Ultima VII: The Black Gate

Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Also known as: Ultima VII: Die Schwarze Pforte (DE), Ultima VII: La Porte Noire (FR) Developer: Origin Systems Publisher: Origin Systems Platform: DOS Released in US: April 16, 1992 This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

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Ultima VII: The Black Gate really brought the immersive world of Britannia to another level, with NPCs living their own scheduled lives and impressive environmental interaction.

The Avatar returns to Britannia to find it under the thrall of a mysterious organization that totally isn't the Church of Scientology, leading to a desperate race to stop the mysterious, Muppet-esque Guardian from enacting his sinister plot.

To do: Better fill this page. Maybe move the Serpent Isle Cheat Mode subpage here with extra bits for the Black Gate stuff?

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Cheat Mode If there is a larger debug mode out there, I don't even want to know.

Cheat Rooms

Strangely, these rooms, designed for ease of testing the game, are accessible through normal gameplay!

Main Cheat Room

There are multiple ways to access the main cheat room:

• Locate the dead blacksmith's shop in the bottom-left corner of Trinsic, the starting town. Climb up on the roof by stacking the crates that are available throughout various buildings in town. Walk to the back of the chimney to be transported to the cheat room.
• Locate the tree trunk west of the Honorable Hound in Trinsic, drop a treasure chest just north of the trunk, and step on top of it to be transported to the cheat room.
• Locate the first tree east of the house of the gargoyles in Britain, drop a treasure chest just east of the trunk, and step on top of it to be transported to the cheat room.

Inside the cheat room, you'll find the following:

• Eight suits of magic armor (one for everyone!)
• Two death scythes
• A juggernaut hammer
• A hawk
• Two magic axes
• 16 rings of protection
• 8 rings of regeneration
• 8 rings of invisibility
• A complete spell book
• 1000 gold
• 100 lockpicks
• 100 of each reagent
• Rudyom's wand
• All three prisms
• The Hoe of Destruction!

A teleporter will take you to a second, larger room, containing Nicodemus's Hourglass, a charged Etherial Ring, the Soul Cage and liche potion, several Caddellite helmets, and teleports to every important location in the game.

Skara Brae Cheat Room

There is a lever just visible behind the statue to the west of the Tomb of Marney which opens a secret door to a chamber in the graveyard. It contains all the quest items for the Skara Brae quest, Magic Armor, Rings, and a Death Scythe.

Former Cheat Room Location

A teleport egg sits just to the north of the tree in the southwest corner of Trinsic, in mid-air. It no longer seems to trigger, but it was originally intended to teleport you to the main cheat room mentioned above, placed without the knowledge of Richard Garriott. When Garriott found it, he pointed it to a new, slightly less cheaty room, to express his general displeasure with the person responsible (although the original cheat room was later hooked up to new locations, as mentioned above). You can also view it by teleporting to 209,407,0 using the Cheat Menu.

Upon entering, Lord British will teleport in and curse you out for being a filthy cheater before casting Armageddon, triggering the failed copy protection effect (replacing all dialogue options and cheat menu entries with "Oink!", NPCs speaking nonsense, etc.), and then attacking you in his usual instant-kill manner. Needless to say, this renders the game unwinnable.

(Source: Cheating in Ultima VII)

Regional Differences

The French and German editions got their own title screen, while the Spanish one only shows the translated title on the version screen. Not that the work with the lettering is impressive anyway.

Germany	France