Elite Plus cheats and cheat codes for PC

Alter the default game you start of with in ELITE.EXE itself
with a hex file editor of your choice. The defualt game you 
start of with starts at offset 11366.

Scan the file for "100.0 credits" to be sure. Look for the 
bytes 03 e8 00 (100.0 credits) and replace them by 40 42 0f. 
Now you have 100000 credits whenever you start a game from 
scratch.

About half of the future save file can be found in elite.exe 
and you can alter some other values to change name, hyperspace 
system selected, missiles etc. However I just flew my ship from 
Lave to Leesti (Tech level 10) and bought my stuff there, with 
all the extra cash I had.

I seem to have found the bytes that correspond to your rating.  
They're the four bytes before the name (e.g. JAMESON). 
Strange enough, they're there twice. In elite.exe at the 
beginning they're set to 00 00 00 00, and setting them 
to ff 00 ff 00 gives you a deadly rating (I think). 
00 04 00 04 makes you "elite".