LAST EDITED ON Feb-25-08 AT 09:59 AM (Pacific)I have a quick fix for the majority of text that scrolls by too fast in Wiz Gold.
To rememdy the problem requies a hex editor with a find and replace tool. I used a free one, which can be found here
The text for the messages are contained in the file MSG.gld which will be in your wizardry gold folder e.g. c:\wizgold. ***Make a backup of this file before editing***
Open MSG.gld file with a hex editor and perform a find and replace on the following strings:
find: &%]
and
replace with: &@]
This will change all '%' to '@' when inbetween '&' and ']' and there should be 1,118 changes in total!
The above characters are commands telling the game how to handle specific bits of text. Here we are changing a command that says to scroll text automatically to one requiring a mouse-click to proceed. Hence after saving the changes the game will now wait for a mouse-click to proceed with certain texts (just like how the narrator messages already work).
I have yet to test the game thoroughly after the changes so a backup may well be necessary!
There are still a few occasions where text scrolls as the code we are replacing does not catch all instances. This is due to the necessity of finding a string that is of equal size to that which it is replacing and unique in its application. To wit, replacing all %'s to @'s will cause havoc ;)
Please post with and queries or problems and I will try to help.
Good luck!
Edit: For another 52 fixes;
find: &%%]
replace with: &%@]
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