Hey, I like hex editing, especially on RPGs. I remember hex editing charfcter inventory file in Curse of the Azure Bonds, experimenting with various magical effects I mafe by editing certain hexes on a particular item. I accidently created a sword that inflicts extra fire damage. Too bad I lost the floppies.

hex editing enjoyable until game start using proprietary compression,
or using custom hash to verify data integrity.
i remember creating custom digger maps & caves of thor maps.

Better than hex editing save files was directly editing memory. I spent a lot of time with GameWiz32 modifying memory locations. You'd freeze the game, enter the value you're trying to modify, then go back to the game and change it. Freeze the game once more and enter the new value. Most of the time this gave you only a few memory locations that could hold the value. Then you just enter whatever you want (255 strength? 65335 gold? hell yeah).

While on this subject, does anyone have any of the files from this page ? I discovered this hardware/software very late, and have not been able to locate any files/updates etc...

http://web.archive.org/web/19990218081023/www … el.co.uk/pc.htm

Background info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Replay

I used to HATE hex editing. I didn't do it to cheat at games, though, I used to do it to recover data from bad floppies. I would copy over all the sectors that were easily recoverable to a backup floppy then have to go in and try to get the drive to read the bad sectors and write down by hand the contents of the bad sectors then filled in those sectors on the backup floppy manually. It was a painstaking process but I managed to recover about a hundred bad disks that way. If there were sectors that weren't recoverable at all, then I would borrow someone else's disk and copy the missing sectors from theirs.

bestemor wrote:

While on this subject, does anyone have any of the files from this page ? I discovered this hardware/software very late, and have not been able to locate any files/updates etc...

http://web.archive.org/web/19990218081023/www … el.co.uk/pc.htm

ftp://78.46.141.148/driver/ActionReplay/

Joey_sw wrote:

hex editing enjoyable until game start using proprietary compression,
or using custom hash to verify data integrity.

Well, I must add this then. In rom hacking and so forth terms. Then there are people who has looked into the proprietary compression algorithms , and some times you can probably also find the custom hash to verify the data integrity. So perhaps there could be a solution for such trouble, when it comes to old DOS games. Cause just look at the modding wiki

http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/Main_Page

or Wombat Tools for that matter

http://yellowantphil.com/wacky_wheels/downloa … /wombat_04a.zip

And or for this matter Universal Game Editor (search for it via a search engine , such as duckduckgo and so forth)

I am going to link to a few UGE modules also.

http://blog.aulddragon.com/2012/07/uge-module … gold-box-games/

But finding UGE modules are still pretty easy 😀 but you better look for them 😀

elianda wrote:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990218081023/www … el.co.uk/pc.htm

ftp://78.46.141.148/driver/ActionReplay/

Thanks! - but I think this is the german version of the ISA-card software (file dates from 1995).

I was more looking for the win98 updates and lists, as described on that specific 'datel' page.

BTW, what ftp is that ? - seems like a lot of interesting stuff on there... 😁

Just to clear things up for later readers: the webarchive link I gave above, NOW shows something entirely different than it did earlier(at my time of posting)... no idea why.
My comments later in this thread then of course makes no sense... :\

Here is a screendump from the 'correct' page, which I also downloaded(nowhere to be found now?):

(sadly none of the files linked are retrievable it seems, hence my request here...)