Dungeon Master Hints
Hint Books
Walkthroughs
Tips and Tricks
Ending animation
To watch the ending animation of Dungeon Master for PC, you can replace the FTL logo animation by the ending animation. You do this by renaming the file "SWOOSH" to "SWOOSH.BAK" and the file "END" to "SWOOSH".
Killing the Red Dragon
Save 4 Ven Potions, and 4 Magical Boxes. Equip each champion with a Magical Box in their action hand, and a Ven Potion in their other hand. Have everyone who can cast spells prepare a Poison Cloud spell. When the Red Dragon is in front of your party, use all 4 Magical Boxes, throw all your Ven Potions, and cast all your Poison Cloud spells. The Red Dragon will be dead before it unfreezes.
Kid dungeon
[Submitted by Marco (mcavagna@umaryland.edu)]
In Dungeon Master for Apple II GS, there is a three levels bonus dungeon. You can access it by pressing the Apple IIGS "option" key (mapped to F2 in the KEGS emulator) while clicking the Enter button on the main screen. This small dungeon contains some creatures and lots of items.
Gambit submitted the following information: The Kid Dungeon instructions insert that comes with the Apple IIGS version does tell you how to get into the dungeon on Apple IIGS, Amiga and Atari ST. Perhaps it was possible on early versions for the Atari ST and Amiga, but it's not possible in the later versions.
Do not get lost
You can drop Zokathra spells on the ground to keep track of where you have been in the dungeon. This may be useful in some mazes. You could drop any other items, but you can produce as many Zokathra spells as you need.
Automatic training
On Amiga, you can use the auto fire capability of your joystick to automate a champion's training. Find a place where there are no creatures. Place the mouse cursor in position to use a weapon and pause the game. Unplug your mouse and replace it by your joystick. Unpause the game and switch the auto fire on. This will automatically train the selected champion with the selected action. Looking at the inventory screen while doing this speeds up the process a little bit more.
Cheats
Item replicator
[Submitted by DiscJet]
In Dungeon Master for PC, it is possible to replicate items: on level 2 at (09,38) there is a blinking teleporter. Use the completed Firestaff to cast a fluxcage in that teleporter. It is then teleported to (15,38). After a while, the teleported fluxcage starts to look like there is also something hanging in the air. At that point the replicator is ready and can be used by putting items on ground and picking them up. They will still exist on ground after you pick them up.
Note that using the replicator may crash the game.
Infinite Health Cheat
[Submitted by Miguel (mjccc1@hotmail.com)]
This tip only works with Dungeon Master for PC version 3.4 Multilanguage (it does not work for the English only version). It requires a change in the file named FIRES so you should make a backup copy of this file before applying the following procedure:
From a DOS command prompt, run the DEBUG program by typing DEBUG. At the Debug prompt, type the following commands (press enter after each command):
NFIRESLE 8900 30WQ
Now when you play the game, the health of champions will never decrease.
Hacking skills and statistics
You can exploit a bug in Dungeon Master for PC v3.4 (English) to overwrite some bytes in memory that define a champion's skills and statistics values:
- Resurrect or reincarnate one champion, for example "ZED DUKE OF BANVILLE".
- Open the mirror of another champion and choose Reincarnate.
- Type the first name of the first champion in your party ("ZED" in our example) and press enter.
- Type the last name of the first champion in your party ("DUKE OF BANVILLE" in our example) and click on OK. Nothing seems to happen, as the game prevents you to have two champions with the same name.
- Click on BACKSPACE or press the backspace key on your keyboard until you have deleted all characters from the last name.
- Press again Backspace 268 times.
- Press the "Z" key 160 times.
- Click OK. The champion is now reincarnated. The skills and statistics of the first champion you selected now have been increased.
Note: After the use of this hack, the game becomes very unstable and will probably crash. Some of the issues I have seen include: crash with "System Error 70", champion portrait corruption, champion inventory corruption, fireball frozen in air.
Free mana (Dungeon Master for PC)
Uncompress FIRES.EXE with UNLZEXE.
