Power-Ups

Power-Ups are a collection of single-game save state editors and cheating utilities. They're each designed to edit a single aspect from a specific game. They're things that are too complicated to fit into Hapsby but not something I want to devote a huge Aridia-like effort for. They were originally written in Visual Basic 6 and later ported to Java.

The source code for all of these is available on GitHub.

Falcone: Hit Point & Inventory Editor for Order of the Griffon

I had the fortune of working at an Electronics Boutique store when the TurboGrafx-16 library was cleared-out for $5 a game. One of the many games I bought during this time was Order of the Griffon. Being a fan of the "Gold Box" AD&D games I figured I'd love the game. Unfortunately I was letdown by the insane level of difficulty. I played about halfway through before admitting defeat.

Years later I decided to give it a try on MagicEngine... once I figured out how to hack the save state. After a little experimentation I deciphered how hit points and inventory were stored. That was good enough to make the game 1000x times easier.

Falcone for Windows (Visual Basic 6)

Falcone for multiple platforms (Java)

Download

Multiple platforms (Java)

Executable .jar file

Windows only (Visual Basic 6)

Download Falcone .exe only (probably what you want)

Download Falcone full install package (on the remote chance you don't have VB6 runtime installed)

Hilary: handling.cfg Editor for Vice City

OK, yeah there are a bunch of utilities around to edit handling.cfg files. This one is different in two ways - 1) it uses sliders making it nearly impossible to enter a value that will crash the game and 2) it automatically creates a backup just in case something goes badly.

Hilary for Windows (Visual Basic 6)