Ishad Nha
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Official SSI Playtester Mode
This is a rehash of a previous post from the Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures Forum
Official SSI Playtester Mode
How to activate it: open a Pools of Darkness [email protected] save file in a hex editor and alter offsets 18,21,197 so they have a decimal value of 1. Then load the save file. (Here the ampersand @ stands for one of the letters A thru J.)
How to use it:
How to activate it: open a Pools of Darkness [email protected] save file in a hex editor and alter offsets 18,21,197 so they have a decimal value of 1. Then load the save file. (Here the ampersand @ stands for one of the letters A thru J.)
How to use it:
"Do you want to start from scratch or use the jumper?"
Options are: Jumper Start choose Jumper.
"Where do you wish to go?"
Options are: Jump Arena Camp Treas Demo Prv Nxt, choose Jump.
"What ECL do you wish to go to? (In decimal)"
Enter one of the numbers below.
"Which Disk side?" (What does this mean???)
I choose a value of 2.
Then come screens to confirm the Ecl number and to ask if you wish to specify initial party x,y location.
"Do you wish to set any party variables?"
I don't know how to do this so I just answer no.
Ecl numbers are:
1: Playtester town
16: East Phlan
17: West Phlan
18: Limbo
19: Mulmaster/Zhentil Keep
20: Overland Minis
21: Hill Giant Steading
22: Sasha and The Lands Of Thar
32: Fire Giant Cave
33: Dragon's Aerie
34: Thorne's Cave
35: Descent To The Depths
36: Cave Of The Beholder
37: Vala Vs. Vaasa
39: Dave's Challenge
48: Manshoon's Tower
49: (Dragon's Aerie, version 2)
50: Temple of Tyr
52: Moander Minis
53: Moander's Heart
64: Dark Phlan
65: The Palace of Gothmenes
66: Nacacia and Myth Drannor
67: (Tower of Marcus: levels 9 - 11)
68: Silk and the Slaves of the Drow
69: Kalistes' Temple
70: Tower of Marcus: levels 0 - 5
71: (Tower of Marcus: levels 6 - 8)
81: Drow Testing Ground
82: Kalistes' Parlor (Upper Level)
83: Web Dimension Minis
84: (Kalistes' Parlor (Lower Level))
Any town whose name occurs in brackets can't be entered by the Playtester mode, not until I know more about how it works.
I decrypted the town maps and will include them in a form that can be read by the Dungeon Craft Editor. See the topic:
Decrypting Ecl# and Geo# Files
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Re: Official SSI Playtester Mode
Wow. That is very cool. Thanks for posting this!
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Re: Official SSI Playtester Mode
For people who don't like hex editing I have included two save files which start playtester mode when they are loaded. Pools of Darkness seems to have no ability to load a new save game once you start play, short of the party all being killed. You can return to the desktop, to load a new save game and try another Ecl number, by pressing Ctrl + C or Ctrl + 2.
Official SSIPlaytester Mode zip
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