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- From: szgershe@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Shadowspawn)
- Subject: Re: Ultima7 - Cheat
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.153821.9431@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:38:21 GMT
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- In article <C1Int3.4nv@news.udel.edu> mcohen@ravel.udel.edu (Michael Roger Cohen) writes:
- >Why are people bothering to cheat on Ultima 7? It was an easy game from a
- >combat view. I finished the game with 4 people (even doing the dragon dungeon).
- >The game plot was more difficult, but you don't need to cheat.
-
- The useful thing about cheating was that the cheat menu had the
- ability to teleport you anywhere in the game, which is useful at
- the beginning (gets you out of trinsic to avoid copy
- protection!), and when you are asked to go from one city to
- another to follow eliz and abraham.
-
- Press F1 to see a menu of cheat things you can do.
- F3 teleports you anywhere using the map. Just point to where
- you want to go!
-
- Make sure you type the cheat in correctly. I used norton
- disk editor to do it.
-
- Just to repeat if someone missed it...
-
- Make a file called ultima.bat with one line:
-
- ultima7 ABCDX
-
- and then edit the file with Norton, and change the "X" to FF in hex!
-
- Then just run ultima. It worked for me with the forge installed.
- It is also useful if you don't to take the time to find a key, for
- example the key to the hoe of destruction.
- I forget exactly which key it is, but one of the cheat keys
- identifies an item. So identify the door, it will tell you
- stuff about it. Identify any key you want. Again it will tell
- you stuff about the key. What you want to do is create a key
- (another function key on the cheat menu) that has the same
- properties
- as the door, but is still a key (I forget exactly but I think
- quality is what describes what type of door it is and what type
- of key it is, so you want a key that has the same "quality" as
- the door.) I myself did not use it, since I found most of the keys,
- but if you want to start the game with an advantage...
-
- Also it is technically possible to go to the end of the game
- with the teleport cheat... (the final room where you have to
- defeat all the Fellowship members...) though you would have
- to creat the prisms actually end the game...
-
- It's just sort of fun to use the cheats, makes it a different game
- perhaps spoils it at times, just don't abuse the cheat.
-
- I used it mainly to teleport around to places I had to go.
-
- Steven
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