Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness

Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness
Developer: Sierra On-Line Publisher: Sierra On-Line Platforms: DOS, Windows Released in US: December 1993 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a notes page

To do: Plenty more, including unused death quotes, unused items, and many more unused graphics.

Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness is darker than the previous three games. However, thanks to Sierra forcing the game out for the holidays, it also suffered from more bugs than the previous three combined. It was mostly patched up for the CD release, at least.

Debug Mode

Most of the debug material is intact, but only in the floppy version. Extract 18.scr and 18.hep out of the game, then put them in the same directory as the game's executable. Upon starting the game, the player will be greeted with a prompt asking them which level they want to go. Warping to a point in the game besides the title screen will make your character a Fighter with 200 on all stats.

Then, after jumping into the game, the following (working) controls will be available:

Keys	Action
Alt + A	Show cast (info about all on screen objects)
Alt + B	Change amount of money
Alt + C	Learn a new spell
Alt + E	Show ego information & free memory
Alt + G	Set/Clear flag
Alt + H	Set hour of the day
Alt + I	Get item
Alt + K	Set one of the ego's skills
Alt + M	Show free memory
Alt + R	Show room info
Alt + S	Shift user alterego
Alt + T	Teleport
Alt + U	Return user control
Alt + X	Set all the ego's skills
Alt + Left Mouse Button	Instant movement/placement
Ctrl + L	QA Logger
Ctrl + S	Play sound
Shift + /	Help for the debug mode

(Source: HWM, ScummVM wiki)

Unused Graphics

Unused Views

A sketch of the status screen can be seen at Pic 145.

A picture of the Quest for Glory 3 cast can be seen at Pic 120. Sadly, they're never seen in the game itself.

(Source: Boogeyman, Hypnos)

Unused Views

The player accidentally cutting off their own arm with the Battle Axe, which would have likely been seen when trying to use an axe with low strength and/or weapon use stats.

Katrina without sleeves. This does match up with her dialog portrait, yet this is the only frame in View 638 that matches up with it. Her used in-game sprites have her wearing sleeves.

Menu buttons leftover from a demo version.

Tanya walking around.

(Source: Andrew J. Neis, Boogeyman, Divingkataetheweirdo)

Unused Music

Sound cue 472 contains a tune intended for the gypsy camp. Composer Aubrey Hodges said it would have been for the wolves' attack or the burning.

(Source: Andrew J. Neis)

Unused Enemies

Message file 810 mentions two enemies that don't appear in the final game - Tentitite and Nastimost. These appear to be the only mentions of them in the code.

(Source: Andrew J. Neis)