[bfprog] GameSpy v3 (BF2) Parsing.....

[EvilYoda]

It is worse than I hoped... It is doing the same thing in other data
chunks. Not sure if a chunk is spanned, should I always throw out the
last value from the previous packet! Arrgh.

EvilYoda wrote:

>Is this list rolling? Do we have any gamespy protocol hackers on here?
>
>I've been implementing a gamespy query in java for BF2, and wow, I can't
>believe they would implement it like that.....
>
>One thing I noticed is that if the player name chunk spans packets it
>truncates the name in the packet, and then repeats it in the next one.
>It "marks" the name with a character, so far I have seen ? and > as the
>markers.... So the way I've coded it is if I detect the player names
>span packets, I assume the last name is always crap, and the first name
>in the next packet needs to be fixed by dropping the first character.
>
>The other thing I've noticed is a new data element called "skill_". Hmmm
>What is this!? It seems to scale up with points, and I don't know if it
>spans rounds or not but I'm thinking it is used to determine who wins
>the commander when multiple people apply for it.
>
>But finally after that last reach around, I have it working and the data
>looks very clean...
>Here is a dump:
>
>   #                          Player Scoredeaths skill  ping  team
>  0.                      [SO]Square    50     7    17    37     1
>  1.                  ~MGDD~DraGon_X    46     5    22    53     1
>  2.                       UNR...bab    32     6    15    64     2
>  3.                           HABO3    29     4    13    45     2
>  4.                         Raelorn    29     5    13    43     2
>  5.                           nemui    26     8    12   157     2
>  6.                          Dumboe    24     0    12    75     2
>  7.                       Pawtucket    23     5     8    61     2
>  8.                        NickD119    22     6     9    83     2
>  9.                        warpig49    21     6     4    11     2
> 10.                         g00bert    19    10     7    40     1
> 11.                         Tiddles    18     2    10    26     1
> 12.                         MiDWind    18     6     8    42     1
> 13.                       NoxUmbrae    18     6     3    57     2
> 14.                         biotron    17     5     7    93     2
> 15.                     clantrashed    17     2     5    38     1
> 16.                       MrGregorX    15     0     7    23     1
> 17.                          rinker    12     5     8    79     2
> 18.                      [RO]Itachi    12     3     5    76     2
> 19.                        koban715    12     6     5    19     1
> 20.                    JosephChrist    12     9     5    80     1
> 21.                       Groovy247    12     7     2    88     2
> 22.             Spork_for_President    12     0     8    33     1
> 23.                    Cain[Medusa]    11     6     5    57     2
> 24.                       idtakae86    11     7     4    29     1
> 25.                         bushirw    10     2     6    61     1
> 26.                         [X]Duke    10     1     5    14     1
> 27.                      crispy_420    10     6     4    49     2
> 28.                      unclesally    10     7     4    44     2
> 29.                      BigBadBert     8     1     4    38     2
> 30.                Isellcracktonuns     8     4     4    58     1
> 31.                        HAL10000     8     9     3    74     1
> 32.                         DomonKK     8     5    11    56     2
> 33.                     Giunta_Core     7     7     4    36     1
> 34.                      MiDMeJesse     7     8     2    39     1
> 35.                       Jadan2151     6     4     3    59     1
> 36.                        Romanian     6     5     2    24     2
> 37.                         [11]Rex     6     6     2    37     1
> 38.                          Idunno     5     2     2    83     2
> 39.                 dan_the_fireman     5     8     2    62     1
> 40.                         Piddles     5     6     1    31     1
> 41.                           iscan     5     4     0    40     1
> 42.                          kenzoi     4     2     2   167     1
> 43.                          C3R3 at L     4     3     2    13     1
> 44.                          FABIAN     4     2     1    18     2
> 45.                           barks     4     3     1    70     1
> 46.                    FaultySanity     3     6     2    78     1
> 47.                        macky101     3     8     2    42     2
> 48.              NaTuRal_BoRn-KILLA     3     2     1    36     1
> 49.                 lobstah_johnson     3     8     1    37     1
> 50.                          kydsid     2     3     1    96     2
> 51.               WaffleDaLoveSauce     1     7     7    52     2
> 52.                     angelssaint     1     4     2    78     1
> 53.                      Druidchamp     1     5     2    91     2
> 54.             tizondoan at yahoo.com     1     3     0    62     2
> 55.                  revolution_347     1     7    70    32     1
> 56.                          Kodsha     0     0     3    61     2
> 57.                      [WMC]_RUSH     0     0     0    55     1
> 58.                       AccobrA67     0     0     0    42     2
> 59.             MajorMalfunction.AC     0     3     0    28     2
> 60.                         Perseus    -3     1     0    26     2
> 61.                     alexledroit    -4     3     1    53     2
> 62.                         Tweaker    -5     4     2    60     2
> 63.                       Warper123    -6     5     0    17     1
>
>I plan on publishing the code later when I'm sure that more bugs have
>been removed, etc.
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