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[Rogerwilco]

Modifying a Savedgame for Dummies

Ever wanted to know how to Modify/Cheat a game?
If, for nothing else, then the satisfaction of knowing how to do it?

Well, I'll lead you through on how.

This will be different: nothing on Hex, Binary, octal, 2 bit, 4 bit, Single value, Kitchen sink, etc. etc. Only thing you'll need is a readily available abandonware interpreter.

It'll be explained in a simple, common sense way. Simple programming.
All you'll need to do at first is change a path, file name and a value or two. I'll write the rest. Just cut and past to your program.

(Programming!?! Interpreter!?! I've never programmed in my life!)

The Interpreter is simple: I'll cover that in a bit . . ..

Programming? How's this for easy.

A& = 10000
OPEN "c:\Xeen\dark01.sav" FOR BINARY AS #1
PUT #1, 14848, A&
CLOSE

You just gave yourself 10,000 Widgits, Money, Gems, or whatever. Or 50,000 or 5 Million.

You'll follow along with me as I delve into the World of Xeen, though what I'll show you will work with any saved game.

So, if you're interested, this is what you do.

Google qb45.zip. It's out there, for free, in multiple sites.

Unzip it in its own folder, make a shortcut to qb45.exe, set it to full screen.
(If you don't know how to do that, let me know)

Next message, we'll start with an easy one: finding and modifying a single value(Item) like Gold, Gems, etc. I'll write the code.