Cheat Code to Give an Item?

[The Wealthy Aardvark]

No problem. I had already been looking for this information myself, so when I saw that you had posted the question I figured I'd share my new wealth of knowledge.

[Helios]

Well, thanks for sharing! I've been playing around with editing, having awakened my inner hacker, and it seems pretty easy to use the Scanner's report to edit a save file. It appears that everything is open to change quite easily, including character skills, runes, spellbook, army, etc.--though I'm only interested in the items/units/spells for the sake of saving my time from uncountable game restarts until I got an ideal game from the Scanner. I'm not interested in completely breaking the balance of the game and removing all challenge. Now, even an all-Orc army is possible from the beginning.

It stinks that lots of the items, units, and spells have different names in the save file than in the report, but they can all be deduced easily enough with some time and effort. Another small obstacle is finding specific buildings in the save file, since they aren't named clearly (or at all). I'll make it a project to get a list than equates the two files to make editing easier. And I may as well share it on the forums if fellow editors come along!

The starting castle in Greenwort (Castle Kronberg) and other dwellings that change inventories and troops seem to be a bit trickier to edit than other places since they have extra checks for quest completions, title promotions, and another layer for checking the troops on top of that to set the items and spells currently available, but it all seems open to my level of understanding to completely tailor a game to oneself. Editing Kronberg in the middle of a game seems to be a bit above my head right now, since it seems that the game may only check for promotion at the time it is bestowed, and not again until the next one. (Or I'm just doing something wrong. Too many variables right now.) But I've succeeded in changing around simpler locations already. All in due time!

Strangely, I can't find any trace of Noric in the save file (he's currently giving me the Cyclops Eye, but there's no cyclop_eye in my save file. Since the Scanner can't foretell past his level 1 item, I'm wondering if it's even possible to find. I guess it doesn't matter to me now, though!

It sure will be nice to reduce on my racial playthroughs to deposit occasional troops that I'm using at each continent!

Thanks again! I wouldn't have thought to look in the AP forums for the editor!

Edit: I tried fighting Noric on every level from level 4 up to 29, and he changed the item he dropped every level or every few levels, cycling between the cyclops eye, the scroll case, the baton, and finally settling on the fire necklace for the final five levels. All I can say in hindsight is, if you use the Scanner, don't count on him to drop what he says he will! I never saw the Intellect Ring in all the test battles.

[Vulture]

At what levels did he drop the Baton for you ? I really don't feel like killing him umpteen times to find out myself ^^

[Helios]

Hmm. Crap. I don't remember the specific levels, but it was something like every third or fourth level, and he stopped dropping it before the 20s, I think. I also have suspicions that what set of items he can drop changes every game or might (doubtful?) drop based on your class.

I was getting regalia every time with my current Warrior and some that were never presented to the Paladin: Heroism Banner; but regalia and artifacts with my Paladin in this thread. I know he dropped the baton on level 9 for me currently. I got tired of killing him too, (only takes 10 minutes or so depending on where you are when you level up, but still out of the way) and snatched the baton this time.

[Vulture]

Hey, can you help me edit my game ? I found out that the Necromancer's Tower that has my Telescopic Sight is the one that only lets you trade after you finished his quest to bring him Red Dragon Eggs and by all means, they're impossible to get without fighting the Dragon troops there and the place is too crowded even bother kiting 2 or 3 troops at the same time.

I tried those codes and it only works on a few and sadly also:

item telescopic_sight

doesn't give me the item. The chatbox opens, I type it and nothing is in my inventory or equipment slot.

Can you check if it works for you and if not, do you know what the name of the code is that the item relates to ? I'm too far advanced in the game to just crop it now...

€dit: seems like there was a problem with the first slot in the inventory. I had to remove Fandor's Map from the first position of the inventory, close the hero screen and open it again and there it was. I decided not to delete my post in case someone runs into the same problem with a few items. I noticed it does the same thing for other items, too.

[Helios]

Just a moment. The code works for me, depositing the sight in my inventory. I'll write up a short walkthrough of editing.

[Helios]

Tell me the name of an item for sale in your game that you haven't bought, (and obviously at a store you have access to). I'll need that to describe the process precisely.