Quest for Glory 5 Inventory Hex Editing

The Centaur's Page of QG5 Hex Hacking

WARNING!!! Hacking a saved game is risky business. One slight error will crash the game and make you lose your saved game forever. You should always save your game under AT LEAST two different names before you try hacking it. That way, if you mess one up by hacking it, you can still always play the other one and no harm is done.

Following is a step-by-step instruction of how to hack your saved games.

The first thing you will have to do is download a hex editor. There are many shareware hex editors available. You can try Hex Workshop, UltraEdit or most any shareware site.
The next step is to save your Quest for Glory 5 game, preferrably 3 times under different names.
Exit Quest for Glory 5 and open one of those saved game files in your hex editor.

Now is where the confusing part begins. In the hex editor your file looks like a bunch of letters, numbers, and other strange characters. The part that you are concerned with is normally on the left side. There are columns containing sets of 4 digits across. The digits will range from 0-9 and A-F.

To edit your inventory items, you will need to scroll down the file some. About 100 lines down or so, you will get to a section of the file that will look something like the following (without the red and blue boxes). NOTE: THE ROW NUMBERS WILL NOT BE THE SAME AS IN THIS PICTURE!!!!

Example

It probably won't match up so nicely as this, so don't be alarmed. Now, here comes the hacking...

The column surrounded by the red box is the items column. The sets of 4 digits are the items in your inventory. For example, in the row labeled 40, 098B is Healing Pills and in the row labeled 80, 208B is your fruit rations. It is possible that 20 be at the end of row 70 and 8B be at the very beginning of row 80. You may even find something like this in the middle of the columns: 0020 8B01. Just remember that the 20 and the 8B go together. Same with the 09 and the 8B, even if they are at connecting ends of consecutive rows or if there is a space between them.

Now let's give your Hero the Dragon Slayer Sword. The Dragon Slayer Sword is labeled as 058B. In row 80, you would replace 208B with 058B. Make sure that all of the digits in the area corresponding to the green column are 0s. Then save the file in your hex editor, close it, and then open it up in Quest for Glory 5. Your Hero will now have the Dragon Slayer Sword. However, you have replaced your fruit with the sword, so you no longer have any fruit to eat. The solution: Go to Marrak and buy some more fruit, it only costs one silver each.

Unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to add items without replacing others. This is not really a problem though, except for having to switch between QG5 and your hex editor repeatedly.

You can replace your fruit with any item in the game. The following is the label for each item in the game. Replace 208B with any of the following to get that particular item.

