Movies list is hard coded

I located the code handling this. I can rewrite it to be flexible in half an hour, if I see a reasonable suggestion for how to map this on the INI side.

Lowdown:
There are two global counters (A and S), tracking how many movies from the respective hardcoded list you've seen. Whenever map actions request a movie from that list to be played, those respective counters get updated. I need to throw out the tracking save/load code anyway, so let's rewrite the lists themselves as well and make them softcoded.

Is the list of movie names rather than the maps that need to be completed to unlock hard coded then? Perhaps an additional section in artmd.ini or rulesmd.ini to list the unlockable movies and then auto added entries in ra2md.ini to save if a given movie has actually been unlocked or not (rather than in save files as I assume is done now).

Yes, it's a list of movies from [Movies], no extensions or anything. (And the two counters are "encrypted" in ra2md.ini right now, try [Network]NetID=ffc8,ffdf,ffc8 for some freebies.)

I'd say [UnlockableMovies] in artmd.ini with [UnlockedMovies] in ra2md.ini then.

Sounds good to me.

Closing as suspended since feedback has been requested and there was no activity on the issue for more than four weeks.

Issue will be of lower priority if re-opened.

This had auto suspended. Although low priority, it would be nice if it got some loving at some point :)

Retargeting for a nearer milestone - easy enough to fix once I stop being lazy :p

It would be also great to add an optional removal of the movies button ingame, if someone doesn't want the movies to be previewed at all because for example - it's a TC which doesn't have any. :)

"It would be also great to add an optional removal of the movies button ingame, if someone doesn't want the movies to be previewed at all because for example - it's a TC which doesn't have any. :) "

If you fancy doing that I'd perhaps leave that feature until it's perhaps possible to do a thorough modding of the normal UI that way. Moving buttons, hiding them, re-arranging stuff on loading screens perhaps...

Have a look at issue bug:996 to disable the Play Movies button.