Best Tools To Edit any UMD

A simple guide to teach you how to create your own Gameshark / GameGenie with ease. You'll be able to mod any game you want.

WARNING: Do Not Abuse This info, some may say that this is theoretically cheating, but for own personal use it is actually modding as in the same way one would MOD Skyrim. The only small difference is most games do not come with an editor like Fallout mod manager or Skyrim (CE) Creation kit. So I said "theoretically" now I will say "Technically" with no creation kit, Mod manager or level editor for most games you will be doing this by hand. (So-To-Speak) and is open to the public (Freedom of speech and Freedom of information act) which also allows rights to publish such guides regardless of web rules and as those "RIGHTS" leaves doors open to lawsuits (Multi Million dollar) as it is also open to public interpretation. DO NOT USE .umd changes in public matches as you may get banned or worse.

I won't assume any responsibility if something goes wrong so always, ALWAYS SAVE A BACKUP of your files in another folder. You can save that folder to your desktop or to a flash drive!

.UMD's are not the only files you can edit, you may also make edits to a game by accessing the save files.
1.save.metadata
1.save.upload

.DAT .FAT file extensions and so on and so on.
http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-fat/


READ DISCLAIMER!

Thanks and enjoy.

Command Prompt

You're going to need this. It's a great tool to help you decompress UMD's.




HxD Editor:

http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Editor/3001-2352_4-10891068.html?hasJs=n&part=dl-HxDHexEdi&idl=n

RAR Extractor

It's a helpful tool. Download it.

http://download.cnet.com/Free-RAR-Extractor/3000-2250_4-75754791.html

Offzip

Offzip is also a good tool to use.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCA4kPII-g

{LÄNK BORTTAGEN}http://www.mediafire.com/download/mwrshheen4qbtbb/Offzip+%26+Packzip.rar

http://tradownload.com/results/offzip-exe.html

Extraction tools / iaa_unpacker

Extraction tools :
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

iaa_unpacker :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/innounp/

http://download.cnet.com/UnPacker/3000-2250_4-10408407.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-io4FP4vOg

http://pcgamesdownloader.com/i-am-alive-download/

.DAT / .FAT (This is ok but not necessary)
http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-fat/


Some essential tools and always nice to have.

Word pad is your friend

Word pad or Notepad is your friend. Especially when making edits to an .UMD that can only hold up to a certain file size before you game starts to crash, won't work, or doesn't not allow you to join co-op or multi player. The larger the .UMD it will recognize your game as using a different version. One way to get around all that is to take certain sections you're making edits to and keep the .UMD clean and save the edits in the same folder but as .ini extension. Just title the new mini .UMD as such armorcolor.ini and weaponsskins.ini and so on and save them in the same folder that has the original .UMD.

How to OffZip

This is where your command prompt comes in:

You need to run cmd.exe as admin (username = Donald Trump)
then type in this format, username is whatever yours is so replace with yours

dt C:\Users\username\Desktop\ExtractionTool

It's best to put the folder on your desktop so this process can be easy

then this is what is used
offzip.exe -a -1 -z -15 <input file> <output folder> <offset>

So what you are going to type is this
offzip.exe -a -1 -z -15 shv_save.bin C:\Users\username\Desktop\ExtractionTool\Extracted 0
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
the tool Options Input file Output Folder Offset

Make sure the input file is copied from the system folder of blacklist, make a copy don't use actual file,and put this into the ExtractionTool folder before typing the code out

Then just use notepad++ to load it and view it

This works on most of the files within the Blacklist folder but don't expect anything neat and tidy.


dt C:\Users\donaldtrump\Desktop\ExtractionTool

offzip.exe -a -1 -z -15 Blacklist.umd C:\Users\donaldtrump\Desktop\ExtractionTool\Extracted 0






That said, for example if you're making edits to SC:B

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist\src\SYSTEM

You take the .UMD and copy and paste it into a notepad, then file the entire thing as BLACKLIST.ini , so don't worry it's going to ask when you save as, TEXT DOCUMENTS (*.txt) or all files, Just use TEXT DOCUMENTS (*.txt) as the extension but at the end of the """FILE NAME""" make sure no spaces add .ini so it looks like this: BLACKLIST.ini , then save it in the SYSTEM folder.

Then just open it up, and copy each section, you should have the basics. Armorpartlibrary, matchmanager, mpprogression, objecttuning, weaponsconfiguration, and weapontuning. You create each of those files and save each with .ini at the end of the file name, keep them in the system folder and make your edits but save a back up in case you mess up. Saving original to your desktop in a seperate folder.


