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Ultima Underworld, player.dat file.

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From: gt5... William Dennis Herrin
Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 15:01
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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:
Strength: $1F
Dexterity: $20
Intelligence: $21
Attack through Swimming: $22 - $35
   (In the order they appear in your inventory.)
Vitality Max: $37
Current Mana: $38
Max Mana: $39
Food level: $3a
Experience level: $3e
The runes in your rune bag: $45 - $47 (one bit per rune)
Encumberance: $4d - $4e (Signed integer, lo-byte hi-byte, div 10.)
Experience: $4f - $52
  (A 32 bit unsigned integer, low to high, divided by 10.)
E/W Position: $56
N/S Position: $58
Heading: $5c
What level: $5d

  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.

				Bill Herrin

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

p.p.s. I don't think its possible to kill the slasher... After being
sucked though the gate, with 255 stats, I plugged away at him for about 15
mins. These were not minimum damage hits, and he went yellow on the first one.
I never got him down to status red. (On a side note, it was fun to go around
wasteing fire elementals with one hit from my fist.)
-- 
William Dennis Herrin              Internet: gt5...@prism.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: gt5...@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin)
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Subject: Ultima Underworld, player.dat file.
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