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  TEXT               Savegame Editor Construction Kit                 TEXT
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  Theme : What are savegames ?                          date : 20.10.1995 
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                     (english conversion date : 07-31-1996)

  Savegames are files, which are sometimes created by games and stored on
  the hard disk and which contain important information about the 
  player and his equipment.

  If a game offers the possibility to finish a current game and to start 
  up later again, it usually creates these savegames.In the savegames, all
  information about the player (the health, the ammo, the keys etc.) are
  stored.The savegames offer an interesting possibility to cheat the game.
  If you perhaps know, at what position in a savegames the number of your
  keys is stored, you may modify this position using a hex-editor and give
  yourself lots of keys.Having finished the modification, you are able to 
  start the game again and then you've got the number of keys you wanted. 
  It's just the same with other values in the savegames, the only problem
  is to know which position you have to modify in the savegames. 

  To find the savegames in the games' directory, you have to look for names
  which contain perhaps the name of the game, or a short version of the name,
  and the extension .sav or .dat 
  Let's suppose we've got a game calles "MOONDIVE".
  The savegames of this games could be e.g. MOONDIV1.DAT or MOONDIV1.SAV etc.
  Some games use .SGx (=Savegamex), where x is a number from 0 to 9, or 
  .PLR (=PAYER).
  So it is also possible, that the savegames are called MOONDIF.SG1 or
  NAME.PLR

  But you can identify the savegames looking in the directory where they are
  stored, which usually is the games' directory.
  Have a look at the date when the files where created and compare it with 
  the date of the day you played last time.

  Having tryed a few times, you will identify savegames very easily.

  Though I never had it, it is possible to suppose that the savegames are 
  hidden in the directory. So if you don't find them, try the dos command
  ATTRIB *.* -h to make all hidden files in the current directory visible.
  You may also first have a view at all hidden files typing DIR /AH
  When the savegames are visible, they may be modified like all other files.






