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- **** DLED Version 1.1 New Features ****
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- Even if you have been using DKED version 1.0, you should read the rest of
- this documentation - the editor has been completely redone.
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- Now you can edit any character in the saved game. In addition to editing
- the skills and attributes, you can now edit equipment, and knowledge of saints
- and formulas.
- Edit party wealth, PStone and Fame (although I haven't found much advantage
- to increasing party fame this way).
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- Print individual characters or the party as a group. Print to printer or
- file of your choice.
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- Seamless transfer of party between saved games, no hassles.
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- New 'look and feel' - I was getting tired of the same old interface I was
- using for game editors.
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- ****
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- DLED is a utility that allows you to display and modify the attributes,
- skills, equipment, saints and formulas of all the characters in your saved
- game. It will also print a report of attributes, skills, equipment, saints and
- formulas each character or all characters in your party. Output can be
- directed to the printer or a file. DLED also allows you to transfer the
- current party from one saved game to another (different worlds).
- DLED reads and writes the saved game files (DKSAVExx.SAV) in the \SAVES
- subdirectory of your Darkland directory.
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- Copy the file DLED.EXE into your Darklands directory (not the saved game
- directory). At the DOS prompt, type DLED.
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- When the program starts, it displays a sign-on screen and main menu. Once
- you've selected a saved game file you can chose the other main menu options to
- view and modify characters or party information, generate a party report, or
- transfer the party to another saved game. The last choice is to quit the
- program and return to DOS.
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- When you view/edit a character you may move the cursor from field to field
- using the Enter, Tab or cursor keys. Press the F10 key to accept the changes
- (you will be asked to confirm that you want to Exit) or press the Escape key to
- abandon the current changes (you will be asked to confirm that you want to
- Quit). After you confirm exiting via the F10 key, the saved game file will be
- updated. The fields titled 'Equipment', 'Saints' and 'Formulas' will open up
- secondary editing windows. Again, you need to press F10 to save your changes
- to these sub-windows also. If you press (and confirm) Escape from the
- character's main editing screen, any changes made to either equipment, saints
- or formulas will be abandoned also. Selecting 'Print' from the character edit
- screen will print just that character's information.
-
- Selecting 'Report' from the main menu will print a report for all the
- characters in your current party.
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- Selecting 'Xfer' will prompt you for the name of the saved game file to
- transfer the current party to (you'll get a popup list of saved games). Select
- the saved game you want to transfer the party to. Highlight the game you want
- to transfer to and press Enter. Press Enter again to actually make the
- transfer or press Escape to cancel.
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- SPECIAL NOTE ON EDITING EQUIPMENT!!!!
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- If you edit equipment that is already equipped, you should re-equip it when
- you start the game again. Do not go editing your equipped V:Chainmail to be
- something other than vitals armor, etc., you can get some unpredictable
- results. The code was getting too convoluted to try and track what was
- equipped and you changed the 'type' of that equipped item. You want high
- quality armor - just add the new item then equip it when you restart the game.
- Quality 99 chainmail is great stuff <g>.
- I would recommend un-equipping your items if you're going to edit those
- particular items, then re-equip when you restart the game - that keeps you
- completely safe.
- While I did put some validation checks in the edit routines to keep
- potential problems to a minimum, you can set potions to qualities other than
- the standard 25, 35 and 45. If you do set the potions to other than 25, 35
- or 45, you can still sell them and use them from the encounter menu BUT you
- will not be able to use them in combat - the combat routines only select
- potions that are quality 25, 35 or 45.
- Darklands is a very complex game, use this editor with some common sense
- and it'll work fine for you.
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- SPECIAL NOTE ON TRANSFERRING PARTIES!!!!
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- If you decide to transfer your party's fame and fortune to a new world, you
- must have saved that new world outside of the starting inn. Darklands sets the
- party's wealth to a little over 100pf when you are at the starting Inn on a
- brand new game. Otherwise, you can seamlessly transfer parties between saved
- games (big improvement over DLED version 1.0).
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- I've tested it on version 06 of Darklands saved game files and it
- appears to work ok. Please keep in mind that this utility updates the saved
- game files so PLEASE BACK UP YOUR SAVED GAMES FIRST.
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- I'd like to thank Ted Kingsbury for helping me decipher the data structures
- in Darklands - thanks Ted!
-
- Any questions or comments can be directed to:
-
- Steven J. Cotellesse
- (215) 622-6566
- CIS: 70255,1276