+Glenn Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 First things first, the disclaimer. This will void your warranty. If you do not know what you are doing you run the risk of bricking your GPS. If you know what you are doing you run the risk of bricking your GPS. If you brick your GPS you will have to send it back to Magellan for them to fix at your own expense. I offer no warranty. I offer no technical assistance. The information presented here is for software version 1.7. There is a very good chance that Magellan will make changes in future versions that will null and void all the information provided here and could very well cause you to brick your GPS. I am not responsible for anything you do to your GPS with the information provided here. The information provided here is for informational purposes only. By manipulating the Awards.ini file you can add or remove any or all of the awards to your Explorist GC Awards page. The awards.ini file is accessed by connecting your GPS to your PC. Then navigation to the APP folder and finding the Awards.ini file. At this point is important to make a backup of this file. I highly suggest you copy this file to a safe place on your PC. Do this now before you do anything else. I know it is tempting to dive right in to editing this file but if you don't make a backup and you make a mistake editing you will never be able to recover from the mistake! Open the Awards.ini file in any text editor. I prefer Notepad because it is simple to use and I know it won't mess up the file by adding anything extra to it. It should look something like this: [Awards] NumOfGeocachesFound=8 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[0]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[1]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[2]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[3]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[4]=1 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[5]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[6]=7 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[7]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[8]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[9]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[10]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[11]=0 NumOfGeocachesTypesFound[12]=0 UnlocablesFlags[0]=4096 UnlocablesFlags[1]=14 What we are interest in are the two UnlocablesFlags settings. Now if you just want to have all possible awards displayed then simply change their value to -1. It should look like this: UnlocablesFlags[0]=-1 UnlocablesFlags[1]=-1 If you want to turn each award on or off at will it gets a little bit trickier but it can be done and here is how. Each award has a value. By using that value you turn the award on. For example the Time to Find 2min award has a value of 2. So if you do this UnlocablesFlags[1]=2 Then you will turn on the Time to Find 2min award. But what if you want more than one award turned on at the same time. You simply add the value of the award you want to turn on to the current value. So if we wanted to turn on the Time to Find 2min award that has the value of 2 and the Multicache Merit which has a value of 8 you simply add the two values together to get 2+8 = 10. And it would look like this UnlocablesFlags[1]=10 By now you probably wondering why there are two UnlocablesFlags. UnlocablesFlags[0] and UnlocablesFlags[1]. This is because the programer decided to split the awards between these two. You must keep this in mind so that you add the correct value to the correct UnlocablesFlags. For example adding the value 2 to UnlocableFlags[0] instead if UnlocablesFlag[1] you will unlock the Trifecta - Ape cache instead of the Time to Find 2min award. Here is the list of the awards that I have found and their values for each of the two UnlocableFlags. For UnlocableFlags[0] the values are: Award Value ----- ----- Trifecta – original cache 1 Trifecta – ape cache 2 Trifecta – headquarters cache 4 antique compass 8 futuristic compass 16 nature background 32 sleuth/spy background 64 antique map background 128 treasure map background 256 dinosaurs waypoint icons 512 insects/bugs waypoint icons 1024 nature/tree/flower waypoint... 2048 1 cache found 4096 10 caches found 8192 20 cache found 16384 30 cache found 32768 40 cache found 65536 50 cache found 131072 75 cache found 262144 100 cache found 524288 200 cache found 1048576 300 cache found 2097152 400 cache found 4194304 500 cache found 8388608 1000 cache found 16777216 5mi travelled 33554432 10mi travelled 67108864 25mi travelled 134217728 50mi travelled 268435456 100mi travelled 536870912 250mi travelled 1073741824 10min time to find 2147483648 For UnlocableFlags[1] the values are: (remember do not mix [0] values with [1] values.) Award Value ----- ----- 5min time to find 1 2min time to find 2 traditional cache merit 4 multicache merit 8 project ape cache merit 16 mystery/puzzle cache merit 32 letterbox hybrid cache merit 64 event cache merit 128 CITO cache merit 256 earth cache merit 512 GPS adventure merit 1024 Eagle scout merit badge merit 2048 One last example. If you want the traditional, project ape, and CITO merit badges you simply add 4 and 16 and 256 together and you get 276. Since these are for UnlocableFlags[1] you then change the value for UnlocableFlags[1] to 276 and it should look like this UnlocablesFlags[1]=276 Now save the Awards.ini file. Safely remove your GPS and after it reboots your awards should be there on the awards page. If you made a mistake it is easily corrected by changing the values of UnlocablesFlags[0] or UnlocablesFlags[1] and if you really messed this up you can just copy the backup that you make from your PC back to your GPS. You did make a backup didn't you? If you have any question, comments, corrections or need clarifications let me know and I'll see what I can do and Happy Hacking! Quote Link to comment
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