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jb.jones
23 Jun 2006, 15:07
I own it for the PS2 and thought I'd get it for the PC when I saw it for $15. Can you remove the sudden death and is it smoother?

AndrewTaylor
23 Jun 2006, 16:41
You can't remove the sudden death, but you can extend the pre-sudden-death play time to an hour and a half or something if you use my unofficial patch (assuming you get exactly the same version of the game as I have). I forget where I set the limit. Somewhere around there.

Xinos
23 Jun 2006, 18:17
Do you hex editors for stuff like that? Because I really can't use thoose.
They just show jibberish; the text to the right never has more than one compleate word at the time..

SupSuper
23 Jun 2006, 18:48
That's because the text to the right are the equivalent characters for each value (even if the values aren't meant to be used as text). You won't find something like "RoundTime=99999" through hex-editing. You'll only find readable text in strings the game actually stores/displays.
I think my only case of succesful hexediting was with Cave Story, I managed to figure out everything stored in a savegame except the flags. You can make the game go quite funky. :p (or cheat, but that's rather pointless after you've already finished the game)

AndrewTaylor
23 Jun 2006, 18:51
To a point, yes. that file has quite a lot of English in, but then it's wrapped in a xom file, so you ned to hex edit it. If you know what you're looking for a hex editor is very useful. If you're just interested in code then they're rubbish.
Edit: Actually, it does say "RoundTime=60000" in there!

SupSuper
23 Jun 2006, 19:03
To a point, yes. that file has quite a lot of English in, but then it's wrapped in a xom file, so you ned to hex edit it. If you know what you're looking for a hex editor is very useful. If you're just interested in code then they're rubbish.Actually a few people have managed to reverse-engineer games from hex code... I think.
Edit: Actually, it does say "RoundTime=60000" in there!Lol, I forgot the latest Worms games have stuff defined that way.

Xinos
24 Jun 2006, 12:54
Heh, I forgot that too actually... I hacked the Worms 4 demo using the xom files. I made the round time infinite and the wind speed so high the bazooka shells would fly out into the horizon about the same time as launching it =D
But I didn't think about forts using that file structure for some reason. I'm smart like that ^^

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