BT3- ToF C64 Hex Editing
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:33 am
My dear fellow Co-players and lovers of TBT.
In 1988 two friends and me ravaged through The Bard's Tale 3 on Commodore 64.
Marvelous Game, but it took a lot of time grinding UnterBrae for XP to get CON/MAG/SOR/WIZ up tp lvl 13 to finally continue to Archmage/Chronomage.
Short time ago i discovered VICE Emulator and some .d64-images of TBT3.
Well, the guys are Lvl13 now and the mages did their first profession change (2xCON to MAG, 1xMAG to CON).
I know they will need more than those small 230k XP after CON/MAG for Lvl 13 for SOR/WIZ to Lvl 13 and to be honest i'm not willing to grind all those boring XP in UnterBrae again.
So i decided to use DirMaster for a little editing of XP, call it cheating anyways, that's what i call it.
As you know, the BT3 Char disk is encoded with Apples PRODOS, so there are no files for accessing the stats directly.
Via BAM-Editing it's possible to get into the Hex-Data, and that's the point where i do fail - i am common with Hexcode and had some selfmade Datasheets 20+ years ago regarding Char Editing BT1/BT2/BT3 on where/how to find the specific Data. So i remember there was/is a way.
Problem is, i cannot remember and those sheets got lost in the years.
Unfortunately neither DirMaster nor any other BAM Editor i was able to find seem to offer a "search" function for PETSCII/ASCII/HEX - Strings, only access to the raw data on the Disk (bt3char.d64) itself.
Can you help with any info on
a) how to detect the character data on the disk
b) sector/block containing these data (there should be 2 possibilities - 1st is save game, 2nd char data of removed chars in refugee camp)
c) some BAM-Editing-Tool offering a search-function
please?
Thank you so much in advance.
Regards,
Lory
In 1988 two friends and me ravaged through The Bard's Tale 3 on Commodore 64.
Marvelous Game, but it took a lot of time grinding UnterBrae for XP to get CON/MAG/SOR/WIZ up tp lvl 13 to finally continue to Archmage/Chronomage.
Short time ago i discovered VICE Emulator and some .d64-images of TBT3.
Well, the guys are Lvl13 now and the mages did their first profession change (2xCON to MAG, 1xMAG to CON).
I know they will need more than those small 230k XP after CON/MAG for Lvl 13 for SOR/WIZ to Lvl 13 and to be honest i'm not willing to grind all those boring XP in UnterBrae again.
So i decided to use DirMaster for a little editing of XP, call it cheating anyways, that's what i call it.
As you know, the BT3 Char disk is encoded with Apples PRODOS, so there are no files for accessing the stats directly.
Via BAM-Editing it's possible to get into the Hex-Data, and that's the point where i do fail - i am common with Hexcode and had some selfmade Datasheets 20+ years ago regarding Char Editing BT1/BT2/BT3 on where/how to find the specific Data. So i remember there was/is a way.
Problem is, i cannot remember and those sheets got lost in the years.
Unfortunately neither DirMaster nor any other BAM Editor i was able to find seem to offer a "search" function for PETSCII/ASCII/HEX - Strings, only access to the raw data on the Disk (bt3char.d64) itself.
Can you help with any info on
a) how to detect the character data on the disk
b) sector/block containing these data (there should be 2 possibilities - 1st is save game, 2nd char data of removed chars in refugee camp)
c) some BAM-Editing-Tool offering a search-function
please?
Thank you so much in advance.
Regards,
Lory