Hi,
just some questions:
In 1998 I wrote a little cheat-Tool for HOMM2 to simple
change the item-values of wood, money, gold, bronze, etc.
All items you need to build...
I "digged it out" the last days cause I wanted to play
HOMM2 again. It's an old Windows 16-Bit Tool.
Just wanted to ask if somebody is interested in this,
so I could post it or post a link. It's free.

In 2000 I wrote another (32-Bit-)Cheat-Tool to change
item-values of any games which store their values like
HOMM2 (for example old Siedler-Versions, and so on...).
This called "WinCheat". With this you can search
item-Values and save the found positions in "Profile-
Files" so you don't have to search for every new file.
You can use "WinCheat" for other Versions of HOMM too.
It's declared as ShareWare, but there are no limitations
and I don't write this here to earn money with this old
tool. :-)
A Profile-File for HOMM2 is included. The Tool includes
a german help-file, but I think, everyone who understands
a little bit of bits and bytes will understand how it
works after some testing.

"WinCheat" could be downloaded for years in the past
but maybe here in the forum noone knows about it.
The Cheat-Tool only for HOMM2 (which I mentioned first)
could never be downloaded.

I don't want to engage here in the forum, I just want
to ask once, if somebody is interested in this tools
here?

I would be happy, if somebody here would use them
before they forever get dusty on my pc... :-)

If nobody is interested, sorry for disturbing and
have fun furthermore with HOMM!!

Greetings, Don

There is a fairly good save editor for HoMM2 the base game, but it doesn't work for the expansions. It would really be cool to have one that works for the expansion save format.

ok, here are the download-links (hope this works...):

1. The Cheat only for HOMM2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ltvx33txvg7jsb0/HMM2EDIT.zip

2. The Cheat for HOMM2, other HOMM and any other games:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9s7lc685zrs8o31/wincheat.zip

It would be nice if I get some replies to know what you and others think about the tools...
Or if there is a question about how they work, I will answer them here.

Greetings, Don

I'm not interested my self in such a tool, but thank you anyway for sharing. I might be bit interested in seeing the source code though, if possible/available. Just to satisfy my curiosity.

I think to post the source-code here in the forum would be to much and it's not neccessary.
The 16-Bit-Tool is written in Delphi 1, the 32-Bit-Tool in Delphi 4 (Object-Pascal)

I can shortly explain how the tools work for example to change values of HOMM2:

In HOMM2 the values (gold, wood, ....) are stored in 4-Byte-sequences in reverse order.

For example if your gold-value is 7500 you have to convert this in hex-values = 1D 4C
written in 4-Byte: 00 00 1D 4C
in reverse order: 4C 1D 00 00 (this byte-sequence can be found binary in your SAVEGAME.GM1 - File)

if you want to change your gold-value for example to 100000:
- convert to hex written in 4-Byte: 00 01 86 A0
- reverse order: A0 86 01 00

so all you have to to is change the 4 Bytes from "4C 1D 00 00" to "A0 86 01 00"
you can do this manually by using an hex-editor

using my tools is of course a lot easier and more comfortable.
With the 16-Bit-Tool for HOMM2 you can directly change your values.
For this you don't have to know anything about bits and bytes.... :-)

With the 32-Bit-Tool "WinCheat" you can easily search for any byte-sequences (1-, 2-, 3-, 4-Byte)
and you don't have to convert something. It's all done by the tool.
Nevertheless you have to know a little bit, what you are doing and searching.
But this is simple to learn.
And if you found all values you want to change, you can save this information in "Profile-Files",
so that you don't have to search again for the next time.

Using "Profile-Files" is the same easy way as using the 16-Bit-Tool. So for example if somebody
who knows a bit more of bits and bytes could create some "Profile-Files" for serveral games
and could give this "Profile-Files" to other gamers (using "WinCheat") so they can cheat too
(without knowing something about bits and bytes)

And you can use "WinCheat" to change values of ANY games which store their
values like described above!

ok, I hope I could satisfy a little of your curiosity ;-)

Pretty much. Thanks for the explanation.

I remember this!
Wow -- a real boon!

My Windows 10 will not let me use it anymore---so sad....
Maybe someday I will find a work around to get it working.

Thank you for making it, Don!

Hi xwingdragon!

just had the idea to look at some old posts I made, so I found your answer.
Don't know, if you read this. I will look the next time....

I am happy that you have used my old tool and that you like it! :-)

My old tool "HMM2EDIT.EXE" is 16-Bit and so it will not work with Windows 10!

But you can cheat HOMM2 on your Windows 10 using my other tool "WinCheat"!
The download-link above still works!

Here is a little guide how to do:

1. Play HOMM2 and save your game!
2. Open WinCheat.exe and hit "F2"
3. Choose the file in which you saved your game (for example: TEST.GM1)
4. Select tab "Profildatei" by clicking on it
5. Hit "F3" and choose the file "HMM2_GM1.WCF" (It is within the downloaded ZIP!)
6. Now you see a list with the values of your resources!
7. Choose the values you want to cheat by selecting the lines
8. set a new value in the lower left area (for example: 1.000.000)
9. Click on "Wert für Markierung übernehmen" (the new value is now shown in the list)
10. Click on "Alle Werte in Spieledatei speichern"

Now you can load your saved game-file and all cheated values are set to 1 Million!! :-))


(If you understand how WinCheat works, you can create your own WCF-Files for any game
which stores game-values in the same way, HOMM2 does.)

If you have any questions about this, just ask. I will look the next weeks here to answer it!

Greetings, Don

Hi Don,

I'm on Win 10 Pro and I just tried the Wincheat.zip and followed your instructions. Didn't seem to work at all - I followed your instructions just as you said but I've had no luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks
tham55

Hi tham55,

sorry for not looking here again all the time. So much happened that I simply forgot this here....

I think maybe you tried to cheat a campaign-game from HOMM2

The short steps I wrote in my last post belonged to a standard-game.
The File-Ending of Standard-Games is "GM1", the File-Ending of Campaign-Games is "GMC".
The File "HMM2_GM1.WCF" within the "wincheat.zip" belongs to standard-games.

I created a new File "HMM2_GMC.WCF" and I made some screen-shots to explain the Steps of
my last post again. I zipped all and here is a Download-Link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2rbo4hols73s0vk/Wincheat_ShortHmm2Tutorial_and_Campaign_ProfileFile.zip/file

(Note, that I never tested a Multiplayer-Game. But I think Wincheat will also work for this.)

I post the screen-shots here to explain the steps from my last post.
All ScreenShots belong to a Standard-Game!

If you want to cheat a Campaign-Game, you have to use the File "HMM2_GMC.WCF"
which is part of the new Download-Link.

You can create a WCF-File for a Multiplayer-Game on your own, if you want. For this you
must understand, how Wincheat is working of course.

Ok, so greetings again,
Don

Hi to all,

does somebody know if there is a way to contact user "tham55" directly?

I would like to know, if my last post is working...

Thanks.

Don