Comments on: Terminal Hacking Tool For Fallout 3

By: bonraven

bonraven — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:52:07 +0000

Thank you for this. Many thanks.

By: BrrGrrDelux

BrrGrrDelux — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:41:24 +0000

My PC doesn’t play well with task switching in Fallout 3, but your little program works every single time when I can manage to use it without locking up…

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:17:59 +0000

Works everytime. Thanks

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:15:41 +0000

Works like a charm everytime thank u soooooo much

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:14:05 +0000

My thanks!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:49:29 +0000

Hi there,

I just got Fallout 3 over Christmas in the Steam sales, and now I’ve played a fair way through it (the main mission and a few of the expansions anyway) the problem of the “right” way to solve this mini game struck me as a good programming exercise when learning a new language. had a look around the internet and have seen a few solutions (such as http://www.hack-boy.com/ ) which filter the out the impossible words for you when you input your selections, but I can tell that it really is important which one you actually select of the available options. In the interests of learning something new I decided to write a python app with a GTK+ based gui. I think I’ve got a sensible way of selecting the “best” option to select by checking all of the available options against all of the possible remaining outcomes and scoring them based on which ones have the lowest worst possible outcome.

When it comes to testing it, my first thought was to simply select random words from a dictionary, but it seems that isn’t what fallout is actually doing, because they often have words with similar endings present which random dictionary selections don’t seem to. I noticed that you seem to imply that you keep a record of the queries that have been input (you said “I’ve tried your tool with other examples which mine didn’t find” ) and I was wondering if it would be possible to get a copy of some of your test data so that I can test my WIP against some data without having to have my copy of Fallout at hand (been playing with it in my lunch hour at work) once I get my app working I intent to publish the source as an into to python/gtk and I’d be more than happy to share/discuss my algorithm with you if you’re interested.

Rob

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:03:49 +0000

this worked the 1st time i used it, will use it everytime i find a terminal, thank you, good work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:26:17 +0000

how do you find out the number of matches for each word?

By: AEonProphet

AEonProphet — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:15:10 +0000

Any chance you could release this under GPL? I'm creating a stand-alone Java app that uses a database (JavaDB or SQLite3) to track statistics of all words and incorrect/correct answers. When I first started, it was unable to provide any answer. It then grew to over 50% correct and has now (apparently) stagnated at 78% correct on the first guess, with odds improving little as guesses progress. It's got me stumped. I haven't yet figured out how you do it, but I do imagine that once I know, I can adapt the code (naturally making the whole project GPL and readily available) so that the first guess will be correct far more often, and the second prediction correct 100% of the time. At that point, I'd like to release it as an app for the iPhone and Android. (And I could use another tester then...got an iPhone?) I've given some consideration to using OCR technology so a user could take a picture of the screen instead of typing all that text on a tiny keyboard/touch screen.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

By: Reece

Reece — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:55:06 +0000

This works well for me. I’ve only ever had one rare occasion where it’s messed up, but seeing as I’ve used this program about 20 times that’s good. Thanks for posting this.