Have you ever been stuck in a computer game and felt that if only you have more money, more experience points, higher skills level.....

This page was created to let computer gamers have the idea of changing computer games attributes. Please take note that the attributes here means only those which are in numeric forms. One example will be Civilization II, the number of Gold can be edited to an enormous value, thus gaining advantage over the enemies.

Before going on with the editing techniques, you must have a HEX (Hexadecimal) editor first. If you do not have one, you can download a shareware, Hex Workshop, for a 90 days trial. Some other editors are HexDecCharEditor and HexDecOctBin Converter. This shareware are good for editing and searching, more about its usage later. Usually, files are saved in Ascii format, which are very hard to read. A Hex editor will open the file in Hexadecimal format, and thus enable a much more easy reference and searching.

For most games, you should be able to save at any stages. The first and most important step in games editing is to locate these saved files. Some games allow players to select their own filename, these file will be easier to find, as the filename tends to be whatever name you typed in. However, for some other games, you might not know the name of the saved files, you will have to search for them, which can be done easily. Most of them will contains a number or the word 'sav', example : save1.z, sav001.civ, a01.dat... As a thumb of rule, saved files can be of any name, I couldn't cover all of them. As you do more editing, you will know the trend of these filename better.

Once you find the save file, open them with a HEX editor. Now, get the attributes, which you want to edit. It can be the number of gold you own or your character's attributes etc. You may want to make a duplicate copy of the save file before editing. Next, convert these to their relative Hexadecimal. The Decimal to Hexadecimal conversion can be done by simple calculations or through Hex Editor. In the file you open, look for these attributes. Instead of scrolling through the numbers manually, you can use the Hex editor 'search' to look for these hex number. After you find the attributes, edit them to a higher value. Save the file and load them in your game. Now, you can play the game with a more powerful character or have more gold in your vault.