[color:"orange"]Is there a more efficient way to search this than clicking the down arrow repeatedly[/color]

Hit Ctrl-F or click on the Find toolbar icon (third from right end, binoculars symbol) to bring up the Find dialog. From there you can search for text (ASCII) or hex strings (I used spaces in hex strings for clarity in the text description, but they should be omitted in the find dialog).


[color:"orange"]What do I do with this line?[/color]

That hex string indicates the location of a pile of gold in the inventory. The numbers immediately preceding that string give the number of gold in the pile, which is what you need to edit to give yourself gold. An easier way for gold might be the file swap procedure;

For you cheaters out there (The Duplication Trick) / Inventory files


[color:"orange"]I don’t understand what these numbers and letters mean or how they convert to in game numbers.[/color]

You can use the Windows Calculator program (in advanced mode) to convert between standard decimal numbers and hex values. The hex number system is base 16, rather than base 10, and uses the numbers 0-9 and letters A-F. In hex, 9 + 1 = A, A + 1 = B, and F + 1 = 10.
A basic understanding of hex would be useful, but you can also enter a hex value into Windows Calculator in hex mode, switch to decimal, add however many extra points you want, and then switch back to hex. Of course if you are starting off with 9 or less free stat/skill points, then conversion between hex and decimal is trivial (they are the same).


[color:"orange"]but it’s not user friendly – at least not for me.[/color]

Even if you are familiar with hex editing, it still takes going through the procedure a few times to start to get the hang of it.


[color:"orange"]It’s like watching the last two Episodes of Evangelion neon Genesis if you’ve never taken a Psych course and don’t understand a lick of the psycho-babble terminology.[/color]

I bought the last 2 DVDs as a set on sale. I probably missed a lot not having seen the series, but I never saw it cheap enough to gamble on.


[color:"orange"]What I really want to get is how to edit my skill points, and I get that I have to edit the data.000 file and look for a line like this: “44 65 61 74 68 6B 6E 69 67 68 74 00 23” and somehow that leads to the Death Knight’s information[/color]

In Hackman you can hit Ctrl-F, in ASCII mode type in 'Deathknight' then switch to hex mode and add '0023' to the end of the string.


[color:"orange"]I’m looking for not the first but the last instance of this that doesn’t have red or black next to it?[/color]

Hopefully that will become clearer once you actually start searching through the data.000 file (hit the F3 button to find the next instance of the search term, or hit it repeatedly to get to the last instance).


[color:"orange"]Then 6 rows up from the #-like symbol to view the skill points), which I do something with.[/color]

If you click on the appropriate spot in the left pane in Hackman, so the skill point position is highlighted, you simply type in the value you want to use to give yourself more points (ie overwrite the current value with FF to give your DK 255 skill points.


[color:"orange"]After that I’m still left to find the Heroe’s skill points which are somehow backwards (scroll up?)[/color]

You can either hit the Page Up button a few times or search backwards for the first instance of 'Base'. The search dialog lets you search forwards or backwards from the current location.


[color:"orange"]Please tell me there’s a simpler way?[/color]

Actually, it sounds like you almost have the basics, and if you try going through it the 'random numbers' should start to make a little more sense.



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