editing .sav file in hex editor?

[rv86]

Hello,
I have a copy of Xcom UFO Defense that was purchased from Steam. I installed OpenXCom from the nightly and everything is working really well. The saved game files are not in the 10 folders that exist in the UFO folder - rather they exist as .sav files in my user directory. My intent is to edit the amount of money I have in a saved game. Is it possible to adjust the amount of money I have in a .save file using a hex editor? I was attempting this using HxD and the saved game would not load. I'm new to using OpenXCom and to hex editing. Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
RV

[SIMON BAILIE]

Try editing your .sav file with notepad++.

[rv86]

That did the trick! All the information inside the .sav file is very easy to navigate this way.
Thank you SIMON.

RV

[Arthanor]

Note that OpenXCom saves are ASCII, which means everything is saved in a fully readable format. You can open them in any text editor. No need to do funky hex editing.

[g5-freemen]

Use "Cheat Engine" - it's a best solution for cheaters
You can easy make many money, elerium-115, alien alloys and anything else. You also can set move points and energy to 999999 and win every battle by one soldier

[Warboy1982]

as pointed out above, you don't even need to go that far. everything in the save file is human-readable, except for the tile data in the battlescape. (because there's waaaaay too much data there to output in ascii)