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Editing single player race scores

WACKY1.HI contains scores for single player races with 12 hp engines. WACKY2.HI contains scores for 6 hp engines. Both files can be edited as follows:

Each line is 46 bytes long. (The file doesn’t have line breaks though.) There are four lines of high scores, followed by four lines that look like default scores, followed by four more lines of high scores, etc. There’s no point in editing the lines with default scores (lines 5–8, 13–16, etc.), because they aren’t displayed in the game. The first set of eight lines (four for scores, and four default scores) are for regular bronze amateur races. The next set is for regular bronze pro, then champ. Next are the silver races scores in the same order, followed by gold, and then bonus bronze, silver, and gold. Even the shareware version has a full set of high scores, even though you can’t play any races except regular bronze.

Each line of 46 bytes is formatted this way:

• I don’t know what the first byte is for. You can just leave it how it is. The second byte is NUL.
• The third byte in every line determines which driver is displayed.
  Uno = 00, Sultan = 01, Morris = 02, Peggles = 03, Razer = 04, Ringo = 05, Blombo = 06, Tigi = 07
• The fourth byte is NUL, and the fifth byte is your score, 0 to 255. ASCII value determines score (< = 60, - = 45, etc.).
• The sixth byte is NUL, and then the next 11 bytes are the date, in format 01 SEP 1994. You can actually put any text you want here, as long as is only uses the characters listed below.
• The next 9 bytes are NUL, and the next 12 bytes are the name of the driver. Use only the characters listed below.
• The next byte is NUL, or it can be another character in the name of the driver.
• The last seven bytes are NUL, and then it starts over again for the next listing. Remember that there aren’t actually line breaks in the file.

These are the characters you can use when typing the date or driver’s name:
Upper case letters, numbers, spaces, or these characters: ! # & ( ) - , . ' ?