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Infinite Map expansion

By Jjustice

So you like playing the game on easy, medium or difficult but you want to keep expanding?
Uh oh!
It looks like you can only get 10 expansions :(
What if you could get... Infinite?

This is how you do it.

UPDATE: According to @d2_god1 "For latest update, you just need to update the west one"

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Category: Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration

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21 Nov, 2022 @ 4:23pm

24 Mar, 2024 @ 11:27am

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How to expand the map (save editing)

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How to expand the map (save editing)

Step 1: Make sure you expanded the map to the North, West, South or east at least 8 times minimum or even if it's at the max of 10, that's great!

Step 2: Go to %appdata%/locallow/pedepe gbr/City Bus Manager/ Saves and find your save file (example.save).
Make a backup of it, just in case.

Step 3: You need to download HxD, you could try the Hex editor of notepad++ but idk how that one works.

Step 4: Load the save file into HxD

Step 5: Press CTRL + F (or go to search > find > text-string) and type in "mapexpansion" and press "Search all"

Step 6: You will see

that it highlights "mapexpansionnorth", the following steps you will need to repeat with "mapexpansionsouth", "mapexpansionwest", and "mapexpansioneast".
So what you need to focus on is "...mapexpansionnorth....", you click on the first "." after the "h" in "mapexpansionorth", so basically the first dot AFTER the word.

what you will notice is that on the right side at "data inspector" you will see "lnt8" which will have a number ranging from 1-10.
This number indicates how many map expansions you can still do.
So if you have reached the maximum of "10" in your save file, it should say "10".
Simply change the number from 10 back to 1, it should automatically change the numbers on "ulnt8, lnt16 etc etc".
Now repeat this process with the other mapexpansions. After all are reset back to 1, save and load the game and you will see that you have 9 extra expansions!

You can do this infinitely, however depending on your pc, it could lag.
I've managed to cover the whole country of the Netherlands and a part of Belgium as well.

Have fun!
Save often and make sure to always have a save backup incase you accidentally do something wrong while editing the save file

UPDATE: According to @d2_god1 "For latest update, you just need to update the west one"

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Ticksy 19 Jul @ 11:52am

Does not work. it says "109" instead of "10" at the int8 file. :/

andoblock 2 Oct, 2024 @ 5:45am

Is someone able to hex my map please if i upload it to a host?

Flippy 19 May, 2024 @ 9:40pm

Found a workaround!
The string right after "mapexpansionwest" contains the text "anorth". If you edit the value after the letter H, then you can change the north/south map expansion.

_T_B_N_ 11 May, 2024 @ 4:19pm

It still works, except it says "109" instead of "10" at the int8 file. But if you change it to 0 the map expansions are still reset.

kamil.84 24 Apr, 2024 @ 4:28am

@Bolus I think, it was changed again.. :/

Bolus 15 Apr, 2024 @ 1:26pm

@Junna Shortly after mapexpensionwest it says north, you need to edit this value to 0 too and this will unlock both north south expansion.

@Jjustgreg: For updating the guide: Search mapexpansionwest, place cursor after the t of west, edit value to 0, then place your cursor after the h of north a line down en edit this value to 0. This should clear things up

Junna 7 Apr, 2024 @ 10:05am

The others (those that are not 'mapextension west') appear garbled when opened in the hex editor now. Replacing the 'west' of them only changes that one (west), and the others cannot be expanded in, and I can't figure out how to select them, because they are not searchable and none of the numbers seem to be right.

Jjustice [author] 24 Mar, 2024 @ 11:27am

@d2_god1 updated it in the guide as a note.
Thanks for letting me know!

d2_god1 24 Mar, 2024 @ 9:20am

Figured it out. For latest update, you just need to update the west one

d2_god1 24 Mar, 2024 @ 8:40am

no longer works with update..?
Only can find mapextensionwest ... rest cant be found. Or am I missing something

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