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[thecrimsondawn]

So I started playing the aforementioned game about a week ago, and I found that the story is top notch. Being an RPG fan, I found myself hooked on it and finished it to completion. Of course after beating the game once I wanted to mess with the variables a bit to see what I could do.

Scanning under 4byte I was easily able to find the value for XP, however upon changing that value no levels where gained. The value itself did not reset, but rather stayed the changed number and continued to count up when I gained more exp.

I have encountered this before in the past with a couple other games, so I am wondering if there is just some trick to this. This game does not show you how much experience you have, but it does show how much you gain.

Anyone have any advice for me?

[Zanzer]

Yea, games often only trigger 1 level up if you set your XP too high.
Normally you need to give yourself -1 XP of the amount needed for next level.
Kill something to level up, then give yourself -1 of the new amount needed.
The amount need can sometimes be found very close to the current XP in memory.

Some games also count down with the amount of XP needed before a level.
Once you reach 0, it grants the level and then increases to the amount needed for the next level.
For these, you give yourself 1 XP and then kill something to level up. Repeat.

Be sure to also check for the value as a float type.
Some games convert the number to a 4-byte integer for display purposes.
You can use the 4-byte value as a reference and search for a float between -1 and +1 of that value.

[thecrimsondawn]

Hey, thanks for that Zanzer.
Thats a good idea. I am going to try a couple of your methods, and a couple that just came to mine as well and then post again any results.

Thanks for the reply!

Edit: Ok looks like you are right. If you put an xp value that is higher then the highest level, it bugs out. Right now it looks like 1.9 billion is as close as I can get atm as 2 billion xp prevents me from leveling.

Thanks for the help