hi, since JA2 Unfinshed Business is so hard to win (it should be called Unbalanced Business cause the bad guys are overpowered, have far better equipment, they all seem to be marksman/sniper cause they always hit me. , none of the existing "cheats" work, and many of the "trainers" i tried either don't work or were flagged as suspicous by AV/ MBAM. Ja2 was hard but it was possible to win, JA2 is really impossible to win unless you are willing to spend a year or so ....


The 1.06 patch that should allow the ja2UB cheats to work doesn't exist, haven't found it yet and many links were false they simply had a 1.0 or similar patch but not the famous 1.06.

I decided to make a trainer in VBnet2010 because VB5x and 6x don't work on win7 64 bits i have to use the poor mans VB2010 net.:.. VB5/6 was easier to learn anfd less bloated compared to any .net version.

I know the proces i have to read but don't know how to,, the simple VB5/6 peek/poke/ and similar are replaced and everything has become more complicated in VB net .

the JA2UB.exe *32 has to be 'searched '

check attachment: JA2_UB.png

I found a few adresses( they seem to call them offset) that store/have the value of ammo (ammunition)
as far as i could see it looks like the location are the same

one example is the name of the items and number of ammo for that weapon : 76A43E and 76A514
but there are dozens of items and everyone has its own "adress" so that will make things impossible :D
I found a way to use a simple old tool ( 100% really virusfree) on my old cd backups and it still works but its too much hassle to tab back and forth to manually edit the ammo clip value, too stime consuming.

I would like to read the adress , shown the adress i search for to show the value in a textbox or other object so i can see what value they have , put a link on the button to write the value back into that memory position which is easier then doing it manually by eddtiing the vaulues in the searchtool.

Anyway i know it's a lot of work but it can be done, i did it years ago in vb5/6...
C++ is not an option cause vbnet 2010 t is already a tough nut to crack :D
Getting the spy++ and similar 'scripts' also not an option, they were als flagged as suspicious by AV and MBAM so i am limited to VB net 2010.

I have not played these ones since a couple of years after they came out (originally, not in GOG), and not even in my own computer so I might be wrong about any and all of this.

As far as I know there is no official 1.06 patch for JA2: Unfinished Business. The latest official version was 1.01, as you can see in this archive of the official website from 2008:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080813124431/http://www.jaggedalliance2.com/unfinishedbusiness/index.html

That is the version GOG has according to this post and this other post, as well as the readme files in the install directory (I just installed it from my backup to check before posting here).

The only 1.06 versions of JA games are of JA1 and JA2, not of JA2UB. And even then, 1.06 is not the final official patch for either: those are 1.13 for JA1, and 1.12 for JA2 (Gold). Which are also the versions that GOG has.

As far as I could tell the only mentions of a JA2UB 1.06 are related to cheats, by people confused about the versioning numbers (much like this post), because JA2 had cheats that needed v1.06 or later to work.

Please someone more knowledgeable about the games correct me if I am wrong about something here.

Technically final official one there is 1.13b, not 1.13. That letter make a huge difference, as just 1.13[no letter] is malformed and broken release, with 1.13b required to get a properly working game. And yes, GOG sells broken game here, not patched to 1.13b.

Assuming you're bout your post - i dont know, i never played JA2, i just clarified JA1 part , coz you wrote: Assuming you're bout the thread overall - it will take too long to cover all wrongs already appeared in it, well.

Yes, that's what I asked. If you don't know that's all right. Someone else can tell us later probably.

yes it works ...thanks a lot for the info.... i also have the bears pit in my bookmarks and favorites, i must have missed the info.... gues i'm getting old , and that's maybe why picking up vbnet2010 seems to fail ....because, 10+ years ago everything went smooth an easy , but now things seem to require more time before i get it :D

Anyway thanks for the info, it works and i can finally finish the game, thanks a lot to all you people for the help.
I marked Links as the Solution ... so if needed a mod can close this topic cause problem is now solved.