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rwhip41:
Hey...
Has anyone edited hiscore.dat files? Meaning, hacking into a particular high score saved within this utility to manually edit a score and initials?

I ask because I am building a system for a friend. Everyone has a friend like this...sort of an A-hole but not too much of one. This makes it perfect to put my initials in the top score on his favorite games. I mean...unattainable high scores so MY initials will always be there.

His favorite game is Dig Dug (sort of our bragging rights game). The most I've been able to get is a little above 60,000 which is our current record. I'm talking about editing it up to something like 600,000 or something like that.

It looks (to me) that each high score is some sort of a binary file, and I don't know how to get past that.

Any ideas? It would be priceless.

destructor:
Few years ago I edited this file and it work. DOn't remember details.
Now I use MARP as scoreboard ;)

Havok:
You can edit with Notepad, (or other text editor) the values are in hexadecimal. Enjoy!

quarterstringer:

--- Quote from: rwhip41 on March 17, 2006, 01:17:50 am ---Everyone has a friend like this...sort of an A-hole but not too much of one.
--- End quote ---

If you want to have some fun with him, you can set attract mode messages in a few Williams games like Joust, Robotron and Sinistar. Hold F1 and hit F2 twice, then go to Set Attract Mode Message. Here's an example  :)

rwhip41:
[pinky finger to corner of mouth]
Muahahahahaha!!!

Thanks for the info.

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