Wow, I certainly have something to look through in the morning now. It's 5am here now. I'll test out those file size adresses first. I can't seem to figure it out right now, but I'm too sleepy to do so. Tommorow I'll test it. Everything you found seems to be in accordance with what I have so far, which is great, since it proves I'm right...

I've got a nasty error with a sword causing errors when moved, I'll test some things and if I can't figure it out I'll post it here.

I'll have to brush up on my VB skills too, since I never used anything close to Basic synthax. Can't be too hard, since I've got fair experience with pascal and C synthax...

One question before I finally go to bed. I noticed that the first effect slot of a weapon has the weapon's strength in the power value. I thought that the weapon's strength was decided by item class and subclass? Is that first effect slot useless, or can we create weapons which are stronger than they should?

edit: oh, and btw, 5 effects is not the maximum, I made a weapon with 7 effects, which worked perfectly, which means we can create monster weapons!

Oh, and Rick Saada said that the levels where partly hardcoded, making it near to impossible to do anything concrete concerning levels, he advised us to stay away from them.

I think I'm seeing some light in a sequel to CotW, which accepts the save files from finished Castle2 games...

-- Edited by Gil at 04:14, 2005-05-24

I get the error "5 Invalid procedure call or argument in PutValue" now :)

anyway, just got on my comp, time to test those size bytes :D

Edit: tested, seems to work just fine, I love you now... Onto prices now...

-- Edited by Gil at 16:37, 2005-05-24

The PutValue error doesn't appear, it's back to the old "runtime error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument"...

I can't edit neither static stats nor free hand because of runtime error 5. I clicked on "save", the error popped. However, the file "x.cwg.new" was created and the game worked. (I found where to edit player's coordinates). This means my cheat is useable (and I used it) with stores after going to dungeon. I wonder what would happen if I insert a cursed/useless item to the shop (using the cheat) and then try to buy it? What would be the price??? Could anybody see it?

My version of msvbvm60.dll (from File-Properities-Version): 6.0.92.37

Gil, what version of Windows are you using? (Me XP - almost plain with only Borland C++Builder installed)

Does the .exe file has a reference to VBA6.DLL? (I found it from DOS edit /70) I haven't got one in windows\system. Could it be the reason?

In my case the MS-VB-DLL updates didn't help too. Maybe You should have it compiled under XP?

This problem is getting close to being a headache to deal with.

I updated the program again, so it'll show the line number that the error occurs on. I'll kill this stupid problem if I keep hacking away at it like a crazed gorilla with a machette.

I put up a new version

...please let my assumption of what the problem is be right...

Actually, Unidentified items have their basic price hardcoded, and the item will already have 0 for the price if it's cursed. What the 'Sage' really checks is if the 'Is Cursed' value is enabled in the Item Status. You can give a cursed item a non-zero price and sell it I suspect. Whether it will remain in store inventory is another matter.

I have also just completed a serious reprogramming of how things get written to the file and stored in the program. There IS no more truncate function, so that won't ever be a problem, and I understand how to write all the normal types of data to a binary file now. I can't imagine there being an error now that I'm playing by the rules so strictly, and not using weird ways of making things work.

Optionally, all the defaults for potions, scrolls and such can be setup.

If it works without any issues, then it would be entirely possible for anyone to implement things that I haven't done at that point.

Things like adding items to a pack(not a belt), or reading/writing names to to items is still not possible, but it shouldn't take a great deal of time.

Considering that it's a Severe no-no to edit equipment that you're wearing, I'm thinking of basically leaving it a free hand item editor. I could try to make it possible to edit packs, edit your purse, edit items within packs, add/remove stuff from a pack of any type...

but this is all a bit difficult to do in terms of having to recalculate so much stuff and rewrite it to the file. It's not that it would be difficult in the sense of hard to comprehend, just difficult in the sense that it would be a tedious manuever.

I also have failed in every attempt to make an item with more than 5 effects on it. I don't know what value you used in StatusB, but it must have been quite less usual than 0x66 or 0x56

http://www.faktor-g.com/cotw/SAVE.CWG

There you go...

It's the only item in the inventory, should be easy to find...

Fucking great man, great tool to play around with :)

Anonymous wrote:

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Hi I am the guy that made the money offset searching program. I don't know if you guys still can use this but here is a copy of my old web page with a lot of save game info:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001005051616/http://www.csonline.net/pagint/cowsvg.htm

I am waiting for my user name to kick in for this forum

-Rey morta

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Hey, welcome to the forum, despite the inactivity, most of us still come around to see if anything new shows up. Anyways, do you still have the code for that program? I'd love to take it and create a money changer program. I'll use C++ for the ability to read and write large numbers even though I somewhat know the language, but it'll give me a chance to increase my C++ knowledge. my email is nova10@hotmail.com

As for your site, it has quite a bit of stuff that used to be out on the net, but got lost over time. However, the bit on the money is still known.

- nova10

Purse funds appear first because player equipment comes before non-player equipment. If you have another purse equipped somewhere on the player, that purse could be edited instead.

I finally decided to do some more with this program, because I'm quite tired of the theft and poor representation in another project I've been doing...and I didn't feel like doing nothing at all while taking a break from it.

Fixed Droughts of Gain * and Potions of Lose *, Boots of Speed/Slowness, and useless items, like Distillation of Water.

http://www.angelfire.com/nc/ugetab/castle12.html

Also, was trying to figure this out...

Item Activation
Bit 01 = Status Modifiers?
Bit 02 = Unlimited Activations?
Bit 04 = Activated Effects? (Summon Monster)
Bit 08 = ?
Bit 16 = 1 Activation, Gets used up
Bit 32 = Limited Activation, Doesn't Get Used Up
Bit 64 = Item Messages?
Bit 128 = Unlimited Use? (Used by Ring of Adornment, Broken Boots, enchanted weapons, etc)

16 + 04 = 1 activation
32 + 04 = limited activation

Bit 128:
Ring of Adornment
Necklace of Adornment
Ripped Cloak
Broken Boots
Rusty Bracers
Rusty Gauntlets

Bit 64:
Dead Staff
Dead Wand

Bit 01 + 02 (Defense/Offense info not used?):
Broken Helmet

Useless Potion/Scroll:
Blank Scroll
Distillation of Water

Status Modifiers Only:
Broken Sword
Rusty Armor
Broken Shield

Money, No Activation/Status = 0(00)
Broken Helmet Only = 3 (03)
Parchment, 1 Activation = 20 (14)
Portal, Limited Activation = 36 (24)
Useless Wand/Staff = 64 (40)
Useless Potion/Scroll = 80 (50)
Potion/Scroll, 1 Activation = 84 (54)
Wand/Staff, Limited Activations = 100 (64)
Worthless Equipment = 128 (80)
Status Modifiers Only = 131 (83)
Unlimited Activations = 134 (86)
Unlimited Act. & Status = 135 (87)

Bit 16 + 64 = Item Can Be Activated, gets used up