I believe you are thinking of starfyre studios, in short, they encrypted their INI's using whatever they wanted, it doesnt matter what you use, then they hacked to EXE file to make it recognize the new encryption, and not recognize plain ASCII. However, according to the DMCA, hacking the EXE file is illegal, so i wont go into detail.

Last I checked that options mod they released used the same encryption and most people seemed to be able to use it without their hacked exe.

Maybe that doesn't require a hacked exe file - but maybe that was also why there was a normal and a starfyre studios version as well? If so - then there we go.

The normal one was encrypted in the same way. I had thought that was why some people were having problems with the game after using it.

I never botherd checking it out - lol, don't actually play that much anymore - and vertical strafing didn't really appeal - heck - i can move the mouse or strafe side to side....add another two buttons to use and then i really won't have enough fingers/hands to control my ship!

Well I don't know how useful vertical strafing would be but when I was messing with those menu options(before the mod came out) I did wonder if it was possible to re-enable the cloaking toggle that was originally planned for in the game. Not something I would release publicly of course but it was an idea.

The cloak is fine - its just that it was made into something devastating instead of what it should have been. The good news is that the amount of poeple with it have decreased, as have the amount using it as well....

Oh Louva - been meaning to ask. Have any of you guys worked out how to decrypt or know how to decrypt the newcharacter file for SP games? Cause i am positive that in their will be the part pertaining to the reps - so that we can have new factions working properly in SP!

Edited by - Chips on 1/9/2004 12:14:12 PM

Yea its simple, the newcharacter.fl file is just an encrypted savegame file. You can use the recently released save editor to modify it.