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| Boring Windows Solitaire is now SuperCoolFunTime Rebel Solitaire |
| 02.12.06 (8:25 am) [edit] |
I FOUND OUT HOW TO CHANGE THE BITMAP IMAGES FOR THE CARD DECKS IN WINDOWS SOLITAIRE. I AM SO COOL......um...yeah. I'll explain. I was so danged SICK of those retarded, fruity default Windows card decks. I was so tired of the little island with the palm trees, the stupid astronaut, the retarded little rubber frog (which is cute, but.....retarded), the rose, and the obviously Photoshopped picture of the desert sand dune with the full moon in the background. This was a problem for me only because I play Solitaire CONSTANTLY. I've always got it open, to give me something to fiddle with while a page is loading or I'm uploading pictures or attaching files to emails. I can't just sit there staring at the screen waiting for it to load.... I just can't. I'll start fidgeting really bad. So, I've now made my own goshdanged deck. Mwuahahaa.  Yes, of course they're Confederate flags, would you expect any less? Heh. Excuse the crude screencapture - the real window looks sharp as ever. I figured there HAD to be a way to do it, somehow. There had to be system files where the bitmaps were stored. So I did a Yahoo Search for "change card deck windows solitaire". I first got this page, where somebody in a forum asked if they could change the deck image in Spider Solitaire (the spider deck is the ONLY option for that game). Somebody replied to their post and recommended using a program called "Resource Hacker" to open the game's .exe file, and replacing the bitmap file with that of your own (just as long as you make your own .bmp the same exact size and file format). I figured it would work with regular Windows Solitaire too, if it worked with Spider! So I opened sol.exe with Resource Hacker and..... there were no bitmap files in it. Bastards. I then continued searching around online and found this page. Now we're gettin' someplace! I guess the dude on the other site forum figured people like me don't know sh*t from Shinola. Anyway. It explains how, "Windows Cards.dll is located in Windows\System32 folder and is used by several Windows games like Solitaire (sol.exe)." AHA!! So they're not located in the sol.exe file, but in the Cards.dll file!!! YAY! So I opened THAT file in Resource Hacker and..... lo and behold. There were the bitmap files. I got the exact size, resolution and format of them, and replaced one of the ugliest, most boring ones with the Rebel flag one I'd made myself. I went through all this trouble and thought it worked, but once I closed Solitaire and opened it again later, my custumized deck was.... gone. Bastards! So I messed with it for a long time, ruined things a couple times (and fixed them), but it kept doing the same thing. I was so frusterated I wanted to pull my hair out. I took a deep breath and did a search for... heck I can't remember what I searched for, but I found a page (on the same forum site that I originally got the information about Resource Hacker from) where somebody was experiencing the same problem as myself, and he asked, "I am using Resource Hacker to change the card backs in Solitaire. I modified the Cards.dll file where the card bitmaps are found, and saved it. Then I closed it out and opened up Solitaire and none of the changes were there. I opened cards.dll back up and it was back to normal. Any ideas???????" Another guy replied, "Windows File Protection replaces the hacked file with a copy from the 'dllcache' folder. Switch off File Protection, take cards.dll out of the 'dllcache' folder, or copy your hacked .dll to the 'dllcache' folder before you put it anywhere else." Ah. Makes sense now. SO. I downloaded a handy little program called "Windows File Protection Switcher" and switched it off. Restarted the computer, removed cards.dll from the "dllcache" folder, again made my modifications to the original file and saved them. IT NOW WORKS! VICTORY IS MINE!! This time I replaced ALL the card backs. Here's all the ones I made.  I can now play "Rebel Solitaire". Or, "Skynyrd Solitaire", "Rickey Solitaire", "Van Zant Solitaire" - you get the idea. As Josée would say, "SuperCoolFunTime for ALL!!!" My life will be brightened considerably. All this over a stupid game. Sad, I know, but I feel so accomplished!!! Hahaha. I beat Windows in this round. |
posted by: PiccadillyCommando (reply)
post date: 03.11.06 (12:36 pm)
SUPERCOOLFUNTIME!!!!!!
Might even have a go meself!
PC.
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 03.11.06 (9:09 pm)
Reply to: PiccadillyCommando
It's a bit confusing but worth a try! So glad I finally figured it out, those Windows images are so DRAB! Let me know if you do it!! :D
