Now you can watch any recorded games played in the balance patch without opening voobly. Follow Step 1 ONCE and then onwards, watching a balance patch rec is as simple as watching any rec!
(NOTE: If your installation path is different then do appropriate adjustments and do these steps for your installation path!! For example, if your game is installed in E:\AOE2\ then replace "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\" with "E:\AOE2\" for every step)
1). Download and extract the contents in this topic to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Games (If there is no Games folder, create one)
2). To watch recs, put the recs you want to watch to the savegame folder inside the Balance Patch folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Games\Balance Patch\SaveGame
3). Open the shortcut "Balance Patch" with the conquerors icon at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Games which launches the balance patch offline. Find your recs in Saved and Recorded Games as normal.
Full credits go to TheMadCadder and scripter!!
NOTE: In case you have a different path where you installed, you have one more thing to do:
If your path is different:
Right click Balance Patch shortcut (the one with conquerors icon), click properties, then edit the "target" from
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\age2_x1\age2_x1.4.exe" game=Balance_Patch
to your path. If you dont have an exe named age2_x1.4.exe, change it to age2_x1.exe
(NOTE: If your installation path is different then do appropriate adjustments and do these steps for your installation path!! For example, if your game is installed in E:\AOE2\ then replace "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\" with "E:\AOE2\" for every step)
1). Download and extract the contents in this topic to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Games (If there is no Games folder, create one)
2). To watch recs, put the recs you want to watch to the savegame folder inside the Balance Patch folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Games\Balance Patch\SaveGame
3). Open the shortcut "Balance Patch" with the conquerors icon at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Games which launches the balance patch offline. Find your recs in Saved and Recorded Games as normal.
Full credits go to TheMadCadder and scripter!!
NOTE: In case you have a different path where you installed, you have one more thing to do:
If your path is different:
Right click Balance Patch shortcut (the one with conquerors icon), click properties, then edit the "target" from
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\age2_x1\age2_x1.4.exe" game=Balance_Patch
to your path. If you dont have an exe named age2_x1.4.exe, change it to age2_x1.exe