CivWin Editing

I distinctly recall using some program I downloaded to play Civ I as the Barbarians long, long ago. I wonder if that would have allowed you to switch Civs?

 

Do you, by any chance, remember its name? It was for CivWin, right?

 

I think it was actually for the MSDOS version, but it was so long ago I can barely remember. I cannot remember the name.

 

You need to use any hex editor to switch civs or change money etc... it just seems instructions are not easy to find.

 

SUCCESS!!!

I didn't think the hex editing approach would work since, as mentioned before, SAV files are compressed somehow. Fortunately, the compression appears to be some form of RLE, and the byte with the human player's civilization is in the beginning of the file.

The byte is at position #5 and may contain the same values listed in the Switch Sides section of the cheats page.

CivCracker does show the current value for the human player civilization, but it cannot be changed. I wonder why...

As for changing your money, it's easy using memory editors such as ArtMoney.