Okay, so I beat the Dark Sun games ages ago and I would like to play through using the old cheats that you used to use by launching the game with DSUN -k911 -s -p, but I don't know how to use DOSBOX on its own, much less editing parameters to make cheats work. Is it something that is still possible?

Thanks a bunch! Now to get something to edit the file with :)

Notepad should do the trick.

Im lost, how do i edit "dosbox_darksun_single.conf", the DOSBOX is a program that brings up dos?

Sorry I found my mistake

It can be fun to play around with that cheat, though maybe not on your main file. It gets you *all* the spells, not just those available to the player; in particular, in Wake of the Ravager, it even gives you 8th and 9th level spells. Here is a sampling of a few of the 9th level spells that are in the game (though not normally accessible):

Meteor Swarm: Acts like Fire Seeds (or whatever the spell is called) in that you can choose 4 target points, and a mini-fireball will detonate in each one. Each fireball has about the area of a real fireball. This spell is probably more useful than the corresponding spell in other AD&D based games, where it generally feels rather lacking.

Time Stop: Gives the caster infinite turns; however, your movement does not get restored after each one. Depending on the situation, this can either allow you to win the battle without enemies getting a chance to retaliate or softlock the game.

Prismatic Sphere: Crashes the game if cast. (Maybe they planned on giving the spell a sane effect, but they ran out of time or resources during development and just chose a level cap so that players wouldn't get access to this spell?)

I agree, it can and I have had fun playing through the game a couple times that way. I just would like a slightly different play through this time :)

Can someone please show an example of what the Ravager.bat file should look like to use cheats?


I'm getting very tired of losing the opening battle every time I try to create my own party because the enemies can take out my created characters in one or two hits and take absurdly little damage when I hit them. I can easily win the fight with thw he default party so I don't see why a created party is so much weaker.