I rarely play a fighter (because I don't think them interesting) but for once I wanted to play all five games through with a fighter (a bit of hard work not becoming a paladin!). Anyway I just love magic and didn't want to give it up. I had already played a normal fighter through QfG5 and now I wanted a fighter not only with magic but with all spells (other than those only available to true wizards). Guess what? Whenever I tried to import my fighter from QfG4 he turned into a wizard! Hmph!
(And no, it's not due to lacking the patch!!! I have it installed!)
Full Version: Importing a fighter with magic
Hmm, this never happened to me. Maybe Almirena can get you cleared on it.
Till next time stay cool
Till next time stay cool
I remember this problem. The previous version of the QFG boards had a fix listed in the help section. It involved open the import file in notepad and changing to a number. I don't remember which one it was. 
I'll look around for it. 
I'll look around for it.
Thank you!
I'm going to have to ask around. Because the boards help section doesn't have that information now. 
Oh. That's too bad!
Thanks for trying! Hope you can get an answer for me anyway!
Thanks for trying!
Hope you can get an answer for me anyway!
Did you install the patch, Lira? I seem to remember that correcting some of those problems... maybe not that one though. Anyway, if you have a fighter with magic from an earlier game you should be able to import it instead. That's how I got around the problem
I did install the patch (I said so in my first post 
)
Hmm, might try that. *thinks for a moment* What spells do you gain in QfG4? Frostbite, Hide, Protection, Aura. (Plus Glide)
I know you can buy Frostbite in 5. But what about the rest? If I lack my favorite spell (Hide), I'm not playing!
Also it means less points to place onto your char. No acrobatic-skills from 4. Still I guess I can live without that. My fighter is well rounded out already so the only additional skill I'd want to give him in 4/5 is acrobatics.
) Hmm, might try that. *thinks for a moment* What spells do you gain in QfG4? Frostbite, Hide, Protection, Aura. (Plus Glide)
I know you can buy Frostbite in 5. But what about the rest? If I lack my favorite spell (Hide), I'm not playing!
Also it means less points to place onto your char. No acrobatic-skills from 4. Still I guess I can live without that. My fighter is well rounded out already so the only additional skill I'd want to give him in 4/5 is acrobatics.
It increases the points if it is an earlier game. My fighter with 200 in all the skills and the Qg2 spells imported into Qg5 with all the spells from QG4 as well as 300-400 in the skills I think.
Ah! Cool. Might try that then!
I realize this is an old topic, but for reference, I found another way to solve it:
This solution courtesy of Perdita's Playground
I can confirm that it works.
QUOTE ("Perdita")
Save the import file, i.e. shadows.sav to another name in case of error, or copy-paste it to a backup location (like a zip or floppy disk). Open 'shadows.sav' as a text file. You should see something like:
glory4.sav Meerdaka [this is name of hero]
053 050 05f 04f etc, etc, etc, etc............
Change the 053 050 to read as 055 055 to get a Fighter with Magic; 053 051 for a “pure” Fighter. Then rename your file back to a *.sav file and copy-paste it to the Import sub-directory of the QfG 5 directory. Then re-Import your char.
Fighter: 053 051, from QG1 to QG4 with or w/o magic; QG5 w/o magic:
Fighter: 055 055 with magic, QG5 only
Paladin: 050 053 (Paladins have several codes)
Wizard: 052 051
Thief: ?
glory4.sav Meerdaka [this is name of hero]
053 050 05f 04f etc, etc, etc, etc............
Change the 053 050 to read as 055 055 to get a Fighter with Magic; 053 051 for a “pure” Fighter. Then rename your file back to a *.sav file and copy-paste it to the Import sub-directory of the QfG 5 directory. Then re-Import your char.
Fighter: 053 051, from QG1 to QG4 with or w/o magic; QG5 w/o magic:
Fighter: 055 055 with magic, QG5 only
Paladin: 050 053 (Paladins have several codes)
Wizard: 052 051
Thief: ?
This solution courtesy of Perdita's Playground
I can confirm that it works.
QUOTE (Ithilwen @ Feb 17 2005, 11:45 PM)
I realize this is an old topic, but for reference, I found another way to solve it:
This solution courtesy of Perdita's Playground
I can confirm that it works.
QUOTE ("Perdita")
Save the import file, i.e. shadows.sav to another name in case of error, or copy-paste it to a backup location (like a zip or floppy disk). Open 'shadows.sav' as a text file. You should see something like:
glory4.sav Meerdaka [this is name of hero]
053 050 05f 04f etc, etc, etc, etc............
Change the 053 050 to read as 055 055 to get a Fighter with Magic; 053 051 for a “pure” Fighter. Then rename your file back to a *.sav file and copy-paste it to the Import sub-directory of the QfG 5 directory. Then re-Import your char.
Fighter: 053 051, from QG1 to QG4 with or w/o magic; QG5 w/o magic:
Fighter: 055 055 with magic, QG5 only
Paladin: 050 053 (Paladins have several codes)
Wizard: 052 051
Thief: ?
glory4.sav Meerdaka [this is name of hero]
053 050 05f 04f etc, etc, etc, etc............
Change the 053 050 to read as 055 055 to get a Fighter with Magic; 053 051 for a “pure” Fighter. Then rename your file back to a *.sav file and copy-paste it to the Import sub-directory of the QfG 5 directory. Then re-Import your char.
Fighter: 053 051, from QG1 to QG4 with or w/o magic; QG5 w/o magic:
Fighter: 055 055 with magic, QG5 only
Paladin: 050 053 (Paladins have several codes)
Wizard: 052 051
Thief: ?
This solution courtesy of Perdita's Playground
I can confirm that it works.
Thanks
Incidentally, I'd like to point out two things. One, I had his problem happen to me even though my fighter mad no magic whatsoever. So this bug can happen to anyone.
Two, in order to import as a fighter you must change the first hex code to 055, NOT 053. This must be done regardless of whether you use 051 or 055 for the second hex code. Since I don't have a fighter with magic, I don't know what the difference is. I tried both with my pure fighter and they were imported the same ( Fighter, no magic). Hope this helps anyone else who encounters this.
Two, in order to import as a fighter you must change the first hex code to 055, NOT 053. This must be done regardless of whether you use 051 or 055 for the second hex code. Since I don't have a fighter with magic, I don't know what the difference is. I tried both with my pure fighter and they were imported the same ( Fighter, no magic). Hope this helps anyone else who encounters this.
Now, this is something that could be put into the main site for importing help or something.
Ithilwen and koyar, good job!
Ithilwen and koyar, good job!
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