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Any save wizard search tool for the consumer?

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 8:19 pm
by hrtbrkd
I see that save wizard allows us to edit the save file in "advance mode" but i would like to see implemented a way we can compare 2 saves of our own creation where we can do a "Greater Than, Less Than, Equal to, Does not Equal to" search on hex values. Something similar to what we used in the old game shark days.

Re: Any save wizard search tool for the consumer?

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:46 pm
by zachillios
hrtbrkd wrote:I see that save wizard allows us to edit the save file in "advance mode" but i would like to see implemented a way we can compare 2 saves of our own creation where we can do a "Greater Than, Less Than, Equal to, Does not Equal to" search on hex values. Something similar to what we used in the old game shark days.
There's a few external tools you can use for this, first being Hydrogen's search tool which you can find here https://www.mediafire.com/file/f8yiqst9 ... Search.zip
(Sorry Hydrogen, tried to find the original link to no avail)

Alternatively and what I do is use HxD. The temporary saves once you decrypt them (open the save in advanced mode) are located in your Temp folder in another folder named SWPS$MAX. You can decrypt the original save, copy it somewhere and open it in HxD, then decrypt the next save and open it in HxD and use the compare feature. You can find HxD here: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

Unfortunately the Save Wizard's built in tools are kinda bare bones, so you make do.

If you need a more in depth tutorial or have any questions lemme know.

Re: Any save wizard search tool for the consumer?

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:39 am
by hrtbrkd
Ok thank you I will try them and and see if i can figure it out. i used to make codes back in the days of gameshark. hopefully it's still the same.

Re: Any save wizard search tool for the consumer?

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:05 am
by MealReadytoEat
This should help
Hexwrite / Converts ASCII to hex
Hexit / Converts hex / decimal
Float converter / Converts Hex / Float
ReverseIt / Converts Little/Big Endian
wxHexEditor / editor, file comparison (a must have)
Dump Comparison tool by CMX (files must be the same size)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/fpzeddhdk ... GTools.zip