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In article <58...@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5...@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin) writes:
>From: gt5...@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin)
>Subject: Ultima Underworld, player.dat file.
>Date: 20 May 92 15:01:07 GMT

>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
>uucp:     ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt5254a
>Disclaimer: I speak only for me. (Occasionally only to hear myself talk.)

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

In article <1992May21.1...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mnfr...@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich) writes:
>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!

  Yikes! Tainted meat! Not good! Seriously though, I don't know. There are
some other character editing problems... For instance, try the copying-the-
player.dat trick, and the cast gate travel. Instant death... You have to
find the moonstone first, and then set it down. Also, when I was
messing with the file I changed my awkaeness from awake to fatigued, and 
I never could figure out which variable made the change.

  Anyway, I don't know. Has anyone figured out how inventory items are
stored yet?


-- 
William Dennis Herrin              Internet: gt5...@prism.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt5254a
Disclaimer: I speak only for me. (Occasionally only to hear myself talk.)