cheat in version 1.54

[camster98]

i was wondering if some one could put the cheat menu in version 1.54 or release a patch for people who want to use the cheat menu cause i have beet the game in arc and arumnor missions and i think it would be fun to for once play with the cheat menu and stuff

[Rkiver]

DevCD is available for sale. Purchase it and see if you can do it.

[camster98]

hmm i not a skilled enough coder to do that cant like one of the devolpers or someone just code it in

[KingAl]

Well, they did take it out for a reason - it was only intended for testing purposes and was buggy as hell. Cheating in Uplink is pretty pointless, since most of the fun comes from the tension and otherwise you're just going through the motions.

[Rkiver]

hmm i not a skilled enough coder to do that cant like one of the devolpers or someone just code it in

I'm going to go with no, as they are working on other games at the moment.

[camster98]

ok i got the dev cd i got a c++ complier and i got active perl now what
do i need to do to activate the cheat menu cause i want the cheat menu to run on the latest version of uplink so it wont crash as much and so i can have all the new fetures and bug fixes

[shinygerbil]

You're probably best off asking questions in the Development section of the forums. You'll need to PM NeoThermic (or another admin, but NeoThermic's generally the most active) and have him grant you access. You'll need to provide proof of purchase in some form.

[frenchfrog]

camster98: Once you have access to the Development forum download Uplink 1.55 source, for the cheats (if they still works?) there is a #define in the constant definition file.

But I would recommend that you try to build with no modifications first. And then try to enable the cheats (or boost starting agent money).

[TBF01]

Why does the Development forum require a Dev-CD to access? Does it have an automatic installer thing to download the newest source code or is it just because they thought people could cull enough data from the posts to compile Uplink w/o buying it? Also, what version of Uplink is being sold?

Speaking of data, I figured out how to access the .ZIP data files, data.dat, and now I'm stuck on world.dat. I tried Red Coat (Empty ZIP), Red Coat 2 (Doesn't make any file), and Red Coat 2 + WinRAR/7-Zip/WinZIP/Compressed (Zipped) Folders (which is apparently different than WinZIP), but nothing worked. s the file even for? The "world" of your characters in saved in *YourName*.usr.

(Yes, I've been trying to figure out the file formats of various things. I'm trying to see how things work, not cheat. Trust me.)

[KingAl]

Why does the Development forum require a Dev-CD to access? Does it have an automatic installer thing to download the newest source code or is it just because they thought people could cull enough data from the posts to compile Uplink w/o buying it?

By having a DevCD owners only forum, it allows discussion of the code, links to be posted to updates and development servers etc.
People who don't own the DevCD aren't beholden to the license, and so they can use the code on and linked to within the forums for whatever they like, which is a Bad Thing. Ultimately, there's nothing that people who don't own the DevCD can discuss in the Development subforum that they can't discuss elsewhere, so there's no reason for anyone else to have access.

world.dat is not an archive

[TBF01]

oh, so I was right w/my insane theory ('bout the forum).

now to open world.* as soon as I get another hint by searching the forum.

[Montyphy]

Red Coat?

[KingAl]

It's the rotation cypher they used in the War of Independence.

/me nods.

[TBF01]

Where can I get a program to unencrypt the rotation cypher? I don't think I can unencrpty 13 MB of data by hand. Also, how can a ~1400 file be 13MB? isn't 1000kb = 1 MB?

[Mas Tnega]

Is now a bad time to point out that most of your problem revolves around the fact that the decrypted world.dat is (sort of) an mp3 file?

Also, while most dicks peddling hard drives will measure MB as 1000kB and kB as 1000B, computers like to deal with powers of 2 and so the golden figure is 1024.