RCTPatch Cheats ______________________________________________________________________ Cheat Disclaimer These cheats allow RCT to do things it normally wouldn't be able to do. They may lead to unstable or unpredictable behaviour. If you use them, you're on your own. Please don't contact Hasbro's technical support about problems when using these cheats. To use this, you need to have [20]Cheatfinder (or some other cheat utility that allows you to cheat in a variety of games). These instructions are for version 1.0 of Cheatfinder. I recommend downloading this version, it's free anyways. If anybody wants to include this in a trainer, feel free to do so as long as you give me credit for it. Train Patch Due to popular demand, I have made a program which will automatically enable or disable the 12 train patch. Download it now: [21]rcttrains.exe (12KB) This is RCTTrains version Apr 25 2000 00:43:19. To use it, simply run it, and it will ask you whether you want to enable/disable the 12 train patch. Please note: This patch will not work with Loopy Landscapes, and games saved with too many trains will crash Loopy Landscapes, no matter whether you use RCTPatch or not! The following sections are still correct if you can't or don't want to use my new program. Activating the Cheats First you need to get the preference files for Cheatfinder, which makes it easier to activate these cheats. They are in a .zip file which you should unzip into your RCT directory. You can use the free [22]InfoZip tools or [23]WinZip to unzip the archive. Get it now: [24]rct_cht.zip (2KB), it also has a text copy of the following instructions. To use it (after unzipping), follow these simple steps: 1. Load RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. Select the "About 'RollerCoaster Tycoon'" Menu item from the disk menu 3. The first line has the version number as "1.10.xxx", where xxx is your version. Write this number down. 4. Put RCT in the background by pressing Alt-Esc 5. Start CheatFinder (MUST be version 1.0) 6. Double-click on "RollerCoaster Tycoon" in the "Active windows" list 7. Select "Load PRF" 8. Load the PRF file corresponding to your version, i.e. if you have Corkscrew Follies version 1.10.019, load the cf_019.prf file. 9. Click on search bar 10. For each of the lines corresponding to the cheat you wish to activate, click on "Change", verify that the old value is correct (if it isn't you've loaded the wrong PRF file!), enter the new value in the dialog, and press OK. 11. Quit Cheatfinder and go back to RCT 12. Enjoy! Cheat Name Old Value New Value Entrance Path PATH1 311* 0 PATH2 210* 0 PATH3 183* 0 PATH4 20096 18118 12 Trains TRAIN1 23690 32691 TRAIN2 13881 37008 * These might be different. As long as the value is smaller than 500 it might still be correct. Caveats: If your RCT executable isn't RCT.EXE (e.g. you've renamed it to something else), you won't be able to load the PRF files. In that case just rename the executable back to RCT.EXE Also, these cheats work only for the Corkscrew Follies version of the add-on, because I don't know the addresses for versions other than mine. If you have found them for some other version, please [25]let me know! Modifying the entrance path What it does: It is possible to modify the path leading to your park entrance! That way you can make it look more beautiful, add benches and lamps or jumping fountains for example. Not that the guests take note of that, but it just looks so much better if you can integrate the path with your theming. When you've activated this cheat, you can buy land or the constructions rights for any square. So what you do is you buy the path leading to the entrance. Then you can build any kind of path to your entrance, only the starting point and ending points have to be the same. And you can put lamps, garbage bins, banks, whatever you want, on that path. Once you are done, buy the construction right for the path. This will allow the peeps to walk on it again. They cannot walk on a path you own. Note that you will keep buying the rights for as long as you press the mouse button, so only press it very shortly, to make sure you don't lose more money than necessary. The possibility to buy land and construction rights that way will remain active until you exit from RCT, the changes in the savegame are permanent. How to do it: If you can't use the [26]preference files for some reason, you need to load [27]Cheatfinder and change the following things: Version Address Value that should be there Change this to this CF 1.10.016 CF 1.10.019 CF 1.10.021 42746b 42746f 42746f 0f 84 xx xx 00 00 f6 c3 01 74 31 80 4e 07 20 xx xx 00 00 CF 1.10.016 CF 1.10.019 CF 1.10.021 