Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

adoxa

Updated.

DwnUndr

Always advancing the cause, thanks adoxa

starworld

This is good, thank you

Freestalker.fr

Thank you Adoxa!

Kazinsal

Okay, here’s a fun one.

Does anyone have an idea of how to decrease the width of the blue lines drawn on the universe map between connected systems? We’ve got a bunch of systems in Broken Bonds that are fairly close together and as a result the big thick blue lines cover up our nice shiny universe map background.

Thanks,
–Troy

adoxa

freelancer.exe	0974C9	0.005f = width of system connection line ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	097501	00 = red component of system connection line ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	097506	40 = green component of system connection line ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	09750B	80 = blue component of system connection line ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	097510	FF = alpha component of system connection line ~adoxa

Kazinsal

You’re my favouritest person ever, adoxa. I aspire to have FL disassembly/hacking skills like yours.

Broken Bonds thanks you for your awesomeness.

EDIT: Now if only I could get the “star” images to remain at full size….

adoxa

freelancer.exe	0915F4	2000i = size range of universe map stars ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	091605	3000i = minimum size of universe map stars ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	0916F2	03C2C1F80F->B80i000000 = color of universe map stars (i=0-6 for RGBCMYW) ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	0916FE	8403->0000 = prevent universe map stars from pulsing PART 1 ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	09173A	C1F80F->83C8FF = prevent universe map stars from pulsing PART 2 ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	0A1727	D8642410->90909090 = prevent universe map stars from blinking ~adoxa

Kazinsal

Where do I go about donating to your beer fund, man?

EDIT: Definitely don’t have 2000i or 3000i at those offsets – looks like 0i and 4096i respectively.

FriendlyFire

I believe adoxa uses the official No-CD for all of his offsets instead of the cracked one. Some of the offsets differ.

adoxa

The cracked one has junk code in between functions (the official one has NOPs - the 90 bytes you’ll see in some edits) plus the protection code itself (making it 800k bigger), but the actual code is the same.

C:\Games\Freelancer\EXE>d/1 {,j:\Crack\}freelancer.exe
C:\Games\Freelancer\EXE\                              Volume label is undefined
     2,220,544 a---- 05 Feb, 2003 00:04:40 Freelancer.exe
1 file: 2,220,544 <2,224,128>; Disk: 779,616,944,128 <1,000,097,181,696>

J:\Crack\                                             Volume label is undefined
     3,005,956 ----r 21 Feb, 2003 20:03:06 Freelancer.exe
1 file: 3,005,956 <3,006,464>; Disk: 0 <618,135,552>

C:\Games\Freelancer\EXE>xd +0x915f4 -rl =1 {,j:\Crack\}freelancer.exe
freelancer.exe:

      2000

j:\Crack\freelancer.exe:

      2000

C:\Games\Freelancer\EXE>xd +0x91605 -rl =1 {,j:\Crack\}freelancer.exe
freelancer.exe:

      3000

j:\Crack\freelancer.exe:

      3000

Could it be that you’ve already got a patched star size? Here’s some surrounding bytes:

0915f0  ff d5 69 c0 d0 07 00 00 99 81 e2 ff 7f 00 00 03
091600  c2 c1 f8 0f 05 b8 0b 00 00 89 44 24 20 8b 06 c7
```d0 07 is 2000i (you should have 00 00) and b8 0b is 3000i (you should have 00 10).

starworld

I find the good value in my exe. (not tested)

freelancer.exe 0915F4 2000i

freelancer.exe 091605 3000i

robocop

Where does one get the ‘official’ No-CD version?

J.R.

Check out here: http://the-starport.net/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=2649

Greetings J.R.

robocop

Thanks.
I’ve always used the cracked version found on some download sites like gamecxxxworld and the hex values were always there where the 101 wiki indicated. I’ll keep this handy as well.

R

foxUnit01

yawn stretch What year is it?

I’ve been poking around with Flak for the hell of it and realized I hadn’t updated the list in quite some time - so here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1g693jzgnan2d6/1.1_Offsets.txt

It’s on Dropbox for now as I have absolutely no idea how to get back on Memes (I’m amazed it’s still up, and updated(!) - thanks XeNd!)

I’m sure I’ve missed some worthwhile hacks - I only took a cursory run-through of this topic. Hope this is useful to someone.

– Added adoxa’s LODranges multiplier hacks
– Added adoxa’s gamma range hack
– Added adoxa’s continuous missile firing control hack
– Added adoxa’s various Ship Preview hacks
– Added unknown author’s group size hack
– Added FriendlyFire’s server list filter by build default hack
– Added OutCast’s video warning suppression hack
– Added Jolly_Rogger’s remove fighter/freighter from important list hack
– Added starworld’s disable money-based rank hack
– Added adoxa and WhiskasTM’s ridiculous number of NavMap-related hacks
– Added adoxa’s aiming lead on all ships hack
– Added adoxa’s disable F1 in space hack
– Added adoxa’s display sun spines in tradelane hack

? Offline

Sure useful

adoxa

Here’s a couple that may be of interest.

content.dll	12E354	0.2f = min rep needed for lawful factions to show rumors ~adoxa
content.dll	12E358	0.4f = min rep needed for unlawful factions to show rumors ~adoxa

```There's also an 0.6 after that, suggesting there may have been plans for a "really unlawful" faction.

Skotty

I think there is a mistake in the Offset wiki/file of Fox:

common.dll	07637F	1.2d = formation catch up speed multiplier ~Cannon

Shouldn’t be it 1.2**f** ?

J.R.

Checked it in my common.dll and I agree with Skotty.