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Steam Achievement Manager 6.3

Rick — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:20:55 +0000

Changes:

Added support for secure statistics.
Statistics will now display names instead of their ID when available.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

There has not and will not ever be a virus or trojan in SAM downloads provided through my site, if some random obscure virus scanner picks something up, it’s a false positive.

FixZip: Modifying Dead Island pak files without hacking the engine DLL

Rick — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:10:00 +0000

Download FixZip (revision 3).

X:\dead island\DI>"Y:\Gibbed.DeadIsland.FixZip.exe" -v -o DataEn.pak.orig DataEn.zip DataEn.pak target hash is 9BAF71AA actual hash is 13E3327B base hash is BBE82F6D generated 57154 bytes of magic success! final hash of 9BAF71AA size: 749047 -> 1966102 X:\dead island\DI>

If it crashes / doesn’t work, let me know!

Usage:
Gibbed.DeadIsland.FixZip.exe [-v] [-o] [output zip]

-v for verbose
-o for overwrite (if you don’t specify this, FixZip will crash if you specified an output file name and it already exists)

If you don’t specify an output zip file name, it will default to the modified zip file name.

This will create a new version of modified zip that the game will accept as the original pak file.

From Dust startup hook

Rick — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:18:15 +0000

Use this at your own risk, I don’t know how UPlay treats code hacks in the long run.

How to use:

Download startuphook-v1.zip
Extract both files (the DLL and startup.txt) to game directory, such as: X:\Path\To\Steam\steamapps\common\from dust.
Edit startup.txt if you want.
Play game.

startuphook-v1 was made for the latest version of From_Dust.exe (as of this posting) which has an md5sum of b9c5470f75d047f18fbcd1ed21534bdc.

What this DLL does:

Patches the FPS limiter to 120 (instead of 30).
Hooks engine initialization so you can change a static set of startup arguments to whatever you want using startup.txt.

If you have any issues please comment this post, new patches will break this hook (but the hook will safely warn you).

Important: don’t remove the existing text in startup.txt (/lynfs "/BinPC" /projectid:DUST), only add to it!

The default contents of startup.txt: /lynfs "/BinPC" /projectid:DUST

Example: /lynfs "/BinPC" /projectid:DUST /vsync:2

Possible arguments:

/checkfpsmem – ??? (overrides /fpsmem)
/fpsmem – ??? (overrides /checkfpsmem)
/skipmips:# – ??? (# can be replaced with a number)
/skipmips – ??? (it’s as if you did /skipmips:2)
/fullversion – ???
/shareableSaveGame – ???
/forceaitarget:XYZ – ??? (XYZ can be debug or release or optimized or final)
/galras – ???
/galprt – ???
/dusttrack – ???
/shaderlog – ???
/nosound – ???
/cfg-define – ??? (used like /cfg-definebob but I have no idea what this config system is like)
/cfg-undef – ??? (used like /cfg-undefbob but I have no idea what this config system is like)
/cfg-target – ??? (used like /cfg-targetbob but I have no idea what this config system is like)
/nodirectXhardware – ???
/fullscreen – Apparently would set fullscreen, but it doesn’t seem to work.
/useGameData – ???
/NoNetThreads – ???
/res – Sets resolution? untested. (used like /res1024x768 or /res1024x768@32)
/vsync:# – Sets vsync mode, # can be 0 (off), 1, or 2. No idea how 1 or 2 are different from each other.
/vsync – It’s as if you did /vsync:1.
/msaa:# – Sets MSAA. Any # other than 0 will break game rendering.
/msaa – It’s as if you did /msaa:0.
/projectid:XYZ – ???
/TextureCapture – ???
/wog – ???
/wol – ???
/nosectorender – ???
/nosectoapply – ???
/run – ???
/dustload [XYZ] – ???
/dustsave "XYZ" – ???
/dustrunandsave "XYZ" "XYZ" – ???
/lang/XY – ???
/nocpp – ???
/nocrashreporter – ???
/eax – ???
/xaudio2 – ???
/soundnoinit – ???
/soundnodata – ???
/soundmute – ???
/openshare – ???
/readonly – ???
/hiresshadowbuffer – ???
/gobs – ???
/offlineTool – ???
/LimitFrame # – Sets frame limit (not to be confused with the FPS limiter), setting this value *at all* will cause the game to crash!

HOARD data decrypter

Rick — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:35:09 +0000

At someone’s request, I created a tool that will decrypt all data in HOARD’s encrypteddata directory.

Running DecryptData.exe will automatically detect the game path and decrypt all files in encrypteddata and write them to their paths under data. I’m not sure if the game will prefer files in the data directory over encrypteddata, but if you rename or delete the encrypteddata directory it will force the game to load everything from data.

Download.

Steam Achievement Manager 6.2

Rick — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:40:10 +0000

Changes:

Fixes issue with games that have secure achievements unlocked.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

There has not and will not ever be a virus or trojan in SAM downloads provided through my site, if some random obscure virus scanner picks something up, it’s a false positive.

Steam Achievement Manager 6.1

Rick — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:34:26 +0000

Changes:

Fixed issues with crashes occurring when user had a language other than English set for Windows / Steam and certain games.
Achievement list will now show the locked version of a icons for locked achievements.
Now handles serverside (secure) achievements and prevents you from managing them. (Spiral Knights)
(Yes, this means you can’t cheat those hats, good god the amount of crap in my inbox from people whining about this.)

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

Steam Achievement Manager 6.0

Rick — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:23:15 +0000

Changes:

Fixed issue with recent Steam update where Picker would claim Steam was not running.
Fixed issue where adding a game manually did not work properly.
Overhauled how SAM obtains achievement and stat info, now parses the UserGameStatsSchema files found under the Steam directory.
The previous entry means that the bugs where stats or achievements were duplicated or missing should now be fixed.
Now has a display for stats that indicates if it is increment only or not.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

Steam Achievement Manager 5.2

Rick — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:54:26 +0000

This fixes the crash issues introduced with a recent Steam update, in addition to:

API improvements, no longer depends on steam_api.dll.
Filters in game picker.
Reset achievement and/or stat support.
Other stuff I can’t remember now.

There may be an intermittent issue with the Steam UI freezing while / after running SAM (Picker or Game), if that happens, restarting Steam should fix it. Feel free to report issues in comments.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

New games listed as of 5.2 (a few of these are old and I just missed before):

Big Brain Wolf
Drug Wars (shitty game previously known as Merchants of Brooklyn, har)
Mare Nostrum
Rogue Warrior
Saw
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Star Trek: D-A-C
Zero Gear (for the beta version…) Zero Gear Demo
Zombie Driver

Borderlands Save Editor (Revision 10)

Rick — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:42:45 +0000

Newer build of my Borderlands save editor, fixes the problem with editing Roland (Soldier) saves, as well as several other minor changes and fixes.

Download

If you encounter any problems (crashes, etc), feel free to comment this post.

Borderlands Save Editor (Revision 9)

Rick — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:17:33 +0000

Made an editor for Borderlands saves; seems stable enough for public consumption now.

Download See new post for a new build.

If you encounter any problems (crashes, etc), feel free to comment this post.