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1. Download and install Hex workshop. Hex Workshop
2. Open the program, and go to FILE > OPEN.
3. Open up your dll file. ( In this tut I will use D2game.dll)
4. Download and save the Spin's Offsets sheet. ( STICKY on Code Editing Forums.)
5. Open the offsets.xls file. Its a Microsoft Excel file so you will need a proper viewer to view it.
6. In the offsets file, at the bottom, look for tabs labled such as, Content, MiscChanges, etc. Scroll through these and find out what kind of change you need in your dll. (In this tut I will use the "Make Unique Items Spawn more than once per game". ITs on the MiscChanges tab.
7. Go back to Hex Worshop, and open up D2game.dll (This example uses 1.09d DLL)
8. Now, on the EXTRME left hand corner of the Hex Worshop program, you will see a bunch of numbers sequentially increasing as you scroll down. Starging from 00000000, 0000001C, 00000038, and so forth. These are the OFFSETS.
9. Now look in the offsets file. You will see that to have the game spawn a unique item more than once per game, you will need to go the proper offset described in the offsets file, and change the states bytes.
Spawn Unique Items More Than Once Per Game (D2game.dll 1.09d)
Ignore the Memory Offset, as you only need to worry about the Offset.
The offset for this is, 1BCFBh. Actual offset is 1BCFB, and the small caps h is used to denote that this is in hex code. All offsets are in hex code, but its a convention to lable them as h.
Now go back to Hex Workshop, and click in the left hand pane, where all the offsets are. Now type Ctrl + G (thats Control Key + G). A dialog box will open, titled Goto. Make sure you have checked the radio button HEX, and on the right side, Beginning of file is selected.
Now type in your offset that you saw in the offsets sheet. Make sure you don't type the small caps h. Type in 1BCFB, and click go. It will bring you to that location in the dll file.
Now, go back to the offsets file, and look at the bytes u have to change. In this example, the bytes that we need to change are 89 11.
So look at hexworkshop window. Your cursor in there should be at the offset you just went to after clicking go. Make sure you don't click the mouse anywhere else in that window. If you do, then do ctrl + g again and go the offset and STAY THERE, don't push anything, or type anything, yet.
Now look at where you cursor is. It will say 89 11. Now Simply go to the offsets file, and look at what you need to change it to. We must change this to 90 90 to allow uniques to spawn more than once per game.
So, in hexworkshop, simply hit 90 90 on the keyboard.
This will change 89 11 to 90 90.
Save your work. It might ask you to save a backup copy of the dll file. In my case if I click yes to make backup before save, it doesn't save, but makes a backup. So click NO for this and it will save you dll changes.
Make sure you have already manually backed up your dlls before editing.
WOW, you've just made your first dll edit. Don't you feel like a l337 h4x0r now?
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To implement ANY of the changes in the dlls, simply follow these steps and you will be fine.
Using the offsets sheet, and this simple tutorial, you can make all the dll bug fixes you want. Or any other number of things. Just simply look at the offset you need to go to, do ctrl + g in hexworkshop, go to the offset, look at what bytes u need to change, and change them to what is says. Make sure you always back up your last changes so that if you mess up, you will still have a working copy of your latest changes made what work.
I hope this helps newbie people somewhat.
Sincerely,
Hash
). And usually, I just type these messages in notepad before I post them becuase it really puts a load on the modem. But anyways, thanks for your help!
