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

I have played this game many times over the years and I remember a couple times being able to get the "All Psionics" starting command to work but for the life of me I am unable to figure out why it will not work with this GOG version in Windows 10 (Game works fine and following your instructions the other start commands -K911 and -S work perfectly. Is there a trick to it? Or perhaps -P no longer works.


my dosbox_darksun_single.conf files contents:

"[ipx]
# ipx: Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.

ipx=false

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.
@echo off
mount c ".."
c:
cls
darksun -k911 -p -a
exit"

[The -a switch skips the intro when launching the game]

Note: I am purposely NOT using the "-s = This lets ALL spell casters have ALL spells" as I find that destroys my enjoyment.


Reference a guide I have used for years:

"-k911 = This is a cheat activation code or DEBUG for this game
-s = This lets ALL spell casters have ALL spells
-p = This lets ALL psionicists have ALL psionics"

https://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/564606-dark-sun-shattered-lands/faqs/1827

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.