Editor and Mod for W & W
 

Found this site with an editor and mod, I used the mod and it doesn't crash the game, as i have just started playing the game, I haven't notice if the mod works, but it doesn't affect the game...! Haven't used the editor, but others might and then post results here....!

As this is the only 'mod' I have found for the game, I thought i'd spread the news around! :)

http://jeffludwig.com/wizardswarriors/download.php

Re: Editor and Mod for W & W
 

KEWL!!!!

Wish I had time to load and replay W&W! Ah well, maybe someday I will! ;)

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I had a stab at decrypting all of the game files before, but I never got around to writing a program, I used hex editing instead. Should be interesting to see if the editor works.

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Crazy... didn't know there was still an interest in W&W out there!

If someone wants to have some fun looking at several levels that didn't make it into the final version, check out my archived W&W site:

planet.io/_archive/web_deep6/

Tap the "Grab Bag" orb button and go to the bottom of the page.

If you get any of these to load, I'd love to know! It's been over a decade since I've seen them.

Cheers,
--alz

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Alz, firstly, a big thanks for this game, as you worked on it, at least for a while - you should be very proud! I'd like to think you're still working at a company producing RPG's, given your knowledge and experience with them!

Secondly, I am downloading the various AVI and levels files as I type, and will let people know how it goes....!

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I am at the start of the game, enter the graveyard crypt and it seems to be a different voice. Is this right alz?

Re: Editor and Mod for W & W
 

Heya :)

Not sure what the voice means -- I haven't played the game in over a decade, so I won't be much help. But I know there are several people and links on this forum that're great resources for help!

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I can't locate the page that Alz mentioned in his post, post #4 in this topic:
http://www.planet.io/_archive/web_deep6/
I also can't locate his homepage, Darkslayers.com, it is now up for auction.

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I have tried the Wayback Machine to no avail. Maybe Google caching?
I could not access the Darkslayers website because the Machine was blocked by Robots.txt

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These things may just be gone. What keywords did you use when googling?

I'll try ferreting around and see if I can find anything.

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For a quick look at the Wayback Machine, see the topic
http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/...d.php?t=101818
To use it you activate the link:
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html
and then type in the web address.
Wayback Machine is not a Google-style search engine, rather it accesses its own database of stored web pages. Database goes back to about 1996. Access to sites can be blocked by the privacy script Robots.txt, this is most annoying and it happened with Alz' site Darkslayers.com.
On the FRUA forum we thought a program was "gone forever", but we were able to resurrect it by use of Wayback!

Re: Editor and Mod for W & W
 

This link still works:

http://planet.io/_archive/web_deep6/

The "Grab Bag" icon on the menu takes to some of the odd goodies.

Re: Editor and Mod for W & W
 

Thanks alz for posting that (and nice to see you in here too!!!) :)

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Any new resources are always welcome for W&W, glad to see the link still works.

An editor for W&W is mentioned in the Grab Bag on Alz' page. That is interesting because someone enquired about modding W&W a while ago. At that time I replied that my decryption of the game files was not all that great, hence modding would be impossible. But if Alz still has an editor then all that has changed overnight.

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I tried the Alz' link above and got a 404 Not Found error.

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It may just be gone. :/

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Did anyone download it before it went down?

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Fendris's Editor seems to be 404ed. I will draw up a spreadsheet that shows the traits and so on. Fredric's editor does not show the traits. In the game itself, there are of course only the first ten listed in the given PC's Skills page.

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That will be a useful spreadsheet!!!

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I will decrypt the PC records as best I can. Anyone, who has better programming skills than I, can use my data to write a new editor.
Currently there is only space to display 20 of the 32 Skills. It is even worse with the Traits, there are 66 of them and only 10 are displayed.

Re: Editor and Mod for W & W
 

For an inventory editor you need several things:
Knowledge of the height and width of every item, so you don't place two items on the same square.
A specimen of the 86 Byte inventory string for every item that the editor can give.
In the spreadsheet, a rewritten section for the items so that they are alterable.

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I'm re-uploading my old website here: http://curiousconstructs.com/deep6/

:)

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Something from the archive... I rebuilt the Crypt and the Serpent Temple just before I left the company. Those first few levels were sooooooooo bad with everyone learning how to make levels and use the editor. They were all textured and lit DWB didn't swap them in though (despite the game taking another year to finish)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLraS7QUEAAYjol.jpg

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Excellent!!! Thanks so much, alz!!!