I've played the entire series (sans QFG5) a ton of times over my past 20 years (yes literally 20). At this point, I'm looking to bypass a bit of the stat grind, such as lock picking, etc. and just edit the values. I was able to easily do a hex difference on my saves in QFG1 and the VGA remake of QFG2 and edit what I needed, but apparently QFG4 is different. If I diff the same exact two games (the only difference being the fact that the second one was saved a few seconds later) there's a ton of changes. My usual tricks of finding the stat values in the save file don't work, and nor does this advice: http://www.sierrahelp.com/Cheats/QfG4Cheat.html regarding what to search for.

It's probably a long shot, but if anyone has advice on how/what to search for (or heck, even a game editor) I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I'll be slowly grinding while I await a reply and it may solve itself! Thanks.