Serge's Adventures in exe land (List on first post)

[Naryar]

That would be great !

[Madiaba]

The current modification is dead simple, it's just replacing four bytes in the exe.

Nice Serge. I've been to this land several times,.. but could never get out without having a butterfly stuck to the bottom of my shoe....and screwing things up. 
IOW: I've tweeked the exe at this level in several places that I think would make useful mods, but I never knew if they were actually beneficial because I could never 'Save' the edits without corrupting the exe.  What program did you use?
 

[Gazea2]

Hey, Serge. My dad said he'll see what he can do. :)

[Serge]

What program did you use?

IDA Pro to reverse-engineer the exe, a simple hex editor to patch the interesting spots.

[Somebody]

That was worth at least 3 six-packs.
Good luck with Gazea2's dad and I know Click found a way to make a fourth class for DSL 3.0 (The Superheavyweight class). It would be very beneficial to change the weight classes too :D
Great work Serge :D

[JoeBlo]

I know Click found a way to make a fourth class for DSL 3.0 (The Superheavyweight class).

its a UI exploit for AI robots.. Click helped me do it for Backlash too... it requires a small BFE to the robot for the new class and some UI editing to have to game use a SHW icon

in reality all it does if gives robots that SHW icon.. doesnt make a SuperHeavyweight class in the bot lab 

still awesome and I thank Click for it

[Sage]

Nice Serge. I've been to this land several times,.. but could never get out without having a butterfly stuck to the bottom of my shoe....and screwing things up. 

Nice sound of thunder reference!



Serge, does this mean you found a suitable "hook"? Could you change the attachment limit of 7 to like 10?

[Naryar]

Yes, i was thinking Ray Bradbury as well.

[Serge]

Serge, does this mean you found a suitable "hook"? Could you change the attachment limit of 7 to like 10?

This is what I'm currently working on, but it's way harder than increasing the weight limit. I just can't find the piece of code responsible for checking the limit. Here's how most of my work looks like:



As you can see, from here I could easily patch the maxsphere boundary and collision boundary. But meh :P. I'll keep looking for the fabled 7-in-a-row limit.

[Naryar]

Now that i see that stupid "robots cannot exceed a maximum size", could you remove size limitations as well ?

[Serge]

Now that i see that stupid "robots cannot exceed a maximum size", could you remove size limitations as well ?

Yes, I could.

[Naryar]

[Serge]

Look at the infobar. Just so we're clear, I didn't change around text in the exe. I called it from an external program I wrote (the one on the right).

[Gazea2]

LOL, nice. :)

My dad said that he'll work on it. :)

[Sparkey98]

You amaze me Serge!

[Naryar]

That's what she said Yeah, it does look like it can lead to awesome results.

[Scrap Daddy]

If you got rid of the max sphere I would love you forever.

[cephalopod]

If you got rid of the max sphere I would love you forever.

QFT.

The max sphere is probably my worst enemy. Apart from stock in general.

[Serge]

I'll probably release everything I've done so far the 17th... Including that new GMF toolset I've been working on (and the max_sphere bypass, etc).

[Madiaba]

Much appreciated, Serge.
Can you get on MSN for a minute?