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Aspects/Unlock hint
Overview[edit]
An unlock hint is a string of text sent by the RuneScape Server when the "unlock hint" interaction is performed in the music player interface[1]. This feature was added on 07 February 2008[2].
For example, the music track Upir Likhyi has the unlock hint during Branches of Darkmeyer. in build 667[3].
Mentions unlisted music track that have an unlock hint (desert area; see RPU chat)
Investigate why The Cellar Dweller is an atypical format
Returned string[edit]
See Music player page for interaction.
Data guide[edit]
RuneScape[edit]
In RuneScape, music unlock hints used to be in the cache. They were located in enums 952 and 1351[Note 1][4]. The last cache with hints that we have available is 685[5]. They can be dumped using those scripts[Note 2][6]. Unlock hints are totally absent from RuneScape 3 caches[7].
For unlock hint data for RuneScape builds higher than 685, please refer to this page[8].
Unlisted music tracks all have a not unlockable! unlock hint[9]. Although there is an unlock hint behavior for those, this specific string is not seen in-game[10].
Old School RuneScape[edit]
In Old School RuneScape, unlock hints are stored in the cache in dbtable_44.dbrow[11].
Missing extraction instructions
Dataset diffs[edit]
The following is a list of calculated difference between unlock hints datasets, made using WinMerge:
| Dataset #1 | Dataset #2 | Diff report | Diff accounted? | Notes | Signature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 685 unlock hints | Feather 718 unlock hints | Link | N/A | Turns out Feather 718 unlock hints is a copy carbon of 685 unlock hints with some missing entries. | --Admin (talk) 18:44, 2 May 2025 (CEST) |
| 685 unlock hints | Unlock hints RS Wiki 2025-05-01 | Link | Yes | Music slot missing on 685 side were filled with RS Wiki's hints as it was requirement to be able to perform the difference check with WinMerge | --Admin (talk) 20:02, 2 May 2025 (CEST) |
| Unlock hints RS Wiki 2025-05-01 | Unlock hints dump 2025-05-08 | Link | Yes | Lot of unlock hints on RS Wiki are outdated | --Admin (talk) 17:43, 9 May 2025 (CEST) |
Validation tests[edit]
| Data | Validation topic | Result & notes | Signature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link | Ensuring presence of every music tracks on the unlock hint data page | All music tracks are present on the page. The music track list was retrieved from the game's RAM as Mejrs' Cache Tool has some bugs with the latest cache. The music tracks list has 3 entries that use a non-standard spelling, but when those are accounted for, everything is here. [Note 3] | --Admin (talk) 19:52, 9 May 2025 (CEST) |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ The exact reason why this dataset in splitted in two is unclear.
- ↑ Modified versions of ClientScriptMap.java from Matrix 876
- ↑ From RS Wiki: Hallowe'en Party is Halloween Party, Family of the Elven Queen is Family and Daughter of Chaos is The Daughter of Chaos
References[edit]
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-04-29
- ↑ Explicitly mentionned in this update post: https://runescape.wiki/w/Update:Audio_Week_and_Improved_Edgeville_Dungeon
- ↑ Data extracted from a 667 cache
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-04-29
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-04-29; by build 718, they were removed from the cache. When exactly they were removed is unclear as OpenRS2 does not have caches for 686 to 717.
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-04-28
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-04-29; Enums and Structs in a 2021 cache were parsed using Mejrs' Cache Tool and no unlock hints were found.
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-05-02
- ↑ Data extracted from a 667 cache
- ↑ See Music player page for reasoning
- ↑ https://gitlab.com/waliedyassen/cache-dumps/-/raw/master/dbtables/dbtable_44.dbrow
