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I want to set up an open-source gaming party, kinda small, in my local area, all of the machines running Ubuntu. One of the games I plan on have there is SuperTuxKart, specifically the 0.9 version. I want to unlock everything in the game without taking the time to play through the entire campaign mode, so I figured that I would cheat. I've seen millions of guides telling you to modify ~/.config/supertuxkart/challenges.xml, but for the life of me I cannot find that file in that location. Please help, I need this up and running in a week or so.

Hi,

see "where is the configuration stored" on the FAQ: https://supertuxkart.net/FAQ , it can vary depending on your distribution but is usually ~/.config/supertuxkart/0.8.2/players.xml

This is probably spam.

The EXACT SAME QUESTION was asked on askubuntu in APRIL 2016 : https://askubuntu.com/questions/758410/ ... uxkart-0-9

I have tried, but the solution in the FAQ doesn't work, at least, not for me, since the file players.xml seems to be some kind of binary file, and I can't edit it in gedit or any other text editor. How do I go about editing this file?
(I have no interest in editing the high scores but, if it helps, the file hiscores.xml also seems to be a binary file.)

players.xml is a text file, but is encoded using the uncommon UTF-16 encoding, which it seems gedit has trouble handling by default. You could try another text editor, or maybe there is an option somewhere in gedit to handle utf-16 files

Yes you can make it open as UTF-16 in gedit, however gedit is not able to do it properly on the fly so you will need to restart it. Considering adding this to our FAQ.

Is there any good reason for these to be in a non-standard encoding? This should probably be fixed to avoid confusion (though for the record, Mousepad seems to work with the files just fine).

The encoding is supposed to be like that to allow the correct storage of players name (which can use unicode characters). I don't see why UTF-16 is used rather than UTF-8, however. Wouldn't be 8 more economical space-wise, and more supported ?

Also see http://utf8everywhere.org/

Thank you for your answers. I downloaded Mouspad as QwertyChouskie suggested, and it opened the file without any problems. I had tried different encodings, including UTF 16, in Gedit, but it didn't work there. Now I can get back to racing like I did before I got a new computer.

I never liked these UTF-16 files :P And btw. in config.xml there is "everything_unlocked" parameter that should work too.

This has now been fixed in the git version.