So, lately I’ve been playing a recently-localized jRPG called Fortune Summoners. It’s a light-hearted ‘girly’ game with gorgeous graphics and story, just what you need to brighten these gloomy days. Its battle system has room for improvement, but thankfully the game lends itself to hacking easily, so progress shouldn’t be a problem.
Which brings me to the point of this post: a complete list of all 171 items and their Cheat Engine codes has already been compiled by yours truly, and are presented below:
Have you ever played games that look and feel great at first glance, but after five minutes or so you’ll come across glaring design mistakes and game-breaking technical bugs? These unpolished gems are a goldmine of secrets for the cheat-conscious gamer; a few simple hacks often reveal unused goodies the hasty developer carelessly left in the game.
Enter Scarlet Stranger, a Zelda-esque action RPG with charming graphics and all the shortcomings mentioned above. The folks at Jayisgames did a great job reviewing the game already, so I’ll only mention stuff relevant to this post.
1. Get secret items via inventory hack.
There are about half a dozen items that didn’t make it to the final game, but are still there, hidden. These include quest items such as a map and compass, along with interesting upgrades like the pouch that upgrades your carrying capacity.
To hack this, hook Cheat Engine (CE) to the Flash player, start a Flash*8 search and follow the steps below:
Visit the shop with some item in your inventory (a piece of rock or wood will do).
Add another or the same item back to that same crafting slot and do a search for its itemID.
Soon you’ll get only one address. Put something into the crafting slot again, change its ID to one of the rare item IDs, say, 9.
Remove the item from the crafting slot, and voila: in the inventory, the item morphs into your desired item!
Repeat for other items and values as desired.
Besides unearthing secret items, you can also use this trick to make gameplay easier: turn a piece of leather into a valuable gold bar or even into the cursed ring right away!
The day may come when Elovac no longer works for your game (or didn’t work to begin with) for whatever reasons. No worries though; it’s easy to fix it. Think of it as an old piano that needs fine-tuning now and then to work as it should. This is how it goes:
Get into an empty shelter.
Drop an item (stacked is best).
In CE, search for the amount of item you dropped.
Pick up the item(s).
In CE, search for 0.
Add the only remaining address to the list of addresses.
Offset this address by 54 using Smart Edit (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Enter).
This address is the new Elovac item 1 address. Compare it with the old one.
Get the difference between the new and old address using a calculator in hex mode.
Using the difference, offset all the addresses in Elovac by another Smart Edit.
Check it in the nearest town, when most values are 1, you got Elovac working. Congrats!
Check out this video where I fine-tuned Elovac using the above method:
If you have any questions, post them in the comments below. Have fun!
Elovac is a series of Cheat Engine cheatcodes that enable players to pick up items from the ground, even when they’d normally not be able to. With these codes, it’s possible to pick up items on moongate usermaps, among other things. Check out Elovac in action here. And this is how to use it:
1. Open elovac1.ct in Cheat Engine.
Check the values; most of them should show the same value depending on your location:
Elovac Codesheet: what do the values mean?
Elovac Value
Location
Item Status
*not sure yet
*other than loot
*constructions
0
Home, your buildings etc.
Can pick it up
1
Towns, dungeons*
Cannot pick it up
2*
World map
Can pick it up*
4
Harvest quests
Picking up takes time.
5
User maps (eum)
Cannot pick it up
9*
info pending
info pending
2. Turn all 1s and 5s into 0s, so you can pick up items from local towns and online moongates. Easy as pie. And now some pics in spoilers: