Hi all

I dont know if this is the right place to write this but i will put it here anyway.

How do u use a hex editor?

Is there any hex editors for Wizardry 8 Version 1.2.4?

Thanks

Wolf

• Hex editor vs. Editor,Llevram, 08:19 AM, Jan-15-03
  • RE: Hex editor vs. Editor,Wolf, 01:46 PM, Jan-15-03
    • RE: Hex editor vs. Editor,nomad, 03:37 PM, Jan-15-03

A hex editor lets you look at files in their hexidecimal represenation. So, instead of seeing a tab character, you would see a 09, instead of a capital A, you would see 41. To use one of these (you can find them to download for free all over, like www.download.com) you have to figure out the file layout of the saved game (i.e. where in the 1 MB of data (or so) that your character is, and which one of the couple thousand bytes that are his (or hers) you want to change).

Speaking from experience, if you don't know what a hex editor is, I would say you are a couple years from successfully using one to edit a saved game.

There are a couple editors out there for Wiz 8, which save you a couple years of pain. I don't have the links handy, but search the board for that topic and you should find them.

Tools for Wizardry(r) 7

Hi all

Ok then can someone tell me how to use a Hex Editor for this game?

PLEASE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Thanks

Wolf

LAST EDITED ON Jan-15-03 AT 03:42 PM (Pacific)

Like Rick said, go find a hex editor on the internet, you can find at least 6-10 for free. Use it to look at a Wiz 8 savegame file. Try to figure out what all the bytes mean. It is not easy to do. I haven't looked at a Wiz 8 file but suspect some or all of it is encrypted. Which means you will have to run a filter on it with lots of values to try to find what you are looking for.

If you want a for instance: I just opened one of my save files with a hex editor and searched on my characters names. No matches were found. That means that the character names are encrypted some way. See if you can figure out how to find where your characters records start.