IMPERIALISM 2 CHEATS????
P & D Martel
can't seem to get Cheat II to work on this game.
I did find that if you create a map named "Eden" all of the countries
are covered with grain farms.
nik...@accessus.net
P & D Martel <pdma...@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> Does anybody have any cheats for IMP2? Hex cheat?
> Game editor for Mac? I
> can't seem to get Cheat II to work on this game.
I use Pandora's Box and found that it was indeed rather difficult to
edit many of the properties in the game. Money is apparently NOT stored
as the amount that appears on your game screen (unless the amount is
negative). My observation has been that adding 500 to the $ amount
onscreen will give the correct value to be changed.
Some of the resources can be edited without trouble, others obviously
are not stored as the actual number of a particular resource (lumber is
driving me nuts!).
OTOH, not being able to cheat (other than giving myself minimal amounts
of money to build up my economic base) does force one to learn the
underlying strategies for success...:)
Kevin Nikolai Payne
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> Does anybody have any cheats for IMP2? Hex cheat? Game editor for Mac? I
> can't seem to get Cheat II to work on this game.
>
> I did find that if you create a map named "Eden" all of the countries
> are covered with grain farms.
It can be done, but it is not for the faint of heart. Try this:
1. Start a new game. Save immediately, without doing anything at all.
Write down the amount of each resource and the amount of cash you have.
Convert all of these numbers into hexadecimal.
2. Quit Imp II and launch a utility that can edit data forks of files.
Open your saved game. Work with a copy of the save game file as it is
really easy to screw up a file with a hex editor.
3. Use the "Find" command and search for the name of your country. The
hex addresses for cash and resources are nearby.
4. Cash is closest. Let's say you have $5000. Look for the hex string
"1388" (5000 converted to hex) near the spot you landed in step 3.
***Important: for some reason this will only work if you have not spent any
money yet. After you start spending cash, the value shown on the screen
and the value stored in the save file are not the same.
5. The resources are a bit farther down in the file. What I have done is
to "Find" again, this time looking for the hex value 00xx 00yy 00zz where x
y z are the amount of grain, fish, and meat you have (transformed into
hex). The other resources are above the ones for food. They are ROUGHLY
in the order they appear on the production screen, eg Wool, Cotton, Timber,
Tin and so forth and will be in the format 00aa 00bb 00cc 00dd where a is
wool, b is Cotton, and so forth. I have not tried editing these above FF
(255).
6. Save your file after doing your dastardly deed.
7. Launch Imp II and open your save file. If it crashes and burns, you
did something wrong. If you are rich and well-supplied, you did it right.
8. Don't bother writing down the locations of the stuff you edited. It
will change as the game goes on. If you want to re-edit the same file, you
need to start from scratch.
If people ask me really nicely, I could be persuaded to send a "before and
after" set of files so you can compare the two.
One final note - Imp II is really not very much fun hacked like this. I
enjoy cracking the save game files as an intellectual/detective exercise,
but playing the resulting hacked game is a challenge on the order of taking
candy from a baby. I played one game in stomp mode after I figured out how
to do this and haven't hacked another game since.
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