Local Ditch GamingI ’76 Hacks
I’m glad to see someone actually STILL has a fan site out there for I76! I reently reinstalled it on my WinXP PC, and have been blowing crap up in instant-bot-melee battles.
Its been about 10 years, but I used to spend hours at night (and day) hacking and playing this game online. I would love to try my hand at some hacks and paint jobs again, just for old times. I remeber there used to be all kinds of crazy modifications you could do through a Hex Editor, I think my editor of choice at the time was Hex32 or something like that.
Anyway, I have lost all my printed copies of tutorials to hack the car stats. Oddly enough, you can’t even find references to them online. All the sites were long gone before Google was around caching them into memory.
Do you have any of the old txt or word documents on how to do that stuff anymore? There used to be a car that went (to scale) like 0-300MPH in a second… but you had to have the tuning just so to get it to work. There were also monster tires and ways to place several turrets on any one car.
I am able to play the Gold Edition of I76 in D3D (I think at 800×600 only), but can’t get Nitro to play in anything other than software at 1024×768. Is it possible to play Nitro in D3D too?
Hope you get this!
Thanks for the comments. I remember Hack ’76 used to be a pretty popular program for a while, but unfortunately, I don’t have any of the files for it. A quick Google search brought up a few pages with some I ’76 hacks, but not too much info. I hope these links help:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7722/cheat.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/caterpillar/314/Hacks.htm
As far as playing Nitro in D3D, I thought it used the same engine and patches as the I ’76 Gold Edition, so if one works, the other should. The resolution is locked at 640×480, if I recall correctly. You might have to turn off certain options on your graphics card driver to get it to work. I’m sorry that I can’t really say anything definite. If I come across an answer, I’ll try to get it up on the site.
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I still have Hack 76
Hey there I am trying to sort a server out to play I76 online again, please E-mail me if anyone is interested.
Also after getting hold of a copy of Hack 76 or Hack 98 if anyone can help please let me know. Mucho Gracias!
Man I remember the days I would spend perfecting hacks and developing my own vehicles. I was just a kid but called myself Tha Man and had made numerous amounts of my own hacks and unkillable car mods. The true unkillable I remember making with an old clan member in BVA we made the car like a ghost and people could drive through you. Hex Editor took over my early years haha 10-14 years old. Anyways I miss those old days haha
Yeah, those were the happy days… Tha Man, I remember learning from your hacks and maybe few tutorials. I also remember car called “Black Widow”, spider-looking…stuff :D I used to spend every free minute trying to figure out how to do better and more complex stuff. Taking cars with most “object slots” and transforming them into complete another. Just to add pipes, bumper or anything special. I even knew how to do my own complete new paint jobs. Latest of them were animated, that was long, repetetive and boooring work, but just a few did that… I need to check my old HDDs. All of that files is gotta be somewhere…
Interstate76.com is still open for business.
Swing by.
We’ll get you hooked up.
“Black Widow” haha holy Twyggy that was like the coupe raised up like a monster truck with semi pipes or something right? Man sparked up some old memories. The name Twyggy sounds familiar is that the name you used in those days? Using ICQ to keep in touch with clan members over your 56k fax modem haha, I always wish they brought that game back. Sorry for the 2 year late response but I didn’t think I would get a reply. I’ll keep this page book marked and keep an eye on it.
Found some of my old hacks on Dan Yenkos website… How is this thing still up after all these years?
http://www.reocities.com/timessquare/arena/9025/
The Man[BVA]… Oh man. So funny story, I don’t remember what I called myself in I-76 but you would remember me lol. I wanna say I was “Smotey”. Regardless, I was in BVA for a while with you and you thought I fried your computer. I was a little shit and gave you a backdoor file in an “unkillable” I sent you so I could Netbus you. I didn’t see you for like 6 months and when you finally reappeared you told me I fried your PC having your dad tracked my IP (which made sense cause I accessed your PC). Today I laugh about this, but I remember being so afraid of this idea back then. It wasn’t me man! I was framed!!!! =) I think the Phreekz got you. They hated me and hacked me lol.
Also, I remember the ghost car hack… I didn’t remember YOU being responsible for it! =) I remember the two people in BVA that repped it before it leaked. I can’t remember their names (black widow for some reason sounds right because I thought it was a chick). Lol! Such great times man. Never again!
It’s surreal reading this blog post. I released a few i76 hacks on smidge.com back in the day. I talk with Smidge every once in a while. I used to be friends with Tha Man on icq also. Good times.
This game got my start in the computer industry. One of the best time investments of my childhood I’d say.
Reading this brings a lot of memories :D All names sound familiar. Glad to hear u are doing good guys ;)
Dropping by in 2022 letting you guys know that I still recall playing this game and modding it as a 13 year old was awesome. Drove around as BdIoGg back in the day, can remember the first time I drove through a ghost car and couldn’t believe I couldnt kill it with hexed cars. I knew it was made to have the vehicle twice as high in the air so I modded the orientation of the weapons on my car to shoot straight up… still didnt work :( Good times, would like to go back and experience this again.
it was nightmare & black widow of the atl gang/clan that had those god mode hacks. their cars also couldn’t be rammed. they also had what they called “nightmare hades” where they would stack two hades cannons on the top of a mack truck and make short work of other hackers with a few roof shots. the former hack was made by altering the .vdf files while the latter was made with the vcf file.
anyone remember a guy named kr0n0?