Replace 208B with	to get	Replace 208B with	to get
FF8A	Magic Spear	448B	Deed
FE8A	Throwing Spear	458B	Map
FD8A	Spear	468B	Handbook of Swimming
FC8A	Arrows	478B	Drachmas*
FB8A	Magic Bow	488B	Hydra Teeth
FA8A	Bow	498B	Hydra Scale
F98A	Slasher Dagger	4A8B	Mystic Magnet (Blue)
F88A	Poisoned Dagger	4B8B	Mystic Magnet (Red)
F78A	Magic Dagger	4C8B	Proof of Destiny
F68A	Dagger	4D8B	Rocks
F58A	Magic Helm	4E8B	Magic Wood
F48A	Helm	4F8B	Basket
F38A	Magic Leather Armor	518B	Torch
F28A	Leather Armor	528B	Lit Torch
F18A	Magic Chain Mail	538B	Sheet
F08A	Chain Mail	548B	Sewn Sheet
EF8A	General's Shield	558B	Balloon Painting
EE8A	Magic Shield	568B	Pegasus Feather
ED8A	Shield	578B	Beeswax
008B	Wurmbane Spear	588B	Key
018B	Sword	598B	Brazier
028B	Magic Sword	5A8B	Shell
038B	Paladin Sword	5B8B	Mug
048B	Ice Diamond Sword	5C8B	Spearhead
058B	Dragon Slayer Sword	5D8B	Arrowhead
068B	Trident	5E8B	Fine Axe
078B	Magic Axe	5F8B	Magic Seeds
088B	Minotaur Axe	608B	Amphora with Water
098B	Healing Pills	618B	Ouzo (drink)
0A8B	Poison Cure Pills	628B	Retsina (drink)
0B8B	Stamina Pills	638B	Ale (drink)
0C8B	Mana Pills	648B	Greek Coffee (drink)
0D8B	Health Potion	658B	Today's Special (drink)
0E8B	Vitality Potion	668B	Immitation Blackbird
0F8B	Mana Potion	678B	Windproof Sheet
108B	Fire Proofing Potion	688B	Augmentation Scroll
118B	Amphora	698B	Shrink Spell Scroll
128B	Lethe Water	6A8B	Thermonuclear Blast Scroll
138B	Hippocrene Water	6B8B	RIP Scroll
148B	Styx Water	6C8B	Boom Scroll
158B	Goo	6D8B	Juggling Lights Scroll
168B	Alabaster Amphora	6E8B	Resistance Scroll
178B	Gyro	6F8B	Dazzle Scroll
188B	Sokolatak-ya	708B	Zap Scroll
198B	Chocolate Box	718B	Fascination Scroll
1A8B	Pepperoni Pizza	728B	Interesting Toolkit
1B8B	Jalapeno Peppers	738B	Barbed Spear
1C8B	P&J Pizza	748B	Ornate Shield
1D8B	Artichoke Pizza	758B	Magic Staff
1E8B	Anchovies	7C8C	Open Spell
1F8B	A&A Pizza	7D8C	Fetch Spell
208B	Fruit	7E8C	Trigger Spell
218B	Pick-Pocket Knife	7F8C	Force Bolt Spell
228B	Grapnel	808C	Flame Dart Spell
238B	Magic Grapnel	818C	Frost Bite Spell
248B	Rope	828C	Lightning Ball Spell
258B	Rope & Grapnel	838C	Dazzle Spell
268B	Stealth Oil	848C	Calm Spell
278B	Blackjack	858C	Hide Spell
288B	ACME Toolkit	868C	Glide Spell
298B	Tinderbox	878C	Detect Magic Spell
2A8B	Flowers	888C	Levitate Spell
2B8B	Black Lotus	898C	Reversal Spell
2C8B	Sigil of Ios	8A8C	Protection Spell
2D8B	Sigil of Keros	8B8C	Resistance Spell
2E8B	Sigil of Naxos	8C8C	Aura Spell
2F8B	Sigil of Parros	8D8C	Juggling Lights Spell
308B	Sigil of Tinos	8E8C	Summon Staff Spell
318B	Peace Statue	8F8C	Zap Spell
328B	Blackbird	908C	Whirlwind Spell
338B	Winged Lion Statue	918C	Augment Spell
348B	Magic Statue	928C	RIP Spell
358B	Bead Necklace	938C	Boom Spell
368B	Gold Ring	948C	Fascination Spell
378B	Hera's Ring	958C	Thermonuclear Blast Spell
388B	King's Ring	968C	Dragon Fire Spell
398B	Ring of Truth	978C	First Aid Spell
3A8B	Amulet of Defense	988C	Shrink Spell
3B8B	Amulet of Attack	E08C	Healing (Paladin Ability)
3C8B	Good Luck Charm	E18C	Honor Shield (PA)
3D8B	Atlas Armband	E28C	Magic Ward (PA)
3E8B	Stealth Charm	E38C	Destroy Undead (PA)
3F8B	Magic Charm Bracelet	E48C	Peace (PA)
408B	Katta Pin	E58C	Sense Aura (PA)
418B	Water-Breathing Amulet	E68C	Holy Strength (PA)
428B	Jewelry	E78C	Awe (PA)
438B	Scroll

If you are so inclined, you can also change the amount of an item you have in your inventory. The blue column contains the data for the amount of an item you have. Be forwarned, the numbers are in HEX, not decimal. Therefore, a value of 35 for the first two digits does not correspond to having 35 of the item in your inventory. It is 53 of the item in your inventory. To figure how many of an item you have:

Multiply the first digit by 16 and then add the second digit as follows:

1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
A	10
B	11
C	12
D	13
E	14
F	15

Thus a hex value of 35 for the first two digits of the blue column is
3*16=48+5=53
53 of the item in inventory.

Now lets say that you want 200 Drachmas.
Divide 200 by 16 to get the first digit.
200/16=12 remainder 8.
12 corresponds to a hex value of C.
The second digit is the remainder.
8 corresponds to a hex value of 8.
Therefore, 200 is C8 in hex.

In the row with 478B in the red column, change the first two digits of the blue column to C8 and the last two digits to 00. Make sure that the green column for this item has all zeros.

The second two digits in the blue column are for even higher amounts of an inventory item. It is suggested that you not play with these digits because it tends to mess up the game.

DON'T FORGET TO BUY MORE FRUIT WHEN YOU ARE DONE EDITING YOUR FILE OR ELSE YOUR HERO WILL STARVE!!!!

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