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CyberSpyder posted 03-27-99 09:09 PM ET
This tells you how to use scenario mode to your heart's content, and then convince the game that you did it all by yourself.
1. Play a game.
2. Cheat all you want.
3. At any time before the game is completed, save it.
4. Quit and open up the saved game in a hex editor.
5. Find byte 3C, or 60 for you base 10-fixated people.
6. Change it to be 00. It should be 03 or 01 or something like that before you change it.
7. Save the file, and reopen the game in SMAC.
Voila! You have now convinced the game that you did not cheat!
SnowFire posted 03-27-99 09:31 PM ET
Hmmm... I don't despise cheating (I did it in the demo one game), but I think it diminishes the fun. But that's besides the point. I think that the only real reason for bothering to convince the game that you didn't cheat would be for some score contest that you had to send a screenshot in, and considering the flakiness of SMAC's scoring system, I don't see that as a near probability. And if there was, you could just load up Paint and paint right over that silly "Scenario mode Activated" thinger. Or you could just change the faction and alpha.txt files to make a really easy game for you, and again no cheating.
There's so many ways to cheat, you gotta give equal oppurunity to all of them.
CyberSpyder posted 03-27-99 11:54 PM ET
Yeah. Oh well. =) I've never actually used it, to tell you the truth. It's a purely theoretical cheat. I compared two saved files, one with scenario mode on, one without, and them exactly alike in every other way. That one byte was the difference.
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Author	Topic: How to cheat. (Don't look if you despise cheating!)
CyberSpyder	posted 03-27-99 09:09 PM ET This tells you how to use scenario mode to your heart's content, and then convince the game that you did it all by yourself. 1. Play a game. 2. Cheat all you want. 3. At any time before the game is completed, save it. 4. Quit and open up the saved game in a hex editor. 5. Find byte 3C, or 60 for you base 10-fixated people. 6. Change it to be 00. It should be 03 or 01 or something like that before you change it. 7. Save the file, and reopen the game in SMAC. Voila! You have now convinced the game that you did not cheat!
SnowFire	posted 03-27-99 09:31 PM ET Hmmm... I don't despise cheating (I did it in the demo one game), but I think it diminishes the fun. But that's besides the point. I think that the only real reason for bothering to convince the game that you didn't cheat would be for some score contest that you had to send a screenshot in, and considering the flakiness of SMAC's scoring system, I don't see that as a near probability. And if there was, you could just load up Paint and paint right over that silly "Scenario mode Activated" thinger. Or you could just change the faction and alpha.txt files to make a really easy game for you, and again no cheating. There's so many ways to cheat, you gotta give equal oppurunity to all of them.
CyberSpyder	posted 03-27-99 11:54 PM ET Yeah. Oh well. =) I've never actually used it, to tell you the truth. It's a purely theoretical cheat. I compared two saved files, one with scenario mode on, one without, and them exactly alike in every other way. That one byte was the difference.