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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Cheating at MORIA 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.001153.7906@agora.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 90 00:11:53 GMT
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In article <26314.272621a1@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
:In article <5636@abaa.UUCP>, cardwell@abaa.uucp (Jon Cardwell) writes:
:: I've been playing MORIA3.0 for the amiga off-and-on for
:: a few weeks now, and I never seem to get beyond a 15th
:: or so level character (run out of torches, starve to death,
:: killed by powerful monsters, etc). I'd like to just finish
:: the game ONCE AND FOR ALL. I've decided to cheat at the game
:: so I can finally beat it! I've looked at the character
:: save-files by doing a hex-dump, and I can't figure out
:: the format for the equipment stats (e.g. creating a super
:: weapon, or a set of mega armor). Near the beginning of character
:: files is a block of data that seems to be encypted somehow.
:: This block of bytes may contain the parameters I need to change
:: to create a "god" character to walk through the dungeon. Also,
:: I suspect that the bytes may be "checksummed" to prevent tampering...
:: 
:: Does anybody know of a way to cheat at this game, or have suggestions
:: on how to do it?
:: 
:: --Jon.
:
:Well, if you really want to cheat...
:
:Just make a copy of character save.  That's it.  If something happens to
:your character (killed, nuked by acid, etc.) just do something like:
:
:copy character.backup to character
:
:Then re-run the game and pick up where you left off.
:
:David Poland
:2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu

	Or if you *really* need to cheat, look at the saved game files for
interesting weapons of items. These are actually what's stored in the 
levels, not on your person. (You're right in thinking the encrypted stuff
at the first is your personal stats and items.) Try things like dropping
one of an item in a place, and two next to it. Then look at the save file
to see where quantities are stored. You could also look through the executable
for interesting items you don't see just laying around. After hacking a
saved game, you can go back in and just pick up all the nice things that
are laying around. You could also look at attributes of things like potions
and scrolls. You may be able to merge several items together to create
new, more powerful items. (Potion of Raise Everything?)

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