Steel Panthers cheats and cheat codes for PC

Hex cheat:

I was fooling around with Steel Panthers save and
scenario files, trying, without complete success, to
convert a campaign scenario into a normal scenario.

I want to play the other side, to see how I
would do against my 'own' core units, after playing
the battle the normal way.

Has anyone been able to do this?

The one hurdle I can't get passed is allowing
a human to play the 'computer' side. - It always
gives me the 'you can't do that in campaigns' error
message on starting a converted save game when I
try to switch between computer and human on the
'side 2' startup screen.

I found that you can just copy any save game over
to the scenario directory, and it becomes a scenario
without any editing! - You can bring it up in the scenario
editor and fool with it, save it again, and all appears
to work. - (Except that darn 'campaign mode' flag.)

Using the editor, only saving the map and creating a
new scenario with that map allowed me to play either
side, but all units are lost. - I really don't feel like
manually writing down both sides units and positions to
rebuild the scenario just to play the reverse.

So I worked on the file at the byte level using
UGE (Universal Game Editor) to compare and fiddle
the binary files. - Here's what I'm sure of, after
about 6 hours of work:
(Offset 0 is the first byte of the file)

Offset Certain Meaning

37513 - Month (1=Jan,2=Feb,...12=Dec)
37514 - Year (last two digits, 44=1944)
37515 - Weather (0=Desert, 1=Summer, 2=Winter)
37524 - Scenario Length (number of turns, 0=Infinite)

37526 - Flag 0 - X Coordinate (0,0 is top left)
..
37546 - Flag 20 X Coord (x is

37547 - Flag 0 - Y Coord
..
37567 - Flag 20 Y Coord

37568 - Flag 0 - Value (0=no value)
..
37588 - Flag 20 Value

37589 - Flag 0 - Owner (0=Side1?, 1=Side2?)
..
37609 - Flag 20 Owner

37626 - Scenario Location (city/area name)
..37645

37612 - Visibility (range in hexes)



These are wild guesses:

Offset Range - Meaning

- 0:3757 - Side 1 Leader Names
3758:7501 - Side 2 Leader Names
13510:15009 - Side 1 Units
15010:16500 - Side 2 Units

37646:53644 - Some sort of table(s) that have an unstable sort
- such that editing and saving a scenario without
- doing a single thing will result in different values!
- VERY IRRITATING! - 123 changes to 119 then back to 123
- on successive saves. (123 &qt;122 &qt;123 also)

53645:510197 - The MAP!


I think the campaign switches are here, but I'll
be darned if I can find the 'off' flag! - I've
tryed about 15 combos without success.
(The sample values in parens are from campaign
scenarios, the ones after are from normal scenarios.)
(NOPE, means I switched values from campaign &qt;reg
without success in playing side 2 as human.)

Offset - (Campaign)Samples - Meaning?
37511 - (2,2,1,2),2,2
- 12 - (4,2,4,75),90,9
- 13 - Proven Month
- 14 - Proven Year
- 15 - Proven Weather
- 16 - (1,1,1,1),0,0 - NOPE
- 17 - (3,1,3,5),3,3
- 18 - (0,0,0,0),0,0
- 19 - (12,12,10,10),7,7 - NOPE
- 20 - (2,2,3,3),2,1
- 21 - (1,1,2,2),0,1
- 22 - (1,1,1,3),1,1
- 23 - (2,2,2,0),2,1
- 24 - Proven Turn Length
- 25 - (0,0,0,0),0,0
(flag 0 20 sections)

37612 - Proven Visiblity Range
- 13 - (0,3,2,0),0 - NOPE
- 14 - (72,82,114,178),0 - NOPE Remaining Core Buy Points?
- 15 - (5,4,3,4),0 - NOPE Scenario in Campaign?
- 16 - (0,0,0,0),0
- 17 - (0,0,0,0),0
- 18 - (1,2,2,2),0 - NOPE
- 19 - (0,0,0,0),0
- 20 - (0,0,0,254),0
- 21 - (0,0,0,255),0
- 22 - (2,1,2,0),0 - NOPE
- 23 - (2,1,2,6),0 - NOPE
- 24 - (1,0,1,1),0 - NOPE
- 25 - (1,1,2,4),0 - NOPE
- 26.. - Proven Location Name

(Some sort of table with number pairs follows).

I've exhausted all ideas and can't see any other
usefull parts of the scen file to fiddle with,
either the numbers aren't consistent between
campaign and non campaign, or it just seems like
unrelated table data.

Oddly I never got a hard crash after byte fiddling,
but sometimes the unit types/sides got mixed up.

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