Re: RE: How to cheat to win game of difficulty 130 & more (problem with it)

Could it be that the designers implemented anti-cheating code? Actually makes 
a lot of sense, since the Mac version allows online play versus others, and 
someone who cheated their way up wouldn't be good.

Craig

--On Saturday, October 16, 2004 2:50 PM -0400 MoistSilver 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> At the end of the game, I received a message that I won 0 difficulty game
> and have earned 0 master points.
>
> I am not sure why this occurred.
> I may have to try it again, but not increase my status so much.
>
>
> Sylvain
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MoistSilver [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: October 16, 2004 2:31 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: How to cheat to win game of difficulty 130 & more
> Importance: High
>
>
> 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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