thisisfutile: I've been playing Secret of the Silver Blades for a few days and just noticed on the purchase of my 3rd Wand of Magic Missiles, Marcus is taking WAY too much of my money. Marcus's fighter is charging 26,464 GP for this "trinket" and I have 23,300 PP in the pool (lol, I just said "pee pee in the pool"). When I make the purchase, I only have 4,900 Platinum left in the pool. That's 18,400 PP that he took which is 92,000 GP!

I remember CotAB that Zhentil Keep sold one with a weird combo of numbers (not divisible by 10) and in Stephen Lee's excellent walkthrough guide, he explained this is because of an "unsigned 16-bit integer overflow". I'm assuming something similar is happening here? I don't recall getting ripped off in Curse, but I also wasn't paying attention like I am right now.

I've been all over the interwebs reading about these games since I started playing PoR but I don't recall anyone mentioning this. Is it a bug or is it a problem with my game?

dtgreene: 26464 + 65536 = 92000

So, yes, it is most likely, indeed, an issue with a 16-bit integer overflow.

My guess is that the price is stored in platinum pieces but converted to gold pieces for display, which just so happens to trigger an integer overflow, but then the correct number is what's actually subtracted from your funds.

I'm reminded of a similar bug in Dragon Warrior 2, where, at high levels, the princess needs over 65535 XP to level up; when you talk to the save person, you're told she might only need a few thousand, but then you get the XP, she doesn't level up, and now the save person says you need over 60,000! (At least this particular game has remakes that fix this bug, unlike SotSB.)

thisisfutile: Ha, thanks for sharing about Dragon Warrior 2. So many games that I'll never get to but it's always fun to hear about quirks and bugs.

thisisfutile: I've been playing Secret of the Silver Blades for a few days and just noticed on the purchase of my 3rd Wand of Magic Missiles, Marcus is taking WAY too much of my money. Marcus's fighter is charging 26,464 GP for this "trinket" and I have 23,300 PP in the pool (lol, I just said "pee pee in the pool"). When I make the purchase, I only have 4,900 Platinum left in the pool. That's 18,400 PP that he took which is 92,000 GP!

I remember CotAB that Zhentil Keep sold one with a weird combo of numbers (not divisible by 10) and in Stephen Lee's excellent walkthrough guide, he explained this is because of an "unsigned 16-bit integer overflow". I'm assuming something similar is happening here? I don't recall getting ripped off in Curse, but I also wasn't paying attention like I am right now.

I've been all over the interwebs reading about these games since I started playing PoR but I don't recall anyone mentioning this. Is it a bug or is it a problem with my game?

Arcticwolf15: On the topic of funny things happening....
Firstly, one of my characters used a Javelin of Piercing and then straight after that it turned into 255 Javelins and he was encumbered badly.
Then when I went to Store, I pooled money and had an insane amount of Jewelry.
This was in Curse. Screenshot attached. I just don't know what happened. I dropped it all and kept only a small amount but some real strange things been happening....
This all happened after Alias and Dragonbait become playable NPC's....

Arcticwolf15: On the topic of funny things happening....
Firstly, one of my characters used a Javelin of Piercing and then straight after that it turned into 255 Javelins and he was encumbered badly.
Then when I went to Store, I pooled money and had an insane amount of Jewelry.
This was in Curse. Screenshot attached. I just don't know what happened. I dropped it all and kept only a small amount but some real strange things been happening....
This all happened after Alias and Dragonbait become playable NPC's....

dtgreene: 65536 is barely enough to not fit in a 16-bit integer.