Martian Dreams Hack

Produced by: F-15 Dragon

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This little utility enables the player to activate the cheat utility in Martian Dreams. It can also remove the copy protection from the game, and initially I was hesitant to post a copy to Aiera on that basis…until I realized that uo.com had a downloadable copy available as well.

One cautionary note: the hack will only enable cheats in a brand new game. The file it edits is part of the savegame, and the changes made by the hack cause it to fail a checksum. If you want to enable cheats in an ongoing game, open up the OBJLIST file in a hex editor and change the byte at 18F2 from 00 to 40.

Paulon Dragon informs us that this hack will also work with Savage Empire, and he provides details on how to do this on his website, The Other Codex.

3 Responses to "Martian Dreams Hack"

Lavacopter says:

March 25, 2013 at 7:49 am

It’s MDhack that performs some sort of integrity check, not the game. Why it does at all I don’t know, it doesn’t seem necessary. Also I tested the GOG versions of MD and SE to be certain, and changing that byte is all that’s needed in both games.

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diabolicminds says:

October 3, 2014 at 3:51 pm

The program says it is not compatible with my version of windows(7). I’ve tried everything with adjusting compatibility modes. When I choose to run as an administrator it says it cannot find the file.

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1. WtF Dragon says:
  
  October 3, 2014 at 4:47 pm
  
  It’s a 16-bit DOS executable, I believe, so no amount of compatibility settings in Windows 7 will make it work.
  
  It’s best to copy it into the Martian Dreams folder, then fire up DOSBox with that same folder (or its parent) mounted as the C: drive. Using the utility inside DOSbox should work.
  
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