all i would think u would have to do is just spoofer it for sure and it should work,if u want i could help ya look into it but its whatever?

Well I'm gonna set up a proxy but im almost positive that the hotfix is not downloaded.

on xbox teh1337 make it where u could sytem link tu7/8 updat on normal xbox to tu6 bypass menu but it wasnt for online but,on ps3 if u got hud elem u could do alot of bypass stuff online,so if not gsc online then hud elem for sure but i dont think a hotfix would matter for getting it back cause m2 1.14 ff are in gsc but u cant put gsc back so if u was to spoof it right im pretty sure u could get it back that way but it be hard to spoofer it right

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