Fri May 09, 2003 9:25 pm
How i retrieved my MP account number
After having gone through quite a bit of trouble to get my account number back id thought id just share this incase anyone else has similar troubles.
I had been playing freelancer for quite a while and had created several characters and when i accidently corrupted my win2k install beyond all repair i was extremely annoyed since i hadn't writen my account number down which after all is what they say is required for your game.
So i reinstalled win2k on a new partition i had made on the same hd. Ran freelancer and found of course that i no longer had my id. So my first thought was to check the readme. There it says that you can either use the file myflaccountid.hta or run the checked that basically runs that file. Now my first thoughts were well i must still have that file in the registry somewhere, so in order to get it i would first have to find it. Now the first thing i did was swap the file NTUSER.DAT which was located in my user account in documents and settings(its hidden). Then i swapped that with one of my other accounts on my new win2k setup. Logged onto it and ran the checker that shows your mp id for the game. Extremely happily i took that number, entered the registry and went to the value listed in myflaccountid.hta. There i put the id i had gained and put it into the installkey value. Booted up the game and checked multiplayer servers, first thing i noticed was there were none of the games i had created charcters in listed as visited. No worry i thought, as long as i have the correct id when i enter the server it will recognise me and show the characters i had created...wrong. Thinking i must have done something wrong along the way i reinstalled freelancer and inputed the id in manually when it first asks for one to be created. Again no luck. So then i open up regedit32 and loaded the NTUSER.DAT file as a hive into local machine. There i noticed that several other values had been created in the freelancer registry. So i took the root of the freelancer values and exported the values onto a .reg file. I then opened it up and used find and replace to change all the locations of hkey_local_machine to hkey_current_user. Then i loaded up game and wham all the vists where back up and when i enter it shows the users i had created.
Well theres my little story, hope it helps someone
I had been playing freelancer for quite a while and had created several characters and when i accidently corrupted my win2k install beyond all repair i was extremely annoyed since i hadn't writen my account number down which after all is what they say is required for your game.
So i reinstalled win2k on a new partition i had made on the same hd. Ran freelancer and found of course that i no longer had my id. So my first thought was to check the readme. There it says that you can either use the file myflaccountid.hta or run the checked that basically runs that file. Now my first thoughts were well i must still have that file in the registry somewhere, so in order to get it i would first have to find it. Now the first thing i did was swap the file NTUSER.DAT which was located in my user account in documents and settings(its hidden). Then i swapped that with one of my other accounts on my new win2k setup. Logged onto it and ran the checker that shows your mp id for the game. Extremely happily i took that number, entered the registry and went to the value listed in myflaccountid.hta. There i put the id i had gained and put it into the installkey value. Booted up the game and checked multiplayer servers, first thing i noticed was there were none of the games i had created charcters in listed as visited. No worry i thought, as long as i have the correct id when i enter the server it will recognise me and show the characters i had created...wrong. Thinking i must have done something wrong along the way i reinstalled freelancer and inputed the id in manually when it first asks for one to be created. Again no luck. So then i open up regedit32 and loaded the NTUSER.DAT file as a hive into local machine. There i noticed that several other values had been created in the freelancer registry. So i took the root of the freelancer values and exported the values onto a .reg file. I then opened it up and used find and replace to change all the locations of hkey_local_machine to hkey_current_user. Then i loaded up game and wham all the vists where back up and when i enter it shows the users i had created.
Well theres my little story, hope it helps someone