These guides were written for the origional ZT2 game. There are a few differences in the entitie file locations if you use EA/AA. Penguinman was kind enough to inform me of this and give a solution:
If you have ONLY ES:
x100_000.z2f for ANY animal including original ZT2 animals
If you have AA and ES or just AA:
x110_000.z2f for AA animals
x100_000.z2f for ES animals
x101_000.z2f for Original animals
I believe the AI file and other locations are the same.So, ZT2 doesn't have many cheats, right? Well, nobody never said you couldn't make them yourself! Because I'm a fairly good coder, I've seen many possible ways to blatantly cheat. And I thought, why not just share them with everyone? Anyone can do this stuff, even people with no experiance whatsoever. All you need is a free program called WinRAR (or WinZip) (downloadable by looking up WinRAR in Google or another engine.)
(First things first, excuse my spelling. I'm terrible at it. If you notice any obvious errors, please PM me saying I messed something up so I can edit it out).
Unlike the first version of the guide, I'm not going to tell you how to do specific things. I have several seperate guides that take you step-by-step through certian things. Here, I'm going to tell you how to read code and change things you see yourself, even if I don't have a guide for it. I'm writing this assuming you have minimal experiance with code editing.
The Rules
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If you already have experiance with file editing, and know not how to do things like corrupt files and ruin your game, skip down to post 2. For those of you who are just entering the world of game file editing, READ THIS!
The Ten Commandments of Game File Editing:
1. There IS a limit. Respect it.[INDENT]For every number, there is a limit. Changing the default donation of an animal to two million dollars WILL crash your game. Making it so that your Moose have 500 calves every time they get pregnant WILL crash your game. For many numbers, common sence is the limit. For others, there will be a clear limit set by the game, WHICH I WILL TELL YOU. If you go past these numbers, you WILL mess up your game. This is important. Respec the limits.[/INDENT]
2. Thou Shall Create Backup Files[INDENT]Those of you who want to do some serious cheating are probably just bored with the game. But trust me, sooner or later you'll want to play it how it was ment to be played. Besides that, sometimes you're going to mess up a file and need the origional. FOR EVERY FILE YOU EDIT, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE ORIGINAL SAVED SOMEWHERE ELSE! Make an extra folder on your desktop called 'Backups' or something like that. For every file you edit, store the original in this file (with the original name). Therefore, when you mess up (and eventually, you're going to mess up), you can simply replace the file with the original. [/INDENT]
3. Do Not Attempt the Impossible[INDENT]Do not make the minimum number higher then the maximum number. Do not try to resize objects to something smaller then they really are. Do not.[/INDENT]
4. If at First You Don't Suceed, Restore it With the Backup File.[INDENT]If you mess up on something that I give you clear instructions to do, the firs thing is to replace the file you edited with the original backup file. That way, if you accidentaly did something like delete a space or quote mark, you don't have to comb through everything, you can just start fresh.[/INDENT]
5. Don't do ANYTHING 'Just to See What Happens'[INDENT]Do not change the codenames of two objects to the exact same thing 'just to see what happens'. Do not move an animal file over to the building's folder 'just to see what happens'. Do not change an animal's location to 'albuquerque_newmexico' 'just to see what happens'. Chances are, if you don't know what will happen, your game will crash and you'll end up having to do something drastic like reinstall it.[/INDENT]
6. Don't Blame Methane (or anyone else but yourself).[INDENT]This guide is telling you how to mutilate your game. Neither Methane or Zoo Admin is responsible if you seriously mess up your game. I'm going to tell you how to be careful, but if you have to reinstall (or even rebuy) your game, or have major computer problems, it isn't our fault. So let me say this just one more time: You edit game files at your own risk.[/INDENT]
7. If it Isn't Explained, Don't Try it[INDENT]There is a lot of sensitive stuff in the game files you are about to tear appart. If you decide to break the fith commandment and change stuff around that you shouldn't, you could seriously mess up your game. Because you aren't given specific instructions, I have created a rule of thumb: If you do not know what a number, word, or bit of code means, do NOT change it unless you ask a coder to help you identify it. I'm always happy to help anyone out with coding, just PM me.[/INDENT]
8. It is Assumed that You are Intelligent[INDENT]These guides are written by a fourteen year old freshman (from southern California, no less. For shame.). It is assumed that if SHE can understand this, then with a little brain power on your part, YOU can understand it. I'm writing this somewhat step by step, and if you reach the site's required age limit, you should get what I'm telling you, even if you don't understand it. If you have trouble, feel free to PM me. But before you come whining with a question like 'How do I open z2f files?', you should look at the guide to see if your question has already been answered.[/INDENT]
9. If, After Repeated Tries, You Can't Get it, Stop.[INDENT]If you've been trying a single bit of editing for half an hour, and you just CAN'T understand it, and you CAN'T find the right peice of code, and it ISN'T working, and you're getting VERY irritated, then STOP. If you don't have the skills to cheat, you don't deserve to, and I mean that in the best possible way. I'm not trying to belittle those with less experiance, but unless you simply MUST have that certian cheat edited in, then you should try something easier. You can also PM me if you need help, and I'll be glad to answer any questions you have.[/INDENT]
10. Know your Limits[INDENT]Besides the number limits in the first commandment, there are a few other ones. Like, when to stop. Editing every file on the game to your tastes isn't a good idea. The people who designed this game spent, I imagine, more then a year or two on this game. They spent a LONG time figuring out how to fit everything together just right. Once you've gone in and changed a whole bunch of stuff around, you need to know when to stop.[/INDENT]
The next post will go over basic game file editing.
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