12 June 2007

By: Alexandru Stanescu, Editor, Gaming Reviews (Consoles)
The Elder Scrolls: Arena Glitches and Secrets (PC)
There's a glitch for every blockbuster.
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994. In 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series, but newer systems may require an emulator such as DOSBox to run it, as Arena is a DOS based program. Like its sequels, it takes place in the continent of Tamriel, complete with wilderness, dungeons, a spell creation system that allows players to mix various spell effects into a new spell as long as they have the money to pay for it and numerous other game features that were ahead of its time.Another notable part of Arena is its tendency to be unforgiving towards newer players. It is easy to die in the starting dungeon, as powerful enemies can be encountered if the player lingers too long. However, this effect slowly goes away as the player becomes more powerful and more aware of the threats that loom everywhere. Arena is noted for its large environment, which is significantly larger than its sequels, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but smaller than that of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. This is due to the game's randomly generated areas, which allow for large numbers of different combinations for each area. GlitchesDuplicate ItemsFirst you will need to go to a blacksmith and give him some equipment to repair. Now go rest until it is done and return for it. In the repair screen select status and then the item you wish to duplicate. You will have the message "X has been repaired". Now choose cancel and exit out of the buy sell screen. At this point re-enter the buy sell screen and select repair again. Now go to status and the item you just got back should be there for the taking once again. Using this glitch will allow you to acquire money extremely quickly.Free rooms in innsThis will allow you to sleep in inns without paying. First, save your game outside the inn you wish to stay in. Go in, talk to the inn owner and get a room. Reload the game and go back into the inn. Even though you did not pay for it in the saved game, you will still be allowed to sleep in the inn.SecretsBoosting stats by editing save game files (HEX editor required)Stats are stored in the save game files, which are named saveengn.xx, where xx is the save game number based on the slot you use (for example: the top slot would be saveengn.00, the second saveengn.01, and so on). You must be able to HEX edit. For example, you can give a character 1,000,000,000 GP like this: (In the file)Offset 41E 18Offset 41F FAOffset 420 C4 80Offset F8Offset 041F is part of the field for Gold. Change it from what it is to CC to get around 65K gold pieces. Offset 040C is part of the field for Experience. Change it from 48 to 4F to get around 1.28 x 10^11 Experience points.Field covers 4 bytes - 409 to 40C (hex) 409 holds the lowest value and 40C holds the highest value.To give a character more attribute points make the following change: (next fight gives the points)Offset (make character level 1)At the time of the next fight you will get a bunch of points to distribute. The number depends on the difference between level 1 and the character's current level. Do not go to 100 for each attribute as that will hang the game next time the character gains a level. Leave at least (6*(26-current level)) points available for distribution. If the idea is to increase stats, use the offset 006 change until the values you want to increase are high enough.It is much easier to edit the spells, since they're kept in clear hex. Use Spellmaker to create a spell that does 1-1 points of damage, +1-1/level, then look the spell up in the SPELLS.xx file (where xx is the savegame #), and change it to 99-99, + 99-99/level, etc, etc. You can change other factors such as chance and duration. There are also two effects (Cage and Death Spell) that seem to never have been implemented, but activating them and using them is not advisable, as that will result in disharmonious outcomes.Here's the ending of

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IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING THE ELDER SCROLLS II: DAGGERFALL ("THIS PRODUCT"). THIS IS A LEGAL DOCUMENT STATING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING INSTALLATION AND USE OF THIS PRODUCT. BY INSTALLING OR USING THIS PRODUCT, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS STATED HEREIN BY BETHESDA SOFTWORKS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL.
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Instructions for setting up The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall For Windows XP/Windows VISTA
Daggerfall is not fully compatible with the NTVDM used to emulate DOS under Windows NT (XP/Vista) so an alternative DOS emulator should be used. 1) The first step is to install DOSBox. Launch its setup program and install with default options. 2) After DOSBox is installed, navigate to its entry in the Start Menu (DOSBox-0.73) and then select Configuration, and then Edit Configuration. If you have used DOSBox before, it may be best to run Reset Configuration first before running Edit Configuration. 3) This will open up Notepad with the config file displayed. Look for the section [dosbox]. In this section will be a setting memsize=xx. Change the value of xx to 32 (i.e. memsize=32) and then save and close the file. 4)The next step is to extract Daggerfall from the archive. The archive is a zip file named DFInstall.zip. Using a zip program such as Winzip or Winrar, open the archive and choose to Extract. You want to extract the entire contents of the zip file to a directory on your C:\, such as C:\dosgames. So, when you chose Extract, the program will ask for a path, enter C:\dosgames. This will create the folders C:\dosgames\DFCD and C:\dosgames\DAGGER. 5) Once the archive extraction is completed, DOSBox must be launched to start the installation process. Use the DOSBox icon on your desktop or the entry in the Start Menu to launch it. 6) Once launched, you will be presented with a window containing a command prompt (Z:\> ). 7) As DOSBox is a virtual environment, the locations to work with must be mounted within the virtual environment. First, you must mount the location that contains Daggerfall's files to a virtual C: within DOSBox. 8) To do this, type this line in at the command prompt: mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000. Press enter to process the command. This will map C:\dosgames to virtual C:\. 9) Next, you must emulate the Daggerfall CD-ROM for the installation and running of the game. 10)To this, type this line in at the command prompt: mount d c:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall. Press Enter to process the command. This will map the files in C:\dosgames\dfcd to to virtual D:\, which is acting like a CD-ROM with the volume label of Daggerfall (needed to run the game). 11) Once the two locations are mounted, at the command prompt type: D:, then push enter and the prompt will change to D:\>.

12) Next, type: INSTALL. Press Enter and the Daggerfall installation program will launch. At this point you can move your actual mouse pointer into the DOSBox window and click once. Mouse control will be handed off to DB and will work within the Daggerfall installer to select items. 13) Now, agree to the terms and then select "Install the Game to Your Hard Drive." Then select "Change the Install Size" and set it to "Huge. Next select "Yes, This Install Size is Fine." The installer will suggest C:\Dagger as the installation directory. Install the game to that location. Select "Yes, I want to install the game here." Following this, confirm the choices by selecting "Go ahead and install the game." The install will begin. 14) After installation, Daggerfall will offer to configure the sound card. At this point it is important that DOSBox be running in windowed mode and not full screen. If DOSBox is in full screen, hit ALT + Enter on the keyboard to place it back into windowed mode before choosing to configure the sound card. 15) Choose Yes to configure the sound card. Another program will appear. There is no mouse support in this program so the keyboard arrow keys and the Enter key will need to be used. 16) Press Enter while Auto-Detect is highlighted. Next, press Enter while Detect is highlighted. This will detect an emulated Sound Blaster 16. Navigate over to OK and press Enter. 17) Navigate down to Select MIDI and press Enter. Select Sound Blaster 16 from the list and press Enter. Press Enter again to select the default Port of 388. Navigate to OK and press Enter. 18) Navigate down to OK on the menu and press Enter twice. This will save the config and return you to Daggerfall's installer. Select OK and the installer will exit and drop you off at C:\DAGGER. 19) At the command prompt, type: DAG213. Press Enter. This will launch the patch to update the game to 1.07.213. Answer YES to both prompts when the patch asks for confirmation. 20) Once the patch is done, the game may be started. At the C:\DAGGER> prompt, type: DAGGER. Press Enter. Daggerfall should now load. 21) Each time you want to run Daggerfall, you will need to start DOS-Box and enter these commands: mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000 mount d c:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall c: cd\dagger dagger

Each of the above commands is followed by a press of the Enter key.