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DIABLO 1.08
Diablo 1.08 uses a different scheme for the server selection. It now allows
a choice of gateway server from a list before you connect to Battle.net.
This is now true of Diablo II and Starcraft/Brood War 1.08 as well.
The good point about this is that you no longer need to use an external
program like BNS each time you want to change your server.
The bad point is that BNS tools can't be used to add new servers to the list.
You can change the Reg Entry by yourself as described here or the gatesel.exe
utility for Diablo II (I haven't tested it, but it should work for Diablo 1.08
or Starcraft 1.08 as well).
To do it yourself, you'll have to edit with regedit the key named:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Battle.net\Configuration\Battle.net gateways"
It's a binary key containing the following data:
header: [00] 1 byte
"version" NUL terminated
"num" NUL terminated
entries: "address_1" NUL terminated
[tz_1] 1 byte
"name_1" NUL terminated
...
"address_n" NUL terminated
[tz_n] 1 byte
"name_n" NUL terminated
footer: [00] 1 byte
where:
[00] is always the zero byte
"version" is the version number ("1000" -> 31 30 30 30 00),
"num" is the number of servers with 2 ASCII digits (for example,
"05" is coded 30 35)
"address_i" is the Internet address of the ith server (IP or hostname)
[tz_i] is the negated timezone relative to GMT of that server (in ASCII)
(GMT+1 -> "-1" 2D 31)
"name_i" is the display name of the ith server
for example: 31 30 30 30 00 30 31 00 "1000" "01"
62 6E 65 74 2E 64 6F 6D 2E 6E 65 74 00 "bnet.dom.net"
2D 31 00 4C 6F 63 61 6C 00 "-1" "Local"
00 EndMarker
Mathieu Legare reported that some versions of windows (Win2K Pro SP1) use two
byte characters where the upper byte is the normal ASCII character and the
lower is all zeros (upper in the string, AKA byte addressed, not word
addressed). That means your registry entry would look like this:
> 0000 31 00 30 00 30 00 31 00 1.0.0.1.
> 0008 00 00 30 00 31 00 00 00 ..0.1...
> 0010 73 00 65 00 72 00 69 00 s.e.r.i.
> 0018 6E 00 66 00 39 00 39 00 n.f.9.9.
> 0020 2E 00 75 00 71 00 74 00 ..u.q.t.
> 0028 72 00 2E 00 75 00 71 00 r...u.q.
> 0030 75 00 65 00 62 00 65 00 u.e.b.e.
> 0038 63 00 2E 00 63 00 61 00 c...c.a.
> 0040 00 00 2D 00 35 00 00 00 ..-.5...
> 0048 42 00 4E 00 45 00 54 00 B.N.E.T.
> 0050 44 00 00 00 75 00 73 00 D...u.s.
> ...
Note: if the number of servers is not correct, it will be adjusted by the
program automatically (it did so when I tested this RegKey).
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