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Episode: 3365
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Title: HPR3365: Diablo 2 Portable and Modding
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3365/hpr3365.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 21:57:32
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3365 for Friday, the 25th of June 2021.
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Today's show is entitled, Diablo 2 Portable and Mudding.
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It is hosted by Operator and is about 8 minutes long and carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, I talk about Diablo 2 and Mudding.
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Hello everyone, today's episode is going to be about Diablo 2, Diablo 2 Mods, so kicking it all school.
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I don't know how I got into this, maybe I wanted to play Diablo with my wife, maybe,
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Diablo 2 with my wife, maybe. I don't not exactly sure how it started.
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I do remember us playing Diablo 2 a little bit and then maybe we stopped playing it for whatever reason.
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So that's where kind of this came about.
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First things first, I created a like a portable Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction or Death,
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or whatever the biggest latest expansion or whatever complete build is called.
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Anyways, it's a little under 2 gigs, I think, 1.5 gigs or something like that.
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No, not 13 gigs. 1.8, so it's a little under 2 gigs.
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That includes the Diablo 2 already and like Diablo 2 files all in the right place.
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There's a registry patch in there to actually make the game run start and there's also
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this thing called Mod Plug Why, which is for mods and the mods that we'll talk about today are
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median XL and that's pretty much it for now.
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But the Mod Plug Why, it's MOD space PLUG and then the letter Y, no spaces.
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So that kind of is like a mod manager essentially, I think, for Diablo 2.
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Try to remember of course that it's been quite a while.
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The other thing you'll want, the other piece you'll want is borderless gaming, which will
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create, instead of like in a window mode, you'll see that you won't see the border and it'll
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allow you to run the game in kind of a full screen mode. And then the other piece here is called
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I want to say it's not median XL, it's something else to do full screen, full screen stuff.
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Let me see if I can view this file.
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So borderless gaming, borderless gaming, borderless gaming, a mod plug.
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I think the stuff inside a mod plug Why is also the part that does the
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full screen stuff. So there's a mod plug Why, I think that allows you to do the screen resolution stuff.
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And it will, it will let you change the resolution of Diablo to ridiculous size where you can pretty
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much load the whole map into like a single view. It's sort of cheating because the engagement
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distance and the view distance is a set length. It's like a 100 by 600 max.
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Excuse me. But with this resolution plug in, you can see far much farther distances than that
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and stuff. Trying to see if I can find, again, this was a while ago, 2019, something like that.
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There's a registry patch. I run the registry patch and I kind of do in this live.
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Borderless gaming, I install, I do the registry patch and then I run borderless gaming.
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And I want to say the plug Why stuff is for the resolution check or whatever.
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It allows you to change the resolution to a ridiculous size.
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And then borderless gaming, again, makes the windows go away. And then what you also want to add
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to that is once you've done playing the regular game, you can install this thing called median XL.
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It's median space XL. And it's a mod for Diablo 2 that basically changes up a lot of the stuff.
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It makes it kind of the replay, adds a little bit of replay value. People are still just crazy
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going on about it. People still play it. Let's see, their last update was three months ago.
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82821, 1-82021. They take donations and stuff. Different skills, different
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items, new quests, new locations, RNG maps. Crafting is a little different.
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In general, you can play online and stuff like that too.
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We just played it local. Your character is saved online in like a hash form, I think.
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Anyways, it's all free. And you just need the actual Diablo 2 key to play and install the game
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or whatever. Well, you don't actually need this key. You just need the install files.
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If you have a disk with the installation files, I think you could probably still manage to do it.
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But the install probably asks for a key. You probably still need a key, but you don't necessarily
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need the key to be active. So you could use an old key that you gave away or something like that
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when you're playing it with median XL because it's a different steamer. It's not blizzard
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posting it as far as I know. So anyways, we played it for quite some time. We made it through
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a fair amount of the game. And then, you know, just like any Diablo game or Grindy game, it got
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just too grindy. But it was fun for a while. We played it for quite a bit. The way the
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items are set up and the way the healing is set up is not as nearly as bad. Like with the
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regular Diablo, you had to take like 50,000 bottles of healing potion and bottles of mana potion.
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And you know, click those rapidly and make a macro to automatically do it for you.
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But this mod likes you. You don't need to heal as much. And it's kind of, if I remember,
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there's some kind of mechanic in there that makes it so you don't actually have to heal
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and carry tons of potions around with you everywhere you go. But it can be kind of daunting
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to have to click all the time. But it's not nearly as bad as their original Diablo.
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Anyways, that's pretty much all I could say about this mod or Diablo 2 mod. I've got a video
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that I can post in the links to shows. What it looks like, you got save files and save file editors
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so you can go in and hack up your character or people have provided save files with the characters
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already max out or whatever. And they'll have all kinds of crazy stuff. So like you'll just be
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walking around and stuff dies around you. There's a AOE. Anyways, hope that helps out. It should be fun.
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It's fun to play, local. I don't have to play the online, maybe an Excel stuff. But anyways,
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you all have a good one. Dig it easy.
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