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Re: Ultima Underworld, player.dat file. (Possible bug)

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From: mnfr... Martin Friedrich
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:14
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gt5...@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin) writes:

>Someone out there in netland was working on decoding the player.dat file
>for ultima underworld so he could make a character editor... He seemed to
>be a bit further along than I am, so heres some info for you:
>The following things are at the following offsets in the file:
[...]
>  Anyway, that's all I know... They've encoded it somehow, something to do
>with an XOR and the addition of 3's, but its confusing, so don't ask me.
>Anyway, if some of the rest of you have found out more than this, I'd sure
>appreciate hearing it.

Okay, here we go: I experienced the following after patching my character:
I had some meat in my pack. I ate the first two pieces, and when I swallowed
the third one, my character started to run straight forward! He didn't stop!
He just ran and ran and ran and won't stop!
Is this a bug? Is this how the game treats cheating, or is this some
tainted meat? Actually, it is impossible to play, if your character keeps
running forward!
Help appreciated!

>p.s. my [edited] character has
>402,338,611 experience points! Oh yea, and an encumberance of -37! :)
I already had an encumberance of -3122 ;-)

Bica yeshor'click,
-Efchen
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From: mnfr...@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich)
Subject: Re: Ultima Underworld, player.dat file. (Possible bug)
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