Prosper's Analysis of his Fallout Tactics breakthrough

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:35 am

So some of you may or may not of been able to watch the stream.
http://i.imgur.com/fJLHH.png

In the DUMP-Window you can see I overwrote the variable name pipboy_startMission with pipboy_map, which according to the notepad edit i did will read SHITFUCK for a value rather than the original MAP.

A pointer to your custom char array containing a variable's name could also be used by pushing it rather than 0089CCE4 as seen at expression 004B7D14. (olly has goto-expression, where we essential are putting the address we want to go to, obviously some room for arithmetic is provided)

004B7D14 68 E4CC8900 PUSH BOS.0089CCE4 ; ASCII "pipboy_map" (after edit)

And finally I present to you the before and after of Fallout Tactics.

http://i.imgur.com/oRyik.png

http://i.imgur.com/CmPXL.png

feel free to rate my review of my person breakthrough of debugging/modding FOT. i may consider going to NMA with my new found knowledge if enough people endorse me.