Warning and more info about DragonWarsGS patches

[ludowick@aol.com (Ludowick)]

DANGER!  DANGER!

The patch that I posted about the DragonWarsGS saved game patch should 
_only_ be used if your party has seven members!  DragonwarsGS saved game 
files are written as sparse files, and if your party has never had 7 members,
the 
location I gave will be incorrect (it appears if you dismiss a character, the
block 
is not freed up; so parties that had 7 members and then dismissed one or more 
may be able to use the previous post's technique).  

The Deliverance block editor appears to use the disk's block $00 as place
holder
for sparse blocks (a dangerous practice), and was how I goofed with my original

post.

The correct block to start to edit is the first block after the last character
in your 
party.  You should be able to recognize this block if you get the patching info
on 
how to edit your characters that is available in several places online.  I
apologize 
for any inconvenience this may have caused.

To recap:  Go to the block after your last character block in your saved game
file,
and starting at byte $150, write $FF bytes until the end of this block.  Fill
the 
following three blocks with $FF bytes as well.  This will map every area in the

Dragonwars map _except_ the area your party was in when you saved the game.

Another patch I've found is also in the block after your last character's
block.  
The first byte of this block is the number of squares from the bottom of the
map 
of the area your party was in when you saved the game.   The second byte in 
this block is the number of squares from the left edge of the map of the area
your party was also in when you saved the game.  If these bytes are $0A 09 then

your party is in the 10th row above the bottom of the map, and 9 rows from the 
west edge.

Warning:  if you use this patch, don't put your party onto a water square, or
you
will get stuck and have to reset.  Only patch your party onto land squares.  I 
haven't tried a wall square yet.

Ludowick