Need for Speed II

Developers
EA Canada
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release Date
Windows: March 31, 1997
Genres
Simulator Racing
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Actions

Name	Path	Arguments	Working Directory	Primary
Play	nfs2se-gl2.exe			True

Name Change Script

This script patches the config.dat file found in the user's AppData\Roaming\.nfs2se\config folder that is created by the NFSIISE port created by zaps166. The config file has no checksum so modifying the player names is as simple as patching two locations in the binary.

$NewName = $args[0]
$InstallDir = $PSScriptRoot

function Get-AsciiBytes([string]$InputString, [int]$MaxLength)
{
    if ($InputString.Length -gt $MaxLength)
    {
        $InputString = $InputString.Substring(0, $MaxLength)
    }

    $bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($InputString)
    $array = @()
    $count = 0

    $extraPadding = $MaxLength - $bytes.Length

    foreach ($byte in $bytes)
    {
        if ($count -lt $MaxLength)
        {
            $array += $byte
            $count++
        }
    }

    for ($i = $count; $i -lt $MaxLength; $i++)
    {
        $array += 0x00
    }

    return $bytes
}

function Patch-Binary([byte[]]$Data, [int]$Offset, [string]$FilePath)
{
    $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($FilePath)

    for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Data.Length; $i++)
    {
        $bytes[$Offset + $i] = $Data[$i]
    }

    [System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($FilePath, $bytes)
}

$rawBytes = Get-AsciiBytes -InputString $newName -MaxLength 8

Patch-Binary -FilePath "$($env:APPDATA)\.nfs2se\config.dat" -Offset 228 -Data $rawBytes
Patch-Binary -FilePath "$($env:APPDATA)\.nfs2se\config.dat" -Offset 428 -Data $rawBytes