How to Hack in Psycho Patrol R

A hopefully simple guide to getting free alcohol from vending machines, seizing control of automated turrets, and reading other people's spam.

Picking Detective

Before you run to a computer and try to hack what limited things can be, make sure when you're creating a New Save that you select the Detective class, as you'll start your game with the necessary "HACKMAN 1" to actually begin hacking in the first place.

Understanding the UI

When you load into the game run over to your office's computer and you'll be greeted by the extremely disorienting Hacking UI. At first it may seem incomprehensible but once broken down, is very simple to understand:

The strange interconnected web of names is just a visual representation of the Device Network, showing every device that can be hacked within your current loaded area. So for example, when looking at your office computer, you'll see device names such as "Intranet" (your hacking device) and "5Security Camera" (a security camera for a room somewhere in the building).

To choose what device you want to connect to, you use the empty IP Address box. Each network device starts with a specific number that when entered into the IP box, changes the loaded screen to be that of the selected device (for example, typing "5" would bring up the security camera screen locked behind a firewall).

Then to start the actual hacking side of figuring out passwords, we turn to the CHAR, HEX, and VISUALISE. The CHAR heading will show a variety of typable characters, the HEX showing the character's equivalents in the games own hex-code, and the VISUALISE being pretty much pointless.

The final pieces of the UI are then the small + and - buttons, each one cycling forwards and backwards respectively through the different combinations of characters/hex-codes.

Actually Hacking

Now that you (hopefully) understand what the hacking interface means, you can finally learn how to do some hacking.

First, enter the number in the device name of whatever device you want to hack into the IP box, for this example I will enter the "5" from the "5Security Camera".
Next, select the CHAR button to make characters appear rather than their hex-code equivalents.
Now filter through the different combinations of characters using the + and - buttons, following the trend of there being more alphabetical characters rather than symbols, until you eventually find a complete word to be used as the password such as "SOVEREIGN".

And there you go! You can now go and abuse your hacking skills to whatever extent you wish.

(Optional) Fun Bonuses

Thought I'd throw together a few things I've discovered whilst messing about with the hacking device here just to see if anyone could expand upon them:

After successfully hacking any of the vending machines, you're able to set the prices to whatever you want giving an easy way of getting some free healing items early on.

Going back to the aforementioned relation between the "HEX" and "CHAR" displays, I've compiled some of the equivalents between the hex-codes and the characters below:

30 - 0
31 - 1
32 - 2
33 - 3
34 - 4
35 - 5
36 - 6
37 - 7
38 - 8
39 - 9

41 - A
42 - B
43 - C
44 - D
45 - E
46 - F
47 - G
48 - H
49 - I
4a - J
4b - K
4c - L
4d - M
4e - N
4f - O
50 - P
51 - Q
52 - R
53 - S
54 - T
55 - U
56 - V
57 - W
58 - X
59 - Y
5a - Z

61 - a
62 - b
63 - c
64 - d
65 - e
66 - f
67 - g
68 - h
69 - i
6a - j
6b - k
6c - l
6d - m
6e - n
6f - o
70 - p
71 - q
72 - r
73 - s
74 - t
75 - u
76 - v
77 - w
78 - x
79 - y
7a - z

Any hex-code from 80 - 9f is "filler" (has no character equivalent but shows no gap when viewing CHAR, just an added layer of confusion).

[doktor eblānis]

Also keep in mind that passwords sometimes may be 3 numbers long

[Atropos]

For anyone struggling with the CHAR password being a pain in the ass, You can actually use the HEX Tab to find the CHAR password more quickly, here's a little tutorial:

1) In the HEX tab, find a row of green numbers, one next to the other that it is at least a row of 4 or 5 numbers (example: 44 48 45 47)

2) Then when you have a row of multiple green numbers one next to the other remember that, you can switch to CHAR tab

3) in the CHAR tab you only need to find a word that makes perfect sense, you switch words with + and -

4) When you find your password, use MAYUS to write it, because it doesn't work otherwise

[Big Iron]

@Sillssa i hope your fortunes are great because this helped so much with the stupid safe in the Bernardi residence.

[Sillssa]

Another thing I just found out: passwords can continue on different rows. I found a keypad where on one page, there was a set of 3 digits at the very end of row 6, and another 3 at the start of row 7, the combination of which was the correct code

[Sillssa]

I found the solution to the keypad I was talking about earlier. My problem was that I was tunnel visioned on finding digits when it turns out that keypads can also have characters as passwords

[MaskedStrangers]

@Sillssa I got stuck on this one too, I feel like I used the wrong formula but got the right solution.
I saw a portion of three blue (which are numbers) that were like incrementing up to 9 in a sequence. So I tried 123456789 and apparently 123 was it.

[Grand Poobah of Bees]

Visualize mode lets you see at a glance how hot or cold you are to the correct combination, which lets you jam the plus or minus key way more optimaly.

[thenicdog]

Thank goodness for this guide i had no idea what i was even doing

[Bat Bro the king]

DUDE HACKING IN THIS GAME MAKES ME FEEL SMART ASF. I feel like I just unlocked new neural path ways or something. gonna just start hacking everything now lmao

[Sillssa]

Theres a keypad inside the municipal housing place at the harbor. I cannot for the life of me figure out the code. Like with other keypads, I found the spot where a series of 4 digits appears where each digit increments or decrements by 1 each time you switch pages. I tried every combination of 4 digits that appeared there but none of them worked