Variables Comparison Help

[martix]

I have 2 savegames here - one is working and one is broken.
I also have an editor for the game that can modify the save's global variables.

Now - I need to compare those 2 sets of vars to each other to see what is broken. Going thru 1K of the by hand is out of the question, so I need some automation.
Any help greatly appreciated.

[martix]

Question:
How do I copy a chunk of memory?

I found where all the variables reside in memory, but I cannot copy that chunk to any editor and so I cannot compare anything at the moment.

[minorutono]

Uhh. Try looking at the area in the Hex Editor.

[martix]

Yea but how do I copy the code?

[minorutono]

Do you need to copy it or do you just have to compare it?

Try this : open the Hex Editor, take a SS of the area you wanna compare, paste it into MS Paint or Adobe PS or w/e. Go back to your game, move things around, compare the Live Hex Editor with the SS.

Would that work?

[spunge]

Assuming the file is not an executable, and the file is not encrypted or have additional virtual allocations, just use a .diff engine.

[martix]

Well since I did not find any way to copy the code, I used a screen capture utility that turned what it saw to text.
But it took a lot of time to do for all of them. Then I had to format with some regexes, then to write something to compare them... whole lot of stuff.
But I did it in the end.

[L. Spiro]

Select what you want to copy in the Hex Editor.

Edit/Copy As/Copy As Hex Text (Ctrl-Shift-C).

4D 5A 90 00 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 00 00 00 0E 1F BA 0E 00 B4 09 CD 21 B8 01 4C CD 21 54 68 69 73 20 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 20 63 61 6E 6E 6F 74 20 62 65 20 72 75 6E 20 69 6E 20 44 4F 53 20 6D 6F 64 65 2E 0D 0D 0A 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 9E 5A 34 7B DA 3B 5A 28 DA 3B 5A 28 DA 3B 5A 28 FD FD 21 28 D8 3B 5A 28 FD FD 27 28 DF 3B 5A 28 FD FD 37 28 D4 3B 5A 28 19 34 07 28 DD 3B 5A 28 DA 3B 5B 28 98 3B 5A 28 FD FD 34 28 D6 3B 5A 28 FD FD 26 28 DB 3B 5A 28 FD FD 22 28 DB 3B 5A 28 52 69 63 68 DA 3B 5A 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 45 00 00 4C 01 05 00 FA 0E 9C 49 00 00 00 00

L. Spiro