How to Recover Your Faldon Password By Spectre Introduction “Help! I’ve been ASCIIed!” Is a common quote heard around the Faldon world. This is usually the result of carelessness on the part of owner, either by giving someone else access to their account or by changing their password to ASCII characters. So, then, even once you know what the ASCII (alt+###) codes are for the characters in the password, you still can’t type them into the Faldon login screen. What is a person to do? The answer is to memory edit. This guide will provide a step-by-step method to recover your Faldon character after being ASCIIed. Getting Started Retrieving the Password There are a few things you need to have/know before we can get started. The first thing you need is your passwords. Do a password retrieve by starting Faldon, typing in your account name, and pressing the “Lost Password” button. After that, you will receive an email to the email account you registered with. The email will say something like: Using Excel to Get the ASCII Codes Now that you have the email telling you your passwords, we need to determine the ASCII codes for the password. The easiest way to do this, in my opinion, is to open up Excel and use it to get you the passwords. If you don’t have Excel, there are other ways to do it, but I’ll not include them here. Within Excel, you can use the “=CODE(text)” function to get the ASCII code for the first letter in the given ‘text’ string. An example spreadsheet including the ASCII codes for our test character is shown below: Acquiring TSearch Now that we have the ASCII codes for the password we need to get around the fact that the Faldon client won’t let us straight type the ASCII codes into the password box. We will use TSearch to facilitate this. TSearch can be downloaded from http://membres.lycos.fr/tsearch/ . Recovering the Character So, we have the tools and the information, now how do we use it all? Firstly, I’ll suggest switching Faldon to windowed mode (from within the setup). Start off by starting Faldon and logging in to the character selection screen. Once you’re at the character selection screen, select the character that is ASCIIed. Now, click on the password box and type in a unique string that has the same number of characters as the real password. Make sure that the string is unique enough that it’s not going to occur anywhere, even by accident, in the Faldon’s memory. For example, our password is 8 characters long, so we might use something like “getalife”. Now that you’ve typed it in, we need to switch to TSearch, but pressing tab (as in alt+tab) will enter your password. The solution is to press the Windows Key ( ) and then click on the start menu. This will effectively take the focus away from Faldon and allow you to work in TSearch. Start TSearch and click on the “Open Process” button. Then, select “client.exe” from the list. Then, click the “Hex Editor” button. A window with lots of cryptic text will appear. Click the “Find” button. In the Find dialog, make sure the “Value” radio buttons are set to “Ascii” and not “Hex”. Then, in the “Find What” textbox, type your string, “getalife” in our case. Then press the “Find Next” button. This will bring us to the place in Faldon’s memory where the text in the password box is stored. For plain text characters, we can click on the letters in the right hand column and type them in. For the ASCII coded numbers, we must input them in one of two ways. Some ASCII codes can be entered in TSearch by pressing ALT+####. Our 7th character can be entered in this way. It’s ASCII code is 206, so we type it in by holding ALT and typing 0206 on the numeric keypad. Then release ALT and the character is entered. (Note that the second 66 (7th number in the 2nd row) has changed to “CE” in the image below. Note how that was the Hex number in our Excel file.) For the last one, we will enter it in another way. If we click on the “65” next to “CE” in the 2nd row, we can enter the final character’s ASCII code in this way. However, to do this we need to know the hex value of the decimal number. The last decimal ASCII code number is 2, which, conveniently, the hex equivalent is 02. We enter this value into the grid on the left. It now looks like this. Now, we’ve entered the password. We must now switch back to Faldon. You can now press enter and log in. But, now that we’ve gotten into Faldon, you’ll want to change your password. In the chat box, type “changepassword newpassword”, where newpassword is your new password. Closing Congratulations, you’ve now recovered your Faldon password. Now, this time, don’t screw-up and have to go through this process again. ☺