This game is great but it is so hard - would you support a hack for it through ArcadePreHacks? I can't even use CheatEngine on it anymore. 90% of the time I can't even get to the saloon!
Yeah it's a horror, sorry! Thanks for playing though. Unfortunately this was just a jam game and there won't be any more developments - balancing on the game is terrible, particularly the end-game. To properly test the end-game I added a developer cheat-key that would reload the game from 10 seconds earlier (allowing you to beat the RNG to simulate a 'lucky' run). If I'm completely honest I can't remember whether I even left that key combo in the game, nor can I remember what the combo is.
That’s too bad. It is a great premise though. If you could try using Cheat Engine and see if you can find the register for money, that would help me out a lot. I know I did this in the past but either the present version of Chrome or Cheat Engine isn’t allowing this to work. Even if you remember the data format for health, money or ammunition that would help (i.e. 2-bytes or 4-bytes, and does the register of ammunition include the bullets in the gun already?). I used to have a lot of success with Cheat Engine for these simple flash games that are too hard, but this one is baffling to me. Thanks for replying though - you definitely have talent!
Ha, thanks! Yeah the premise has always been a good one. Side-scrolling roguelike has a real nice feel to it somehow. This is one project I often want to return to and do justice, but now isn't really the time. Regards data formats I have no idea, I'm a filthy non-coder who uses middleware so I am clueless as to what's actually going on under the hood, sorry :(
I don't think so - it was written in Costruct 2 though so there's no code, per se. Realistically, it only took two or three days to make (IIRC) with me just adding features as they seemed necessary, so it's almost definitely easier/better to just write it from scratch than try and reverse-engineer anything. Thanks for the interest! If you've got any specific questions I can probably answer them still.
I want to use Cheat Engine to hack the game and increase the amount of money that the player has - so that they can buy everything, increase the number of hearts, and finish the game. If you ever use Cheat Engine, it allows you to scan registers and adjust values. What is the data type for money? Is it integer, float, double?
The other alternative is to hack the game so that everything costs only $1. That I think will be more difficult.