Well worth the effort & the invested time if you are genuinely interested because such skills are transferable. I want to edit money in Tears To Tiara 2 using Bruteforce save editor and followed the steps carefully: 1. Like I said, unless you already know your way around debugging & hex editing it will be a lot of work, the amount would largely depend on the skills you already possess but at the end of it all you will be able to apply your newly acquired skills to some very exciting projects. /rebates/&252fps4-bruteforce-save-data. Im new to the PS3 scene and I just got my first PS3 with 4.81 Rebug. Once you identify the existence & the location of a checksum as well as its type, if you wish to release a fixer that everybody can use, you will need to program it in a common programming language like C, C++, C#, Java, VB, Python, Perl etc.
In practice, to find out about checksums in a save file, you should create a number of saves in various conditions so that you can look for crucial differences, you would need to get familiar with the structure of the save file itself in its hex form focusing on the differences found while testing but ultimately you would probably end up using a debugger to step by step the code & check the registers etc. Moreover, checksums are only one way to proceed for a developer, consequently some game developers don't use them while others use them along other measures. There is no rule, no particular algorithm to use & there are various types of checksum better suited to one situation or another.
Additionally, due to its properties, a checksum can also be reused for other purposes such as encryption. It's totally possible to achieve even if you start from scratch in terms of skills but imo, depending on the free time you have to dedicate to this, it will probably require weeks or months of researching & learning.Ī game can use a checksum or any other mean deemed necessary by its development team to verify the integrity of the save file and/or secure it. You can also finds the keys of several games in seconds and it lets you resign your saved games and trophies. It provides a wide selection of cheats and check sums for 875 titles ready to be applied to the saves. You will probably have to fiddle between hacking tutorials on the one hand & bits of scattered information regarding save files + psdevwiki on the other. Bruteforce Save Data is free database that contains the latest cheats for PS3 games.
If that is what you are interested in, you should know that without some basic 'hacking' skills (and potentially some programming skills to release a fixer), one is unlikely to do very much except use the tools made by others.Īlso afaik there isn't a comprehensive tutorial to teach you this particular hacking skill.
So that we are clear, by checksum fixer, you mean a utility that will patch a manually edited save file of a particular game title so that the save file becomes valid & usable again?