Using the save editor for matrix cores

[Blazbo Babbins]

I don't like a small handful of new overclocks every week and would like to get some cores.
I got the github editor and HxD but I'm clueless on how to use it.

[Aimee]

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Maybe that guy linked the wrong code string or something

That might actualy be my bad, since i thought you were at the last step, so thats the one i explained. I skipped over that the 2 number/letter code needs to be translated from Decimal to Hexadecimal. And the link provided helps with that.

If you want 88 cores, then you need a decimal number of 44 (half of the amount of cores you want) and that translates to a Hexadecimal of 2C
So if you were to type in 2C in the place i send a picture example off (the red circle), you should get 88 cores.
If the guide is right, and we did not screw up again XD

[Siphonophorous Shenaniganry]

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Chibbity eredeti hozzászólása:

No offense, but justifying why you're cheating doesn't make it not cheating; I have more respect for cheaters who don't try and make excuses about it lol.

Bit contradicting... calling people cheaters is offensive after all.
Prehaps we can stop this ''yes cheater - no cheater'' conversation. And let OP and others get on with their scripting of the gamefiles.

I don't especially mind OP doing that although I would like the ability not to play with anyone who has tampered with their files.

Also no. This is definitely yes cheater situation. Even if you see a system as unnecessary or unjust you are still cheating that system. There is no emotional baggage here (at least not me), the word is purely descriptive. And if someone takes offence for being called cheater when they literally cheat the system, I don't really care what they think about anything else.

[Blazbo Babbins]

Aimee eredeti hozzászólása:

Sneed eredeti hozzászólása:

Maybe that guy linked the wrong code string or something

That might actualy be my bad, since i thought you were at the last step, so thats the one i explained. I skipped over that the 2 number/letter code needs to be translated from Decimal to Hexadecimal. And the link provided helps with that.

If you want 88 cores, then you need a decimal number of 44 (half of the amount of cores you want) and that translates to a Hexadecimal of 2C
So if you were to type in 2C in the place i send a picture example off (the red circle), you should get 88 cores.
If the guide is right, and we did not screw up again XD

I typed 2C in the red circle and still got nothing

[Aimee]

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I typed 2C in the red circle and still got nothing

Then i'm lost as well.. sorry I couldend be of more help. >.>

Since when did coding become this complicated? XD

[Blazbo Babbins]

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I typed 2C in the red circle and still got nothing

Then i'm lost as well.. sorry I couldend be of more help. >.>

Since when did coding become this complicated? XD

If someone helps me get the right code to add in blank cores I'll buy them a DLC

[Blazbo Babbins]

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I don't care about the morality of adding in cores when I get four new overclocks a week.

Can someone help me with HxD or what?

You could try out WeMod or a "trainer" and give it to yourself in-game. That was what I last looked into.

I'll actually give editing the save files a shot. Expect this post to have edits for the next 40 60 minutes.
My immediate concerns:

• Where is DRG data stored?
  
• Where is DRG save data stored?
  
• Does only the save data need to be backed up? (I assume yes.)
  
• Can player A use player B's safe file?
  
• Can I use this to give myself cosmetics? (I want to give myself the Custom Engineered skins but this is really low priority. I'd much rather not run a weird cheating program to do this. At this point I'm just not going to use a trainer.)

Edit1: Your save file's random numbers are those of your Steam account's. Specifically the "Steam ID 64" that is the same as your permanent profile link. Pretty sure it's the Steam account number but idk if that's 100% accurate terminology.
https://steamid.io/lookup/

Your save data is stored here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Saved\SaveGames

I strongly recommend backing up all of the save data in there into another folder. From there copy the same files again into a separate folder. One copy will be your backup and the other will be the files you mess around with. You only need to edit 0123456789_Player.sav but testing it will overwrite other redundant backups.

Edit2: I wasn't able to find the XP values using the HxD tool (which I already had downloaded for use with Halo files) but I was able to locate the credits. Unfortunately I'm not quite sure how to total up the numbers.

Hexadecimal "A6, 05, 32, 00" is "166, 5, 50, 0" in decimal... but it'll take some experiments for me to figure out how exactly that works. For reference I currently have "3,278,246" credits in-game. Turning that into hexadecimal gives me "3205A6". Spacing that out gives me "32 05 A6". Going from there I should be able to give myself "4,000,000" with "3D0900" aka "3D 09 00" aka replacing "A6" with "00", "05" with "09", and "32" with "3D".

I'm going to do that and see if that works. (If you're going to cheat, 1 million credits is probably fine. Do the math yourself to save yourself the trouble. And don't mess with your XP level! That's pointless!! One promotion per-class is all that matters.)

Edit3: That worked. I've got 4,000,000 credits flat. Time to try out my luck with the machine event cores.

Edit4: I'm not going to quote a block of text but the github txt file linked in a quote of mine earlier is what I'm using. Scroll down to where it says "Resources:".

Darn. I've kind of hit a standstill. I think I've found where the count for blank matrix cores is but I can't confirm it by converting the hexadecimal numbers to decimal like I did earlier.

Edit5: I seriously don't understand. According to the guide I think I've found the right digits. I'm just going to edit them wildly and see what happens.

I currently have 100638 blank cores. I have successfully changed that to 0 cores. Not sure where I'm going wrong.

