Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Toby Hutton Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Yaroze: Save game hacking tool. Hooray. Date: 16 Dec 1998 14:41:04 +1100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 26 Sender: THutton@TECH10 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: TECH10.mel.cybec.com.au X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 I actually did something useful with my Yaroze over the weekend for a change. I managed to hack my Wild 9 save game, give myself, oh, only 64 lives, and then finished the game using about 10 of them. Previously, I was on the second last level (the last platform type one) and getting frustrated with zero lives... But just by reading the file into PSX memory (1), downloading to the PC (2), hacking the file (with emacs, whoo!) and reversing the process (3 & 4) I was a cheating fool... 1: re bu10:besles-01333 80100000 at the >> prompt 2: dsave wild9-save.dat 80100000 2000 at the local prompt 3: dload wild9-save.dat 80100000 at the local prompt 4: wr bu10:besles-01333 80100000 2000 at the >> prompt To work out which file was the Wild 9 save game I grabbed a different card and saved a new game, had a look to see matching filenames on both. In this case finding the byte that held lives was simple, only took half a minute of guesswork. Offset 0x0118 if anyone else wants to try it. Thinking I'm going to have to get an Action Replay or more likely an X-plorer now I've the taste for cheats. Joy. -- Toby.