Jagged Alliance 2 Biography Editor
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(c) 2001 by Linx



Description:
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JA2BE is a program for editing the biography files (aimbios.edt/mercbios.edt) in Jagged Alliance 2. If you want to change the current files, make sure they are in the same directory as ja2be.exe. You can also start a new file.
To take effect, the files should be placed in the DATA\BINARYDATA subdirectory of JA2's main directory, you don't need to start a new game.


Versions:
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v1.00 alpha:
	First release of program, many bugs.
v1.00 beta:
	Lots of bugs fixed, gives an error message when you used enter and are trying to save.
v1.00:
	Icon added, no changes.


File descriptions:
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AIMBIOS.EDT and MERCBIOS.EDT look very similar, only that AIMBIOS.EDT has 40 records and MERCBIOS.EDT has 11. All JA2 .edt files are 'encrypted'. To decrypt, remove every second byte (which is usually 0) and decrease every 'real' byte which has a value between 34 and 128 by one.
Each record contains two null-terminated strings, the first 400 bytes long and the second 160 bytes long. The records follow each other up, so the length of AIMBIOS.EDT is (400+160)*40*2=44800 bytes.