Enable social features in Battle.net Desktop app

[TOM_RUS]

I'm not responsible for any actions Blizzard may take against accounts using this. Use at your own risk!

It's a little program that enables social features in Battle.net Desktop App (binaries and sources included):
Download BNAChatX v3 (updated for BNA 1.0.9.4269) (VirusTotal scan)

Usage:
1) Start BNAChatX
2) Press button
3) Start Battle.net App (or do logout/login if already running)
4) Close BNAChatX
5) You should now have social features enabled.

Limitations:
Friends can't reply to your whispers from WoW and HS (D3 and SC2 works fine), cause technically you are "offline" (workaround available by patching game clients)
Windows only (for Battle.net App build 1.0.9.4269)

Screenshots:

[cdmichaelb]

Awesome, too bad blizzard couldn't do this on their own, from the start.

[TOM_RUS]

Awesome, too bad blizzard couldn't do this on their own, from the start.

It was enabled on day one (when they released Desktop App), but they disabled it shortly. We heard nothing about social features since then
Discussion on Plans for Social Features - Battle.net Forums.

[BuloZB]

Awesome ! thanks for share

[smusen]

Apparently people can't reply to you if you use this, unless they have the "plugin" themself.

[Thunderofnl]

Thanks Tom, you never fail to impress us =D (Thanks for the source too, it helps me understand C# and memory editing a little bit more )

[lewie4]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can't seem to find the social features. I extracted it to my desktop and ran the program from release as Admin, pressed enable. I then started the Bnet app and logged in but nothing seems to have changed

[TOM_RUS]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can't seem to find the social features. I extracted it to my desktop and ran the program from release as Admin, pressed enable. I then started the Bnet app and logged in but nothing seems to have changed

May be there's some permission issues or something. If you can recompile it, put an MessageBox inside catch statement to see if there's any errors happening.

[Thunderofnl]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can't seem to find the social features. I extracted it to my desktop and ran the program from release as Admin, pressed enable. I then started the Bnet app and logged in but nothing seems to have changed

Are you sure you don't see this button?

[TOM_RUS]

You can also just patch file "c:\Program Files (x86)\Battle.net\Battle.net.4124\battle.net.exe" with hex editor using following info:

file offset: old byte > new byte
000F9772: 8A > B1
000F9773: 4D > 01
000F9774: 0B > 90

There's also a possibility to patch wow.exe (offsets for x86, build 17688 below) to be able to reply to whispers sent from battle.net app:

004F1214: 74 > 90
004F1215: 2A > 90
004F121D: 75 > 90
004F121E: 21 > 90

I don't suggest anyone doing so though...

You can reply to whispers sent from battle.net app while playing D3 or SC2 without patching those game clients.

[Traxex84]

Interesting, thanks! Sick job as always. +5 rep

[TOM_RUS]

New Battle.net app build is coming soon (1.0.8.4217), new offsets for patching file with hex editor:

000F9EC2: 8A > B1
000F9EC3: 4D > 01
000F9EC4: 0B > 90

They completely broke avatars in that build (you can fix this by extracting avatar images from previous battle.net app build, they are located in "Battle.net.mpq/resources/avatars").

[uzi2k4]

amazing, thx!

[Osiris183]

New Battle.net app build is coming soon (1.0.8.4217), new offsets for patching file with hex editor:

000F9EC2: 8A > B1
000F9EC3: 4D > 01
000F9EC4: 0B > 90

They completely broke avatars in that build (you can fix this by extracting avatar images from previous battle.net app build, they are located in "Battle.net.mpq/resources/avatars").

Thank you for posting the update with the new offsets. Too many times do people post programs and never update their thread after a patch. +5 for you

[TOM_RUS]

New Battle.net app build is coming soon (1.0.9.4269), new offsets for patching "Battle.net.4269\Battle.net.exe" file with hex editor:

000F9A02: 8A > B1
000F9A03: 4D > 01
000F9A04: 0B > 90

Unofficial changelog:
- Avatars replaced with game icons
- Bubble chat view removed
- BNA settings were reset with this build (at least for me)
- RecommendedFriendsXXX internal cvars added
- BNA no longer says "beta" in upper left corner
- Favourite friend list wiped
- "Upgrade to Real ID" renamed to "Send Real ID Request"