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For those getting the error message “unable to validate game version”. Please follow these steps to update yourself to the newest WarCraft III 1.20e.

1. I do recommend that you uninstall your WarCraft III and reinstall it from your fan ban CD/DVD. *Do not* install any patch and updates from your fan ban CD!!!

2. Download WarCraft III 1.20e Universal Patch from here. (If you can’t download from this site, you can download from here under “Version 1.20e Universal Patch”).

3. Install It. (now you can’t start the game because it will look for the original CD in your drive, which you the fan-ban-kia don’t have!)

4. Download the 1.20e NO-CD Patch. It is a ZIP file. Before you extract the files to your WarCraft III folder, *backup* the file war3.exe! (a small insurance policy which 99.9% you don’t need.) After that extract them to your WarCraft III folder, it will overwrite the original war3.exe which you have just backup. Now you should be able to launch WarCraft but you still can’t connect to Battle.NET.

5. Reinstall the MiniDota Package, especially if you have uninstall WarCraft on Step 1! Refer to the original post here. (Quick Step: Uninstall the files to your WarCraft folder, double click on minidota.reg and load it, launch WarCraft from the file ‘w3l.exe’ from now onwards!!!)

* If you get the message “Unable To Validate Game Version” when you try to connect to Minidota, here is how your insurance policy *might* come to rescue. Delete the file war3.120e and rename your original backup of war3.exe to war3.120e. If this doesn’t work as well and you have skip step 1, you have to really do step 1 now. You might have apply some fanban patch early on. kekeke.

6. Celebrate!

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