My apologies, I had no idea what warez meant, I therfor retract my offer to upload
I think you're correct in that it would be better to edit the actual game files to change the start year but this has proved very difficult (at least for someone who has no idea what theyre doing more or less!).
I've tried looking at several files in a hex editor but I can't seem to find the relavent data that refers to the year the game begins. All I am doing is searching for the figures 1998 or 98 but have had no success and don't know what else I should be looking for.