I actually have no idea what's up D:. Ok so, last night I was just freeing up some space on my HD and I was deleting loads of replays and screenshots that I didn't need from my starcraft folder and it seems I deleted something kinda important. I tried loading SC normally today and after it shows kerrigan and that it just closes SC and gives me this error message saying "Could not load "glue\mainmenu\Exit.smk"". Does anyone know what file I deleted to obtain this error message? If it's possibile for me to fix without reinstalling? I don't have a BW CD or CDKey anymore and I really, really can't afford to buy SC at the moment D:.

Any help is appreciated!

edit: Ok, a new problem! I can now get to the multiple choice screen of single player, multiplayer etc, I select multiplayer and Broodwar and SC just gets closed instantly. It asks me before I select Original SC or Broodwars to insert my Starcraft CD into the disc drive but I have no idea if it was asking me to do this before or not cause I never really looked. D:

SonuvBob

Aiur21548 Posts

October 26 2009 21:07 GMT

Did you delete Stardat.mpq? It has your cdkey in it.. =/

zergnewb

United States816 Posts

October 26 2009 21:11 GMT

Well I never heard of that error message from deleting the Stardat.mpq file, usually a cursor error pops up before the game loads.

Tenryu

United States565 Posts

October 26 2009 21:12 GMT

Never seen that message before. Goodluck

Pads

England3228 Posts

October 26 2009 21:13 GMT

Nope got stardat.mpq.

Would it be best to list what .mpq's and .exe's I do have in the folder?

ketomai

United States2789 Posts

October 26 2009 21:15 GMT

Yea, check if you have stardat.mpq . If it's gone, try using this program: http://filehippo.com/download_recuva/ to find it again. If you can find it (recovered or not) then, that's all you need. When you reinstall starcraft, remove the stardat.mpq file first, then use the cdkey 33333333333 (or how ever many slots there are) to reinstall it. After you reinstall, replace the new stardat.mpq file w/ the one you recovered/found. If you're just playing iccup, I guess you can just use the 3333333333333 cdkey without the mpq file, but I recommend recovering so that you can retrieve your cdkey in the future with a program.

zergnewb

United States816 Posts

October 26 2009 21:15 GMT

I'm pretty sure you could just download Starcraft off of iccup instead.

SonuvBob

Aiur21548 Posts

October 26 2009 21:16 GMT

Ah, good. Weird though, since glue\mainmenu\Exit.smk is in that file.

edit: Yeah, reinstalling and using the old stardat.mpq is probably faster than diagnosing the problem.

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

October 26 2009 21:19 GMT

list them
in the meantime, check if you have:
storm.dll
stardat.mpq
smackw32.dl
local.dll
editlocal.dll
broodat.mpq
bncache.dat
battle.snp
i think all of these are sc:bw materials, but im not sure.. could be one of your folders though

Hittegods

Stockholm4640 Posts

October 26 2009 21:20 GMT

#10

Either way it sounds like you should extract the CD-key from the mpq for safe keeping.

Pads

England3228 Posts

October 26 2009 21:22 GMT

#11

On October 27 2009 06:19 never_toss wrote:
list them
in the meantime, check if you have:
smackw32.dl
bncache.dat
i think all of these are sc:bw materials, but im not sure.. could be one of your folders though

I don't have either of these two o_O. I was so careful when deleting stuff I didn't need, was really tired at the same time though haha.

edit: a ctrl f found both these files on my computer somewhere, I moved them both too my Starcraft folder and SC works now. Thanks guys.

Sharp-eYe

Canada642 Posts

October 26 2009 21:38 GMT

#12

Try going here:

http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/sc_start.html

and see if you can grab any files you are missing from iCCup's starcraft zip file. Hope this helps

Pads

England3228 Posts

October 26 2009 21:40 GMT

#13

Ok, a new problem! I can now get to the multiple choice screen of single player, multiplayer etc, I select multiplayer and Broodwar and SC just gets closed instantly. It asks me before I select Original SC or Broodwars to insert my Starcraft CD into the disc drive but I have no idea if it was asking me to do this before or not cause I never really looked. D:

Pads

England3228 Posts

October 26 2009 21:43 GMT

#14

On October 27 2009 06:38 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Try going here:

http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/sc_start.html

and see if you can grab any files you are missing from iCCup's starcraft zip file. Hope this helps

Will do this and report back in like 2 hours haha.

ketomai

United States2789 Posts

October 26 2009 21:44 GMT

#15

Reinstalling is probably the easiest solution. Backtracking on what files are missing is probably the harder way to go about the problem.

Pads

England3228 Posts

October 26 2009 22:36 GMT

#16

Ok everything works now, except battle.net servers, haha. Thanks ya'll.

Tenryu

United States565 Posts

October 26 2009 22:43 GMT

#17

Well if it says u need a cd inserted then u need to change ur Install.exe file to Broodwar.mpq.

Find Install.exe
Under folder options/view tab uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
Rename Install.exe to Broodwar.mpq

Then u should be good to go? Something like that.

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

October 26 2009 23:24 GMT

#18

There are programs which can display your CD-Key. So you can use one of those to extract the key, and then use the key to download a full SC version from blizzard.

Pads

England3228 Posts

October 27 2009 00:10 GMT

#19

I downloaded ICCup's version of BW and that works fine for now. I have used this version before and last time there was a new patch released, I don't remember what I did but I got the real game again and I plan on doing that if there's ever another patch.