Project 'Pocket Greatness" or World Editor cannot open with classic files

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Project 'Pocket Greatness' is simply a name I am giving for trying to put more and more great classic games in my pocket, in other words on Android! (I am more of Android person than iOS)

Started with favorite Westwood games, fighting engine like MUGEN, I moved on more demanding games, like still trying to make Empire Earth work, my fave historical/civilization game, I was never into AOE.

Blizzard games are nothing new on Android, several years have been since I saw Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 on it. I already made D2 LoD work and playing at least on Normal a new character for the good old times!

Warcraft 3 works but I have been using whatever I find because I am not sure I should even try to run Reforged on it, too demanding with graphics. So from downloading war3 with dubious W3l files that I have no idea what they do and I know I can delete them, to really thanks for this thread for having clean virus/3rd party free installers, im OK using my keys for it.

And what I noticed, neither version World Editor works! I tried with 1.26 - OK portable could be corrupted files, I tried another version, now I did install the game from these installers that are v 1.21 and when I open World Editor, just nothing happens.

I moved the install to PC to try it there because the problem could be on Android (never mind that War3 game works,I can play). And the same story on PC - the only difference is that I get this almost attempt to start before it exists.
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I am aware that Reforged messed things up but how for a separate installation? I noticed if I tried to open a map directly as Open With - if I select to browse specially the WE from the 'Classic Installation, not reforged, the map I open is still with new graphics as if Reforged editor took over.

So this happens on 1.21, 1,26, is there a fix? I saw few threads with a regedit but I also don't want to mess up the paths for Reforged if I had to delete something in reg (some suggestion is here)
 
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World Editor was not the best written as originally it was intended mostly for internal use. I would not be surprised if it is doing something hacky or unsupported with its UI which is causing compatibility issues.

Is this Android on x86 or ARM? Since if it is ARM you are obviously using a translation layer which could add its own level of incompatibility, especially if WorldEditor is doing something old or unusual.
 
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You haven't told us what you're using. But I can only add to the reply above that WE doesn't render UI elements properly under WINE on Linux although the game runs fine.
I saw few threads with a regedit but I also don't want to mess up the paths for Reforged if I had to delete something in reg
Afaik WE will regenerate the registry keys if they're missing. Basically Reforged WE added some data stored in a key that causes older WEs to crash. It's nothing serious and is not related to your problem.
 
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Is this Android on x86 or ARM?
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You haven't told us what you're using. But I can only add to the reply above that WE doesn't render UI elements properly under WINE on Linux although the game runs fine.

Afaik WE will regenerate the registry keys if they're missing. Basically Reforged WE added some data stored in a key that causes older WEs to crash. It's nothing serious and is not related to your problem.
It could probably make the UI look ugly but right now I think if it works on PC (Windows 10), it should on the windows emulation. And it does not work on PC as well, since it exits/crashes shortly after it is started, the old WE that is. Yes, for the reasons you mention with registry data.

I was asking for if someone knows a fix for the old WE to work on Windows 10, maybe the answer is on one of the links I found, something to do with "Tool Windows"= value in registry. I can give it some more tries soon
 
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