Venetica

[Renegade]

I tried both edited saves and on the loading screen it shows the edited amount, but when it loads its back to 108. Here is the edited save after loading and the gold reverting back I saved it again. Also included the .gpd as well. I already tried editing the .gpd and found the 108 value but it still does the same thing. Thanks for the help and the quick response.

Have you tried to edit both of them at the same time and then loading?

[Skullkeeper]

Have you tried to edit both of them at the same time and then loading?

Yes. I was wondering if maybe there was some kind of check, but wouldn't it come up corrupt when loading if there was?
When editing both files it still shows the amount on the loading screen but goes back to original once loaded.

[Renegade]

Yes. I was wondering if maybe there was some kind of check, but wouldn't it come up corrupt when loading if there was?
When editing both files it still shows the amount on the loading screen but goes back to original once loaded.

It could be that there are more instances of the value in the save, However to my knowledge i couldn't see any other, But yeah i believe there is a check if it keeps reverting, Not all checks corrupt the data and is just security measure for modifying save data.

[Skullkeeper]

Is there anything else you need to look for a check? More saves with different amounts of gold? Default.xex? Just let me know.

[jkipp82]

is it possible this may need that one tool that pulls a bunch of files from the con. I cant remember the name of it. its something zip.

[JizzaBeez]

I done a little research on this gamesave. It looks like there may be a checksum and either compression (it's not zlib) or encryption. I have attached the Gamesave, the extracted file, and the Hex Workshop Bookmark. The Bookmark is for the extracted file. It may not all be correct but it's what it looks like... I put "?" beside the things that I wasn't sure about.

[Renegade]

I done a little research on this gamesave. It looks like there may be a checksum and either compression (it's not zlib) or encryption. I have attached the Gamesave, the extracted file, and the Hex Workshop Bookmark. The Bookmark is for the extracted file. It may not all be correct but it's what it looks like... I put "?" beside the things that I wasn't sure about.

This is exactly what i was looking into, But confused about similar things.

[fairchild]

I stumbled on this game and started checking the game out through IDA ;)

There are 3 different save methods in this game: xml, bin, dat (zip / zlib), the "dat" option is set by default in the game.

These options are available in the different version:
* PC: xml, bin, dat (zip / zlib)
* XBOX360: xml, bin, dat (zip)

I found these signatures in the default.xex and they are probably using this on Xbox 360 instead of zlib.
0002b194 2254 unlzx table_one [..32]
00021cf8 2260 unlzx table_three [32.be.64]

Example output of a xml savegame:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

< name="0x8AB79F2A" factory="0x524E2CA0">
  <Properties>
    <Property name="0x0BE40918" value="0" />
    <Property name="0x14EAA5BE" value="Venice_SaveGame" />
    <Property name="0x423F9456" value="0x48C0F0EC" />
    <Property name="0x5968A7A3" value="1" />
    <Property name="0x67DA5A79" value="264" />
    <Property name="0x9017BA1F" value="18" />
    <Property name="0x9200C240" value="5" />
    <Property name="0xB558FA16" value="1220604140" />
    <Property name="0xB803DE78" value="0" />
    <Property name="0xBFB8FC5C" value="11" />
    <Property name="0xE90DFEDF" value="17" />
    <Property name="0xEBDE3624" value="13" />
    <Property name="0xFDD172DD" value="11" />
  </Properties>
  <LevelDesc name="0x48C0F0EC" factory="0xBFDCCE64">
    <Properties>
      <Property name="0x017FFDC7" value="x:0.100 y:0.100 z:5.000 " />