Command & Conquer Generals - Variables and game.dat

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Likely the last of the last of the last Generals videos. Wanted to finish with a way to find things others may have missed. Hex reading won't work in most games as they're encrypted. Unless you can crack the encryption. There's usually a little fun we can have with these old games.

The easiest way to find something in the INI files is to folder load them in to something like Notepad++ and perform a search through all files. However that only reveals features which the game uses. There may be removed features or old design that aren't in the INI files. For those, we can try to dig through data files with a hex editor.

Command and Conquer Generals Modding Playlist:
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoKC73clba2ILbkGkm983QFuQzYwHbzF5

Investigation docs:
- animation types
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A0HWLWdNpBPq5a62rVYvM4PeeOdMxG4h
- behaviours
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xmAdDWG--9_nmHq3xZcmN-azUo5hfT2h
- bodys
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OMo2MrBGjbl6yo4DdeLgPh8b0YkkzyNx
- client updates
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rb3fo3qxM27vn_OR3G-u8Br4GD6itNPh
- damage types
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/100OiTYS3MqEUaUVMl5QHQ00Uh4tQvMNb
- super weapon enums
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cSgl4gzDjg7QjksAtSuL_Dc_lLuw4v1w
- unknown (was searching through behaviours)
-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iGDxlmXjDlM6bAaCtzTIg777YMHO8Z_b

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