I am in the Sun Realm, trying to get the stupid Armor of Light and every time I try, the game crashes. I thought I'd cheat a bit and just "give" it to myself, but that doesn't work since I can't figure out what it's called in their list. So I gave myself the second marble tablet instead, only to be told later on that I need the Armor of Light to get through the last door! Anyone know the cheat code for the armor, or a fix for this bug??? I'd hate to have gotten so far only to not be able to finish this last little bit of the game....:(

Hi nina,

nice to see others enjoying this game. I have too much info for you (and anyone else who stumbles here). Is it crashing to the desktop or is it just a control freeze? If it's just a control freeze, then you can try "handsOff 0" at the console (toggled on/off with Ctl-Shift-7) to regain control but anyway here's my better answers:

Short answer:
give templearmor
give MarbleTablet2

You will then have two tablets but that didn't cause any problems when I tested this.

Website used for cheats:
http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcKk/KQ8c.htm


Long answer: How to figure things out...
(For people who like to troubleshoot)

Find the right .CS file:
The first step is to find which .CS file controls the scene by enabling the logfile (Mask.log) by setting debug to true (set debug true) before the last "if" test in the Console.CS file.
Run the game and let it crash or freeze, then exit it with Cntl-Alt-Delete to the Task Manager and kill Mask.exe. Examine Mask.log and go to the end but it doesn't tell you which .CS file it last used so you need to find some distinctive message to help you. In my case here, I see there's a message saying "addMapIcon t2_armor.bmp" so I search for files with t2_armor.bmp and find armorget.CS in KQ8\temple2\kq. With hindsight, you could just look in KQ8\temple2\kq and scan the .CS files and guess armorget.CS. Anyway, that's the file that controls this scene. Now what to do with it.

Examining the file:
Open armorget.CS with a text editor and use the FIND function to search for "give" and you get the two results listed at the top of this post. YAY. If you can rewrite this file so it doesn't crash, then great but I don't see how right now esp since it doesn't crash on me. Anyway you don't really need to do anything here but you might notice two extra things:

Thing one:
before "give templearmor", you might notice "set Temple2::Armor::Have true". It looks like you don't need to do this at the console but if you still have problems, this might be the answer.

Thing two: How can you get rid of your old tablet?
Before "give MarbleTablet2", you see two other lines and you can do these at the console if you want to but it seems it's OK to have two tablets. Anyway, these are the lines to get rid of your old tablet:
KQMonster::checkInventory Connor MarbleTablet1 TabletName
deleteObject $TabletName

I've tried various versions of "deleteObject MarbleTablet1" but nothing worked but the two lines above one after the other.


I really love how editable this game is. You could change some .bmp files and put your own face on Connor if you wanted to.

bye,

--- iondrive ---


PS: don't forget to try "give BirthdaySuit". haha.
Also "give godarmor" puts a nice superhero-style icon in your HUD.
It's nice to see some humor in games like this.

Thanks for the help iondrive!!! I took the short answer as I'm not very computer literate; I had seen the templearmor on the list of cheats but it just didn't click in my head that templarmor is what I needed, so thank you!
I had to go back to the barrens realm to get the armor on though, the game kept crashing to windows whenever I tried elsewhere. And having two marble tablets didn't cause any difficulties, either.
I did run around in the birthday suit for a while too, very fun. :)
Thanks again for the help, finally finished!
Nina

Hi again nina,

I'm glad you posted with your update. That's weird that the templearmor was crashing you until the Barren Region. I guess this game is hardware-sensitive. We could troubleshoot but let's not. Let's move on to other games/issues. I'm a little burnt out on this one.

C' ya

--- iondrive ---