You can edit the all the hardware of a RoboWar robot using ResEdit or Resourcer, this lets you play with the unofficial (which are illegal in officaial tournamnets) weapons.
When you open a Robot in ResEdit you will see something like this:
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Resource Name |
What it's for |
|---|---|
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cicn |
This stores the color icons,go ahead have look! |
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CPOS |
I think this resource relates to what text is selected in the drafting board. |
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DATE |
This stores all the modification dates as shown in the robots drafting board. |
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HARD |
This is what we are going to be playing with! It stores the hardware info. |
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icl4, icl8, ICN#, ics#, ics4, ics8 |
These are the reasources linked with the icon the robot has in the finder. You can play with this too! |
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RCOD |
This stores the robots compiled code if you are a hacker then it can be fun to work out how this works. (It's what I did for the robowar disassembler) |
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RLEN |
Stores the official robot code length |
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snd |
You can find all the sounds in a robot here. |
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TURT |
Interestingly David chose to store the turret type in a seperate resource from the hardware resource. |
So if you are editing the Hardware then double click on the HARD resource, you should then see something like this:
This lists all resources of type HARD, doesn't really matter, just double click on the "Hardware Info". Now yet another window comes up:
Now down to the nitty gritty of this...
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The numbers on the left hand side show you how far, in bytes, each line is from the start of the resource. (numbers are in hexadecimal) |
The numbers and letters (hexadecminal) in the center is the actual info. |
The funny shape on the right hand side are is a representation of the stuff in the middle, just a different, and in this case less useful, way of writting it. |
Each group of 4 numbers and letter in the central columb represents one thing in the hardware store. But don't forgot that it's written in hexadecimal!
I am numbering the blocks for reference: block1 is 0064, block2 is 0096... etc.
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Block Number |
What it's for... |
What's the number? |
|---|---|---|
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1 |
Energy |
exact quantity |
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2 |
Damage |
exact quantity |
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3 |
Shileds |
exact quantity |
|
4 |
Processor Speed |
exact quantity |
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5 |
Bullet Type |
1= rubber 2=normal 3=explosive |
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6 |
Missiles |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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7 |
Tac Nukes |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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8 |
Total Points in hardware store |
Number |
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9 |
Lazsers |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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10 |
Hellbores |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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11 |
Drones |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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12 |
Mines |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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13 |
Stunners |
1 = on, 0 = off |
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14 |
Negative Energy Available |
1 = Yes, 0 = No |
|
15 |
Probes |
1 = on, 0 = off |
So you won't to turn lazers on? Easy: simply type in 0001 for block number 9, and don't forget to add 1 to block 8 (total hardware points!).
Have fun!
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