How to Hack Your Game Save With Hex Editing

A simple, universal way that you can hack into your game saves. Some game saves can't be hacked easily, because developers will most times put encryption in place to prevent gamers from modifying online stats and other global statistics.

Warning

• This can potentially corrupt your game save (it often does). Back up your save before you start hex editing!
  

Requirements

• A game save extracted from your save-device.
  
• HxD. A hex editing program that will be used to modify the data contained within our game saves.
  
• Windows OS. If you already have your game saves extracted, there are a ton of hex editors for other platforms.
  

Hack Your Game Save
1.  Make sure that on your game save, you have key values memorized. Examples could be your amount of money, skill levels, etc.

2.  Start up HxD.

3.  Open up your game save via the File > Open menu.


4.  Search the games hex for a value that you took note of.

5.  Change the value to any amount you desire, but it has to match the length of the original string.

6.  Throw the save on your device, rehashing if necessary. When you load them, if you got the right value, it should be the new value that you specified!