Edit6:
Changing "00 8F C4 47" to "00 8F C4 48" turns 100,638 blank cores into 402,552.
Changing "00 8F C4 47" to "00 8F C5 47" turns 100,638 blank cores into 101,150.
Changing "00 8F C4 47" to "00 90 C4 47" turns 100,638 blank cores into 100,640.
Changing "00 8F C4 47" to "01 8F C4 47" turns 100,638 blank cores into 100,638. Don't mess with that digit I guess.

Changing "00 8F C4 47" to "00 AF C4 47" turns 100,638 blank cores into 100,702. That's an increase of 64 when I only incremented the number by 32 digits. Not sure why that is but it is consistent.

What do I have to change to make 0 blank cores into 10?

[Define Brackish Water]

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Ok OP. How many extra cores do you want? I can either get the file from you and do the work for you or describe it in text. Sadly I STILL do not have a video recording & publishing pipeline setup so I can't show a video.

Short steps:

1. Close DRG if it's open.
   
2. Go here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Saved\SaveGames
   
3. Backup the contents of the folder.
   
4. Make an extra copy of "0123456789_Player.sav" and put it in a different folder. We're going to edit this file with HxD.
   
5. Copy this text:

   A10CB2853871FB499AC854A1CDE2202C

6. Use Search -> Find -> Hex-values in HxD and then click "Search all". There should only be one copy of this hex string in the program. If it fails then set the search direction to "All" instead of "Forward" or "Backward".
   
7. The stuff we are going to be editing are the numbers and letters in hexadecimal. They're grouped in pairs of two.
   Hexadecimal is from 0 to F with zero being zero and 'F' equaling 16. A1 steak sauce is counting to 161 in hexadecimal.
   Use this website if you're confused: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-decimal.html
   
8. After the "2C" at the end of your highlighted text there are four groups of two numbers and letters. You don't want to edit the 1st group after 2C. (For me that's 00 but idk what it is for you.) You want to edit the 2nd group after 2C. Take that number in hexadecimal and increment it by half of the amount of cores you want to give yourself.
   
9. HxD will show your changes in red. When you are satisfied save the file and then put the file you edited into the game files for DRG. Then start the game up and see how many cores you had. Worst case scenario you put your backed up and unedited save file into the game files again.

TL;DR: The four groups of hexadecimal numbers to edit are the four immediately after A1 0C B2 85 38 71 FB 49 9A C8 54 A1 CD E2 20 2C. But skip the 1st group of two after 2C. When editing the next group (group 2 out of 4), the number of cores you have will be double what that number is.

https://i.imgur.com/ine9atz.png
Blue, red green or orange? I aint that tech smart

Try changing the red circle to 37.

37 in hexadecimal is 55 in regular numbers. It's not immediately obvious why so I use a conversion tool too. The one I linked in a previous post works well.

Might be an issue with the green or orange circle changing as the number climbs higher. Feel free to experiment with changing one at a time with a value that isn't too wildly high. I don't know the exact logic behind the order since those four circles are all involved in getting the number of cores.

Can't talk more or read all the replies in the thread right now. I'll take a look at the thread later.

[Define Brackish Water]

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What do I have to change to make 0 blank cores into 10?

10 in hexadecimal is A. In the case of these pairs you would put 0A in one of the four spots. Might have to experiment. Will read this thread in full later.

[Blazbo Babbins]

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https://i.imgur.com/ine9atz.png
Blue, red green or orange? I aint that tech smart

Try changing the red circle to 37.

37 in hexadecimal is 55 in regular numbers. It's not immediately obvious why so I use a conversion tool too. The one I linked in a previous post works well.

Might be an issue with the green or orange circle changing as the number climbs higher. Feel free to experiment with changing one at a time with a value that isn't too wildly high. I don't know the exact logic behind the order since those four circles are all involved in getting the number of cores.

Can't talk more or read all the replies in the thread right now. I'll take a look at the thread later.

I tried 37 in the red spot and 0A in the other 3 but still got nothing

[Peter]

I got the save editor and used to unlock everything... but regret then restored my save to the original one.

[Blazbo Babbins]

Peter eredeti hozzászólása:

I got the save editor and used to unlock everything... but regret then restored my save to the original one.

I don't care if its sarcasm or not I just want more blank cores. DRG is a lot like real world companies giving their employees ♥♥♥♥♥♥ wages.

[Chibbity]

I think comparing a videogame you play for fun to a job you work to survive is kind of a poor analogy.

[Aimee]

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I think comparing a videogame you play for fun to a job you work to survive is kind of a poor analogy.

Both require your time, in order to have fun and experience new things towards the end.

[Chibbity]

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Chibbity eredeti hozzászólása:

I think comparing a videogame you play for fun to a job you work to survive is kind of a poor analogy.

Both require your time, in order to have fun and experience new things towards the end.

One is entirely optional though, you choose to play a game, you opt into it, but you have to work; you don't have a choice.

Also, this cheating business seems like a lot of work lol; poor guy still doesn't have his cores.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Why has this become a guide for cheating in the game?

You guys know that can get you warnings and bans right? Not trying to moderate or anything; just trying to save people from the occasional global mod that wonders through. With a point to prove.