Wacky Wheels saved game editor

Phil Carter · 09-09-2011, 12:14 PM

I just wrote a basic command line program that lets you write saved games for Wacky Wheels. It comes in handy if you want to jump to a specific race, or if you want to have 10,000 (or more) hedgehogs, or an arbitrary number of laps per race, etc.

The source code is here: wwsave.cpp
Download the Windows command line program here: wwsave.exe

To run the windows version, open the command line (cmd.exe), cd to the dirctory where wwsave.exe is, and type wwsave for usage information. You pass in options after the command name to edit saved games.

I compiled and ran the program in Windows 7. Hopefully, it runs on older versions of Windows, but I have no way of testing it. It also compiles in Linux and probably other operating systems.

This program may still have some bugs. It saves games by editing your wacky.cfg file, so you might want to make a backup of that file before running the program, although you could always get a new wacky.cfg file by deleting the old one and running setup.exe in the Wacky Wheels directory.

Malvineous · 09-09-2011, 07:16 PM

That works really well! Interestingly, when I tried the second example (the one with all the Razers) I was unable to collect any powerups at all. The hedgehogs I could understand, having so many, but I couldn't collect any other items like the bombs either.

EDIT: Just tried it again with only three hedgehogs which worked, so it seems you can't collect anything once you go above the maximum number of hedgehogs.

Phil Carter · 09-09-2011, 08:13 PM

Yes, once you have 99 hedgehogs, you can't pick up anything else, including the other objects on the track.

I tried to change the hedgehog limit this afternoon by searching for "0x63 0x00" (99 as a short int) in wacky.exe, but I didn't have any luck. Those two bytes appear next to each other a handful of times and I changed each of them (a few at a time) to "0x61 0x00" and then started the game with the ice command line parameter, which gives you 99 ice cubes. Every time, I still got 99 ice cubes though (when the program ran at all). That sequence of bytes is in wacky.cfg once, but it didn't change the hedgehog limit either. I doubt that the limit is stored in wacky.dat, but I haven't looked.

09-09-2011, 12:14 PM	#1
Phil Carter	Wacky Wheels saved game editor I just wrote a basic command line program that lets you write saved games for Wacky Wheels. It comes in handy if you want to jump to a specific race, or if you want to have 10,000 (or more) hedgehogs, or an arbitrary number of laps per race, etc. The source code is here: wwsave.cpp Download the Windows command line program here: wwsave.exe To run the windows version, open the command line (cmd.exe), cd to the dirctory where wwsave.exe is, and type wwsave for usage information. You pass in options after the command name to edit saved games. I compiled and ran the program in Windows 7. Hopefully, it runs on older versions of Windows, but I have no way of testing it. It also compiles in Linux and probably other operating systems. This program may still have some bugs. It saves games by editing your wacky.cfg file, so you might want to make a backup of that file before running the program, although you could always get a new wacky.cfg file by deleting the old one and running setup.exe in the Wacky Wheels directory. __________________ Phil's Wacky Wheels Site

09-09-2011, 07:16 PM	#2
Malvineous	Re: Wacky Wheels saved game editor That works really well! Interestingly, when I tried the second example (the one with all the Razers) I was unable to collect any powerups at all. The hedgehogs I could understand, having so many, but I couldn't collect any other items like the bombs either. EDIT: Just tried it again with only three hedgehogs which worked, so it seems you can't collect anything once you go above the maximum number of hedgehogs. Last edited by Malvineous; 09-09-2011 at 07:19 PM. Reason: New info

09-09-2011, 08:13 PM	#3
Phil Carter	Re: Wacky Wheels saved game editor Yes, once you have 99 hedgehogs, you can't pick up anything else, including the other objects on the track. I tried to change the hedgehog limit this afternoon by searching for "0x63 0x00" (99 as a short int) in wacky.exe, but I didn't have any luck. Those two bytes appear next to each other a handful of times and I changed each of them (a few at a time) to "0x61 0x00" and then started the game with the ice command line parameter, which gives you 99 ice cubes. Every time, I still got 99 ice cubes though (when the program ran at all). That sequence of bytes is in wacky.cfg once, but it didn't change the hedgehog limit either. I doubt that the limit is stored in wacky.dat, but I haven't looked. __________________ Phil's Wacky Wheels Site