Ermm ... i was wondering if you guys knew about hex editing and i thought that i should tell you about it. I've been doing it for 2 years and it is absolutely wonderful. You can do almost anything in a game by hex-editing. One good and easy to use hex editor is Gamewiz which you can download at www.download.com Have fun Escapees

-Whacks

I've been doing hex since I was 8, though i recently switched it out for Java and C++, I originally used it, not to hack other games, but ot produce my own, and boy did I make a bunch of neat onces :D One included players jumping out of a plane and doing battle with monsters vai air drop and had a system similar to Doom, another was like a ship-to-ship thing, and several took place in space :D It was great, it was. . .

Sounds great [img]tongue.gif[/img] :D i'll be learning C in the winter holidays, meanwhile i have to learn python and MathMl.

thats really cool im gonia start to do that on my games thx to all of you

Somehow Whacky managed to avoid putting in the standard warnings. Hex editing someone elses code/file formats is *extremely* difficult, and the tools to make it easier are semi-legal (at best) and hard to find. And no, I dont have any. Reason being my download directory (among others) was deleted by a windows glitch. Not too happy about that.

Anyway, at the very least take copies of anything you change just in case you break it in a terminal fashion.

Agreed fully, andrewas, and also ONLY hex-edit your save game files, and not the actual program code, unless you really want some trouble. You never know what changing one little thing will affect throughout the game.

Backup, backup, and backup! ;)

-Sazerac

I totally screwed a a PC when I was about 16 through hex editing. never touched the stuff again.

Well since you guys know so much about c/c++ can you tell me where to download it and get a language Faq?

Look up djgpp. Its a DOS port of GCC. Might not be the best C/C++ implementation but it does have advantages. Google should turn it up no problems. Works a treat under win9x, NT and XP have issues tho.

As far as a faq goes, I havent found anything on the internet you could actualy learn the language from, but it may be worth checking out university courses. My old uni used to have an excellent cours on C, but the course closed and the pages dont exist anymore.

I do know that www.gamedev.net has a few good tutorials. I recall there being an excellent C one from some university, should still be there.

Its still easier to head down to the library and borrow a few chunk textbooks though. Paper documentation can be read whatever your computers doing.