Post: GT5 Save Moding Tutorial (Including modding Car Horsepower)
03-01-2013, 12:19 AM #1
Vectriixx
Single Handily destroyed GT5 Online Happy
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Welcome to Vextriixx's first tutorial and the first tutorial of modding GT5! I think it is about time that this method should finally come out (sorry for those who are going to hate me for releasing this but its bound to come out sooner or later and the quicker its released the quicker it will get patched etc) - here I will give you a step by step guide on modding the GT5.0 file within the GT5 save. It is very simple and very little things are required.

Things you will learn about modding ( will update when I find and decide to release new things or someone else has found something) :

  • Money
  • A Spec Level
  • B Spec Level
  • Horsepower
  • Ride Height


MORE TO COME SOON (LIST UPDATED 2ND MARCH 2013)


Required Items/Applications:

  • FAT32 USB Stick
  • PS3 (Obviously - can be any FW)
  • Aldotools BruteForce
  • A Hex Editor (preferably HxD)
  • Big Endian Tool (not essentially needed but can be helpful to find it just search the forums)


So lets begin. All editing will be done in hex as I believe there is currently no easier way of doing so - well untill some tools are released that is.

[multipage=Decrypting the Save]

This part really doesn't need a page but there are still some people out there who may not be able capable of using a bit of common sense. To do this you are going to need Aldotools BruteForce application (there are other tools you can use to decrypt the save but this is my recommendation). It is simple to use.

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Here is the basic screen you will get with Aldotools. Just navigate to your selected save you got off the PS3.
Right click on the GT5.0 and press 'Awesome faceecrypt PFD'

Once that is done you should end up with a screen like this:
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Now double click the GT5.0 file and it should open up HxD.

[multipage=Changing The Horsepower Multiplier]

Right, I'll jump straight to the part everyone wants to do which is multiplying the base horsepower of the car. It is quite simple, easy and quick to do (you can have your modded car in just a few seconds). The first thing you want to do when HxD opens up is press Ctrl + G this will bring up a goto pop-up box. In the offset box you want to type in 0000E960. Like below.

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Now this should take you to a part of the save that looks roughly like this:

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From what I know about the save - Polophony Digital (PD) have scrambled the car data across the save. Around this offset is the majority of the car data for the car which is currently being driven. But we are interested in the multiplier - nothing else at the moment. You want to browse around the offsets surrounding this area until you find this (in case the image has gone it is the hex values of 28 00 00 00 64) :

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After the 28 is the hex value of the multiplier. This is the only byte that needs changing. Before you start editing I will briefly tell you what this does. As far as I believe this value will multiply the original horsepower of the car before any upgrades etc. were added to it. So for example if you had a car which was originally 100 bhp and changed the hex value to 0A (10 in decimal) this would make the horsepower of the car become 1000. In order to make realistic cars I recommend using the values between 05 - 09. However if you wanted to make a ridiculous car you could change the value after the 28 to FF (255 in decimal) this would now make and 100 bhp car have 25500 bhp. So its just simple maths.

Unmodified car:

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Modified car:

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And that is simply how to change the horsepower of the car.
NOTE: TO ACHIEVE THE STUPID SPEEDS YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR GEAR RATIOS OTHERWISE YOU WILL PROBABLY STOP ACCELERATING AT A CERTAIN POINT. ALSO SOMETIMES GT5 WILL NOT NOTICE THE CHANGE SO THE GAME MAY NEED TO BE BOOTED TWICE (NOT SURE IF THIS IS FOR EVERYONE OR JUST MY GAME PLAYING UP) AND TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING GO INTO THE TUNING SHOP AND JUST PRESS THE X BUTTON AN UPGRADE LIKE 'ENGINE 1' - YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY IT BUT YOU MAY AS WELL ANYWAY.

[multipage=Editing the ride height of your car]

As you may be aware the value we just edited with the multiplier is the key area for where the majority of car data is stored. So it would be no surprise that to find near here that the ride height/suspension of the car is found. Simply just a few bytes away from the multiplier. The ride height consists of two bytes. The first byte controls the front end of the car and the last byte controls the back end of the car so simply mess around with these values you will end up with something looking very interesting. Right so lets get to it.

First of all you just want to do a quick scan around of this offset I told you to look at for horsepower (0000E960) and look for a block of FF (these are the tuned parts fitted to the car) As you can my block of FFs last for 3 whole offsets.

