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Farm Frenzy

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Farm Frenzy is a cheaply-made game about being lazy and buying cats and dogs by the cargo ship full to do your farm work for you. Too bad they can't water the lawn.

To do:

  • The bulk of the game seems to reside under "Farm Frenzy\Data\data.pack", with its translates residing under a second .pack file in the same location. In the case of English, it's en.pack. Figure out how to get into it to see its contents.
  • Documenting what gets dumped with the debug settings would be nice.

Debug Settings#

By default, the game lacks any debug settings. They can be enabled by editing settings.xml under Farm Frenzy\Data\sys. Below is every single known debug option enabled, so you can copy and paste it into your game.

settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<main>
    <Game LevelsCount="45" />
    <Sound Music="27"
            Sound="23" />
    <Time MaxFps="200"
            MinFps="30" />
    <game DumpStrings="1"
            LastUser="TCRF"
            LogLevels="1"
            LogResources="1"
            profiles="Profiles"
            show_map_num="1"
            window_title="Farm Frenzy" />
    <graphics ShowSysCursor="1"
                back_color="0xff000000"
                border_texture="heaven01.dds"
                colorbit="1"
                fullscreen="1"
                height="600"
                refrashrate="75"
                reserve_sprite_count="3000"
                show_fps="1"
                show_triangles="1"
                width="800" />
</main>