Open the uncompressed file with a hexadecimal editor. Find this byte sequence:
01 02 03 04 05 06 02 03 04 05 06 07 04 05 06 07 07 09 02 02 03 04 06 07
and replace all bytes by 00.
During the game the mana will not decrease when you use the runes.
Champion looting
Submitted by Rhod (bigrhod@hotmail.com)
Choose a champion that has some mana and Wizard ability. Stand in front of another mirror and bump in the wall until the champion only has a few remaining health points. Now cast a Poison Cloud spell and click on the mirror. Do not resurrect or reincarnate the champion in the mirror and wait for the death of your champion because of the poison. This will not end the game as it should. Now exit the mirror and you can wander in the dungeon like a ghost. In some versions of the game like Amiga 3.6, PC 3.4, X68000 and PC-9801, you can even walk through walls, including behind champion portraits where you can loot their possessions. In other versions like Atari ST 1.x, Atari ST 2.x, Amiga 2.x and Apple IIGS 2.x this is not possible.
Super Characters
Misc-SuperCharacters.rar- [Supplied by Steve Debnar (dmman)]
This archive contains saved games for Dungeon Master for PC and Amiga. These saved games have been hacked to set the champions' skills and statistics to their maximum.
Magazine articles
Dungeon Master Guide published in German magazine 'Power Play', May 1988, Pages 47-48, 50
[Source: Kultpower]
Dungeon Master Guide published in German magazine 'Power Play', June 1988, Pages 44-47
[Source: Kultpower]
Dungeon Master for Atari ST Guide published in French magazine 'ST Magazine', Issue #20 June 1988, Pages 112-116
[Source: Abandonware Magazines]
Dungeon Master guide published in French magazine 'Jeux et Stratégies', Issue #51, June 1988, Pages 82-86
[Supplied by Loïc Lambert]
A guide by Bryan Stevens printed in the 'Screen Play' tips book by Amiga Format and Future Publishing
- In this guide, the map and hints for level 5 (the numbering starts at 1) was printed in the place of level 6. An amendment to this was later printed in Issue 23 (June 1991) of Amiga Format. Interestingly enough, the amendment is printed in colour, as Amiga Format is a colour magazine while the 'Screen Play' book is printed in black and white.
[Supplied by Pad]
Tips from French ST Magazine issue #20 (June 1988)
[Supplied by Arnaud Déniel]
Dungeon Master Tips published in UK magazine 'ST Action', Vol 1 No 6 October 1988, Pages 84-88
[Supplied by John Cully]
Dungeon Master Hints published in German magazine 'Power Play', November 1988, Page 26
[Source: Kultpower]
Dungeon Master Hints published in German magazine 'Power Play', December 1988, Page 37
[Source: Kultpower]
Dungeon Master Hints published in French magazine 'Gen4'
[Source: Abandonware Magazines]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'The One for 16-bits games', Issue #1 October 1988, Page 57
[Supplied by Steve Hood]
Dungeon Master guide published in American magazine 'ST-Log', 1988
- This guide was written by Bob Retelle who also authored the Hint Book - Dungeon Master The Lost Scrolls Of Mount Anaias and the Hint Book - Chaos Strikes Back Adventurer's Handbook. It was published in three parts:
- Issue #24, October 1988, Page 48
- Issue #25, November 1988, Page 48
- Issue #26, December 1988, Page 48
Missing: Scan of the Dungeon Master guide published in American magazine 'ST-Log', 1988
If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.A transcript of this article is available here:
Ancient Corridors, A guide to Dungeon Master, Part 1 published in American magazine 'ST-Log' Issue #24, October 1988, Page 48
Ancient Corridors, A guide to Dungeon Master, Part 2 published in American magazine 'ST-Log' Issue #25, November 1988, Page 48
Ancient Corridors, A guide to Dungeon Master, Part 3 published in American magazine 'ST-Log' Issue #26, December 1988, Page 48
Dungeon Master for Atari ST Guide published in French magazine 'Gen4', Issue #9, March 1989, Pages 62-73
[Supplied by Pierre Monnot, Source: Abandonware Magazines]
Dungeon Master Guide published in British magazine 'Advanced Computer Entertainment', Issues #29, #30, #31 and #32
[Supplied by Steve Hood]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'ST Action', Issue #22 February 1990, Page 20
[Supplied by The Boggit]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'ST Action', Issue #23 March 1990, Page 66
