At any rate, I decided to do some testing on the what happens to the various types of patches/tweaks. I created 9 different installs. They were the original install, then with the 1.1 patch, then with slugs V3 added onto it.
Then I took those three installs and did the Hex Edit patch onto each mw2snd.cfg and extracted SHELL_VESA_GDI42.rar (HEX).
I then decided to do the HEX patch a little differently; I did not copy over the mw2shell.dll from the SHELL_VESA_GDI42.rar (HEX2)
All were modded with the Compatibility wizard. I then had different icons: 9 originals, and 9 with the MW2Hook.
Here are the results
(original icons)
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Mech2-orig black screen flicks. never starts
Mech2-orig-HEX white screen - not responding
Mech2-orig-HEX2 black screen flicks. never starts
Mech2-patched black screen flicks. never starts
Mech2-patched-HEX Crash on Entering Mission / Crash on Exit / Custom Mechs OK
Mech2-patched-HEX2 black screen flicks. never starts
Mech2-patched-slug Crash on Entering Mission / Crash on Exit / Custom Mechs OK
Mech2-patched-slug-HEX Crash on Entering Mission / Crash on Exit / Custom Mechs OK
Mech2-patched-slug-HEX2 Crash on Entering Mission / Crash on Exit / Custom Mechs OK
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Mech2-orig Entering Mission OK / Custom Mechs OK
Mech2-orig-HEX white screen - not responding
Mech2-orig-HEX2 white screen - not responding
Mech2-patched Entering Mission OK / Custom Mechs OK
Mech2-patched-HEX Entering Mission OK / Crash on Custom Mechs
Mech2-patched-HEX2 Entering Mission OK / Custom Mechs OK
Mech2-patched-slug Entering Mission OK / Crash on Custom Mechs
Mech2-patched-slug-HEX Entering Mission OK / Crash on Custom Mechs
Mech2-patched-slug-HEX2 Entering Mission OK / Crash on Custom Mechs