4274f4 4274f8 4274f8 0f 85 xx xx 00 00 f6 c2 40 0f 84 xx xx 00 00 f6 c3 01 74 1d 80 4e 07 10 xx xx (both) 00 00 80 4e c6 46 "xx xx" can be anything, it doesn't matter what the actual value is. These offsets are for the Corkscrew Follies (American) version. If you have another version, you can look around to find the offset. You can also search for the 32bit value "4e803174", which will point to the end of the first string, go back a few bytes and there you are. If you know the address for a different version, I'd be glad to hear about it so I can post the address for other versions too. More Trains What it does: It's possible to have more trains than fit in the shortest station. This is useful for very long coasters with more than one station, or for non-crashing rides, like the transport and water rides. If you have a monorail going through your whole park, you won't be able to have enough trains to provide good and frequent service. With this cheat, you can have up to 12 trains of full length. This is probably going to be too much even for the longest ride... One problem if you use this, it is easy to get crashes with coasters if you don't set the timing right. If a coaster train arrives at a station where another train is not fully in the station, it will crash because it can't brake. To avoid this, you have to make full use of the minimum and maximum wait time, and turn on "Leave if another train arrives at station". Or you could add brakes before the station if the coaster has that feature. You still may get the odd crash if you have too many trains, so save often... But this way it's really easy to have a coaster that can serve more than 10,000 peeps an hour, if it's very long with all four stations. I have one coaster transporting guests around the park with 4x2 minutes ride time, and use six full length trains on it. Without crash so far. How to do it: Without the preference files, load [28]Cheatfinder again, and follow this table: Version Address Value that should be there Change this to this CF 1.10.016 CF 1.10.019 CF 1.10.021 6d2e43 6d2f69 6d2f98 3a 5c 39 36 76 04 8a 5c 39 36 8a 5c 39 36 b3 7f 90 90 Just like the other cheat, these changes remain active until you exit from RCT, while changes in the savegames are permanent (until you change the number of trains again). Trainers Here is a list of trainers that work with AA/CF: * [29]Techno Trainer * [30]Henry Winkelstein's Trainer * [31]Omega's Trainer ______________________________________________________________________ This page and all graphics on it copyright © 2000 by [32]Josef Drexler[33]. Last changed on Oct 3 2000 0:27 EST by [34]Josef Drexler References 1. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#whatisit 2. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#getit 3. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#usage 4. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#changes 5. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#saves 6. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#faq 7. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#uninstall 8. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#thanks 9. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/index.html#disclaimer 10. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#disclaimer 11. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#tools 12. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#prf 13. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#path 14. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#moretrains 15. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#trainers 16. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctuknetwork.htm 17. http://publish.uwo.ca/~jdrexler/ 18. mailto:jdrexler@julian.uwo.ca?Subject=RCTPatch Menu 19. http://207.199.1.96/accipiter/adclick.html/CID=00002ad9b354751a00000000/SITE=SP/AAMSZ=IAB_FULL_BANNER/AREA=HOSTED 20. http://cheatfinder.freeservers.com/ 21. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/rcttrains.exe 22. http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ 23. http://www.winzip.com/ 24. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/rct_cht.zip 25. mailto:jdrexler@julian.uwo.ca?Subject=RCTPatch cheats: new version 26. http://www.strategyplanet.com/rctuk/rctpatch/cheats.html#prf 27. http://cheatfinder.freeservers.com/ 28. http://cheatfinder.freeservers.com/ 29. http://teckno.8m.com/ 30. http://lightning.prohosting.com/~hwinkels/ 31. http://aatrainer.cjb.net/ 32. mailto:jdrexler@julian.uwo.ca?subject=Re: Home page (RCTPatch); Copyright 33. http://joesbox.penguinpowered.com/ 34. mailto:jdrexler@julian.uwo.ca?Subject=Re: Home page (RCTPatch)