From: spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: MM4 gold/gem hack, endgame announcement and other spoilers
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:46:25 GMT
Reply-To: spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

OK, I just finished MM4:Clouds of Xeen tonight!! (at 2 AM!)

Before I lodge some questions/complaints let me go over the gold/gems
hack for all interested parties...

Party gold is stored at offset 3583 (hex of course).
Part Gems is stored at offset 3587.

So, say you have 160 gems in the party.  Then in the save file you will
have the following:
Offset    Value
------    -----
3587      A0
3588      00

Now, because the numbers are stored in byte-backwards order, the number 00A0h
is stored as A000h.  So if you want to change your party's gem count to 
4660 decimal (or 1234 hex).  Then you would enter the following...

Offset   Value
------   -----
3587     34
3588     12

Got it?  Same goes for gold.

Now, I have questions for anyone else who completed MM4 or is really close...

What's in the Dragon's Lair?  I never did that.
Where is the generator for the poison dragons and the fire(lava?) 
golems around the volcano?  I couldn't find them.  (You know what I
mean, their home hut, camp or whatever)
What's in Dragon Tower and how do you enter?
What's in southern Sphinx and how do you enter?
What's in Darkstone tower and how do you enter?
How do you enter the dungeon just west of Pitchfork Creek (next to
the skull on the enclosed map)?
What do the 4 corner radar dishes do?  (you must teleport to get to these)
Is there some point to the warzone?  I've killed 20 creatures at level 10
but didn't get any reward (explicitly). (in MM3 you could only fight 75
arena fights, after that the game crashed, so at least there was some kind
of endpoint for it. :-)
What do the four drums do in the clouds above the Tower of High Magic?

I think that's all for my questions.  Oh yeah, if anyone is having 
problems with any fighting do the following...

Save your position with a Lloyd's Beacon spell and then cast Town Recall 
(or Town Return or whatever it's called, that cleric spell).  It's best if
you do this just at 5 AM when the sun rises so that you have the longest
day...

1) Go to NightShadow and drink from the fountain.  This raises each chars
   levels by 10 for the day.
2) Go to Vertigo (via mirror) and drink from fountain to bring hit points up
   to max.
3) Go to Rivercity and drink from fountain to increase all spellpoints by 100.
   Some chars may be able to drink more than once here!
4) Go to Asp and drink fountain to add 100 hp to each char.
5) Go to Winterkill for a final drink to add 50 to each char's Might sttrib.

If you add to this the spells Day of Magic and the corresponding cleric
spell (I forget the name) you make quite a formidable party.

The only problem with the above strategy is that you have to pray that
the bug involving the maps does not occur.  For example, I did this in
the Golem dungeon while I was fighting all the Diamond Golems.  Unfortunately,
3 times when I re-entered (via Lloyd's Beacon) the dungeon, the map was
reset.  Note that resetting the map doesn't only mean you have to trudge
over all the spaces to remap them.  BUT, you also have to kill all the
monsters again.  The good thing about this was that I got so many
King's Credits since they kept reappearing.  But then again, now that I
have my own castle, what can I do with an aditional 16 or so credits? :-)

Happy Adventuring!
Terence Spielman
spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games