Colonization 1 - Playing as Indians

[Blake00]

Hey guys,

Is there a way to take control of one or all of the Indian nations? In Civ1 you could take control of the Barbarian/Pirate red slot by using a Hex editor or save game editor so I'm wondering about Colonization.

When activating cheat mode in Colonization the 'set human player' option predictably only allows selecting the 4 European nations so that's no good. I could swear that around 18 or so years ago I saw someone talking in a forum about being able to do it via a hex editor but I can't seem to find anything now as any search seems to bring up conversations on various forums about playing as indians with the Civ 4 Col remake and not the original game.

I've managed to find an old thread at CivFantics and also a website that appear to be referring to what I saw all those years ago. Someone called 'EdBigHead' was able to hack the game and play as the Sioux. Wish I could find how he did it.

Guessing it would be glitchy as hell but would be interesting to check out and see how much I can get away with.

[T-hawk]

Here's how this sort of thing is reverse engineered. Start with some savegame. Use that cheat to switch civs. Save to a new file. Use a tool to compare the files and see what changed. Maybe one particular byte changed from 1 to 2... so hey let's see what happens if you hex-edit that byte to be 0.

[Blake00]

@T-hawk it looks like that's exactly what someone did haha. Looks like I've finally got my answer!

This fellow was able to take control of the Indians via a hex editor however it was sadly unplayable! This must have been what 'EdBigHead' did way back in the day. I'll have to follow his guide and have my own play around.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/c...t-15635536

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