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Approximately 3 lines under those FFs you will find to values which are roughly the same (providing you haven't changed the ride height) in my case I have '46 00 46' if you haven't touched the ride height the values should roughly be around this.

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As you can see I highlighted the values you are interested in looking at. Simply to make the ride hight smaller you reduce the numbers. I recommend using the calculator on your computer in programmer view to quickly swap between decimal values and hex values.

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I want to make a 'slammed car so lets make the ride height very low. Lets change both the 46's (46 is 70 in decimal values) to 06 (06 is 6 in decimal).

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Now you have successfully altered the ride height.

[multipage=A and B Spec Level]

Right I have finally got around to updating this thread so here it is A Spec and Spec level. This is a tad different to some of the others as we are going to be searching the save for Big Endian values. In order to do this you must know what your current levels.

First of all on your decrypted save you are going to need to press CRTL + F to bring up the search window. After this has been done - choose the options so it looks like it does below.

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Now you are going to put your A or B spec level into the 'search for' (I am currently A Spec Level 20 and B spec 0 in this save), so I will search for that)

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Here I searched for a big endian of 20 which is 00 00 00 14 in hex (you can tell when you are at the level bit because both levels will be near each other) no I will search for a big endian of 0 because lots of 0's are in the save I will simply just search for 00 00 00 00 in the hex number.

[img]https://puu.sh/2blqx[IMG]

As you can see in that screenshot the 00 00 00 14 is slightly above the 00 00 00 00. Now we will change them. As you should know the top level in GT5 is level 40 and the big endian value for 40 is 00 00 00 28. You will also notice that the endians are surrounded by 03 - this is a big give away that you're in the correct area. Simply replace those values with 00 00 00 28. As shown in red below.

[IMG]https://puu.sh/2bltJ[/img]

And well now you are level 40 on both A Spec and B Spec - it would interesting to see if anyone wants to experiment and try going above the level 40 and see what happens.

[multipage=Adding Money]

Right now its time for adding money - however there is one downfall for this you can still only go to 20 million; if you go higher I find that it either won't stick and it just resets or you can't buy anything (I have heard people have been successful with this but I'm not sure). Again we are going to be searching for big endian values. So it is important you know the amount of credits you have.
Like what we did with changing the levels bring up the following box using CTRL+F and make it look exactly like my box. In the 'search for' type how many credits you have.

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I have exactly 16,560,200 so I'll search for that; the easy thing about credits is you will probably only need to do one search as the endian will only appear once. (Unless your on 0 credits in which case you'll just have to remember the offset at which the credits are stored which is roughly 0000F280 or around that area). Here is where my credits were:

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Now the big endian value for 20 million is 01 31 2D 00. So simply just replace your current hex values with that. It should look like so:

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And now that is done you have successfully altered the amount of credits you have - again feel free to experiment as experiments are were you make great discoveries!
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03-10-2013, 03:30 PM #803
TravAU
Little One
Originally posted by robber53ftw View Post
im gonna ignore you now i dont deal with roookies bye


rookies LOL, love your joined date *this month* pretty sure you're the rookie here, did you only join the figure out the bhp multiplier?
03-10-2013, 03:31 PM #804
bkss
Save Point
Originally posted by stealo2335 View Post
hey all,

im struggling, i have made this car:

m3 gtr
with an ac cobra engine (06 76),
lexus IS F trans (1d 44),

but for the for some reason i cant change it to 4wd. i have looked at tuts on here but cant get it to stay. im not asking for a handout, just a point in the right direction. am i doing it right or is this section the wrong one.

here is my section of the save:

----------00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f
0000e8a0 34 00 09 00 00 09 FF 00 00 04 A5 00 00 07 83 00
0000e8b0 00 06 76 00 00 0B EF 00 00 1D 44 00 00 16 F1 00

06 76 = engine, 1D 44 = trans
the bytes in red are for the drive type of a nissan gtr 09, i think.


Well first of all, your trans codes are all 1 value out. If you didn't notice, you've got a marker right above the engine, the next value along is the chassis after that is engine, then drivetrain.

