New level cap remover for 1.0.7.4

I have tried this hack and it seems to work with no bad side effects.

Level Cap Adapting Patch v1.2 for Arcanum by Troika/Sierra
made by Lebon bT (lebon.bt@gmx.de) in 2001
modified by Duncann for use with 1.0.7.4 patch

USE AT YOUR VERY OWN RISK!

You may copy/modify/update this file if and only if you
a) Leave my mark in it (the second line if you wonder)
b) You redistribute it to the Arcanum fan community

You may of course use the information presented here to create a handy tool
for all the folks that hate hex editors (You would do anyway, right?).

USAGE
-----
Search arcanum.exe for the following patterns. Make the changes as indicated (the
examples change the Level Cap to 127 [in hex 7F, you will notice below]).
Make sure your xp_level.mes contains experience level information for the new
levels! Look at http://www.terra-arcanum.com for how to extract this file from
arcanum3.dat and what to do with it.

I don't know what this does to multiplayer games. EMail me if something is missing
from the patch, e.g. you get no experience in some cases or the game will not
let you level up.

// allocate space for the experience tab
56 PUSH ESI
57 PUSH EDI
6A04 PUSH 04
6A33 PUSH 33 // change to 6a7F

// fill the experience tab
8BF7 MOV ESI,EDI
83FE33 CMP ESI,33 // change to 83fe7F

// update the experience counter of the character sheet
83C40C ADD ESP,0C
83F833 CMP EAX,33 // change to 83f87F

// update the experience bar (I never recognized it, however Greenleaf the summoner did)
8BF0 MOV ESI,EAX
83C40C ADD ESP,0C
83FE33 CMP ESI,33 // change to 83FE7F

// give levels up to a certain limit
64 00 00 00 33(change to 7F) 00 00 00-00 94 35 77 E8 03 00 00 d...2.....5w....


Expanded experience point table:

// this file contains the experience values for character levels
// each line is the minimum xp value needed to be the level that
// is line number
// NOTE: only the lines 1 thru 50 are valid, and line 1 should always
// be 0 xps

// All of these values are 25% of what they should be until we get more secondary quests in the game.

{1}{0}
{2}{2100}
{3}{4600}
{4}{7700}
{5}{11400}
{6}{15500}
{7}{20300}
{8}{25600}
{9}{31600}
{10}{38300}
{11}{45600}
{12}{53600}
{13}{62400}
{14}{71900}
{15}{82200}
{16}{93300}
{17}{105300}
{18}{118200}
{19}{132000}
{20}{146700}
{21}{162500}
{22}{179300}
{23}{197200}
{24}{216300}
{25}{236500}
{26}{257900}
{27}{280600}
{28}{304600}
{29}{330000}
{30}{356800}
{31}{385100}
{32}{414900}
{33}{446300}
{34}{479500}
{35}{514300}
{36}{551000}
{37}{589500}
{38}{630000}
{39}{672500}
{40}{717100}
{41}{764000}
{42}{813100}
{43}{864600}
{44}{918500}
{45}{975000}
{46}{1034200}
{47}{1096200}
{48}{1161100}
{49}{1229000}
{50}{1300000}
{51}{1374000}
{52}{1451000}
{53}{1531000}
{54}{1614000}
{55}{1700000}
{56}{1789000}
{57}{1881000}
{58}{1976000}
{59}{2074000}
{60}{2175000}
{61}{2279000}
{62}{2386000}
{63}{2496000}
{64}{2609000}
{65}{2725000}
{66}{2844000}
{67}{2966000}
{68}{3091000}
{69}{3219000}
{70}{3350000}
{71}{3484000}
{72}{3621000}
{73}{3761000}
{74}{3904000}
{75}{4050000}
{76}{4199000}
{77}{4351000}
{78}{4506000}
{79}{4664000}
{80}{4825000}
{81}{4989000}
{82}{5156000}
{83}{5326000}
{84}{5499000}
{85}{5675000}
{86}{5854000}
{87}{6036000}
{88}{6221000}
{89}{6409000}
{90}{6600000}
{91}{6794000}
{92}{6991000}
{93}{7191000}
{94}{7394000}
{95}{7600000}
{96}{7809000}
{97}{8021000}
{98}{8236000}
{99}{8454000}
{100}{8675000}
{101}{8899000}
{102}{9126000}
{103}{9356000}
{104}{9589000}
{105}{9825000}
{106}{10064000}
{107}{10306000}
{108}{10551000}
{109}{10799000}
{110}{11050000}
{111}{11304000}
{112}{11561000}
{113}{11821000}
{114}{12084000}
{115}{12350000}
{116}{12619000}
{117}{12891000}
{118}{13166000}
{119}{13444000}
{120}{13725000}
{121}{14009000}
{122}{14296000}
{123}{14586000}
{124}{14879000}
{125}{15175000}
{126}{15474000}
{127}{15776000}


