magic9mushroom wrote on Tue, 05 May 2020 08:48

Have you tried just hacking around the code that won't let you save if the balance is negative? That way, however the checksum goes, it should still be correct for the race.

(The issue then is whether Stars! runs a check for illegal races. This isn't beyond the realm of plausibility.)

While I can work with changing the block information, I don't have a way to modify the .exe itself.

From my notes above, I don't think the checksum comes into play when modifying the .HST, .M, and .X file (because I can modify the password in those files, where I can't in the .R file). So I suspect you'd not only have to prevent saving a race file with a negative balance, you'd also have to disable a check on turn generation.