How can I open the game.dat file and edit some coding already in it?
Game.dat file editing?
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 08:03 PM
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 08:15 PM
You can't.
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 08:17 PM
then how come i've seen game.dats that have been edited before
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 08:20 PM
Maybe you can, but I don't think its possible.
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 08:38 PM
I tried opening it with a C++ compiler once and it didn't work 
. There could be a plug in out there somewhere that can take a .dat file and make it readable/editable in Visual C++.
. There could be a plug in out there somewhere that can take a .dat file and make it readable/editable in Visual C++.
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 11:41 PM
then how come i've seen game.dats that have been edited before
Not for BFME you haven't. It's not possible.
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 12:01 AM
i have seen them, but they're only compatible with 1.02. i know the changes to them, i just need to get in them to change them for 1.03
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 12:06 AM
I hope you know who your arguing with. If Kelso says its impossible, its impossible.
Edited by Prince Imrahil, 26 February 2006 - 12:07 AM.
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 12:58 AM
theoretically it's possible, but you must be VEEEEEERY good (and be able to understand jibberish code, like those guys in 'the matrix'). so, practically, no
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 01:03 AM
It's doable; certain things have been done with it before (such as enabling an extra kindof or whatever) - but there's nothing nobody has managed to do that's worth the extreme effort required to edit a dat file.
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 01:22 AM
theoretically it's possible, but you must be VEEEEEERY good (and be able to understand jibberish code, like those guys in 'the matrix'). so, practically, no
Sounds fun
. Anybody know what program/plug-in you would use to open it?
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 01:35 AM
hex editor, one is found on the site.
Save the environment, use green text
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 02:21 AM
thx hostile, thats what i was looking for
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 02:27 AM
Man, now I look at it again, the original asset.dat looks like gibberish.
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 02:27 AM
Ok, I see what you mean by jibberish code. I just wish you could get the actual text so you could edit it in C++...
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 04:44 AM
In order to do that you need to decompile the game itself and then recompile it. People managed to do it successfully in RA2, but it took months and months of research and tinkering in order to get something workable.
And I don't know where you have seen edited game.dat files for BFME. Name a mod that has one, because I am not aware of it and if there is one, I would very much like them to come here and share their information with the rest of us.
And I don't know where you have seen edited game.dat files for BFME. Name a mod that has one, because I am not aware of it and if there is one, I would very much like them to come here and share their information with the rest of us.
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 04:34 PM
i know how to edit game.dat. it goes like this:
- you work
- you work some more
- you work much more
- you save your money
- you buy (the source code from) EA
- you edit it
- you work
- you work some more
- you work much more
- you save your money
- you buy (the source code from) EA
- you edit it
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