Know what would be cool a tool or something that renames stuf in vcs like the lcs one but can rename cars also

it very easily possible it just finding them

(if you want to have a go at finding them , you might have some luck looking around the car starting addresses that i posted but then again what do i know)

Make a capture of the game, then use a Hex editor on your computer like Hex Workshop. After you open the capture with the hex editor, hit search, go to string, and type in what you're looking for.

Then simply add 0x8400000 to that address.

finding them is easy. they're just stored as straight text.

Area names start at 0x98A2A80
cars start at 0x98A2DFC

the rest of the game text is around there awell. it's all one big block of text. misc. mission text is right before the area names, and wepon names come after the vehicle names, and then followed by the text that pops up on the screen in either the black box in the upper left, or the white text centered at the bottom.

but the area names and car names are probably the only things of interest.


edit: in regards to ddm's reply, a string search actually wouldn't work, they're 2 bytes apart, each character separated by a 0x00, the string search wouldn't pick this up.

The best way I've found of searching for it is first writing it the string you want to search for in the hex editor then copying down the hex values that the hex editor gives you (which are the hex representation of the string), change to hex search and paste the values down there. Now just add a 0 byte in between each of the bytes and make a search.

If that makes any sense.

yep, that's exactly how I do it.
I just type the text string, and hex edit displays the hex below it, I copy it and go into a hex search and add the 0's. I always leave out the 1st letter though, since in a lot of cases I'm not sure if it's capitalized or not. (usually is, but just to be sure...)

lol WOW i have no ida about what your talking about lmao

lol

just get a hex ediotr take a capture using the cheatdevice

and look around the toolbar on the hex editor till you see goto and then type

0x98A2DFC

and hit go

Thanks

Same here, Very simple to do I tried it for sunshine customs and I got into them not changing on what I thought they would change on so I stopped, Maybe I should start again?

what?
they weren't changing right? I don't understand what your saying, but as far as changing them, they're straight text, it's kinda hard to mess it up...

I was gonna make a tool at one point to change all the car names, but gave up as it was taking too long and was far too tedious.

no no, I didn't mess them up I tried to change one and get it back working and something got messed up I was going to go back to it, but I just said forget it. I had other stuff planned that day so that might be why I dropped it.

what like on liberty city?