New and better hook dll can be found here: https://github.com/Radioo/TickerHook
HTML ticker display for IIDX
STAY_COOL comes in two parts: server and client. The server is responsible for reading the game's memory, parsing it and sending it to the client. On the other hand, the client receives the data and displays it on an HTML page.
Server setup
The server needs to be ran with admin priviliges!
You need to provide additional arguments as well, they are listed below:
Example: TickerServer.exe -p spice64 -m bm2dx.dll -o 66C7270 -file D:\\test.txt
-o 0x10C7C608 REQUIRED - Offset from base module address which points to the ticker.
-p launcher REQUIRED - Game's process name.
-m bm2dx.dll REQUIRED - Name of the module which holds the ticker address.
-t 500 - Memory scan frequency in ms (default 500).
-b 128 - Ticker text array size (default 128).
-ip 10.0.0.12 - Local IP address override (use if auto detection fails).
-port 10573 - Port override (default 10573).
-file E:\\test.txt - File mode (prints text to the specified file, overriding it each time. Remember to escape the backslashes!).
--auto - Automatic memory lookup.
-as 0x02900000 - Starting address for --auto (default 0x02900000).
-ae 0x02FFFFFF - Ending address for --auto (default 0x02FFFFFF).
Easiest way to automatically launch it is to add it to your gamestart.bat like so:
start "Ticker server" "C:\Users\Radio\Documents\Builds\TickerServer\TickerServer.exe" -p spice64 -m bm2dx.dll -o 66C7270 -file D:\\test.txt
Automatic memory lookup
By using --auto, you can enable automatic memory lookup. This is only needed if the ticker address changes every boot, for example: Toastertools running IIDX 18 or 19.
By default it begins searching from 0x02900000 and stops at 0x02FFFFFF. It looks for an ASCII string composed of two spaces and characters WE. This is important because you need the game to stay on the title screen (starting on the warning screen and through the title screen music, demo play screen changes the text to DEMO PLAY) through the duration of the scan. The client text will inform you if the scan didn't find anything, in that case you will need to restart the game or change the start and end addresses for lookup. I wish I could've handled it better but I'm still new to this, sorry...
Client setup
Set the IP address of your server in the client.js file. Example: let socket = new WebSocket("ws://10.0.0.31:10573/Echo");
Only change the address, so 10.0.0.31 in this case. Then just run index.html.
It's important to understand the connection behavior. As soon as you load the page, the client will attempt a connection to the server. If successful, the server will begin to initialize the process hook. Just remember to connect after the server has a process to hook into.
If using --auto: Remember to start connecting only when the game is on the title screen as explained in the auto section
Customizing the look
You can customize to your heart's content using style.css.
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