Hi. I'm not familiar with those maps but I see that there is a map here which appears to be halfway between the ones you are asking about:
www.hiveworkshop.com
When a map is uploaded to the Hive Workshop - as in the above - then it reads the
game version used to make the map, which is stored inside the map. And so we can see that DDay Extreme 1.2b, which of course is neither of the ones you asked for, says right smack in the middle of the download page on Hive that the computers determined
it was made for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Patch 1.18.
Unfortunately, if
DDay Extreme 1.2b is anything to go off of, the map was not only
created for Patch 1.18, but unfortunately also uses an exploit that was removed from the game in 2009. I could explain the technical details, but basically in the age when Activision had just bought out Blizzard, in parallel with that happening it was discovered that a bug in Warcraft III allowed players to put low-level viruses into the maps that would take over any Windows computer that played the map. In a world where Activision Blizzard was focused on other products and wanted to do the bare minimum to keep Warcraft III running, they nuked a rather wide array of modding technology in the 2009 patch cycle. We can understand why -- they wanted to save us all from viruses. Nobody wants to join a game on Battle.net and then lose their computer to ransomware, or lose their bank account to keyloggers, only to have Blizzard then say, "Not our problem, any custom game you join on Battle.net can take over your computer, that's your fault."
In order to achieve the virus, the Warcraft 3 map would have to create a custom script that did type conversions on variables. Maybe that's all just jibberish to you, but you could imagine that when you go from United States to Canada and have to convert your United States dollars into Canada dollars, in a similar way sometimes data in the computer goes from one form to another form. The Trigger Editor was made for doing campaign missions and cinematic cut-scenes in-game, and other basic game world events, and not originally designed to be an all-purpose programming machine, so originally it had very little capability to "convert types." So, for lack of a better option, map makers found a bug for converting and used it in a whole bunch of maps
for legitimate game features. For example, I just popped open DDay Extreme 1.2b -- again, it might not be the same version you are looking for, but it was something available here on Hive -- and inside of that map, there is an ability called
Siphon Gold which is hacked into the game with a trigger (think "Trigger Editor") using this same kind of conversion.
But in 2009 they realized that converting allowed too many possibilities, including the virus possibility. So, DDay Extreme appears to want to convert a visual spell effect into its machine number used to keep track of it by the game engine, and maybe later convert that number back into the visual spell effect, so that it can do the Siphon Gold processing of the ability. But someone else had the idea of converting a computer subroutine - a "function" - into a number used to keep track of it, and to later convert a number back into a "function." And they used this to break apart the computer, and begin to run code outside of Warcraft III, and to launch command prompt, and to do malicious activities on the user computer.
From my somewhat limited understanding of the full problem, I know that what I see in DDay Extreme is not a virus. It is called
Siphon Gold and it is probably actually an in-game feature for siphoning gold out of some type of game component. I have not analyzed further, so I do not know which game component.
But I think that because of this 2009 epoch, and specifically because DDay Extreme here was doing
the kind of conversion that was removed from the game in a panic in its Siphon Gold ability and possibly other abilities (I didn't keep looking), your only options are:
- Use a version of Warcraft III that is between 1.18 when this was made and 1.23 or so when the conversion "bug" was removed
- Spend six months learning how to port this map forward to run on newer versions of Warcraft III in a very technical way that will probably break the map
- Find a volunteer who can port the map forward quickly and easily because of their skills, but might be egotistical and hard to work with, or potentially unmotivated to help you
Out of all of these options, your best and simplest option is the first one. If you find a version of the game that is very old, and is capable of playing this kind of map, I still use some of those versions on my computer and they still run fine on Windows 10 and Windows 11, but only if the computer has never ever had Reforged installed. If the computer has ever had Reforged installed, then the Reforged will modify the computer registry so that the World Editor portion of the old game might not work. Probably the game itself would still work.
