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THx mate… but it doesn´t work out… maybe its because i use the german version of Freelancer.exe ???
Couldn´t find any offset with that specific number nor any other “text” or HEX similar.

Any help would be welcome to solve this problem…
Greetings J.R.

yw,

i don’t know anything about possible differences between the german and english freelancer.exe versions, sorry.

The picture shows how you need to do it - just in case.

THX for your patients again mate… gonna try this again with pspad…
I think it will work out then … I still hope so.

Nope… no way to do this hack with my version of freelancer.exe !!!
The file doesn´t have any offset higher than 21E… !!!
Seems to be different to other exe´s.

You’re not using the No-CD EXE, are you?

It’s definately different since even the No CD version goes to 0x002dde03

My point is that the normal uncracked version won’t work. None of the offsets are compatible with it, since that EXE is packed/encrypted.

You need the no-CD to do hex hacks.

FriendlyFire wrote:
You’re not using the No-CD EXE, are you?

Yes… although my Freelancer Version is a regular bought Version.
It doesn´t require a CD to play !!!
Strange that other offset-hacks worked fine …

Is there a way for you to find that offset in my version ?
If u don´t mind I would send it to you via e-mail…

Greetings

I wouldn’t mind a copy, either, if that’s all right.

Here it is: ~

/edit:

We actually have it already in our download section, however it is marked as the no-cd patch. I’ve corrected the name and description since this is infact the original no-cd exe (coming from Microsoft/DA): http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=2649

Ah, I see. That download is the never-protected exe; the offset FF supplied is for the cracked exe that still has the protection code (possibly he’s taken the memory offset, subtracted 0x400000 to make it a file offset, but it’s BSS data that’s not actually present in the file). Try this instead:

0x1628F4 Freelancer.exe 48->50 Filter out incompatible builds on server list by default

Oh. the mighty adoxa !!!

Thx for the replys… everyone of u !!!

@adoxa: If u still want a copy of my offical german-no-cd.exe I´ll send it to u with best regards
BTW… LOTS of your dlls and hacks found place in my Mod and now I am glad to credit u in several IDS of it. Nice to see u mate !

I´ll try this hack and will report in later.

Thx again

@adoxa: Aye, we’re using the cracked EXE and apply all the hacks in memory, so I just found the offset that worked for that case scenario.

Jipp… the hack works !
Thx again for your help folks. Was very confused about that issue…

Have a wonderful day everybody

Hello,
Is it possible to disable the update “Rank” by the money/ship/equipment, in MP?

So, I want to increase the amount of characters one can put into the chat box. Currently (default) it’s at 80 characters.
I find this in the wiki:
50b freelancer.exe 06A440 M0tah maximum number of characters in chat input box

The default entry at that offset is 50 which obviously doesn’t mean “50” as I can enter 80 characters in the chatbox now.

How does this work? And If I wanted to increase that number, how high could I go, and what would I change the offset to to get there?

Because it’s in freelancer.exe I’m assuming it’s a clientside thing? Am I incorrect in that assumption?

Thanks,
R

robocop, 50b is a hexadecimal value. Use calculator to see that 50 in hex exactly equals 80 in decimal.

HA!
Got it.
Thx DLG

R

Oh…
umm…
What’s the maximum amount you can change it to? Also 127, or is there no real limit?

R

Np
255 (FF), I guess.

Tried 160, didn’t work.
Tried 125, that did work.
I’m assuming that 127 is the maximum.