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From Worms Knowledge Base

The 1.05 patch was released by Team17 shortly after the game's original 1997 release.

Details

The patch disk issued by Team17 updates the two retail releases of the game to version 1.05. You can find out what version of the game you are running by typing VERSION on the Main Menu (although if you are running v1.05 it will display the version number once the game has finished loading anyway, so this is not necessary). The patch was not made available via magazine coverdisks or via online Amiga file resource AmiNET, as was the usual method of distributing patches at the time. In fact the availability of the patch was not announced at all. Instead, owners of the game who contacted Team17 of their own volition to ask about patch availability would be sent a patched copy of the first floppy disk in the mail.

The floppy disk was later removed from Team17's archives, and in fact some long-standing Team17 staff were unaware of its existence. The patch was discovered online on the website of English Amiga Board user Mad-Matt in a compressed floppy disk format. It was converted to the .ADF emulation standard by Squirminator2k. The patch can be downloaded from Dream17.

Fixed glitches

Due to time constraints, WormsDC was shipped to retail with several features unimplemented and a handful of irksome glitches. The majority of these were fixed with the patch, however some were not remedied. See Tricks and glitches (first generation) for a complete list of unfixed bugs.

New glitches

Unimplemented CD-ROM features

Prior to the game's release, Amiga magazine CU Amiga included additional content for the game on one of its covermount CD-ROMs. COntent included the FMV sequences from the MS-DOS, PlayStation and CD32 versions of Worms, ambient CD audio from Worms and Worms Reinforcements, and additional landscape and mountain sets. The original intention was for a variable in the WormsDC.info file that could be toggled to detect the CD-ROM and use the content. Unfortunately, the feature was not ready by the time the game went to retail and was removed entirely. Despite the ReadMe file for the retail release of the game promising this functionality being incorporated in a future patch, this never materialized.

It is still possible to use the additional landscapes and mountains by copying the relevant files into the relevant drawers (folders) in the WormsDC install directory, and the FMV sequences can be watched using the included Play program. However, the FMVs and the CD audio cannot be used in-game.

Other versions

In 2007 Andy opened the ibar, a very classy geek-friendly bar/nightclub centering around state-of-the-art technology and independent music. Since then he has made numerous allusions to an ibar remix of WormsDC. He has no plans to make this version of the game available to the general community. With the closure of the ibar in 2011 this version is unfortunately no longer accessible.

Future

On June 1st, 2018, Andy Davidson posted a screenshot of the WormsDC title screen bearing the version number '1.5 Alpha' and a build date of May 2nd, 2018 to his Instagram page. A further screenshot was posted to the 'Commodore Amiga' group on Facebook showing Worm Select options and options for Sudden Death including 'Sinking Levels', which suggests the terrain may sink - a mode for Sudden Death introduced in Worms 2. Andy later made a post to a French Amiga group on Facebook confirming 'options for Worm select (pick up which worm you want to use), sudden death options, and sinking levels.'

As yet, no release date has been set and no further features have been announced, though in the same post on the French Amiga group Davidson confirmed it would release 'soon.' As far back as 2007, Andy had previously alluded to the possibility of a hypothetical future update including features that appeared in other Worms games such as retreat time, as well as features that didn't make it into other games in the series.

From Worms Knowledge Base

The Worms 2 servers host rooms in which users can meet to then connect to each other's PCs for playing games.

• 2Server communication
  • 2.1Packet format
    • 2.1.1Session info

Official servers

The following servers are hosted by Team17:

Server communication

The server hosting the user, room, and game lists communicates with packets in the following format:

Packet format

Session info

Several packets identify a user, room, or game with the Name and Session fields. The latter provides the following information:

Passing other or invalid combinations (protected users and rooms do not exist, only passworded games) will display a French flag with the default state or a question mark in the UI.

The Worms 2 1.0.1.1 Demo uses significantly different values compared to the full version 1.0.1.5 patch, causing said question marks to appear. However, interactions with full version users still work.

Nation / Flag

Determines which flag is displayed with the user, room, or game. Two flags are custom (Skull and Team17) and are not normally selectable. Des patch can unlock the selection of them, and adds another entry for an 'invalid' country code, creating an empty flag. Below, the flags are listed with the description displayed when hovering players.

Game release

Becomes 50 if CD detection failed. The CD detection consists of the following tests:

• Find CD drive, where drives A: and B: are ignored - a found drive letter is stored in the registry under HKCUSOFTWARETeam17SoftwareLTDWorms2CD. (error 2 otherwise)
• Check the CD being labeled 'Worms 2', 'WORMS2', or - for Trymedia 1.07 versions - 'Worms2_bl'. (error 1 otherwise)
• Check if the CD has no free space to ensure it being a CD-ROM. (error 3 otherwise)
• Check if the CD stores an 'autorun.inf' file. (error 4 otherwise)

Packet contents

As specified above, the Code of a packet determines the Action to take on either the server or client side and in effect which fields are used. Some codes are reused for multiple occassions, and some are unused in the 1.0.1.5 patch.

Client query packets are also used for server notices, represented by the Type column in the following table:

World At War No-cd Patch

• Query: A client query to execute an action on the server, always getting a reply (even codes only).
• Reply: A server reply to a client query, always reporting back an Error code, 0 for success (odd codes only).
• Notice: Same as query, but coming as an out-of-bound server packet to update the state on the client, like when another user joins or creates a game.

Note that the same ID counter is incremented for users (UID), rooms (RID), and games (GID) - if a user logs in with UID 0x1000 and immediately creates a room, the RID will be 0x1001. The counter should also start at a high enough value (0x1000 seems to work fine) to not cause duplicate chat messages appearing client-side, apparently because it is also reused as an index in some packets.

1. ↑ ^1.01.1Only ever sent as a notice by the server, clients disconnect without any query and awaited reply.
2. ↑Since the host reports its incorrectly detected NAT IP here, Worms 2 Memory Changer has to be used to inject the actual IP address into Worms 2 before creating a room.
3. ↑Original server always reports E_FAIL in error code, even though messages were sent.

Game room communication

The players are connected via P2P using DirectPlay. This means the ports 47624 (for the lobby connection itself) and 2300 to 2400 (for each player connection) should be forwarded in any router. The fact that each player is connected to another means that the host can leave the game at any time, the remaining players can continue playing without dropping, unlike in Worms Armageddon or Worms World Party.

See also

Worms 2 1.5 No Cd Patch Version

• Worms 2 Game Server, cross-platform server implementing the above protocol.