First, let me start off by saying that although I know how to cheat the game, you will never see my name on the leaderboards with a game that I cheated on. It's not fair to others.

Now, I'll tell you that I have never cheated the game by setting the clock forward. I have been cheating the game only to experiment. One of life's small joys is figuring things out.

I am an amateur hacker, a hacker is somebody who writes good code and should not be mistaken for a cracker, somebody who writes code for malicious intent.

The save files for VV are very easy to figure out and to change with a hex editor once you figure out where data is saved.

One of the things that would have made this file more difficult to change would have been a CRC check of some kind. I'll admit, that only as an amateur, I have run into game files before that use a CRC scheme and I could not figure out the formula that was used to generate the CRC. It meant that even though I could read the data in the file, I couldn't change it because the CRC wouldn't match and the game would throw the file out as bad data. So what would happen if the save file CRC didn't match the CRC the game expected to find, the village would be lost...which would be the penalty for trying to cheat.

I know it wouldn't stop everybody...but it would stop quite a few.


Timewarping would be a little more difficult to stop.

Absolutely right Jimmy!!!

For the life of me, I don't understand anyone who would play a game like this and cheat using hex files or whatever other means just to manipulate numbers on a stats board, it's silly!

I've already posted a few thoughts regarding this on the "leaderboard" thread which you may have read, hopefully, with your knowledge and others agreeing, the new VV2 will be a "clean" game!! Although, maybe an adult version of the love shack, nooo, won't go there, haha....

Best of Irish,
Maura

i would never mess with the hex files

Hello, Everyone!!!
Sorry I haven't been around for the last couple of days, I was in Michigan visiting my son and my sister and watched his last football game of the season.
You're right, Jimmy, cause someone could REALLY mess the game up for all of us, if they wanted to.
God Bless!!!!!

Wow I never cheat.
Infact i`ve been waiting so long to finish the game I have to get somebody to brush the cobwebs off me and my computer.