Posting here in 2023, one of my fav games from when i was 13 onwards, first multiplayer game i had using dial up, oh the lag! Still a great time, the drag races at the air base strip, the hacks (Got me quite good at hex) i was insipred by others and by the end i had invincibility including from roof shots, flying hack (Great for roof shot kills) and the awesome modding of cars with bus wheels, non standard paint jobs, extra trt weapons, speed mod, handling mod, unlimited ammo and super speed fire rate. A few “Gangs” that required you to be invincible were around and met some cool people, text only no voice back then. For the above poster who mentioned roof kills the hand gun hitting a roof was a easy way to destroy most try hard modders who claimed to be invincible but they missed one piece of hex change in the vcf file, the inability to ram was a weight change of the car ussally just 99999999. All the best.
Oh one more thing…NEVER get out of the car!
Found these sites working:
https://hackingonspace.blogspot.com/2016/07/revisiting-activisions-interstate-76.html
https://inbetweennames.net/blog/2021-05-04-interstate-76-reverse-engineering-efforts-the-story-so-far/
Found these sites working:
(add https here) ://hackingonspace.blogspot.com/2016/07/revisiting-activisions-interstate-76.html
(add https here) ://inbetweennames.net/blog/2021-05-04-interstate-76-reverse-engineering-efforts-the-story-so-far/
Wow, Had a search and found this site which has working downloads of all the old modding files including hack’76! and it still runs :)
add “https” here> //www.oocities.org/timessquare/cave/3628/downloads.htm
Shame pack’76 won’t download from the above site, also if any of you start playing i’76 again make sure to get DXWnd and use it to change the maximum fps of both i’76 and nitro to 20fps it will then run normally.
ROFL! Wow! Some of you might recognize the name “Ax-L” from I’76, that’s me. Perhaps you’ve played on one of the maps I created/co-created (“Ax-L’s Badlands,”Woofie’s Den,” and the “Zen” set of maps I did with Stingray). Or maybe you remember my silly, but popular “Ax-L’s Haikus” website where players could submit a funny I’76 screenshot accompanied by a related haiku and MIDI audio file, which I collected and posted like pieces in an art gallery.
I remember the great divide in the I’76 community regarding hacks and non-hacks. I tried to quell the flames a bit by standing in the middle of it all, arguing that if each side could recognize and respect a few things, we could all get along, LOL. While I never used any hacks in online I’76, I noodled a bit with things offline because it was fascinating how it all worked, and I considered it educational. And, even though I was hack-free online, I discovered and mastered a few tricks of my own – exploits in the game – that were pretty much as powerful as some of the most deadly hacks in I’76.
I could “ram” an opponent with my little ABX Leprechaun in a particularly devasting way by performing certain maneuvers that leveraged the ever-present lag in the game.
I learned how to climb almost any vertical cliff face in my Lep’, having learned to visually recognize several subtle/trivial graphical glitches in the game that could be leveraged to allow me to climb right up environment and object features that were otherwise “unclimbable.”
And then there were the “fire tricks.” I’m sure any former I’76 hackers here are familiar with some of the characteristics of fire in the game and how deadly it could be. I used my well-honed driving skills, combined with some knowledge I gained during a casual chat with some of the I’76 hacker luminaries, to created one of my trademark moves: The “Spinning Death From Above Firedrop.” Thanks, Death Machine, for mentioning that vehicle roofs were completely unprotectable from damage, LOL!
Anyways, I tried to preach for hacks to stay out of non-hack games, for non-hacks to stop complaining so much about hacks because 1) Hacks will always exist in all games and 2) Most of the time there is always a way to kill supposedly “unkillable” cars in the game. I even held a couple in-game demonstrations via hosting a few “Hacks vs Ax-L” nights. Only a few people were able to witness these events, since the game only allowed a very minimal number of player slots in each online game, two of which had to include a hacked player and myself. At least word got out a bit through some of the game forums online.
Overall, my efforts changed only a few minds, attitudes, and actions. But, my attitude regarding such things still hasn’t changed and I still strive to bring people together in games I play today (War Robots, anyone?).
I just accidentally stumbled on this website today, while looking for something else, and just like the handful of times this has happened before regarding I’76, it’s nice to see how this game has had such a long-term hold on so many people who played it. I mean, we’re pushing nearly 30 years since I’76 was released. So much nostalgia, and so many familiar names still occasionally talking I’76!
I recognize The Man, Smidge, BVA, Nightmare Hades and more! Anybody else remember Death Machine? Or INT Suicyco? They were a couple of people who really knew how to hack I’76 and that I had the pleasure to discuss such matters with.
And don’t forget: The .45 is the most deadly weapon in the game. :-)
P.S. I mentioned that I play War Robots these days. If anyone here wants to catch up with me there or just join me there, here’s some info:
War Robots
Player Name: Ghoul Brynner
Player ID: II43E5II43E5
Steam Profile Name: trestuges
* This is currently the info for who/how/where I’m playing War Robots actively. I’ve got two other accounts on two other platforms that I occasionally use for various reasons, but you’re far more likely to reach me quickly and successfully using the info shown. :-)