Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (1992)

Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
Also known as: Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (original title) Developer: Sierra On-Line Publisher: Sierra On-Line Platforms: DOS, Mac OS Classic Released in US: July 1992 This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has a notes page

To do: Unused cursors (Source: Kuro-chan)

A VGA remake of the EGA game Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (1989).

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Debug Mode

There is a close enough rewrite of the previously lost to history Debug Mode for this game. Before you could dump the debug files from Police Quest SCI Remake or Laura Bow 2 and rename them to 298.hep, 298.scr and 298.tex and place them in your QFG1 directory.

But eventually it became possible to download them here. It might also be possible to get them from a patch being made by EricOakford! You can use SciCompanion to compile it yourself from his GitHub (here is a link to the game.ini notes, which contains values for room numbers).

Here is a list of commands available:

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Is there a way to set just a specific skill?

Keys	Action
Alt + A	Show cast (info about all on-screen objects).
Alt + B	Change amount of money.
Alt + C	Show control map.
Alt + D	Set Date and Time.
Alt + E	Show hero info.
Alt + F	Show feature outlines.
Alt + G	Change GLOBAL variable.
Alt + H	Show GLOBAL variable.
Alt + I	Get inventory item.
Alt + J	Supposed to be "Justify text on screen", but actually identical to Alt + A.
Alt + K	Show palette.
Alt + L	Learn a new spell.
Alt + M	Vacant.
Alt + N	Vacant.
Alt + O	QA Note Logger.
Alt + P	Show priority map.
Alt + Q	Set detail to 1.
Alt + R	Show room info/free memory.
Alt + S	Show a string or message.
Alt + T	Teleport.
Alt + U	Give HandsOn.
Alt + V	Show visual map.
Alt + W	Feature writer.
Alt + X	Set all hero's skills.
Alt + Y	Polygon Editor.
Alt + Z	Quick quit.
Left click + Alt	Move hero.
Left click + Ctrl + Left shift	Show hero.
Left click + Ctrl + Right shift	Show room.
Left click + Ctrl + Alt	Show position.
Shift + /	Help for the debug mode.

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  Where to? dialog on boot. Selecting any option besides Continue results in spawning a generic fighter at location specified

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  Pressing ALT + I will bring up add inventory menu

Unused Graphics

A picture of the thief in jail. This was used when the thief was caught in the original version, but there's a more generic picture in its place in the final version.

Otto crushing the player under his giant feet. While a similar graphic was seen in the EGA version when waking up Otto, this one takes it a bit farther by having the player's guts spill out.

A live-action capture of someone pretending to be a brigand.

The original ending picture from the EGA version is intact at View 101 and has been updated. However, the view was removed likely because it was shown behind the credits, which are now shown on a different backdrop.

(Source: Boogeyman, jtd786)