Dungeon Master Forum

My maps were built with the PC version, not the SNES where there are many differences as you have discovered. You may check the maps here (they are not perfect either, these are images extracted from the game itself, but still not accurate compared to the actual dungeon): http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=nod...

Actually, the skill level numbers on http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/691 were wrong (I just fixed them). When you are Neophyte, you are actually level 2 internally. So you gain 2 + Min(Random(4), 1) which has 3/4 chances of resulting in a 3 mana points increase, and 1/4 chance of a 2 mana points increa...

in the IIGS version they can grab from the upper-left slot in your backpack if you have nothing in hand, and they move on to the first occupied slot if you leave that blank too The source code tells this is not true. In DM Atari ST, Apple IIGS, Amiga 2.x, PC-98 2.0a, FM-Towns and CSB Atari ST, Gigg...

Each time a champion gains a skill level, the Maximum Health value is increased by a random amount between X and 1.5X where X depends on the improved skill: Fighter skills: X = new skill level * 3 Ninja skills: X = new skill level * 2 Priest skills: X = new skill level * 1.5 Wizard skills: X = new s...

ReDMCSB source code shows that each time a champion gains a skill level, the Maximum Stamina value is increased by a random amount between X and 1.5X where X depends on the skill: Fighter skills: X = MaximumStamina / 16 Ninja skills: X = MaximumStamina / 21 Priest skills: X = MaximumStamina / 25 Wiz...

There is no way in the game to fix this issue. You would need to fix the saved game data. On a real SNES, it would probably be possible to modify the Load value of each champion with the appropriate Game Genie / Pro Action Replay cheat codes. If playing with a SNES emulator, you can also edit the sa...

This bug is present in all versions of DM and CSB: If you save the game with an object in the leader hand then when you resume or restart the game the weight of the object in the leader hand is permanently added to the load of the leader. When the game is saved, the weight of the leader hand object ...

Check here for some information: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/692
Any experience gained while being in combat is doubled, so yes it applies to spells as well.

Congratulations!
I'm sure you know how to deal with screamers

Sorry I did not notice the duplicate files "PC German" and "PC EnglishJewelCase". I was not aware of two PC-9821 versions! I only have the newer one (4.0.1). Do you have a full CD image of the first release? Where does it come from? Are there also differences in the program or du...

Thank you for this new version, I can run it now and I can open the PC-9801 demo data file with it. However I noticed some regressions after opening all 17 original DM2 graphics.dat files that I have: Object/item names are not automatically selected anymore, I have to choose them manually from the O...

If your Wizard casts only fireballs, he would get base wizard XP = Fire XP = 32000 XP, and Air = Earth = Water = 0. For hidden skills, the skill level is computed from the average of the hidden skill XP and the base wizard XP: Fire level = (32000 + 32000) / 2 = 32000 = Adept level Air/Earth/Water = ...

The program does not start, I get popups with these error messages: The code execution cannot proceed because mfc140d.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem. The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140D.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem...

There is also an easy way to play the PC version of DM with the DosBox emulator. It supports full screen.
Download DM-Game-PC-DOSBox.7z from here: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/622#toc20

DM on CSBwin: http://dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/Games/D ... ption.html

Another possible fix for a future release of DM2GDED: There are 6 images in DM2 FM-Towns GRAPHICS.DAT that DM2GDED fails to decode, as Kentaro noted here (MEMO2): http://kkdf2.sakura.ne.jp/danmasu-lj/Contrib_12/index.htm These are items 1788, 1789, 1790 and 2142, 2143, 2144, which are images for wal...

I got DM2GDED from https://github.com/gbsphenx/skproject/releases/tag/rel-20161231 DM2 PC-9801 graphics.dat: http://dmweb.free.fr/Stuff/PC9801FullData.7z Note that the GRAPHICS.DAT file is split in two parts on the original PC-9801 floppies. Maybe you tried opening the first part only, without joini...

You can grab the files here: http://dmweb.free.fr/Stuff/PC9801DemoData.7z

DM2GDED (Rev10 that is part of skproject 2016-12-31) opens the full PC-9801 data file fine, the issue is only with the demo PC-9801 data file.

Sphenx, if you plan to make a new release of DM2GDED, I have the following request: I have uploaded the demo version of DM2 for PC-9801 at http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/605#toc7 and DM2GDED fails to open the GRAPHICS.DAT of this version with the message "Unexpected file format", although th...

I looked at the source code again, and I have added some details here: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/691 Experience in a base skill may be greater than the sum of experience in hidden skills (a few actions grant only base skill experience) To compute the skill level of a hidden skill, the game takes ...

I never used the Invisibility spell much. We'll all agree that the game is more about killing all the creatures on our path rather than sneaking around. But invisibility does have an effect as verified in the source code... but not exactly the same depending on the version of the game that you are p...

You can only take one of the two paths, there are no other Key of B in the dungeon that you could use to open both doors (without cheating of course with an editor).
You only lose 04 (15,31) Corn, Cheese
The other objects are elsewhere in the dungeon. 05 & 06 are creatures on the map, not objects.

Hi Bit,
Yes I would also be interested by packages of your ports of DM1 and DM2. If you can provide easy to use versions and their source code, I'll add the files (or links to them) in the Encyclopaedia.
Thanks!

If I triggered your interest on this project again then that is fine, but that was not my goal :) I am sorting out all the DM stuff I have accumulated on my hard disk over the years and I have multiple versions of these programs with many names and unclear version numbering (which I understand if it...

It is true that you get experience for being hit by creatures. But you do not get any experience by bumping into walls, I checked in the source code (I'm talking about original versions of DM/CSB only, maybe that is different in some clones).

I'd like to understand the differences between these related projects/programs and their development status in order to update the description of SKWIN (and DMDC2 / DM2GDED) on the Encyclopaedia. I know development was initiated by kentaro as DM2_SKSAVE_Converters based on japanese versions of the g...

Have a look here for information about how experience works: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/692 (and also http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/691)
Tips here: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/222#toc15

See http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/259

If I select a private message in the list (check the box in the 'Mark' column) and select 'Delete marked' in the drop-down list of options, then I get the same error message. This is indeed a bug in the current version of phpbb: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2539181 I'd rather wait...

Nice progress!