Pathways Guide V1x

This guide contains complete maps and info that will assist you in solving Pathways Into Darkness. The original survival guide by Pou Lee and modified by Micah Anderson is included. The maps are in large part courtesy of Alan Earhart, with editing and missing maps done by me. My only advice to anyone playing the game is save early, save often. Time is not really a factor so rest a lot and save those clear blue potions for the final level of rooms. The guide was made with DOCMaker by Mark Wall. Colin Law claw@spacsun.rice.edu Page 1 EDITING THE GAME Introduction: This file describes how to edit your game, be it giving your character 255 shots in your Walther-P4, changing your hitpoints to be 4000 or even changing your location within the dungeon. It is a quite simple process, although it CAN be dangerous so I recommend you make a copy of your Saved Games file and keep it in a spare place (yea, yea, you've heard it before... but it REALLY sucks to lose your file when you've gotten all the way to the suffocation chamber or something.) Watcha need: You have to have some sort of sector editor, I've been using Norton Utilites (you can get to it by loading up Norton and then in the Utilities menu its the item which says, Norton Disk Editor.) You need your Pathways Into Darkness Saved Games file, and you need a backup of this file. Editing Items: Open up your Saved Games file, or the copy of the same thing. Go to sector 6 (within the file, NOT 6 absolute sectors - that would probably take you into your boot block or something nasty), this is where all the inventory items are kept (for the FIRST game in your list, I haven't figured out where the others are located yet, I haven't the need for it yet. If you figure it out, let me know) Each item in your inventory is 8 bytes long. A byte consists of a hex "number" so FF is a byte, so is 33 and 2A, etc. You can see (at least within Norton) that there are two sets of 8 on each line. It may be a little confusing as there are four sections on each line. Each one of those sections has 8 single digits in it, in other words four bytes. So you take the left half of the line and there are two sections of four bytes, those left two sections consist of one inventory item. It may take a second for this to sink in, but look at it for a little while, it'll make sense. The second byte is the item hex code number (the list is below as to which each hex code corresponds to). It is benifical to change a couple copies of Mien Kampf into a clip of ammo, or a potion or something. To do this, just change this byte to the hex number in the list below. The fourth byte is the condition of the item (either worn or wielded, or just held) hex number. I believe that 00 means you are holding the item (just in your inventory), 01 and 02 either mean word/wielded or held (as in a crystal sense). I haven't botherd to figure out what these actual…