*The Adventurers' Guild

Does anyone know of a way to reconstruct the images into .bmp or .jpg once you decoded them?
Would be nice to recreate the B0, B1, B2 and B3 pictures and the dungeon pics.

Just tried my scripts on the CITY.PAT file and created following little script (specificaly for CITY.PAT file) Dim objFSO, objTextFile, objHexFile Dim strCharacter Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objHexFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Huffman\code.txt",...

Doesn't it say somewhere in the manual that when creating chars, you have to pay close attention to the stats because: - str lets you hit harder - con gives you more hit points - dex lets you attack faster - int gives you more spell points - luck lets you escape combat more easily I used to reroll l...

That's interesting. I wonder if the effect of the unequipped staff is a bug or actualy intended.

According to Maven, The Sorcerer staff does the Disrupt Illusion spell. I haven't verified it yet, but shouldn't be hard to check.

I updated the first 2 posts, since I think I completed my scripts.
Not going to spam these forums with more code then necessary

Thanks Maven for the suggestions, they were realy helpful

script version 564327.54 v456 build 236: Dim objFSO, objCodeFile Dim strCharacters, code, hexvalue Dim nrArray, nrHuffman, nrCode Dim HuffmanCode, Huffmanhex dim lngResult dim intIndex code = "" hexvalue = "" nrArray = 0 HuffmanCode = "" nrCode = 0 Huffmanhex = "&q...

Well, in my younger days (loooong ago :( ) I used to program in Basic. A lot of those commands and logics are in scripting as well. But for exact commands and formatting, I need the internet. I'm finding www.w3schools.com a very useful site. 2 more things I need to do in my script: I need to convert...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding Quite a few files seem to be encoded with a Huffman table: - B0.HUF, B1.HUF, B2.HUF and B3.HUF: these are the pictures of the different houses ingame. - the 47 file. Not sure what that file holds. It only gets loaded once, when the game begins. - BARDSCR a...

Wooot, went easier then expected :D Modified my 2nd script from my first post a bit Dim objFSO, objCodeFile Dim strCharacters, code, hexvalue Dim nrArray, nrHuffman, nrCode Dim HuffmanCode code = "" hexvalue = "" nrArray = 0 HuffmanCode = "" nrCode = 0 Set objFSO = Crea...

Thanks, Maven. I think I first need to try and complete my script to decode the binary of the Huffman files. I still need to build the actual Huffman codes. I guess I need to get them into an array so I can use them to decode the remaining of the file. Another array to store the corresponding hexval...

** THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED ** All you need to do to get this to work is to copy the hexadecimal values from a Bard's Tale Huffman file to a text file, except the first 8 bytes. So for the CITY.PAT file, that would be: 10 34 08 80 82 D0 35 0D 08 C4 B0 26 6D 91 58 04 48 23 88 59 78 4A D7 14 85 04 ...

** THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED AFTER I FINISHED MY SCRIPT ** Why use pen and paper when you have vbscript? :D First, I use this script: Dim objFSO, objTextFile, objHexFile Dim strCharacter Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objHexFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile ("C...

Strange thing i found at $152E: B8 02 00 50 8B 5E FA 8A 47 41 2A E4 50 B8 D4 00 50 9A ED 1E 00 00 83 C4 06 B8 02 00 50 8B 5E FA 8A 47 40 2A E4 50 B8 DB 00 50 9A ED 1E 00 00 83 C4 06 B8 02 00 50 8B 5E FA 8A 47 42 2A E4 50 B8 E2 00 50 9A ED 1E 00 00 83 C4 06 B8 02 00 50 8B 5E FA 8A 47 43 2A E4 50 B8 E...

Does anyone know what happens in the 47 file?
It seems to get loaded once when launching the game.

EDIT: hmm, might just be the intro picture

ok, some stuff about spells: in the extracted bard.exe, the full spell names are easily found at $25C72 - $26041, 79 spells in total... not going to copy all the names here :shock: Equaly easy to find are the short names of the spells, the ones you need to type ingame if you're a keybiatch (like me)...