Notes:Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon

This page contains notes for the game Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (Debug Mode).

Items

• 0 - Glowing gem
• 1 - Wire
• 2 - Ladder
• 3 - Reactor
• 4 - Orat on a stick
• 5 - Thermoweave underwear
• 6 - Astro Chicken flight hat
• 7 - Monolith decoder ring
• 8 - Buckazoids
• 9 - Metal pole
• 10 - Thermal detonator
• 11 - Keycard
• 12 - Coveralls
• 13 - Vaporizer
• 14 - Elmo's picture
• 15 - Copy of Elmo's picture
• 16 - Invisibility belt
• 17 - Bag of fast food

Rooms

• Junk freighter
  • 2 - Outside SQ2 escape pod
  • 3 - Rat basement entrance / Acme rocket
  • 4 - Conveyor elevator bottom
  • 5 - Space tanker tube west
  • 6 - Tanker tube inside
  • 7 - Tanker tube east / giant head
  • 8 - Buried Aluminum Mallard
  • 9 - High rail elevator
  • 10 - High rail grinder
  • 11 - High rail east turn
  • 12 - High rail west
  • 13 - High rail west turn / droid
  • 14 - Inside Aluminum Mallard
  • 15 - Rat basement
  • 20 - Escape scene
• Aluminum Mallard
  • 14 - Inside Aluminum Mallard
  • 16 - Status monitor
  • 17 - Bridge computer
  • 18 - Weapons system
  • 19 - Navigation system
  • 21 - Approaching planet scene
  • 31 - Going to lightspeed / Arnoid tracking Rog's ship scene
• Monolith Burger
  • 26 - Clerk close-up
  • 27 - Arrival scene
  • 28 - East (Mallard dock)
  • 29 - West (arcade game)
  • 280 - Menu close-up
  • 290 - Astro Chicken minigame
• Phleebhut
  • 40 - Arniebot lands scene
  • 41 - West of beast
  • 42 - Beast foot entrance
  • 43 - Outside World o' Wonders
  • 45 - Desert north of ship
  • 46 - Desert with few rocks
  • 47 - Desert (sometimes monster in distance?)
  • 48 - Northwest of ship
  • 49 - Landing site
  • 50 - East of ship
  • 51 - Two west / east of ship
  • 52 - Pulsating pods
  • 53 - Giant snake
  • 54 - South of mountains (lightning)
  • 420 - Beast elevator
  • 421 - Beast interior / gears
  • 470 - World o' Wonders shop
• Ortega
  • 60 - Lava rocks northwest
  • 61 - West of landing site
  • 62 - Landing site
  • 63 - East of landing site
  • 64 - Lava rocks northeast
  • 66 - Crevice
  • 67 - South of landing site
  • 68 - Lava rocks southeast
  • 69 - Seismic research station
  • 70 - Base of volcano
  • 71 - Midway up volcano
  • 72 - Volcano rim
  • 73 - Force beam generator base
  • 74 - Climbing generator
  • 75 - Top of generator
  • 690 - Telescope view
• Pestulon / Scumsoft™
  • 80 - Landing site
  • 81 - Roger peering at facility entrance
  • 85 - Outside entrance ramp
  • 86 - Entrance ramp
  • 90 - Hallway
  • 91 - Accounting department entry
  • 92 - Accounting department B
  • 93 - Boss' cubicle
  • 94 - Vehicle bay overlook
  • 95 - Two Guys' prison platform
  • 96 - Robot cockpit
  • 120 - Robot fight minigame
  • 121 - Captured Rog escorted into arena scene
• Ending scenes
  • 98 & 99 - Black hole
  • 115 - Approach Earth
  • 116 - Landing at Sierra
  • 117 - Lightspeed & credits
• 155 - Intro: Roger awakens from hypersleep
• 777 - Reset game?
• 900 - Title and intro

Flags

This game doesn't use regular flags.