However, this situation is made worse by the fact that Patch 1.22 - Patch 1.23, around the time that Activision bought out Blizzard, was also the time when somebody at Blizzard had the bright idea to
stop the game from requiring the Warcraft III CD to be in the CD-ROM drive in order to launch. Because of this, it might be more difficult for you to find a version of the game that launches in a standalone way without the CD in the CD-ROM drive, but which is also an old enough version of the game to play this map. I have a version that is exactly what would be needed on my computer, but if I recall what I think I did as a kid was to take the Patch 1.22 that was the version I wanted, and to basically dump the Patch 1.23 game launcher into that folder and create some hacked up hybrid, because probably Patch 1.23 removed the CD drive requirement but Patch 1.22 was old enough that it still supported the conversion code, which I enjoy to sometimes run for nostalgia, as long as I am extremely careful and well informed about which maps that I play so that I never get a computer virus from them.
So I know that what you want exists on Planet Earth, but unlike the Hive workshop I am not really cleared by Activision or whatever to have a random page with a bunch of game downloads, and I do not want Activision coming after me for providing a game download, so rather than to provide to you what I have I am more inclined to simply provide advice. I also can't tell you how to get what I have, because I got in
in 2009 when it was live and have maintained a consistent personal computer backup since then of my own files, offline, independent from anybody's web sites. So when I play Patch 1.22, I am playing something from back then that I obtained from the official Blizzard Entertainment servers and patching system as it was then, rather than playing something that has an origin point online where we can download it. But I know because there are so many other maps from that era that fall into this same category, that if you had this version -- whatever it is that is on my computer -- it would work.
I don't often like to download bootleg versions of the game, even from Hive, because I have a difficult time to know whether I can trust the authenticity of the computer code that is being run. But, if I were in your shoes and if my computer backups were suddenly destroyed, I think what I would most likely due is to get my
Warcraft III CD and use that to install
Reign of Chaos and
Frozen Throne both to the
Windows 10 or 11 computer, using
an external CD drive since I assume your computer does not have one, and then after the game had installed, I would head on over to the download archive here:
Below are lists of WC3 installation and patch downloads. Please don't share any cracked or otherwise manipulated files. This list is only intended for people who already own the game, you still need a CD-key! 1.01c 1.04c 1.10 TFT: 1.20a; 1.20e 1.23a 1.28.0; 1.28.1; 1.28.2; 1.28.3; 1.28.4...
www.hiveworkshop.com
And using the Download archive, since there is not a page to download 1.22 directly, I would try to see if it was possible to download the Patch Installer section's 1.22 installer. I would not download from Hive or "MEGA" where people made their own shared versions of this, but instead I would try to download from the
archive.org link, in the hopes that the archive is automated and is essentially providing an exact replica of the old Battle.net patch downloader page, which
once upon a time provided a link to download all prior patches, even though obviously now we live in Reforged DRM universe where the forums are filled with whiny Mac users who say that last month's patch killed Reforged on mac and so now they can't play, and when they ask on the forums how to downgrade their game a forum troll gets on and tells them that in this wonderful, glorious future it's not possible to downgrade anything because it would be too
difficult for Activision to offer downloads of old versions.
By contrast, Blizzard Entertainment was a company who did difficult things, so, back in those days they were OK with having an FTP download site with all the old versions. And that's why, if you can find the archive.org replica of the Blizzard Entertainment website, I think it's more trustworthy than Joe Bloke on the internet who says, "Hey buddy, I have your Warcraft III download right here! Just run this shady piece of software that I got, somehow, from somewhere!"
Unfortunately, after everything I just said, it appears that 1.22-1.23 are not available on the archive links, at least on the links that Hive provides. As I mentioned earlier I'm not in the habit of using this Hive download archive navigation page, so simply because I don't see something does not mean you are out of luck. You could certainly try Patch 1.18 through Patch 1.21b, and see if maybe it was actually 1.21b that removed the requirement for the CD, and maybe I was mis-remembering. In the worst case, if you end up on Patch 1.18 quite literally, it should still work. It's just annoying that you would need to use your physical CD in that case, whereas if you can get the version that I have -- which is basically late 1.22 or early 1.23 -- you can have a game folder that runs on any Windows machine without any CD, and that plays the map you are interested in, which obviously is much more convenient as a user to interact with.
