NFS High Stakes EXE addresses and modifications.

[pete9516]

Wouldn't it be nice if the cheat codes UP1, UP2 and UP3 would work in any game mode so you could adjust the looks of your car?

Many people have wanted that for a long time, but it seems to be quite an intense amount of work to find the adresses for this and to do that. I wouldn't know where to start actually

[Herms]

Is it possible to enable traffics and cops in Career mode ? Knockouts with traffics and High Stakes with cops can be interesting.

Appears that someone named Scarface has enabled traffic in career mode in a recently uploaded mod

[nikon]

Is it possible to enable traffics and cops in Career mode ? Knockouts with traffics and High Stakes with cops can be interesting.

It is actually possible, but it requires some careful modification of the exe file.
As a test, I managed to add a minimal amount of traffic to Career mode (started with 2 cars, no cops yet), and then use all the slots that are not occupied by AI or the player.
In a normal career, this gives about 8-10 traffic cars.
But if you want a 16-car tournament (15 AI + player), there will be no traffic at all, because the game only has 16 slots in total.

Personally, I was more focused to making a "Race Again" button for Career mode first.
And yes, that is also possible now, but it still needs some time to polish and stabilize before it's ready.

[pete9516]

Is it possible to enable traffics and cops in Career mode ? Knockouts with traffics and High Stakes with cops can be interesting.

It is actually possible, but it requires some careful modification of the exe file.
As a test, I managed to add a minimal amount of traffic to Career mode (started with 2 cars, no cops yet), and then use all the slots that are not occupied by AI or the player.
In a normal career, this gives about 8-10 traffic cars.
But if you want a 16-car tournament (15 AI + player), there will be no traffic at all, because the game only has 16 slots in total.

Personally, I was more focused to making a "Race Again" button for Career mode first.
And yes, that is also possible now, but it still needs some time to polish and stabilize before it's ready.

You can only have up to 14 AI racers, if you put 15, the game crashes

[nikon]

It is actually possible, but it requires some careful modification of the exe file.
As a test, I managed to add a minimal amount of traffic to Career mode (started with 2 cars, no cops yet), and then use all the slots that are not occupied by AI or the player.
In a normal career, this gives about 8-10 traffic cars.
But if you want a 16-car tournament (15 AI + player), there will be no traffic at all, because the game only has 16 slots in total.

Personally, I was more focused to making a "Race Again" button for Career mode first.
And yes, that is also possible now, but it still needs some time to polish and stabilize before it's ready.

You can only have up to 14 AI racers, if you put 15, the game crashes

You are absolutely right about the original exe file.
Even if you edit the career file and set 15 opponents, the game just crashes.
It only launches with 14, but you can't actually complete a tournament with that many anyway.
The starting positions for the next track are generated incorrectly too (the player always ends up last).
But I edited the exe file so the game doesn't crash and actually works with 15+1, with 16 cars total.
This allowed me to run both tournaments and knockouts, and even complete them to the end and receive the reward.
On top of that, I'm trying to go further and replace the hardcoded tournament score table with a dynamic one.
It seems to be working, but still needs testing and bug fixing...

I managed to record a test video of this.
If it's appropriate to share here, I'd be post the YouTube link.

[Remko]

Posting Youtube links (or embedding them) is fine, go ahead.

[nikon]

Posting Youtube links (or embedding them) is fine, go ahead.

Thanks for the permission!

16-car tournament testing:

16-car knockout testing (+ custom eliminated car count): 

As an example, you can see that when there are 16 participants, no traffic cars appear.
However, starting from the second race, after 5 participants have been eliminated, 5 traffic cars appear.
In the knockout video, according to the setting, the number of traffic cars should then remain at 5 for all subsequent races, even when more than 5 slots become available (from the third race onward).

The research is still in an early stage, and there are quite a few things that still need to be checked and tested.
I also used the EXE file patched with the veg.by mod as my base, so the patch may not be compatible with other patches or modified executables.

[nikon]

In the video where I was testing the 16-car knockout, I came across an interesting sorting (?) issue.
In the second race, two AI drivers had exactly the same finish time, and they happened to be right on the elimination cutoff.
There were 11 participants, with 4 to be eliminated. The two AI drivers were clearly in a close battle and crossed the finish line at the same time, taking 7th and 8th places respectively.
However, the AI driver who finished in 7th place was eliminated instead of the one in 8th place.
I think this might be related to how the results are sorted when the finish times are identical, but it needs further investigation. In practice, I think this is probably a fairly rare occurrence.

[Herms]

Very interesting observations. 16 car tournaments look like a lot of fun. Even 14 cars with a few traffic would be neat. Good luck in your research and thanks for sharing!

[EvoX]

In the video where I was testing the 16-car knockout, I came across an interesting sorting (?) issue.
In the second race, two AI drivers had exactly the same finish time, and they happened to be right on the elimination cutoff.
There were 11 participants, with 4 to be eliminated. The two AI drivers were clearly in a close battle and crossed the finish line at the same time, taking 7th and 8th places respectively.
However, the AI driver who finished in 7th place was eliminated instead of the one in 8th place.
I think this might be related to how the results are sorted when the finish times are identical, but it needs further investigation. In practice, I think this is probably a fairly rare occurrence.

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[Venko]

That career editor will turn out awesome.
Is there any way to have 16 racers outside of career mode, in single race for example?

[nikon]

That career editor will turn out awesome.
Is there any way to have 16 racers outside of career mode, in single race for example?

I think it should be possible eventually.

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

This is still just the very beginning, and for now I'm mainly focused on Career mode.
I haven't gotten around to Single Race mode yet.

I'll try to consolidate my current work and put together a preliminary patch as soon as I can, but I can't promise when it will be ready yet.

With the current editor, you can set up to 14 opponents in Knockout mode (giving you 15 cars in total).
That's the maximum that can work in the unpatched version, as pete9516 mentioned above.
The player will also be placed in the last starting position for every race (although it's actually pretty fun to start at the back of the grid).

For Tournament mode, you can theoretically set more than 7 AI opponents as well, but in that case you won't be able to complete the entire tournament.
The points system also doesn't work properly, and the Standings table crashes the game.

I've managed to overcome most of the issues I described above, and with the patch, 16 participants are quite playable.