Dafydd on 28/9/2004 at 18:50

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Sigh.

I already found the skull in the sink, long ago; it just never occurred to me to pick it up, since I see that sort of thing in Thief missions all the time. Yeesh!

Thanks, DOM.

Dafydd

fortuni on 16/9/2021 at 00:51

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The copy I already have loads and plays fine, but just d/l a new zip from Thief Missions (64Oswal.zip) and one from Taffers Paradise (c1OswaldsPatisserie.zip) and both failed to extract correctly in FMsel :(

Here's a(https://drive.google.com/file/d/14FRCJ_Q6938zXHMo8peVhZOi6ESDxD4b/view?usp=sharing) link for my copy if you want to check it out, in the meantime I've reported your findings.

Edit: Just looked at the files in my copy and it looks like the folders have been modified (books/intrface/Obs/Strings) but I can't see what has changed inside those folders, and a little bell is ringing in my head that I came across a problem many moons ago and Unna fixed that issue all the way back in 03/2018 which would explain why my copy was renamed to c1OswaldsPatisserie_Test. Hopefully Jax can give us an answer.

In the meantime Glypher has made the good zip available at (https://darkfate.org/view/details/files/fan-missions/thief2/1contests/contest_1/oswalds_patisserie) Darkfate.

baeuchlein on 16/9/2021 at 21:07

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I also have an old version (c1OswaldsPatisserie.zip) of this mission which is corrupt. Linux' unzip command was a bit more talkative about the manner. Something in the zip file was not correct. However, unzip was able to correctly guess which information in the zip file was correct and which was not, and could successfully unpack the mission. The unpacked files were completely identical to the ones from fortuni's zip file, but fortuni's was not corrupt. Most likely, fortuni unpacked and re-packed the zip long ago, and got a correct zip file with all contents intact. I just played this version, and I was able to complete it. Glypher's zip, by the way, also unpacks well and has the same contents as fortuni's.

However, when FMSel tried to unpack my old, corrupt file, it unpacked only parts of the contents. missflag.str and TITLES.STR in the Strings folder had zero length, so it didn't come unexpected that the game wanted to start the first original mission instead of the one in this mess. On the other hand, "my" version of "Oswald's Patisserie" is the only one I have, and old notes by me indicate that I completed the mission long ago, somewhere near the beginning of 2007. Maybe ancient DarkLoader was able to unpack the corrupted zip correctly. Anyway, it seems to have been corrupt back then already, but somehow this went unnoticed (or at least un-corrected).

Either way, fortuni's zip file most likely contains the mission in working condition. Take it and be happy.:) Or use Glypher's from DarkFate.

Some odd things happened while I played the mission. The rats were running around in a weird way, e.g., one walked around while being partially embedded in the wall. I also noted in 2007 that the rats tended to fly around. I guess Unna Oertdottir might have either also unpacked and re-packed the mission to get rid of the corrupted archive, or she might have corrected some weird AI behaviour. This behaviour most likely was not caused by the corrupted zip, because the AI's in fortuni's version did the same things. Maybe Oswalds goods had some "magic mushrooms" in it, who knows?:ebil:

tl;dr: Most likely, the original zip file was corrupted already on all servers in 2007, and fortuni corrected the zip. His file should work well, as well as Glypher's.