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Editing hiscore.dat files??
Lilwolf:
Initially, reading the subject, I couldn't think of a reason anyone would care...
But now, I applaud your idea!
Make sure to edit the 2nd and 3rd to say something also. Maybe stating hes your ---smurfette--- or something equally annoying... that he wont notice until hes inviting some friend over and showing the system :)
Minwah:
Ah I remember doing this back in the day on a few games on my old Amstrad. Battlezone sticks in my mind as one...
rwhip41:
The "heyday" of my computer knowledge was in the DOS 4.0-5.0 "era". This same guy asked me to set up a PC he wanted to put together. I did, as well as an extra surprise. When the PC booted, it would stop somewhere in the boot sequence to display the line, "Walt blows dogs for nickels. Press any key to continue...", and waited until a key was pressed. He didn't like it, but I thought it was hilarious. So he reformatted his hard drive because he didn't know what a batch file was and how to edit one.
krick:
--- Quote from: Minwah on March 20, 2006, 09:00:08 am ---Ah I remember doing this back in the day on a few games on my old Amstrad. Battlezone sticks in my mind as one...
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I did this to a copy of Tetris that we had on our network in community college. There was only one copy and everyone shared the high score table. I hex edited the table and replaced all the scores with unattainable scores and my initials just to piss of my friend who thought he was the Tetris master.
ahofle:
Resurrecting this old thread....has anyone actually managed to manually edit either the nvram or .hi files successfully? Recently (probably at some point when upgrading hiscore.dat) my millipede hi scores have stopped saving and the only remedy seem to be deleting the .hi and .nv files (and my previous untouchable scores with them :hissy: ). I tried to hex edit both those files to put them back in, but they seem to be in some binary (compressed?) format. They were also only a few bytes in size.