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January 21st 2022, 03:18 PM
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@DreamMaster:
I was trying to ease into the same matters that RangerLord was talking about when he said, "I think it only depends on the ability of playing D-Mods. If we can easily play them, I think basically everybody in the community would be welcoming this.".

RangerLord is certainly right. Our community is too small to tolerate another version of the Dink Engine that is "mostly" compatible. In fact, one reason our community IS small is that later versions of the Dink Engine tend to cause problems for any new users. If WE ARE LUCKY, they then contact us in the forum and we try to guide the user to the highly dmod compatible FreeDink [version 1.08x]. If they don't get discouraged when we make this suggestion, they might stick around. But many do not.

You may find that the latest and greatest in the Git repository is not really the version we'd all prefer that you work on. A visit to https://www.dinknetwork.com/files/category_official/ may be the best way to get to the 1.08x version of FreeDink.

You should probably talk with Robj (author of this tool ---> [https://www.dinknetwork.com/file/version_checker/]) to help you get started with the "right" version.

As for your indication that you won't start right away, don't worry about that. We are happy to have you give it a try, but we will all want to see that your new version of things works nicely with the existing large library of Dmods before we really celebrate your efforts in earnest.

Good Luck! And be sure to keep in touch with us here to get any help you might need, especially with compatibility testing.