Finding Keys in Hex Editor

[dssdevl]

Do game makers hide or encrypt values in the gamesaves?

I am trying to edit a gamesave of C&C: Kane's Wrath. I have a skirmish I started and saved at a point where I know I had 8500 resources. When I extract the gamesave file with Modio and open it in a hex editor, I cannot find "8500" anywhere in the file, in text or hex.

Am I doing something wrong or is this not doable?

[pureIso]

Do game makers hide or encrypt values in the gamesaves?

I am trying to edit a gamesave of C&C: Kane's Wrath. I have a skirmish I started and saved at a point where I know I had 8500 resources. When I extract the gamesave file with Modio and open it in a hex editor, I cannot find "8500" anywhere in the file, in text or hex.

Am I doing something wrong or is this not doable?

Did you convert 8500 to hex? To Decimal ? Reverse it? Are you sure its not in the gpd

[dssdevl]

I'm a total newb at gamesaves. What do you mean by GPD. Woudn't searching "8500" be the decimal search?

[pureIso]

Open calculator on you windows pc
Select view Programmer
Select dec and put in 8500 and click on hex you should get 0x2134
Now search for 2134

[dssdevl]

Thanks for the help pureIso, I'll try every one of the 2134's i've found one at a time.

May take a while, but where's the fun in easy.

EDIT: Tried all 2134's and still no joy. I even tried saving another game and searching for the resources from it. Backwards does nothing either.