[Fix] Remove blinking "Press F2 or any button to start" text

[oliver]

Hi,

this blinking text drove me crazy. I didn't found any option to turn it off.
My first try was to patch it with a memhack tool, but the memory adress changed between every start. Then I searched for the string. Luckily I found the text unencrypted in the file GAME.DAT.

I made a little patch tool. Place it in "<STEAMDIR>\steamapps\common\LEGO Lord of the Rings". Start it and press 'p' for patch (game must be closed). If you want to revert the changes, start tool again and press 'r'. To be on the safe side make a backup of GAME.DAT manually before starting the patch tool.
http://xccv.de/files/lego_lotr_blink_fix.zip

If other Lego games are similar, the patch tool _might_ work there too (I can't test, I own only LOTR). Before pressing 'p' you can check the GAME.DAT.UNDO.txt. In there you must see all translations.

-edit:
Google Chrome complains about a unusal file after downloading. I don't know why...
File is clean: https://www.virustotal.com/file/ccc0d627b66017cd50333000269953a383d352aa9edc9e1aa5f316f0cb77dea1/analysis/1356384086/


If you want to patch it by yourself than open GAME.DAT with a HexEditor.
Search for this text:
"PRESS_START_P2","All","Framework",
This text is followed by a comma separated list with translations in different languages like:
"lang1","lang2","lang3"
Find your language string and replace it with a no-break space. Hex: c2 a0 (Complete String: "<C2><A0>"
A single space or empty string will not work, the game will display a blinking "PRESS_START_P2". If you replace the complete string with spaces than the game will crash.
And don't change the filesize of GAME.DAT! Fill the rest of the line with spaces.

Oliver

[Target Practice]

Worked perfectly for me, thanks.

[Mist of Majora]

If anyone is still subscribing to this, can you help me out with this. I tried using the hex editor but I can't seem to do what you asked (computer newb here i guess). I can only delete and add numbers, but I can't do anything about the spacing :(

[Mist of Majora]

nevermind, i just held down the spacebar through the entire message, left the quotes, and it switched to german language. Then i figured out that if i just insert a '.' in the first quotes, the message is entirely gone. Thanks - guess it just took some playing around for us newbies at hex editing :)

[Zabai]

Download link doesn't working - please post this tool on any free fileexchane server

[oliver]

Originally posted by Zabai:

Download link doesn't working - please post this tool on any free fileexchane server

Link is fixed.

[Zabai]

Originally posted by oliver:

Link is fixed.

Thank you - your tool works fine. It solve the problem.

[Zabai]

Oliver, I have used this tool in Lego Star Wars 3, and it works fine in this game. Thank you very much. Respect

[Attack:ToMo]

nice thanks! now to get the controller to work properly.

[beardgoggles]

If LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is similar, then the above value in GAME.DAT is actually part of a CSV file stored within the DAT file.

QuickBMS[aluigi.altervista.org] is a handy tool that allows you to extract the contents of the DAT files used in Traveller's Tales games and view the contents. You can also re-import any modified files, as long as they are the same size as the original or smaller. It should work with everything up to, and including, LEGO Lord of the RIngs.

I've certainly done this with LEGO Star Wars, as a lot of the character and vehicles names are wrong, so I was able to edit the English-language file and re-import it, and it works like a dream.

For those interested, you need to download the http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/bms/ttgames.bms script for QuickBMS to extract everything from the DAT files.

[Poop]

thank you

[Dr.Jones]

Worked perfectly , thanks.

[CrumbleCat]

Heya! I just wanted to bump this thread to say OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. That constant blinking was ridiculous. There's still a character icon on the top right, but at least that doesn't blink.

So thank you, kind sir/madam!

[Tomkes]

Thanks a lot for this fix. It made my day!

[Ciri's friend]

Thank you.

[Sweetz]

Thanks for this. That prompt is annoying!