Global

• 100 - Common, something about being able to fall???
• 102 - Finale state (22: boarded Mallard with Two Guys, 23: returned to Mallard interior from computer, 24: destroyed all 5 enemy ships)
• 104 - Layer of Phleebhut desert background Roger is walking on
• 105 - Roger is invisible
• 110 - Arnoid state (1: 2: on screen hunting 3: dead)
• 111 - Arnoid is on your screen
• 114 - Seconds until Arnoid appears on Phleebhut? Also used on Pestulon to trigger surface guards
• 118 - Exited ship on Phleebhut for and saw Arnoid landing scene
• 120 - Invisibility belt state (0: off, 1: on, 2: out of power)
• 121 - Countdown until invisibility belt runs out of power
• 122 - Pestulon surface guards state (2: chasing Rog, 4: can't see Rog)
• 123 - Related to game speed??
• 124 - Game detail level (0-2)?? Based on speed of machine??
• 130 - Wearing Astro Chicken hat. You feel more sporty already!
• 131 - Attacking rat visible in tube
• 132 - Roger's junk freighter state (0: on ground, 1: riding junk elevator, 2: on conveyor belt, 3: standing on rail, 4: sitting in grabber (foreground), 5: sitting in grabber (background), 6: on platform above garbage chute)
• 133 - Rat basement exit open
• 135 - Warp motivator state (1: on ground, 2: ???, 3: in grabber claw, 4: in Aluminum Mallard)
• 136 - Mallard reactor compartment state (1: empty, 2: wire installed, 3: reactor installed, 4: both installed)
• 147 - Claw grabbing region. Decides where claw appears on lower screen
• 148 - Grabber state??
• 149 - Warp motivator location by room number. Starts at 2
• 151 - Saw Arnoid space intro scene
• 154 - Roger's Buckazoid amount
• 157 - Activates shortcut from junk freighter to Monolith Burger. Debug only
• 159 - Related to HandsOff??
• 161 - Current location sector X coordinate
• 162 - Current location sector Y coordinate
• 163 - Destination sector X coordinate
• 164 - Destination sector Y coordinate
• 167 - Ship arrived at destination. Important, calls arrivalScript which allows landing
• 170 - Decoded Two Guys' call for help hidden in Astro Chicken, and learned the plot
• 171 - Ortega heat death countdown (starts at 10 seconds)
• 174 - Mallard shield strength (starts at 12)
• 175 - Seconds until next pirate ship attack, during battle
• 176 - Enemy ships destroyed. Destroy 5 to finish battle
• 178 - Two Guys on board Mallard. Sets when entering ship from ScumSoft landing bay
• 179 - Related to space battle???
• 180 - Falling into lava??
• 181 - Saw message about lightspeed being unavailable in space battle
• 182 - Wearing ThermoWeave underwear
• 193 - Can't save game
• 203 - In pilot seat
• 205 - Mallard shield state (0: off, 1: front, 2: back)
• 206 - Ship altitude? (0: landed, 1: taken off, 2: between floor and ceiling in junk freighter?, 3: space?)
• 207 - Radar state (0: off, 1: on, 2: alert)
• 208 - Ship travel state (0: landed, 1: engines on, 2: in transit? in space?)
• 209 - Ship speed (0: stopped, 1: engines on, 2: cruise, 3: attack, 6: light)
• 210 - Mallard location (0: junk freighter, 1: space, 2: Monolith Burger, 3: Ortega orbit, 4: Phleebhut orbit, 5: Ortega, 6: Phleebhut, 7: Pestulon orbit, 8: Pestulon)
• 213 - Navigation grid current scanned sector
• 214 - Navigation grid current location sector (39: Phleebhut, 62: Monolith Burger, 69: Pestulon, 75: junk freighter, 82: Ortega)
• 217 - Ship????
• 218 - Chased by pirates. Sets when entering ship from ScumSoft landing bay, clears after battle
• 219 - Related to system clock
• 220 - Seconds until Mallard reaches next sector (4 each at lightspeed, 90 at attack, 180 at cruise)
• 233 - Being chased by ScumSoft security droid?
• 236 - ScumSoft office droid shadow X coordinate?
• 237
• 238 - Two Guys' prison bridge extended
• 243 - Office fink script active
• 244 - Monolith Burger order buckazoid amount
• 253 - Pirates left Ortega
• 256 - Disabled force field generator with thermal detonator
• 257 - Ortega earthquake countdown
• 593 - Room changes since dropping Ortega bomb. If reaches 16 or higher, Rog dies at landing site
• 594 - Related to ship pirate fight??? (0-2)

Points

738 total:

• Jump to rail from conveyor belt (10)
• Grab warp motivator with claw (15)
• Drop warp motivator (-15)
• Put warp motivator in ship (15)
• Fall down garbage chute (5)
• Get reactor (15)
• Get glowing gem back (5)
• Get ladder (10)
• Put ladder in hole (-10)
• Ride trash bucket up (5)
• Get wire (5)
• Lose reactor to tough rat (-15)
• Lose wire to tough rat (-5)
• Climb in giant robot head (5)
• Put ladder against ship (5)
• Get ladder again (-5)
• Open ship hatch (1)
• Search cockpit chair (10)
• Wear thermoweave underwear on ship (10)
• Put reactor in ship (5)
• Use wire to connect reactor (5)
• Escape junk freighter (25)
• "Bridle snake" at giant Phleebhut snake (-5)
• Sell glowing gem without bargaining (1)
• Sell gem after bargaining once (2)
• Sell gem after bargaining twice (4)
• Sell gem after bargaining three times (8)
• Buy orat on a stick (5)
• Buy Astro Chicken hat (5)
• Buy thermoweave underwear (5)
• Murder Arniebot with pulley and gears (35)
• Murder Arniebot with pods (45)
• Get invisibility belt (35)
• Pay for Monolith Burger order (10)
• Get Monolith decoder ring (10)
• Land Astro Chicken safely (5, repeatable up to 50)
• Win Astro Chicken (50)
• Use ring to decode message (20)
• Look at Pestulon through telescope (10)
• Get metal pole (10)
• Get thermal detonator (10)
• Use bomb to disable force field generator (20)
• Use pole to jump chasm (20)
• Enter ScumSoft™ (25)
• Wear coveralls (5)
• Copy Elmo's picture (5)
• Get keycard (5)
• Enter Two Guy's prison room (20)
• Exit prison room (-20)
• Free Two Guys from jello (-1)
• Get captured (10)
• Win giant robot fight (100)
• Destroy all enemy ships (100)