Issue with Silent Hunter CE

[Hinrich Schwab]

I have played this for a while now and I noticed that the Balao class test depth is wrong. It is showing 400 feet instead of 500. Is there a patch or a way to correct this?

[aanker]

400' is correct. There is no patch.

Using a hex editor is possible to edit the various depths. Kim Ronhof, myself and a couple others put a lot of work into deconstructing the various files.

What you want is in Subs.dat:

"The Subs.dat file starts with byte 09 Then it lists the different Sub types.
Each listing is 32 bytes long and the ending last 4 bytes hold the address where the Data for the specific Subtype data is."

"The specific Sub type data are each 1704 bytes long.
And start as follows:
........... Dec .......... Hex


Type ...... Address ... Low Byte ...High byte
S-Class ... 289 ....... 21 01 ...... 00 00
Barracuda . 1993 ...... C9 07 ...... 00 00
Narwhale .. 3697 ...... 71 0E ...... 00 00
P-Class ... 5401 ...... 19 15 ...... 00 00
Salmon..... 7105 ...... C1 1B ...... 00 00
T-Class ... 8809 ...... 69 22 ...... 00 00
Gato ...... 10513 ..... 11 29 ...... 00 00
Balao ..... 12217 ..... B9 2F ...... 00 00
Tench ..... 13921 ..... 61 36 ...... 00 00

Then:
TestDepth - PeriscopDepth - Radar depth
00000449:C8 00 00 00 30 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 37 00 00 00
00005561:FA 00 00 00 37 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 3E 00 00 00
00007265:00 01 00 00 37 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 3E 00 00 00

00010673:2C 01 00 00 3C 00 00 00 2D 00 00 00 44 00 00 00

If you can use a Hex editor. Having conversion tables also makes it easier.

Frhed worked for me.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure 400' is the WWII BALAO class Test depth. Maybe it was changed after the war. Don't know.

Happy Hunting!

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by aanker

400' is correct. There is no patch.

Using a hex editor is possible to edit the various depths. Kim Ronhof, myself and a couple others put a lot of work into deconstructing the various files.

What you want is in Subs.dat:
If you can use a Hex editor. Having conversion tables also makes it easier.

Frhed worked for me.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure 400' is the WWII BALAO class Test depth. Maybe it was changed after the war. Don't know.

Happy Hunting!

The type of steel in the Balao could conceivably handle around 800 feet, but the seals did not develop as quickly. They were the same as in the Gato class. That was the big difference between the Gato and Balao. Dick O'Kane stated in his book, Clear the Bridge, that the USS TANG went to 612 feet before it suffered damage from the depth. The test depth was unchanged from the Gato to avoid confusion and possible casualties from overestimating the integrity of the seals.

Thanks for the edit info.

[aanker]

I enjoyed, "Clear the Bridge" many years ago, had forgotten about the seals though.

One of the many things that I like about SHCE is that the ASW seems so realistic, and the 'thrill' of going deep to evade. It is a different world at 610 feet....

Happy Hunting!