How to unlock all the cars without grinding

Configuring your save file to instantly get all of the available cars.

Why I'm making this

Long story short, my computer crashes during a rally. I reboot it to find all game progress reset. No worries, I grind through the campaigns again and reach 1994. Computer crashes again and wipes my progress. Mad over losing the time spent progressing through the rallies unlocking the cars I devise a "hack" to unlock all the cars.

Yes, I am aware that this is a cheat but I have had my progress wiped twice and I just want to unlock all the cars. Also this does not give me an advantage in online play at all so I would consider it okay.

How to unlock all the cars

Steps

1. Navigate to this folder:

   C:\Users\<your_name>\AppData\LocalLow\Funselektor Labs\art of rally\cloud

2. Open the file called: SaveGame.json. For this purpose you can use any text editor like notepad.
   
3. Scroll to the bottom of the file.
   
4. Add a comma ofter the last bracket "}"
   
5. Paste this text into the bottom of the file,

     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1967",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1968",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1969",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1970",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1971",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1972",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1973",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1974",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1975",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1976",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1977",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1978",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1979",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1980",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1981",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1982",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1983",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1984",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1985",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1986",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1987",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1988",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1989",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1990",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1991",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1992",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1993",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1994",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1995",
       "value": 1
     },
     {
       "key": "UNLOCKABLE_1996",
       "value": 1
     } 

6. Make sure that there are no duplicates of keys in the file. In other words, there may not be two bracketed blocks with the same text.
   
7. Save the file
   
8. Start the game, all the cars should be unlocked by now.

Understanding what you pasted

Art of rally tracks your unlocks and settings through a file called SaveGame.json. Your unlocks are earned through completing the career rallies. When completing a season the game adds a bracket saying that you have unlocked the unlockables for that season. When starting the game SaveFile.json is read and your settings and unlocks are set accordingly.

The brackets are written in a format called .json (java script object notation) pronounced as jason. This is a way to structure saved data. In this particular case, the bracket containing the unlock is an object with a key and a value, the key is the name of the unlockable and the value indicates if it is unlocked where 1 means yes.

Thanks for reading :)

[john half-life]

Every time I paste the code into SaveGame.json it replaces my data with a brand new file. How can I fix?

[stburr91]

This worked perfectly, thanks man.