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Wii & Gamecube Hacking => Wii Game hacking help => Topic started by: benny3t3 on December 03, 2010, 11:04:36 PM

Title: Finding a Character name
Post by: benny3t3 on December 03, 2010, 11:04:36 PM
I overheard(saw) Hetoan2 saying that at least in Call of Duty games, you can find characters by searching for their names... How do you do that?

Please don't say ASCII, because I don't know what that means xD

MOD EDIT: fixed typos because I'm a grammar nazi
Title: Re: Finding a Character name
Post by: dcx2 on December 04, 2010, 12:05:52 AM
ASCII is just a standard way of representing letters using 8-bit values.

For instance, the string "benny3t3" in ASCII would look like

62656E6E 79337433

That's because

0x62 = the letter 'b'
0x65 = the letter 'e'
0x6E = the letter 'n'
etc

Either use the ASCII<->Hex converter on the Code Database's arsenel...

http://geckocodes.org/index.php?arsenal=3

Or use the ASCII table yourself.  Note the "Hx" and "Chr" columns.

http://www.asciitable.com/
Title: Re: Finding a Character name
Post by: doomkaiber001 on December 04, 2010, 08:54:44 AM
49747320 7265616C
20656173 7920746F
20757365 20415343
49492077 68656E20
796F7520 67657420
74686520 68616E67
206F6620 697421

The translator doesn't convert Hex back to Words in this case. It'll take you a while to find out what this means!
Title: Re: Finding a Character name
Post by: benny3t3 on December 04, 2010, 06:07:20 PM
Yeah, you are right, why is that I wonder?

Thanks, I'll figure that out eventually.
Title: Re: Finding a Character name
Post by: dcx2 on December 04, 2010, 06:56:18 PM
Hit the up caret (the ^ right above where the ASCII comes out as Hex)
Title: Re: Finding a Character name
Post by: doomkaiber001 on December 04, 2010, 07:04:20 PM
I tried it; the result is a load of squares.