First off, here's an exploit that made the rounds of the Internet back in, oh, '95 or so.

When you talk to Batlin about joining the Fellowship, he will ask you to do a simple errand: taking a sealed box to someone in Minoc. Normally, you'd just say yes and carry on, but fight that temptation -- tell him no the first time. The next time you talk to him, he'll ask again; when you say you'll do it, everyone in the party gets 100 XP.

Here's the trick: If you said no the first time, each time you talk to him you can get him to bring up the question again. You don't get an extra copy of the box for accepting, but you DO get the XP again. Repeat as often as desired.

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Now, here's a better one. I found this one myself ages ago, and a week's scouring of websites found no mention of it. I posted it on a couple, but as far as I'm able to tell I'm the first one to have found this trick.

It's linked to the Batlin's Unlimited XP gimmick above. What you need to do is open someone's inventory (or one of their containers), pick something that stacks -- any item that shows a single icon, but has a quantity, like gold, arrows, or reagents -- and move it somewhere. Throw it to the ground, move it to another bag, anything that will make the quantity check-box appear. After clicking the check-box, talk to Batlin again and accept the errand. (Again.)

Now, open the container again. You'll find a fresh copy of the item you moved, in the same amount. So if you moved a 100-coin stack, you have an extra 100 gold.

When I first figured out what was happening, I went a little berserk with it. I had more gold than the party could carry. I bought about eight months worth of food. I swiped the flying carpet, and stuck a row of barrels behind the back row of seats. One barrel had nothing but money; another was full of food, and another was spell components. One of 'em was reserved for plot coupons. I had to use the carpet 'cause there was no way I could carry all those arrows, coins, whatever.

I didn't even bother with the gambling cheat in Buc's Den. I had more money than existed in the game, I think.

neat stuff.


something i want to share:

U7 is the game that made me realize how much cheating hurt ME when i played a game. i hacked the shit outta the game and played it through, invinsibly.

since "ruining" game for myself, i have not done this again with any game. i will hack a game when im DONE with it, but i really learned the meaning of "dont cheat the one you love."

its been near 20 years since then... might be able to go back and enjoy this game now without the cheating.


ps- i have NO problem with other people cheating in single-player games.