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Imperialism 2

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**Hacking the Money in Imperialism II**

I'm busy working out how to hack resources and country names right now...

But here's how to hack the money amount in Imperialism II.

First, files you want to search for the money in are the ones in /save/ directory. They should be labeled as slot0-8, then slotA and slotT, all with the extension .imp

They correspond to the save files as per the following diagram:

Game Save Menu

Save position/ slot name

Here's how to find your gold...

Unfortunately, the .imp files appear to be a dynamic structure... in other words, the binary location of the money files changes as the game variables change. Usually it's situated somewhere along the lines of position 324000, with a range location of around +/- 5,000.

First, you need a good program to search the files. It must be able to read and search binary (hexidecimal) files. Shareware, I really like Hacker 2.0... it's got some nice options and capabilities.

Second, you need to know what value to search for. To do this, set all your research funding to '0' gold, and make sure you aren't giving any grants or anything of monetary nature. Then, simply check the gold displayed.

Save the game, then place a grant for $1000 to any country. Advance the game a turn, and record the gold level. Save this game in a different save game slot. This is a temp game, and is only of concern so as to determine which location contains the value for the gold.

Now, open up your hex editor. Do a search in the first file for a 32bit signed integer of the value of the gold. Do a similar search on the second file, using the second value of gold. There should be a few locations shown as a result of each search... look to see which locations are closest to one another. Then, go back to your first file, change the amount of gold in the location found by the search, and load it in imperialism2. This should change your gold level. If it doesn't, change the location back to its original value, and try another of the locations that came up in the search. You should be able to find it on the first or second try.

DO NOT set the level of gold above 2147483647. Above this value, and you'll overflow the buffer. Set it a bit below, so that later when you're earning money, you don't have to go back and reset this value.

**This cheat care of: Der Uebergeek uebergeek@iname.com

"Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditar" -What is said in latin, sounds profound.

**You are free to distribute this cheat file as much as you want, as long as I retain credit in the text.

Warren Stramiello