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- This program will modify all of your save game files for
- Monster Bash 1 by Apogee so that you will have 10 lives (as the default)
- but can also be used to give you from 1 to 200 lives.
-
- If you don't like to start over a million times and just want to have
- some fun with this excellent game, cheat!
-
- I recommend that you save copies of all your game save files
- (they are named SAVE?.MB1 where "?" is a number from 0 to 9)
- before running this program in case you want to play as a mortal
- again!
-
- Place the BASHCHT.EXE file in the same directory as the save
- files and enter BASHCHT to modify the files. This will give all saves
- 10 lives. If you want another number of lives, run the program by typing
- BASHCHT followed by a space and a number from 1 to 200. (BASHCHT 150 would
- give you 150 lives in each saved game).
- Please note that after 12 lives the "pets unsaved" will be obscured
- when you view your status and the "time elapsed" will also be obscured at
- higher numbers of lives. This could make the game difficult to play.
-
- This program works by editing byte 0 (lives) of the save files and then
- calculating the correct "checksum" for each file (bytes 10-13). If you are
- handy with a hex editor, you might want to alter the level (byte 2), score
- (bytes 6-9), or difficulty (byte 4 where 00=hard 01=medium 02=easy) before
- running BASHCHT. The BASHCHT program will calculate the correct "checksum"
- for the files.
-
- There is one more feature which I hope you will never have to use. The
- last bytes of the save file are always either 0000 or FFFF. I believe I am
- calculating this value correctly, but I haven't tried every possible save
- file. I have added a feature to "toggle" these last two bytes in case the
- game rejects a save file modified with BASHCHT. If a save file is rejected,
- run the cheat by typing:
- BASHCHT T ?
- (where "?" is a number from 0-9 which is the number of the save to be
- toggled). The file should work after this is done.
-
- This program is brought to you as FREEWARE by Michael P. Hoffmann
- and is copyright (c) 1993 by Michael P. Hoffmann, all rights reserved.
- GEnie: M.HOFFMANN1
-