I posted this on the DWO forums and it seemed to have some moderate success, so maybe it's worth a shot here for anyone else who played 1.9.
I was sitting around in another Byond game when someone logs in and begins playing 20 Questions with me about DWO 1.5 and 1.9. "How big are they? Name all of the towns you can reach. Name how many towns you can't reach. Can you finish them? How hard are they?"
I ask him why, and he tells me that he wants to know which game would give him and a friend more playing time. I responded 1.5, because while it's an older version I was going by the number of towns it had. Since 1.9 only had two, it would feel smaller.
Him: "No."
Me: "???"
Him: "1.9 has three towns, not two."
Me: "There's Kaldan and Norwood."
Him: "Felaguard too. You can find it with a savefile editor."
Hmm...
First, let's mess up the respawn variable thingie.
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Uwa? Looks like I broke the game! My guess is that I was sent to coordinates 1x1x1. I think that's the default spot to appear unless the game says otherwise.
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I move northeast a bit and there's land!
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It looks like Endor from Dragon Warrior 4!
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Teeheehee.
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Looks like some of the inside of the castle was stored here. Since the sky wasn't dense, I was free to look over the walls.
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Looks like the second floor to Endor castle.
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This floor is different, though!
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Running further east took me to some blackness, and...the first floor of Balzackia castle! It resembled Santeem castle, though the rooms were changed a bit.
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Looks like Bonmalmo dungeon.
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You can see where the outside part of town ends and where the inside begins.
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Earlier, I added Felaguard to my return list. I pick it and throw my wyvern wing.
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I could've sworn I had seen this area in a preview screenshot years ago. I couldn't enter the castle, though.
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No entry here, either.
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Hey, that's the cave by Norwood!
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I don't think those stairs worked.
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Or those.
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And those too.
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The last set of stairs. No more to explore down here.
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And there you have it. What seems to be the last bit of DWO 1.9. If there are any more towns, I wouldn't know how to access them. I tried Shrenwold and Balzackia already, but I ended up at the 1x1x1 position. There were no random encounters during my entire journey.
Anyway, I hope you liked the trip!
Special thanks to Blade of Evil. He told me that it was possible to do this and I wouldn't have tried it for myself if it weren't for him.
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Sep 16 2006, 8:48 am (Edited on Sep 23 2006, 3:34 am)
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The way I usually get into Balzackia is to log out while I'm on top of Felaguard castle in the overworld.
Would have been such a hot castle : ( |
I like hidden unfinished stuff like this.