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Duncann on 2001-12-24 15:04 ]</font>

 

Nice work. Although, I must say, I am against level hacks. They wreck the game and remove all the limits that have been set.

 

I'm playing the game my first time through and just started the Wheel Clan. As far as I can tell, this is maybe not quite half way through and I'm already level 36. So I had to do something because half the fun for me in a game like this is a constantly developing character. To have this just suddenly stop with plenty of game left makes me lose interest very quickly and I probably wouldn't even finish.

 

Hey Duncann,

Mind if I update Lebon BT's article with your info? We'll give full credit and all that, of course.

 

I don't mind at all. The more people it helps out the better.

 

May I have the level cap removal file? If I may...Can you mail it to me? Thanks

 

...

Hi
I'm new to these boards AND I'm new to hexediting. Do you think any of you would be kind enough to send the file to me in an edited version?

 

I sent an email to Jinxed with an already edited arcanum.exe. He will probably post this file in the downloads section of Terra Arcanum.

 

Then I will have to give him FTP access right away. :smile:

 

The problem with this.....

There aren't enough quests+monsters to get up to 127! The highest I could get is 55, I think

 

Duncann,
I spoke to a person the other day, who had problems using the hack. After he used it he had a "wrong disk" error. Thought you might wanna know. This is a legitimate problem, however, only if he wasn't warez scum.

 

I would like to announce something to all of you.....

I just tested this hack in the Vendigroth wastes, and guess what. It doesn't actually let you get up to level 51 or higher.

I am not angered, I am looking for a solution and to help others out here - Maybe it's just me? But I got a crash. Heard the level up sound when I killed the monster, Arcanum.exe crashed, and so I'm just telling the rest of you, that I don't trust the no level cap. Duncann, could you re-edit it or something?

Yours truly,

SilverFuture

 

Silver, did you download the .mes file? It's essencial you get that too. get it from here. It's called the expanded xp chart.

 

Where do I put the .mes file? I thought it was an extra.

 

DUDE! SiLVER! It is explained in the description of the file. (on the page I gave the link to)

 

I would suspect that the person you spoke to is indeed a warez scum because the modified arcanum.exe I sent you does not contain a no-cd hack.

 

I put it in the data/rules folder, and.....

It still crashes when I try to reach level 51. I have it saved, my char is 263 XP away from 51, and it ALWAYS CRASHES

 

.

Testing again now.....

 

Hi SilverFuture,

I just got done testing this hack again and as far as I can tell, it works. At least for me it does.

This is what I did to test it: I modified the xp_level.mes file so that each level up occurs every 200 experience points. I then loaded my current save game in which my character is currently level 40 and went on a murdering spree in some towns. I kept leveling up as expected and received the correct number of character points each time. I only went as far as level 75 before I convinced myself that it works.

I don't know what could be going on with the crashing you're experiencing. The file I sent to Terra Arcanum is the exact same one that I use. I've never had a crash with the game. If it helps any, I run Windows XP Pro on the following system specs:

Pentium 4 1.5GHz
Asus P4T-E
512MB ECC RDRAM
Visiontek GeForce3 Ti200 (21.83 drivers)
SBLive! Value (original retail, CT4670, using Windows XP built in drivers)

 

I just tested again using a different method, which uses the actual experience points. So instead of messing around with the values in xp_level.mes, I hex edited my save game and changed the total experience points, which is stored in the file Slot****.tfaf. I tried different level points, such as 51, 52, 55, 60, 72, 85, 103, 117, and 126. They all worked fine and gave the correct number of character points.