Author Topic: What I did last night (Read 18299 times)

OP2Patriot · « **on:** June 19, 2003, 03:11:13 PM »

Now, I can:

- never pay for a single lynx or tiger (25+ cheats involved with that)
- change rate of fires for every weapon to 20x faster than you can in one of the Dan cheats
- laser damage (yep, Super Lasers are a reality)

---philipu2001

alice · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2003, 06:01:21 PM »

Hey, can you send me some of those cheats? I was trying to open OP2_ART.bmp, but it didn't work. (Did you know you could crash your computer with a bitmap? I didn't until today... It was kinda funny)

Well, if you know a a OP2 Hacking tutorial, let me know...

CK9 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2003, 06:33:22 PM »

You used up too much space before trying to open it. That's Why I always save pics as Jpegs.

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2003, 06:39:57 PM »

Well, I can't help you with the BMP. Hacking tutorial, hmmm. I'd have to update it. A lot has happened since August.

---philipu2001

CK9 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2003, 07:59:48 PM »

You meen since last year? I thought it would take you less time.

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2003, 08:01:25 PM »

I have had other things to do since August, like school. Also, for a while, I was short on ideas, like in November, I thought for an hour I hacked all I could.

---philipu2001

Betaray · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2003, 11:42:57 PM »

heck I could do all that, if I was able to decrypt the sheets.vol

Ive hacked the demo wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more than that

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2003, 08:33:37 AM »

I was using the demo sheets as a guide. Did you know when you use the Dan's rapid fire cheat, the microvave rate of fire does not change the first time you use it? (Found that out at a cost of 20 minutes)

---philipu2001

CK9 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:36:45 PM »

oh, um, okay. la la la

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:55:39 PM »

Also, did you know that there is concussion and penetration damage in Outpost 2?

---philipu2001

CK9 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2003, 03:02:40 PM »

yes. It says that in the manuel.

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2003, 03:09:01 PM »

Hmm, did you know that I can edit how fast a turret can turn?

---philipu2001

alice · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2003, 08:59:02 AM »

What 'VOL' file are these settings stored in? I just need to find the format, then I'll be ok. Maybe I should get back to work.... (on OP3)

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2003, 09:04:28 AM »

The sheets.vol, but I think many here would prefer you to do OP3, and would hate me if I got you into hacking OP2.

---philipu2001

BlackBox · « **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2003, 09:24:44 AM »

I'll bug with the sheets.vol. It's compressed, not encrypted, because the EXE does make reference to columns.

Betaray · « **Reply #15 on:** June 26, 2003, 11:59:02 PM »

so has anybody made a program to decompress the sheets.vol?

alice · « **Reply #16 on:** June 30, 2003, 10:22:54 AM »

Ok, I dissassembled Outpost2.exe last night, and traced that program for two hours... I found out that the program decompresses the Sheets.vol file right before you can play the game... I will continue working on this at night. I do OP3 Stuff in the day...

alice · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2003, 08:53:58 PM »

hehehehe.... I made my EMP's and RPG's change the firing rate to FF. You can build an impassable EMP wall..

BlackBox · « **Reply #18 on:** July 09, 2003, 07:03:51 AM »

I knew that. It loads all the game files (maps.vol, op2.clm, sheets.vol, sounds.vol, voices.vol, and the map and script) when you press the Start button on a tutorial, campaign, CG, or multi.

I also know the location of the code used to decompress the research topics.

I would trace the game more if I wasn't so lazy to go add a line to autoexec.bat to load softice, then have to restart, then take it out so it doesn't load again... :-(

garrett: Not trying to bug you or anything, but Phil could be right. You should do OP3... Unless you really have time to do both....

What debugger did you use?

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #19 on:** July 09, 2003, 10:51:04 AM »

Seting firing rate to FF? That would make it slower! Set it to 0. Lot's of grenades per second.

---philipu2001

BlackBox · « **Reply #20 on:** July 09, 2003, 11:00:17 AM »

so is the normal value 99 or something, and the new value is relative?

CK9 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 09, 2003, 03:32:17 PM »

it would be cool if you could set it at a negative value.

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #22 on:** July 09, 2003, 04:47:52 PM »

EMP is 256, and RPG 35, I think. I'd have to look it up.

---philipu2001

BlackBox · « **Reply #23 on:** July 10, 2003, 04:36:27 PM »

Do you have an OP2 Editing Bible or something?

OP2Patriot · « **Reply #24 on:** July 11, 2003, 12:49:36 PM »

The d_sheets.vol. I should probably write a new hackning guide sometime. The one I wrote is outdated.

---philipu2001

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