Alternate Morningtide Patch

Brefin · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 18

I'm off to the Morningtide Prerelease shortly, but since Gatherer had updated I generated a new alternate patch from that. So this should have all the Morningtide cards as well as all the other Oracle updates that Gottlieb noted in his article of changes to the database.

http://homepage.mac.com/badger/brefin/jtp_morningtide_appr.zip

Craze · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 5325 Location: Indiana, U

why would we need an alternate patch?

Jorbes · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 249 Location: Netherland

Maybe because this one also contains changes to cards in sets other than morningtide and it's source is gatherer.wizards.com, how can you go wrong?

Brefin · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 18

I got into this patching stuff because of Lorwyn. A friend wanted to play, and the main listed Lorwyn patch had glaring typos and errors in costs and names and effects. Even now, the Apprentice Download page on this site lists Future Sight as the latest available patch (And I have no idea if it includes 10th, and nothing else would seem to have the great creature update)

I already had some scripts to understand Gatherer's output, and I modified them to create an Apprentice cardinfo.dat. So.. everything that is in Gatherer ended up in the file. Creature updates, Online Masters, errata to ancient cards, reminder text and so on.

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 491

Although i am not mutch playing apprentive, i want to thank you for your work. Good Job.

KeySam

FoxBat · Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 13

I played someone who had no idea what the Morningtide cards really said because their patch is full of errors/ommisions, but I used this one and had no issues. So Kudos for making this and ya'll should consider downloading it.

eternaldeath · Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 5

It doesn't work for me. Which folder do we extract from?

Brefin · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 18

The patch should be about the same as other Apprentice patches. The zip file contains

Files:
Distro.dat
Expan.dat
Format.dat

Folder
Sets

Sets files:
cardinfo.dat

Unzipping the patch with Winzip and dragging the three dat files and the Set directory to your Apprentice directory and saying yes to overwrite the existing files should install the patch.

eternaldeath · Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 5

That's what I do, but, it still doesn't update. I still have Lorwyn only.

Brefin · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 18

I did find one error with the patch.

Not with the cards themselves, but with Format.dat. Morningtide was included as part of Lorwyn block, but was not included as part of Type-2 through Vintage. Oops.

For those keeping track, here's an updated patch
http://homepage.mac.com/badger/brefin/jtp_morningtide_appr-v2.zip

ck3gds · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 235

How did you actually find time to do all that?!

I salute you, Brefin! Very Happy

My only gripe is that you included the Unglued and Unhinged cards, but goodness, you even included the Grand Creature Type Updates (Bartel Runeaxe is a legendary Giant Warrior now, hurrah!) which really impressed me!

Cheers, and keep up the good work!

Brefin · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 18

My background is programming. So over the years I dabbled with ways to try and setup my own card database (Haven't done it though.)

I already had some scripts that could take a download straight from WOTC's Gather and extract card information from it. So when I got on the patching bandwagon all I needed to solve was the format of Apprentice's cardfile (cardinfo.dat) That info is also available online.

Computers can be great for manipulating or transforming data. So once I get a copy of Wizard's full Oracle data for cards from Gatherer, I just need to do a little tweaking to add new sets to my scripts, and let them run. Getting all the card text updates, the grand creature update and so forth is just that cool.

I was amused to find Unglued/Unhinged in there, but I don't think they're in the Tournament card filters as it is. Seems to me to be more an amusing side light and not any kind of real problem to fix.

Jadex924 · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

Nice =D Thanks a lot Brefin

Longblade · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

...patch doesn't have Treetop Village?

I dont know much about this stuff, other than how to put it onto my comp, so I don't know if I lost it from your updated patch, or something i did. Help?

Brefin · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 18