Simple yet affective character swap hack. I love doing that to games with unplayable bosses...

I'm a modder to and I've been there.

You just search out one value in a sea of millions of calues by process of elimination.

The specials of some of the TML cars doesn't show up, but can still do damage, when you're using them in the Head On stages, for an obvious reason. They weren't meant to be in Head On. Manslaughter's rocks are invisible and so is Gold Tooth's missiles and Junkyard Dog's reticle. Crazy 8's special shows up, probably because it looks the same as Outlaw's.

Since someone else resurrected this old topic I would like to add something else: in TM Lost you can use the freeze with Triangle+up, the shield with Triangle+right, the other advanced attacks are with the other directionals. I don't know if by this time you guys already know that. Btw i'm new here.

I'm over a year late in replying, but figured I might as well follow-up on some things since this thread was recently bumped.


Luis wrote on 08/16/13 at 00:42:08:

Only one instance of the "stage 1" Tower Tooth bot can be loaded in via these hacks, and multiple Tower Tooth bots can't be in-game at the same time. My guess is that it's due to the game having never been designed with the intent of managing multiple instances of Tower Tooth's AI at once.

Regarding the "stage 2" Tower Tooth (the more powerful one whose head at the top of the tower needs to be targetted), when I first saw your post I tried looking into creating a hack for it. I compared changes in PCSX2 RAM when battling against the stage 1 and stage 2 versions in TMHO story mode, but didn't have any luck. I did somehow manage to trigger an invincible burning headless Tower Tooth bot that drove erratically, but couldn't reliably reproduce it. It'd make for a fun video if I manage to get it working again someday ...

Anyways, unlike some of Incognito's other PS2 games, TMHOETE's ELF (executable) file doesn't contain function nor variable labels. Since there's no context to how the game works, it's a huge pain to create hacks like these ones. As a result, it's highly unlikely that the Tower Tooth 1 bot limit will be overcome in the future. As for a stage 2 Tower Tooth hack, the odds of that aren't much better .


Richard -Dick- Biggs wrote on 04/25/14 at 20:38:26:

Thanks, and welcome to the forum ! Awhile back I had subsequently found out about it by checking the games' controls in their options menus, but never got around to clarifying that I had.


Luis wrote on 04/25/14 at 22:53:59:

It never dawned on me to check my manual . Kind of surprising to see how significantly each game's advanced control mechanics differed. I remember all the way back when I first got TMHOETE in early 2008. Even then I couldn't rear fire for the life of me (despite being familiar with the PSP version's and TMB's controls). I had also wondered for the longest time why AA moves had been removed from TML. Feels kind of funny realizing that all of it was in fact possible all these years later...

Omniconvert don't work!! I just need Player 2 Character Modifier!!  AR MAX

Seems like lots of people around here use Action Replay MAX  ...


Just as a backgrounder, the codes I created and provided in reply #2 are "raw" ones. When anyone develops these kinds of codes, they start out with "raw" ones.

Back in the PS2's heyday, several companies (Datel, Interac, Mad Catz, Pelican, etc) competed against each other with their own cheat devices. Usually these devices came preloaded with tons of codes for many games, and the companies selling them would usually publish codes for newer games shortly after they came out.

In the name of competition, none of these companies wanted anyone to be able to use "their" codes with a competitor's cheat device... So instead of just supporting "raw" codes, most of the companies decided to design their cheat devices to only work with encrypted codes (which are just scrambled "raw" codes). Having said that, latter versions of CodeBreaker can support "raw" codes as-is. Homebrew cheat software like PS2RD also support them.

Overtime, it seems that some skilled hackers figured out how to reverse engineer all of these companies' encryption formats, to allow people to convert encrypted codes back into "raw" ones, convert each other's cheat device codes to formats supported by other devices, etc. Omniconvert seems to be the best "all in one" converter application for all these formats.


crimsonstuds wrote on 08/05/14 at 18:05:42:

Unfortunately I don't have particular device, so I might not be in the best position to provide support... but I'll try anyway .

In AR MAX, create a new game entry for "Twisted Metal: Head On". If it asks you for a game ID, enter 1666.

Afterwards, enter this code:
Code:

(M) Code
137D-83XN-3JY02
D9UR-22XB-4GBFX
8YJ0-75ZJ-3MDYJ
ZP06-GX3W-92TTP 

Here's a quick guide on how to convert reply #2's codes to AR max's format via Omniconvert:

1. Launch Omniconvert.
2. Go to "Input -> Unencrypted -> Standard".
3. Go to "Output -> Action Replay -> MAX".
4. Copy/pate the codes you want to use into the left text field.
5. Replace "XX" at the end of the codes with the ID of the car you want. Get your IDs from the "Car ID (HEX)" table column in reply #2. For example, to make player 2's car Tower Tooth, the code you start out with would be 202F4AC4 00000076.
6. Click the "Convert" button.
7. Enter the codes that appeared in the right text field into AR MAX.

Good luck !

Luis thanks!! Time 2 Convert Convert CONVERT! How long did it take anyway? 2 get the right codes?