Debug mode for off the record?

www.megaupload.com/?d=PIIU446Y broken.

There's the new exe (from the new updated version recently)

I hope Window mode could be enabled again ;D

Can you upload exe file with debug mode for original version?

www.wupload.com/file/519038961/otr.rar broken
exe file from no updated version

By "original exe" mean exe created by skidrow. My mistake sorry for misunderstand.

Hmm interesting. I think ole716 should write tutorial how to unlock debug mode. It will be more useful, than a thousands versions of dr2otr.exe

ok im going to use the weekend to find the enable address

any luck with this?

sigh. looks like this will not happen.

I dont think ole is doing it.

If this will get done, someone needs to branch out and ask on xentax and other modder sites

Not being able to have debug mode is holding me back from doing so much in the game.

So today I had sometime and I wasted most of it trying to enable a debug through the .exe I know very little about hex editing and surely not enough to be able to enable functions but from what I can tell it will be complicated.

My initial testing yielded the results I needed but I was naive enough to continue and not try something else before attempting hours of trial and error.

In DR2 I have 2 .EXEs
1) The DR2.exe (Unmodified) and
2) DR2_Debug.exe (The exe that reads user.ini)

So I naturally tried making 2 exes in DR2:OTR but when I would run DR2OTR_Debug.exe the game would crash. I didn't pay attention to it and counted it as a modification in the file but later I remembered I hadn't touched the file so it should have ran. I renamed the original by adding a single letter and sure enough the game crashed before the main menu screen came up.

After hours of attempting to learn how IDA worked I decided to try and just change something in the original.exe and set Data/Controls/Keymap.txt to Data/Controls/Keyman.txt and the game crashed.
I then went back into DR2 and tried the same change and the game ran but since there was no keyman.txt the game wouldn't do anything since it didn't know what to do with they keys I was pressing.

My overall conclusion is I don't know enough on how to modify an exe but from what I can tell the game does a pretty good job of noting any changes made to the exe. I'm sure something could be done but it is beyond my skill level. I will try and poke around the file to see if I get lucky with something happening but not expecting anything to happen.


UPDATE 1-2-12
Ok so after thinking about it and being disappointed about not being able to change anything in the exe I thought of something. I got the Skidrow crack and changed the name and it worked. I then went in and changed keymap.txt to keymat.txt and it also worked.

The downside? It requires skid.dll which I don't know what it contains but possibly could be something bad or nothing at all.

The upside? It is possible to change the exe so it is not tamper proof just need someone with enough skills to make one not require the skid.dll

Also I noticed that the skidrow exe does not seem to use gdf.dll so the skid.dll could just be a way to bypass that file and still have the game run. Anyways hopefully someone with more skill comes in and chimes in.

Not as of yet I will try to enable those functions through other means other than the exe cause like I said that appears to be out of my skill level as of now.

Feels like I am getting nowhere with this >_< so I took a step back and tried figuring out how debug was enabled in DR2.

I started with the DR2_Debug.exe with the modified byte and found out how it was referenced by disassembling through IDA. I then went into the original DR2.exe and tried finding the byte through hex editor but the file was different so no luck I disassembled it and located the subroutine that contained the data and located the byte I needed. I found it and changed it and ran it and debug was enabled.

Doing all that I learned a little about how the stuff worked so I tried applying the same technique to DR2OTR.exe but I could not find anything that enabled debug through a byte. In DR2 there was also reference to user.ini and master.ini but in DR2OTR I cannot find anything. I will keep trying but I really don't know if I will be able to get this or if its possible at least we are getting closer slowly.

no response from either of them to my email. I see ole made promises then disappeared :/

Interested if sandbox mode is in your limited debug mode? (UPDATE: its not) If not I would love to get some sandbox mode PC save files from some people.

Here is the location of save files:

C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Documents\My Games\Dead Rising 2 Off The Record\saves



Let me test out the limited debug mode, great job! Debug mode shows up for me. not sure if it works, but it shows up.