I, Zombie hack

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This article is about how to execute the hack on the PC Version of Plants vs. Zombies. For how to do it on the Mac, see I, Zombie hack/Mac.
Zomboni and Hypno-shrooms in I, Zombie Endless

The I, Zombie hack is a common hack for Plants vs. Zombies which is achieved through editing saved games or PvZ Tools. Unlike most hacks, it does not require Cheat Engine or other external hacking programs, unless if you are using PvZ Tools. This hack will bring other zombies (like Newspaper Zombie) into I, Zombie Levels.

For other hacks, see hacking guide.

Steps (normal)

  • Choose Your Seeds (choose plants that represents zombies you want. See below)
  • Play any survival levels, make sure you have enough sun.
  • Save the game (go to Main Menu).
  • Change the saved data to any of the I, Zombie Levels by renaming it.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • It's not recommended to place any "plants" that are unlocked after Cabbage-pult, as they just give weird results or crash the game.
  • The Upgrade plants can only be placed if their downgrades are present on the lawn.
  • It is also not recommended to use seed packets seen in minigames, because most of those will crash the game.
Plants Zombies
Peashooter Zombie
Sunflower Flag Zombie (If GOTY version, include Zombatar Flag Zombie)
Cherry Bomb Conehead Zombie
Wall-nut Pole Vaulting Zombie
Potato Mine Buckethead Zombie
Snow Pea Newspaper Zombie
Chomper Screen Door Zombie
Repeater Football Zombie
Puff-shroom Dancing Zombie
Sun-shroom Backup Dancer
Fume-shroom Ducky Tube Zombie
Grave Buster Snorkel Zombie
Hypno-shroom Zomboni
Scaredy-shroom Not full Zombie Bobsled Team
Ice-shroom Dolphin Rider Zombie
Doom-shroom Jack-in-the-Box Zombie
Lily Pad Balloon Zombie
Squash Digger Zombie
Threepeater Pogo Zombie
Tangle Kelp Zombie Yeti
Jalapeno Bungee Zombie
Spikeweed Ladder Zombie
Torchwood Catapult Zombie
Tall-nut Gargantuar
Sea-shroom Imp
Plantern Dr. Zomboss
Cactus Peashooter Zombie
Blover Wall-nut Zombie
Split Pea Jalapeno Zombie
Starfruit Gatling Pea Zombie
Pumpkin Squash Zombie
Magnet-shroom Tall-nut Zombie
Cabbage-pult Giga-gargantuar
Flower Pot Flying Peashooter (Original Flag Zombie without hair in GOTY)
Kernel-pult Floating Puff-shroom (Parts of a Peashooter floating in the air in GOTY)
Coffee Bean Floating Marigold Sprout (Puff-shroom floating in the air in GOTY)
Garlic Ladder Zombie without ladder (Growing Marigold Sprout if GOTY version)
Umbrella Leaf Game Crash
Marigold Sprout of Marigold floating in the air (Floating splash if GOTY version)
Melon-pult Sunflower floating in the air (Growing Marigold Sprout if GOTY version)
Gatling Pea Game Crash (Marigold Sprout in GOTY version)
Twin Sunflower Game Crash
Gloom-shroom Zombie Head from loading screen (Growing Marigold Sprout if GOTY version)
Cattail Invisible Zombie (Dead Zomboni if GOTY version)
Winter Melon Game Crash (A floating Lawn Mower if GOTY version)
Gold Magnet Game Crash (Zombie head from loading screen if GOTY version)
Spikerock Invisible Zombie that causes sod roll effect (A floating Sun-shroom in GOTY version)
Cob Cannon Wall-nut from wallnut bowling (Game Crash if GOTY Version)
Imitater Game Crash (Floating splash if GOTY version)
Explode-o-nut The credits ("Zombies on Your Lawn") (Growing Marigold Sprout if GOTY version)
Giant Wall-nut Invisible Zombie that causes "FINAL WAVE" text (Game Crash if GOTY Version)
Sprout Part of a Peashooter (Game Crash if GOTY Version.)
Backwards Repeater Game Crash (Invisible Zombie that causes sod roll effect if GOTY Version)
Beghouled Shuffle Plants Game Crash
Beghouled Refill Crater Game Crash
Sun packet Game Crash (Parts of a Peashooter floating in the air in GOTY)
Diamond packet Game Crash
Snorkel Zombie packet from Zombiquarium Floating Marigold Sprout (Invisible Zombie that causes sod roll effect if GOTY Version)
Trophy packet from Zombiquarium Invisible Zombie that causes sod roll effect (Zombie head from loading screen in GOTY version)
Name Saved data Name
Survival: Day game1_1.dat
Survival: Night game1_2.dat
Survival: Pool game1_3.dat
Survival: Fog game1_4.dat
Survival: Roof game1_5.dat
Survival: Day (Hard) game1_6.dat
Survival: Night (Hard) game1_7.dat
Survival: Pool (Hard) game1_8.dat
Survival: Fog (Hard) game1_9.dat
Survival: Roof (Hard) game1_10.dat
Survival: Day (Endless) game1_11.dat
Survival: Night (Endless) game1_12.dat
Survival: Endless game1_13.dat
Survival: Fog (Endless) game1_14.dat
Survival: Roof (Endless) game1_15.dat
I, Zombie Puzzle Name Saved Data Name
I, Zombie game1_61.dat
I, Zombie Too game1_62.dat
Can You Dig It? game1_63.dat
Totally Nuts game1_64.dat
Dead Zeppelin game1_65.dat
Me Smash! game1_66.dat
ZomBoogie game1_67.dat
Three Hit Wonder game1_68.dat
All your brainz r belong to us game1_69.dat
I, Zombie Endless game1_70.dat