The .umd file is in the UMD folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist\src\SYSTEM\UMDs

You're just basically leaving it there, but making a .UMD file into .ini extension and dropping it in the SYSTEM folder, everything else you just make a desktop folder for backup of the originals incase you have to. Some cases may not be so difficult and or easier. You'll learn this in time.

Example Modding: Making Briggs Wear the BalaClava

The following entries are in the Blacklist.umd.

m_arrAdvBodyParts=(m_PresetType=ePresetType_COOPBriggs,m_MeshName="CHARM-CCS-Briggs.Briggs_head"',

m_arrAdvBodyParts=(m_PresetType=ePresetType_CineBriggs,m_MeshName="CHARM-CCS-Briggs.Briggs_head",

Change the 1st string to:

m_arrAdvBodyParts=(m_PresetType=ePresetType_COOPBriggs,m_MeshName="CHARM-CCS-Balaclava.Balaclava_head"',

Both you and your partner should have modified version of the file, otherwise one of you will be without balaclava.

Like Sam wearing his night vision goggles but hate that green screen? Now you can edit the string of code that turns it on/off by seeting it to the same value as it is off.

m_fGogglesOffPitch=0.0f
m_fGogglesOnPitch=0.21f

Change to:

m_fGogglesOffPitch=0.0f
m_fGogglesOnPitch=0.0f

(CE) Cheat Engine 6.5

http://cheat-engine.updatestar.com/



http://www.cheatengine.org/

Convert hexadecimal to text

http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/hexadecimal/

This tool is useful in ways of searching your user name in game.

HTML color codes and names

This is a useful tool in changing the way text is displayed in game.

http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

And even better if you need to know the RBG in the file itself to change the way a color of skin to an object or item looks:

http://www.pajbk.com/clrb.htm

Olly Debug software / Visual Studio

Useful for those that use C++

http://www.ollydbg.de/

http://guidedhacking.com/showthread.php?3-C-HOW-TO-HACK-any-game-TUTORIAL-Trainer-amp-DLL-Injection-DIFFICULTY-2-10-9-1

Visual Studio :

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx

Helpful videos

Here are some helpful videos for those that love to bring knowledge to all of us. I do suggest you sit down, open a wordpad and take notes. Once you get good at this you'll be an expert in no time.

Text color in action:

Steam/Valve encouraged Modding

See tutorial at the following web to learn more about modding.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Authoring_Tools/SDK_%28Left_4_Dead_2%29


https://sites.google.com/site/zeqmacaw/tutorials/convert-a-model-to-left-4-dead-2-survivor

Thanks and Free game

Thanks to those who publish such tutorials.

Guided Hacking

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCMi6F5Ac3kQDfffWXQGZDw


AngryBroProductions

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThereWasAnError/featured

Trainers {See Mr. Anti Fun} :

http://www.mrantifun. net/index. php

FREE GAME FOR VIEWING

http://assault.cubers.net/download.html

Disclaimer

[color=#a94847]THIS SECTION IS VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND YOU HAVE TO REINSTALL THE GAMES ORIGINAL FILES. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF WHAT EVER GOD YOU BELIEVE IN MAKE A SEPERATE FOLDER TO YOUR DESK TOP AND SAVE A COPY BY RIGHT CLICKING, DRAG, AND DROP, IT'S GOING ASK YOU TO ""MOVE OR COPY"", CHOSE COPY THE FILE.

ONCE THIS IS DONE, YOU MAY MAKE ANOTHER FOLDER WITHIN THAT FOLDER TITLED EDITED GAMES. KEEP THE ORIGINAL, AND KEEP THE EDITED FILE AS A BACKUP SO WHEN YOU GO BACK TO MAKE MORE SMALL EDITS AND IT DOESN'T WORK YOU WON'T LOSE ALL YOUR SAVED PROGRESS FROM THE FIRST TIME. I SUGGEST MAKING SMALL EDITS ONE AT A TIME BEFORE YOU BECOME MORE USED TO KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE DOING.[/color]

[Covert Turtle]

Thanks for this guide! I was wondering if it's possible to mod SCB with new content? For example, would it be possible to port the armors from Splinter Cell Conviction into Splinter Cell Blacklist?

[Vendaar]

figured the gamefiles i was using (splinter cell chaos theory) are partly encrypted and so not really usuable fully.
i opened the UMD file in NotePad++

[Chaz]

are you talking about offzipping your file?Or using the RAR extractor? That machine code should actually be editable text "bI_fi_f™_fÙ_!j)`%jy`(j¹`(jÉ`(jÉ`(jÉ`'j¹`&j©`%j™`%j™` »ü €