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Article #824Re: Ultima Underworld, player.dat file. (Possible bug)
From: mnfr... Martin Friedrich
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:14
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 -- My .signiture is on strike, and demands 13 lines with lots of whitespace
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!fauern!faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!faui09!mnfriedr From: mnfr...@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich) Subject: Re: Ultima Underworld, player.dat file. (Possible bug) Message-ID: <1992May21.111447.24391@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany References: <58387@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:14:47 GMT Lines: 29 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit