Dungeon Master Forum

Paul Stevens wrote:Just to make things easy.....

I posted chEdit.zip

It has a savegame and a 3200-byte binary dump of the
characters from that game.

Hi Paul,

OK- thanks. I'm away for several days now but I'll definately take a look at it. Must dig out my Visual Basic manual.....!!!!

Frodo.

You can edit an 'exported' version of the characters and
let CSBuild worry about the file format. Then the offset will,
indeed, be fixed. I can tell you now that it will be zero.

Hi Paul.

OK- I'm happy to try that approach. However, I noted from your previous thoughts on this that you aren't ...

It is not constant. It is subject to change. It can move around as new versions of CSBwin/CSBuild are
released

Hi Paul,

Don't worry about that. Once I've built a character editor for your saved games, then I guess I can always look elsewhere in the saved games as and when they change. (If I know ...

Hi Gambit and Paul!

Thanks for your replies. I think I'm nearly there now! Sorry about that! I hadn't realised that the saved game format that CSBWin produced was different to the original Atari format.

Any character editor I would try and write would be using the saved games from CSBWin. If ...

the data is commonly 'hashed' to prevent
straightforward editing or cheating. It ain't my idea. That
is the way it came from FTL.

Wow- no wonder no-one has written a character editor for it! So it sounds impossible to do then? Presumably, the characters in the Hall of Champions are embedded ...

Hi Paul,

Thanks. I actually have a hex editor and took a look but there were no ASCII inidcations of the names I have used for my characters to locate them. Do you know the offset or location of the characters?

I'm not an expert in programming though I have dabbled with Visual Basic. I'm more than ...

Hi there!

I have just downloaded the great rewritten Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes back for Windows and Linux by Paul Stevens.

I am currently playing Dungeon Master. Does anyone know how to edit the characters to change their skill levels and hit points etc? Is in the the saved game?

Thanks ...