I know this is an old game, but it was pretty fun. It was so easy to hack up the savefiles to become amazingly strong even by a novice like myself.
In the past week I've been replaying Privateer and Righteous Fire, and I also noticed lots of cool downloadable hacks that give even more powerful than just editing savefiles. Interested, I started editing the data of the .TRE and .EXE files themselves, following the guidelines of some textfiles for Privateer hacking I downloaded. And I went beyond that and found more things to hack as well. A lot of my earlier experience with hacking the savefiles really helped, cause I already knew how to hack certain abilities that I hadn't seen any internet sources/programs mention.
Anyway, so now I'm trying to extract and hack as much information out of the game as possible to get the most enjoyment out of this old game. Anyone care to help?
I'm also compiling a list of statistics for all the guns, shields, ships, engines in the game. A lot of the information in the manual that comes with the game is correct but a lot is incorrect. The same goes for the Privateer Playtesters Guide that I also bought long ago. I never completely believed it that meson blasters are one of the best cheap weapons, and according to the info I hacked they aren't even close. My instincts had always told me neutron guns and mass drivers were the bomb and I was mostly right after all since some of the claimed stats were wrong.
Just from editing the savefile years ago, I'd learned how to give myself a wingman in Privateer as well...something I hadn't seen other people mention. How? I reincarnated the Steltek drone and made him my friend. ^_^;
Now by editing the PRIVATER.EXE file I can change the Steltek drone into any other ship I want, and I can change the pilot as well. But there are still many things I'd like to do and I'm just a novice at this. One thing I'd like is to be able to have the Steltek drone wingman in Righteous Fire, but that really seems tough/impossible, so I'd really like some help.
There are lots of other things I'd like to do, and lots I know how to do. Anyone interested?
In the past week I've been replaying Privateer and Righteous Fire, and I also noticed lots of cool downloadable hacks that give even more powerful than just editing savefiles. Interested, I started editing the data of the .TRE and .EXE files themselves, following the guidelines of some textfiles for Privateer hacking I downloaded. And I went beyond that and found more things to hack as well. A lot of my earlier experience with hacking the savefiles really helped, cause I already knew how to hack certain abilities that I hadn't seen any internet sources/programs mention.
Anyway, so now I'm trying to extract and hack as much information out of the game as possible to get the most enjoyment out of this old game. Anyone care to help?
I'm also compiling a list of statistics for all the guns, shields, ships, engines in the game. A lot of the information in the manual that comes with the game is correct but a lot is incorrect. The same goes for the Privateer Playtesters Guide that I also bought long ago. I never completely believed it that meson blasters are one of the best cheap weapons, and according to the info I hacked they aren't even close. My instincts had always told me neutron guns and mass drivers were the bomb and I was mostly right after all since some of the claimed stats were wrong.
Just from editing the savefile years ago, I'd learned how to give myself a wingman in Privateer as well...something I hadn't seen other people mention. How? I reincarnated the Steltek drone and made him my friend. ^_^;
Now by editing the PRIVATER.EXE file I can change the Steltek drone into any other ship I want, and I can change the pilot as well. But there are still many things I'd like to do and I'm just a novice at this. One thing I'd like is to be able to have the Steltek drone wingman in Righteous Fire, but that really seems tough/impossible, so I'd really like some help.