So, what it should read is this:

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f
0000e8a0 34 00 09 00 00 09 FF 00 00 04 A5 00 00 07 83 00
0000e8b0 00 06 76 00 00 1D 44 00 00 Original value back in here 00 00 16 F1 00


**Key**
Marker
Chassis
Engine
Drivetrain


Hope this helps.
03-10-2013, 03:48 PM #805
yo robber53ftw, ok i'll ignore your post to anger me.

im the bigger guy you see.

im that big of a guy i'll admit when im wrong. and i am wrong i think at least.

well i made a wrx sti hatchback with the wrx TC chassis and a murcielago engine, i used the multiplier 28 06 00 00 64 and im sure (not 100%) that i had 1034BHP.

i read what you put robber and i hastily jumped and started spouting rubbish although i had never tried editing the other figures.

so i did i changed it to 28 06 FF 00 64 and now im at 1205BHP.

so it would seem i am indeed the noob lol

sorry robber.

I think a few more people should try like i did and confirm one or the other, i dont care whos right i just want to know whats right.
03-10-2013, 03:55 PM #806
thankyou im just trying to help and dont like to be told im wrong when i know im not
03-10-2013, 04:25 PM #807
Originally posted by robber53ftw View Post
thankyou im just trying to help and dont like to be told im wrong when i know im not


you are right i had 708pp before at the most, im at 730pp now, so I know for sure the ones in bold change it

28 00 00 00 64

---------- Post added at 04:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:03 PM ----------

awww, the forum has gone quiet now :(

anyone know how to change gearbox? i want a 7 speed in a car that has a 4 speed (nascar) 3 speed (chapparel 2J).

oh and i dont know how to add more turbos to a car? i imagine it is amongst the group of FF near to were you change the BHP multiplier?? a specific line??
03-10-2013, 04:32 PM #808
TravAU
Little One
Originally posted by DANfour20 View Post
you are right i had 708pp before at the most, im at 730pp now, so I know for sure the ones in bold change it

28 00 00 00 64

---------- Post added at 04:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:03 PM ----------

awww, the forum has gone quiet now :(

anyone know how to change gearbox? i want a 7 speed in a car that has a 4 speed (nascar) 3 speed (chapparel 2J).

oh and i dont know how to add more turbos to a car? i imagine it is amongst the group of FF near to were you change the BHP multiplier?? a specific line??


Here, might help?

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22644[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22645[/ATTACH]
03-10-2013, 04:44 PM #809
No, there just coming up as black screens for me :(

actually if i open in new tab they come up, ok they look kinda confusing lol, i will try it out soon.

So, im thinking on the image it only goes upto 5th gear, would the two sets of two bytes after be 6th and 7th, or only if the cars has a 6th and 7th? (would i just copy that line out of a car with 7 gears and put it ona car with 4)

would it reset if i was to play with my ratios in game? (would 6th and 7th even show in game if the car only naturally had 4)

i guess ill jus have to try this all out lol.
03-10-2013, 05:20 PM #810
SnoopDenver
Do a barrel roll!
Originally posted by DANfour20 View Post
No, there just coming up as black screens for me :(

actually if i open in new tab they come up, ok they look kinda confusing lol, i will try it out soon.

So, im thinking on the image it only goes upto 5th gear, would the two sets of two bytes after be 6th and 7th, or only if the cars has a 6th and 7th? (would i just copy that line out of a car with 7 gears and put it ona car with 4)

would it reset if i was to play with my ratios in game? (would 6th and 7th even show in game if the car only naturally had 4)

i guess ill jus have to try this all out lol.


You must login or register to view this content. Will show you how to swap chassis, engine, drivetrain, transmission from car to car. The OP only shows the chassis engine and drivetrain. But the very next value is the transmission. Swap out for a gearbox with 7 speeds like the X2010. Then you can adjust each gear individually in the area for the gears.

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03-10-2013, 05:28 PM #811
Originally posted by SnoopDenver View Post
You must login or register to view this content. Will show you how to swap chassis, engine, drivetrain, transmission from car to car. The OP only shows the chassis engine and drivetrain. But the very next value is the transmission. Swap out for a gearbox with 7 speeds like the X2010. Then you can adjust each gear individually in the area for the gears.


ok will try this now, thank you

the above post with the pics, i tried copying the details from the amuse s2k over to the chapparell, the data string fitted but it still only had 3 gears Smile

had a look but i cant figure out what the next value is, where am i looking 1 st picture?

do you meen where it says 1D BE?? Im guessing you did cos it worked, THANK YOU!!

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