Shoutbox

* lhunath sighs.

Ok, thanks for trying to help here, people, but really; all we need to do, and read it once more and don't divert from it, is :
Find a method to make MSN Messenger use the PNG containing the animation data (hidden data), and not rip it out.

Possible directions to solve this are:
1. Bypassing the algorithm of MSN Messenger which converts images to RAW image data (only the actual pixels you see), then converting the RAW data to PNG. (This way, all hidden data in our original PNG disappears, because it's not in the visible pixels - RAW data.)
2. Adding our PNGs with hidden data directly to the Display Pictures directory and customising the map.dat (and index file) to add the entry of our display picture, so that it appears in the list.

Problems currently keeping us from using any of these solutions:
1. This requires an ASM hack, in the form of a patch or memhack, kind of like Stuffplug NG does very often. I don't know any ASM so I can't do this. I need an ASM programmer to bypass the MSN Messenger algorythm.
2. Decrypting the map.dat file has been successfully done before, the problem is Encrypting it again. Appearantly that isn't very easy. I will try to get in touch with the person that decrypted it. He's at MSNFanatic's board.

I appreciate your input, but people, please stay on topic, and try to keep the thread clean and to the point so we don't get lost in confusion.

Thank you,
~lhun