Note: If you are user two, change "game2_1.dat" instead of "game1_1.dat", or you will change other user's data.

Note: If you change the data and another userdata has the same name, delete the I, Zombie Data that you have.

  • All the plants you plant in I, Zombie will be changed to Zombies match the table above.

Tricks

  • Plant as many Zombie Yeti as you can in I, Zombie, then change to Last Stand "game1_31.dat". Use instants to kill all Zombie Yetis and collect the diamonds for easy gold farming.
  • (GOTY only) Planting the Imitater Tangle Kelp in I, Zombie will not get Zombie Yeti, but get the invisible zombie. Change I, Zombie data with it and kill that zombie with instant kill. You will get the Zen Garden plant. If you did this on the old PC version, it still produces a game crash.
    • This works well with Unlimited Sun and Instant Refill (see hacking guide).
  • It is possible to make your own I, Zombie levels like this. First, go to survival: night and make the I, Zombie level setup (sun hack recommended). Then, beat 1 wave. choose the plants that correspond with the zombies you want players to use.
    An example of a custom I, Zombie level
  • Then, get your sun to what you want it to start at. then, before any zombies appear, change save data from game1_2.dat to game1_61.dat (user 2 is game2_2.dat and game2_61.dat, 3 is game3_2.dat and game3_61.dat, etc.). then, copy/paste the I, Zombie level outside of that folder (keep it #_61.dat). go into I, Zombie, and there you go! If you fail, go to the main menu, delete #_61.dat, and copy/paste the copied file there. To share it, put the file in sendspace, mediafire, etc. and put it up for download.
  • You can also make your own I, Zombie levels. Firstly, do the same thing on hybrid mini-games and freeze the address. Secondly, play a Night Survival you played. It will show the plants you planted become card-boards. Thirdly, you can play an I, Zombie level without changing user file. (Note: The level still have Lawn Mowers. And you can play it by playing anything, including Zen Garden.)
  • If you put Tangle Kelp on the leftmost column, and then change it back to survival, you can make the Zombie Yeti eat your brains, provided that there are no lawn mowers on the row where you put the Zombie Yeti at.

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Trivia

  • If you have plants in Survival, then change the game mode to I, Zombie, the plants will become cardboard plants and still move.
    • They will stop moving once they perform their tasks.
  • Zombie Yeti can still appear if you place Tangle Kelp, even if you have not encountered him yet.
  • Imps thrown by Gargantuars and Giga-gargantuars take three hits in I, Zombie.
  • Lawn Mowers will still remain after you changed Survival to I, Zombie.
  • All plants, when using the Mac version, either create game crashes, are normal Zombies, or random glitches could happen (see I, Zombie hack/Mac for more details).
  • Some minigames (like Beghouled) can crash the game.