[Supplied by The Boggit]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Advanced Computer Entertainment', Issue #33 June 1990, Page 89
[Supplied by Steve Hood]
Dungeon Master And Chaos Strikes Back Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Action', Issue #12 September 1990, Page 15
[Supplied by The Boggit]
Dungeon Master for Amiga Fake DM Cheat published in French magazine 'Joystick', Issue #10 November 1990, Page 165
[Source: Abandonware Magazines]
Dungeon Master Guide published in Czech magazine 'Excalibur', Issue #4 July 1991, Pages 28-33
[Supplied by DJ Oldgames, Source: oldgames.sk]
Pages 29-30: Translated story from the game manual to Czech language
Pages 30-33: short walkthrough, maps and runes table
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'CU Amiga', September 1991, Page 128
[Supplied by Steve Hood]
Dungeon Master Guide published in French magazine 'PC Review', Issue #4, January 1993, Pages 82-83
[Supplied by Pierre Monnot, Source: Abandonware Magazines]Missing: Scan of the Dungeon Master Guide published in French magazine 'PC Review' (the first part published in Issue #4, January 1993, Pages 82-83 is already scanned)
If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.
Dungeon Master for Super NES Guide published in American magazine 'VideoGames And Computer Entertainment', Issue #50 March 1993, Pages 56-63
[Supplied by èné, Source: Retromags]
Dungeon Master Article published in Polish magazine 'Świat Gier Komputerowych', Issue #4, May-June 1993, Pages 52-56
[Supplied by Adamo]
Dungeon Master Guide published in Polish magazine 'Gambler', January 1994 to April 1994
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: RetroReaders]
Dungeon Master for Super NES Hints published in American magazine 'Nintendo Power'
[Source: Retromags]
Dungeon Master for PC Guide published in Czech magazine 'Score', Issue #24 December 1995, Pages 60-66
[Supplied by DJ Oldgames, Source: oldgames.sk]
Dungeon Master Hints published in French magazine 'Tilt'
[Source: Abandonware Magazines]
Dungeon Master Hints published in French magazine 'Joystick'
[Source: Abandonware Magazines]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'The Games Machine', Issue #9, August 1988, Page 112
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'ST Amiga Format', Issue #7, January 1989, Page 56
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in Swedish magazine 'Datormagazin'
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Action'
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Format', Issue #23, June 1991, Page 109
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in German magazine 'Amiga Joker', May 1992, Page 58
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'The One Amiga', Issue #78, March 1995, Page 74
[Supplied by Adamo, Source: Amiga Magazine Rack]
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Action', Issue #22 July 1991, Page 23
Missing: Scan of Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Action', Issue #22 July 1991, Page 23If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Action', Issue #25 October 1991, Page 29
Missing: Scan of Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Amiga Action', Issue #25 October 1991, Page 29If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.
Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Atari ST User', Vol 3 No 7 September 1988
Missing: Scan of Dungeon Master Hints published in British magazine 'Atari ST User', Vol 3 No 7 September 1988If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.
Dungeon Master for Super NES Guide published in American magazine 'VideoGames And Computer Entertainment', Issue #49 February 1993
Missing: Scan of Dungeon Master for Super NES Guide published in American magazine 'VideoGames And Computer Entertainment', Issue #49 February 1993If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.
Dungeon Master for Super NES Guide published in American magazine 'VideoGames And Computer Entertainment', Issue #51 April 1993
Missing: Scan of Dungeon Master for Super NES Guide published in American magazine 'VideoGames And Computer Entertainment', Issue #51 April 1993If you can help, please E-mail me! Check Contributions wanted for a list of other missing content.
