NFS Carbon - Savegame

[fantomexxx]

Kryplos95 savegame
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This is almost completed Need For Speed Carbon Savegame.
Featuring:
* 3 rides
* 100% Career mode
* 95% of entire game completed
* Almost 500,000 to play with
* See screenshots =)

Install:
Unpack and copy the Akryplos directory to:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\NFS Carbon\

Notes:
* The install path may be different if you don't use English WinXP.
* Change <username> for your WinXp login under which is NFSC installed.
* This savegame is not intended for online playing!!!

CDKEYs: (thanx to Godspeed)
To Change your CDKEY To Play My Saved Games:

This was easy to do I downloaded a saved game changed my cdkey to the
same as the saved game file I downloaded.

If you would like to learn to do this.

1) download Hex Workshop 4.2 or any HEX Program
2) open save game file

Starts at offset 0000003c
20 Char long this is near top right side windows
Ends at offset 00000050

3) when you open HEX Program it is the only 20 char near the top very easy
to find.....

Example Only:
123a123b123c123d123e (this is not REAL) 20 CHAR
But in the text editor it's all together there is only letters and numbers.

4) Change CDKEY GoTo:
Program Files\Electronic Arts\Need for Speed Carbon\Support\Need for Speed Carbon_code.exe

Remember to save your save game file before you try this!
To get your cdkey and save it.
So you can play those saves also.

Credits:
by Kryplos, for nfszone.com - please leave this credit along the file
when placing on your website. Thank you. ENJOY!

http://www.nfszone.com/nfs_carbon/downloads

[TippeX]

wonder how pissed off people are going to get and how many calls from irate customers ea will get from people who've uploaded their save games to some sites and discovered (after the fact in most cases) that they practically 'gave away' their cd-keys to the rest of the world... way to go ea!

[fantomexxx]

Originally Posted by TippeX

wonder how pissed off people are going to get (and how many calls from irate customers ea will get) from people who've uploaded their save games to some sites and discovered (after the fact in most cases) that they practically 'gave away' their cd-keys to the rest of the world... way to go ea!

this was exactly my first thoughts when i opened the savegame in hex-editor - they could at least make it XORed or something =)

[Mason]

That's good. EA deserves to get beat up in public over this. The reason they probably try to lock the saved games using the serial number is so that they can charge for the unlockable content on the PC like they do with the Xbox 360 version.

[Joe Forster/STA]

A large checksum (e.g, digest, see MD5) of the CD-key would've also been sufficient to be stored in savegames...

[WardoggOne]

damn you ea you really know how to ruin a pretty good game

[AndrewJ]

I agree, one of the fun points of Need For Speed Most Wanted was having multiple save games, and downloading even more.

Shame as I so cannot be doing with a dozen or more edits to make a single save game.

Do doubt in time someone will make a .exe of which will be able to do this for us lazy sods

[Joe Forster/STA]

I think removing 1) storing the CD-key while saving a savegame and 2) checking the CD-key while loading a savegame are both relatively simple in an already unprotected executable. (Of course, such savegames will have an empty CD-key, therefore, will load in cracked & patched games only... unless the publisher removes these two things itself... What an irony! )

[AndrewJ]

Well I would love a savegame for NFS-Carbon the story is mediocre and will be a while before I am bored/drunk enough to be bothered to complete it so I can drive about in something faster than my Alfa Romeo I have right now.

[Karbine]

I've tried looking for that 'offset'... I have no idea what that is. I'm guessing its the multidigit numbers on the side, followed by the hexstrings. In any case, I cannot find and cdkey, or anything like 0000003c and ending at 00000050.

Would it had been so hard to just include the damn CDKey in a textfile with the save file, isntead of having to go through all this crap?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by Karbine

Would it had been so hard to just include the damn CDKey in a textfile with the save file, isntead of having to go through all this crap?

Think this over... Have you read the forum rules?!

[NFSsavegames]

Okay but I think its the same thing to post cd key separately and to post savegame with cd key inside