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GTA: Chinatown Wars for iPhone - Money hack (save, cheat)

I'm too lazy to write my own patcher for the GTA's saves, so I just let it be here.
I've analyzed game saves, and finally was able to edit the money variable.

4D 255
4E 65535
4F 16777215

So, If you have 0$ in the save game, on the 4D-4F addresses you have:

4D 4E 4F : 00 00 00

If you wanna MANY MANY DOLLARS, get the savegame0 (or ..1) file here:
/var/mobile/Applications/%UUID%/Documents
(where %UUID% is an weird random symbols, but there's should be RslP1.app inisde, so it's GTA:CTW folder)
(also, you can use my "AppFolders" script and just open /Applications/RslP1.app/Documents, see my post below)
Open it in any hex editor, find the 4D address and replace it (and other two after it) to the "FF" .

So, you will have, uuhm, $16777215. Isn't it awesome? ISN'T IT FUCKING AWESOME, MAN? Great!
Save it and put it back to the iPhone.
If the game doesn't see your savegame, just fix permissions:

cd /var/mobile/Applications/%UUID%/Documents
chmod 755 * && chown mobile *

Okay, If you're not familiar with computers and lazier than me, you can just download my savegame.
It's just the game start (no any game progress, only initial mission completed), but you'll have 16 million dollars.
You still need to jailbreak your device and, maybe, to fix permissions, but at least you don't need to edit savegame.

21.01.2010 01:07:53 / 0 comments / permalink

Howite's iPhone APT Repository

I've made an APT repository, which contains my tweaks and software for iPhone OS.

Today I released AppFolders. It creates symlinks for every AppStore's application, so you don't have to guess in which folder your apps are. They're just available at /Applications.

Add repository in Cydia:
Manage -> Sources -> Edit -> Add
URL: http://howite.org/apt

11.01.2010 05:56:17 / 0 comments / permalink

Irssi and iTunes

Hey, if you're using macirssi (or original irssi) in Mac OS X with iTunes, hope you will like alias that prints "now playing" to current channel. just enter these commands in irssi:

/alias np script exec \$np = `osascript -e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to get artist of current track & \" - \" & name of current track'`\; Irssi::active_win->command("me is now listening: \$np")
/save

15.03.2009 13:46:15 / 0 comments / permalink

Last.fm: Anniversary tracks grabber updated

new:
+ custom tracks (1, 22, 333, etc.)
+ timestamps
+ links to artist/title

enjoy => anniversary tracks grabber.

07.03.2009 02:49:47 / 11 comments / permalink

Apple's Airport: RSSI to %

I use Geektool in Mac OS X as a conky alternative, so I wrote a script that shows percentage of wireless signal.

#!/bin/bash

# apple airport rssi/dbm to signal percentage convert
# useful for geektool :)
# (tested on macbook5,1's airport (probably with Broadcom 4322?) & wl500gp)

# by howite@howite.org

# grabbing rssi value from active AP
sig=`/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -I | grep -e "agrCtlRSSI:" | awk '{print $2}'`

# grabbing rssi value from any other AP
#ssid="WLAN_Mike"
#sig=`/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -s | grep -e $ssid | awk '{print $3}'`
#
#if [ "$sig" == "" ]
#then
# #AP not found
# exit
#fi

# my own old poor values -_-
#min=80
#max=15

# cisco aironet 350 (seems it's more accurate?)
# ref.: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cuipph/7920/5_0/english/design/guide/wrlradio.html#wp1041819
min=113
max=10

echo "$min $max $sig"|awk '{print int((100 / ($1 + -$2)) * ($1 + $3)) "%"}'

07.02.2009 16:44:01 / 0 comments / permalink

Greenote

It's released today, yeaah!
You can download it here.

upd. 07.12.2008: the release has been removed. now all tracks from Greenote are available just as tracks.

13.09.2008 11:48:47 / 1 comments / permalink

howite.org is online

Well, I have paid for this domain and my friend x-demon shared with me his hosting - thanks dude ;).
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07.08.2008 06:07:13 / 1 comments / permalink