Changing stadiums for test series

[Ajit]

I was trying to play a 4 match Aus-Ind test series and wanted to play only at Bangalore,Kolkatta,Chennai, and Mumbai{exact order}.

Eventually, I found that in the saved game file, offsets 786029,786049,786069,786089 could be changed to get the desired stadiums.

The numbers<in hex> are 10 Bangalore,20 - Mumbai,...

the last hex digit happen to be 0,1,2 and 4(don't know why) for different matches.
so to get that order, I changed these four values to 10,31,52 and 24 and the stadiums too were changed.


I know this is nothing very important, but...

 

[barmyarmy]

Now I love you. This is important.

I've been searching for this info for weeks. It means that the NZ domestic patch can actually be played in New Zealand

 

[Ajit]

... so could be teams. Leave two bytes and <00><0d><05> means India vs Australia a 5-day unlimited match.Make it <34><0d><01>and you will play an unlimited overs 1 day match between India and Governor's XI.

I also attempted 44 (user team 4, not visible) but it didn't work. I was able to see the logo of user team 4 but "maybe" as there are no kits for user team IV the game crashed to desktop.

btw, you can now play Asian Test Champioship as well. Maybe a good idea:
India v Pakistan at Karachi
India v Sri Lanka at Colombo
India v Bangladesh at Dhaka
India v Pakistan at Kolkatta
India v Sri Lanka at Mumbai
India v Bangladesh at Chennai
Win most matches(atleast 4) to win the test championship.

I would make a few more attempts although I don't think too much editing could be done, e.g. forget the concept of final, but none knows...

 

[Ajit]

... changing countries(or whatever) is also simple. 786030,etc. bytes tell you how to do this.00 Australia,01 England,02 India,...

 

[barmyarmy]

There is a string which we need to crack (I thnk): from 786012

00 07 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 4A 80 01 00

The 17th byte is stadium
The 18th byte is Country of tour
The 1st byte is Country 1
The 2nd byte is Country 2
The 3rd byte is the days in the match

This is very early stages. I'm having to revise it everytime I change something and discover what I thought before was wrong...

 

[Ajit]

ICC Champions Trophy England 2004:
Situation after first 8 matches:

 

[Ajit]

Originally posted by barmyarmy@Sep 25 2004, 02:46 PM
There is a string which we need to crack: (from 786026)

FF FF 4A 80 01 00 00 07 05

The 4th byte is stadium
The 5th byte is Country 1
The 7th byte is Country 2
The 9th byte is the type of match

I'll try and crack the rest...

A little mistake:
4th and 5th bytes are the loaction of stadium 10 00 means Adelaide in Australia, 10 02 means Bangalore in India. 7th btye team1,8th byte team2.
9th I am not sure it only changes the number of days, but not overs.

 

[barmyarmy]

Nearly there...
Do you know which bytes are used to control the team etc? (used in SavTweak)
If not PM Shaliesh

 

[barmyarmy]

Originally posted by Ajit+Sep 25 2004, 09:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ajit @ Sep 25 2004, 09:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-barmyarmy@Sep 25 2004, 02:46 PM
There is a string which we need to crack: (from 786026)

FF FF 4A 80 01 00 00 07 05

The 4th byte is stadium
The 5th byte is Country 1
The 7th byte is Country 2
The 9th byte is the type of match

I'll try and crack the rest...

A little mistake:
4th and 5th bytes are the loaction of stadium 10 00 means Adelaide in Australia, 10 02 means Bangalore in India. 7th btye team1,8th byte team2.
9th I am not sure it only changes the number of days, but not overs. [/b][/quote]
I've edited my original post because when I changed 'byte 8' (offset: 786033) the team for the second match changed...

 

[Ajit]

Another little crack. This time number of overs
00 17 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 32 00 4a 20 03
(knockout first match)
17 - New Zealand, 00 - Australia,01-1 day... 32 00 (take in LSB)=50(50 overs),it is ff ff in tests meaning unlimted.4a - no idea,20 03 a stadium in NZ.

edited for a serious mistake.

also the number 786010 or whatever is not constant, it changes in different situations, e.g. different for knockout,etc...

 

[barmyarmy]

Here is the string once the first test has been started:
00 07 05 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 FF FF 4B 80 01 00

Values in red are the ones that have changed...

England won the toss and choose to bat. Pitch: damp

 

[barmyarmy]

Originally posted by Ajit@Sep 25 2004, 09:41 AM
also the number 786010 or whatever is not constant, it changes in different situations, e.g. different for knockout,etc...

Yeah I noticed that, hence I also started a 4 test series...

 

[barmyarmy]

lol
Here is the ultimate. The 1 over match...
One of the bytes controls innings though as I just played a two innings match with 1 over per innings!!!

 

[andrew_nixon]

If you could get a two innings of 10 overs each match, then you could put Cricket Max in the New Zealand patch..

 

[barmyarmy]

Easy. I'm still trying to find the byte for 1 innings!

These are the bytes for the match location:

Match one: (Old Trafford) 4A 80 01
Match two: (Lords) 8A 71 01
Match three: (Oval) CA D2 01
Match four: (Edgebaston) 0A D4 00

According to Ajit's findings; the second half the of the second byte increases 0, 1, 2, 4 etc and the first half of the second byte controls the stadium. The Oval and Edgebaston are both 'D' so there must be something else influencing stadium.
On the first byte (first half) 4, 8, C, 0 is of course a quarter sequence in hex.