Goochman Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 After figuring out the maps in U3 I decided to look at U2. The more I found out the more it seems we got ripped with U3 - U2 had alot more land mass vs 3 but I digress. U2 map editing provided some bonuses that U3 didnt - Villages, Towns and Castles could be placed anywhere in U2 - they are map based and not position based. A few of the other items are placeable as well. Anyhow - I threw together a modified Ultima 2 character disk with a few familiar maps - see if you can find them The player is pretty stacked with everything so exploring is the name of the game. U2_5 Images Disk.zip 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I liked U3 better than U2 but I think because the story wasn't as weird and 3 had that cool music. Still, very interesting about the map size. I wouldn't have suspected that. Thanks for your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Here are my notes. Attached are 2 text files containing the original world maps and the 2 modified maps I did. I used Notepad++ and HxD to make the changes to the .atr file. If someone knows of an editor that can easily be modified to display certain patterns as different colors then it would be easier to make some cool complex maps. 0790 00-0F - Player Name 07A0 05 - STR 07A0 06 -AGL 07A0 07 - STA 07A0 08 - CHR 07A0 09 -WIS 07A0 0A - INT 07A0 0B/0C - Hit Points 07A0 0D/0E - Food 07B0 00/01 - Experience 07B0 02/03 - Gold 07B0 0B - Current Weapon 07B0 0C - Current Armour 07B0 0E - Torches 07B0 0F - Keys 07C0 00 - Tools? Weapons Inv 07D0 00 - Hands 07D0 01 - Dagger 07D0 02 - Mace 07D0 03 - Axe 07D0 04 - Bow 07D0 05 - Sword 07D0 06 - Great Sword 07D0 07 - Light Sword 07D0 08 - Phaser 07D0 09 - Quick Sword Armour Inv 07F0 00 - Skin 07F0 01 - Cloth 07F0 02 - Leather 07F0 03 - Chain 07F0 04 - Plate 07F0 05 - Reflect 07F0 06 - Power Inventory 0830 00 - Ring 0830 01 - Wands 0830 02 - Staffs 0830 03 - Boots 0830 04 - Cloaks 0830 05 - Helms 0830 06 - Gems 0830 07 - Ankhs 0830 08 - Red Gems 0830 09 - Skull Keys 0830 0A - Green Gems 0830 0B - Brass Buttons 0830 0C - Blue Tassles 0830 0D - Strange Coins 0830 0E - Green Idols 0830 0F - Try-Lithiums A - C1 B - C2 C - C3 D - C4 E - C5 F - C6 G - C7 H - C8 I - C9 J - CA K - CB L - CC M - CD N - CE O - CF P - D0 Q - D1 R - D2 S - D3 T - D4 U - D5 V - D6 W - D7 X - D8 Y - D9 Z - DA 00 - 03 - Water 04 - 07 - Swamp 08 - 0A - Grass 0C - 0F - Forest 10 - 13 - Mountain 14 - 17 - Village 18 - 1B - Towne 1C - 1F - Tower 20 - 23 - Castle 24 - 27 - Cave Entrance 28 - 2B - Sign 2C - 2F - Orc 30 - 33 - Sea Serpent 34 - 37 - Daemon 38 - 3B - Devil 3C - 3F - Balron 40 - 43 - Minax 45 - 47 - Horse 48 - 4B - Ship 4C - 4F - Plane 50 - 53 - Rocket 54 - 57 - Armour 58 - 5B - Weapon 5C - 5F - Force Field 60 - 63 - Guard 64 - 67 - Jester 68 - 6B - Merchant 6C - 6F - Guard? 70 - 73 - Brick Walkway 74 - 77 - Black square 78 - 7B - White wall square 7C - 7F - Black square white outline 80 - 83 - Letter A 84 - 87 - Letter B 88 - 8B - Letter C 8C - 8F - Letter D 90 - 93 - Letter E 94 - 97 - Letter F 98 - 9B - Letter G 9C - 9F - Letter H A0 - Locked Door A1 - A3 - Letter I A4 - A7 - Letter J A8 - AB - Letter K AC - AF - Letter L B0 - B3 - Letter M B4 - B7 - Letter N B8 - BB - Letter O BC - BF - Letter P C0 - C3 - Moongate C4 - C7 - Letter R C8 - CB - Letter S CC - CF - Letter T D0 - D3 - Letter U D4 - D7 - Letter V D8 - DB - Letter W DC - DF - Letter X E0 - E3 - Letter Y E4 - E7 - Letter Z E8 - EB - Black Square brown side line EC - EF - Black Square blue side line F0 - F3 - Fighter F4 - F7 - Cleric F8 - FB - Wizard FC - FF - Thief Locations on ATR Present Time 1990 AD 4A90 - 5A80 Legend Time A810 - B800 9,000,000,000 BC 2A90 -3A80 1423 BC 3A90 - 4A80 Future Time 6A90 - 7A80 Ult2NewMap.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I remember they said when U3 came out that it was smaller and more focused. It's main innovation was having a party vs a single character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Yeah, U3 had alot of backend improvements which were needed. The Towers and Dungeons in U2 dont serve much of a purpose when they did in U1. U3 cleaned up the framework for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted August 12, 2018 Author Share Posted August 12, 2018 I decided to see if I could take this a bit further and create some more new maps. Attached is a player disk ready to go with 4 alternate maps. If anyone would want a start from 0 player disk of these maps let me know. Ult2_5Maps.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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