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"Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" - Deluxe Edition
Save game editor!
Written by "The WaveMaster" November 20, 1990
Well folks,
I've been playing around with the new VGA game "Where in the World is Carmen
Sandiego", and loving every minute of it. Since my copy is unprotected, and
I don't have an almanac/atlas good enough to answer the doc-checks (and I
guess I'm too stupid to figure out 80% of the quizzes in the damn game) to get
my ol' character upgraded, for the more challenging levels of play, I wrote
a nifty little file editor.
Carmen Sandiego writes detective roster information to a file called
DETECTIV.DAT. This file holds the number detectives, their names, rank,
number of cases solved and whether or not a game has been saved (in which
case, CARMEN.SAV is loaded after you "log in" to the game).
To use, simply type >caredit, and follow the prompts. If DETECTIV.DAT
is not present, CAREDIT.EXE will automatically create a blank file to
work with. CAREDIT will only edit the first name on the roster, since
there is no reason to edit any others.
Enter your new name, rank code, and the number of cases solved.
You can play around with "number of cases solved" to get some mega-hard, or
simply impossible games to play around with. High ranks mixed with large
number of solved cases make for tougher games.
Problems and Precautions:
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Be careful entering your name. Keep it small like "Tom Jones" or something.
The editor will not allow invalid characters, but the game will "cut" the
number of characters in a name, if the font characters are too big. In other
words, you can have 21 lowercase "i"s in the name, but only 8 capital "W"s.
Also, I have NOT yet found the proper rank and number of solved cases to find
Carmen Sandiego. It is obviously at the "Super Sleuth" level of the game
with about 30 or so completed missions... Never-the-less, you can have
fun playing around with the editor...
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