Posted February 24, 2023
I've seen posts here of people being annoyed that they couldn't change the name of the Mayor in this version of Simcity 2000. I've had my own issues with that, which is how I found them.
Anyway, I stumbled across an old-ish perl script (approx. 11 years old as of Feb 2023) by John Barret that can patch the SC2000.DAT file with a name that you choose. Since I was bored, and it seemed like a decently easy thing to do, I went ahead and ported it to C and Python for people who don't like/can't use perl.
Link here.
The release has binaries for Windows (32-bit) and Linux (32 and 64-bit). Mac guys can either compile the included source code themselves or use the Python file included in the archive.
I've tested the Linux version, but not the Windows binary (cross-compiled). Hopefully someone finds these useful.
Anyway, I stumbled across an old-ish perl script (approx. 11 years old as of Feb 2023) by John Barret that can patch the SC2000.DAT file with a name that you choose. Since I was bored, and it seemed like a decently easy thing to do, I went ahead and ported it to C and Python for people who don't like/can't use perl.
Link here.
The release has binaries for Windows (32-bit) and Linux (32 and 64-bit). Mac guys can either compile the included source code themselves or use the Python file included in the archive.
I've tested the Linux version, but not the Windows binary (cross-compiled). Hopefully someone finds these useful.
