Monthly Archives: March 2017

Obscure Video Games: Michigan: Report from Hell

Hell is other people

On its surface, Michigan doesn’t appear to stand out from the crowd of survival horror games that infested the PlayStation 2. A mysterious virus is turning everybody into monsters and you have to fight to stay alive. However, this is a Grasshopper Manufacture title, a studio that likes to do things a bit differently.

Let’s start with the name. Michigan doesn’t take place in Michigan; all the action here is in Chicago. The title comes from Lake Michigan, where a plane crashed and appeared to start the outbreak. The game was never available for sale in Michigan, Chicago or any other place in the USA either. It only saw release in Japan in 2004 and Europe the following year. Continue reading →

Alpha Protocol Hex Editing Money

Or take a hex editor to your saved games. Your saved games are in ‘My DocumentsAlpha ProtocolCheckpoints’, where ‘default.sav’ is your last checkpoint save and ‘safehouse.sav’ your last safehouse save. BACK THEM UP BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING. You could note down how much cash you have in game, convert it to hex values and search for it in the saved game… but you can also simply search for text string ‘Money’ to find the location. In the left column, where the letter-number pairs are, find the spot that corresponds to ‘y’ in ‘Money’ in right column. Note the two groups of 00’s after that? Your cash is in the 2 or 3 bytes padded with those zeros. Replace whatever the cash numbers are with FF’s.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/945402-alpha-protocol/55146069