How to cheat to win game of difficulty 130 & more

MoistSilver <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:31:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.spaceward-ho.palm
Message-ID <000001c4b3ae$54311240$0a01a8c0@HomePC01>
Hi,

Thanks for yesterday E-Mail.  This gave me the solution on how to cheat to
win any game.

Here is how I did it:
1- Start a new game with the difficulty level you want to win.
2- Play 3-4 turns.
3- Backup the game on a SD card (using CardBackup or other software).
4- Perform a HotSync to get a copy of the DB (ho-saved-games.PDB) on your
PC.
5- Note how much metal, saving and your tech. level.
6- Convert the Metal & Saving value in Hex.
   (ex. 9114 -> 0x239A)
7- Open the "ho-saved-games.PDB" with a Hex editor (HexEdit).
   Note: HexEdit 2.0 can be download free from Internet.
8- Find the money value in Hex in the file.
   (for my game, the information was store at line starting by address
0x7B0).
9- Change the hex value for the new hex value you want for Metal & Saving.
   (ex. 0x239A -> 0x9239A -> 598938).
10- Do the same for the tech level.  Remember, tech level can not ne higher
than 50.
11- You need to get access to your SD card on your PC (SD reader).
12- Find the name of the saved games database archive on the SD card (use
file size to find out).
13- Rename the file you just edit to this name.
14- Replace file on the SD card.
15- Restore this file on the Palm using CardBackup.

For my current game,
The game status is:
- Year: 2200
- Metal: 598938
- Savings: 16.07M
- Tech: R=11, Sp=9, W=13, Sh=9, M=5

Sylvain





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