Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

Might & Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
Developer: New World Computing Publisher: 3DO Company Platforms: Windows Released in US: January 2, 1999 Released in EU: 1999 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a notes page This game has a prerelease article

The seventh installment in the Might and Magic series.

To do: NWC developer dungeon, needs more info. Unused shop conversations and backgrounds [Here's a video showing them.] Possibly more unused content can be found in the game's files. Someone who actually played the game should take a look.

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Prerelease Info

Notes

Debugging Material

mm6.ini

The game has a working system for configuration via an .ini file. Not all options seem to work, but a big portion does. Some do only with a specific rendering mode (hardware or software).

To make them work create a text file named mm6.ini in the directory of the game. (6 is not a typo). List of options which can be altered:

screen

[screen]
vx1=8
vy1=8
vx2=468
vy2=351

• vx/vy — Viewport (3D window) offset from top left corner x/y. Is used since there is a border around the viewport.
• vx2/vy2 — Viewport resolution.

debug

[debug]
walkspeed=384
nomonster=0
nodecoration=0
nodamage=0
noMist=0
recmod1=1.0
recmod2=1.0

• nodecoration — Disables any 2D objects that are used for decoration such as trees, bushes, rocks and etc.
• recmod — Multiplier for recovery rate (how long characters need to wait before the next attack/cast).

outdoor

[outdoor]
RGBDayTop.r=81
RGBDayTop.g=121
RGBDayTop.b=236
RGBDayBottom.r=153
RGBDayBottom.g=193
RGBDayBottom.b=237
RGBNightTop.r=0
RGBNightTop.g=0
RGBNightTop.b=0
RGBNightBottom.r=11
RGBNightBottom.g=41
RGBNightBottom.b=129
nosky=0
nowavywater=0
gridband3=25
gridband2=15
gridband1=10
ter_gamma=0
bld_gamma=0

• RGBDay / RGBNight — In Might and Magic VI there are 3 rendering quality modes. Low and medium quality settings use gradient-based sky instead of a sky texture. This allows to alter the gradient color pairs for day and night skies. There is no way to switch rendering quality modes in Might and Magic VII so this is unused.
• gridband — Defines rendering distance for terrain. It is distributed between 3 layers and 3 is the farthest.
• ter_gamma / bld_gamma — Seem to be unused parameters.

settings

[settings]
nointro=0
nologo=0
nowalksound=0
nosound=0
mixerchannels=16

render

[render]
nodecorations=0

mipmapping

[mipmapping]
ter_mm1=2048
ter_mm2=4096
ter_mm3=8192
bld_mm1=1024
bld_mm2=2048
bld_mm3=4096

shading

[shading]
dist_mist=8192
dist_shade=2048
dist_shademist=4096

• dist_mist — How far mist starts. The value also controls draw distance.

textures

[textures]
sky=plansky1
default=dirt

• It is hard to tell whether these values work because sky and terrain is defined on every map and these parameters seem to be used in the opposite case.

texmapping

[texmapping] 
terrain_subdivsize=16
terrain_subdivpow2=4
building_subdivsize=32
building_subdivpow2=5

• So far changing these values to something that is not default makes terrain glitchy in software mode.

party

[party]
eyelevel=160

• Sets vertical camera offset. 0 will be on the ground in that case.

file

[file]
startmap=out01.odm

• Sets the initial map, where a new game begins. Defaults to "out01.odm" which is Emerald Island.

Complete list of maps can be found on the notes page.

Section definitions (text in square brackets) is necessary for options to work. For more information on how INI files work you can check the Wikipedia article.

Window Menus

Supposedly there are debug options inside the window menu in a similar way as in Heroes of Might and Magic 2.

**************************************************************
* Rsrc_Menu_MENUMAINWINDOW_409 Size of resource: 0xa64 bytes *
*                                                            *
* &File                                                      *
*   &Exit                                                    *
* Debug                                                      *
*                                                            *                                          
* &Party                                                     * 
*   Give Gold (10000)                                        *
*   Give Experience (20000)                                  * 
*   Give Skill Points (50 each)                              *
*   Remove Gold                                              *
* Set Condition                                              * 
*   Afraid                                                   *                                    
*   Asleep                                                   *
*   Curse                                                    *
*   Disease1                                                 *
*   Disease2                                                 *
*   Disease3                                                 *
*   Dead                                                     *
*   Drunk                                                    *
*   Eradicated                                               *
*   Insane                                                   *
*   Paralyzed                                                *
*   Poison3                                                  *
*   Poison2                                                  *
*   Poison1                                                  *
*   &Stone                                                   *
*   Unconscious                                              *
*   Weak                                                     *
*   &Zombie                                                  *
************************************************************** 

Unused Sound Effects

Pending

A placeholder sound.

Unused Graphics

Actors

Manticore

Manticores can only appear randomly on Arena. Supposedly invisible and crash the game if clicked on.

Minicore

Tier 1

Walk	Taunt	Attack

Manticore

Tier 2

Walk	Taunt	Attack

Scorpicore

Tier 3

Walk	Taunt	Attack

Book Backgrounds

These do not seem to appear in the game. Most of the book backgrounds in the release version are in color.

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Old Map of Emerald Island

Both dungeons seem to be missing on the early map. The marsh area used to use grass tiles. The docks are absent as well as the ship on top of the map.

The areas from the early map can be seen on the screenshots on the pre-release page.

Cutscenes

Eofol Tunnel Entrances

Most of the tunnels connected to Eofol / Thunderfist don't have any entrance cutscene (in the release version of the game). The ones that have use the Thunderfist Mountain cutscene.

Warlock stables

There're no stables at Nighon therefore it is unused.

Placeholders

Leftovers from Previous Games

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  The signature of Jon Van Caneghen (the creator of the series) from the fourth and fifth games.

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  The background for the bad ending of the sixth game.

Development-Related Text

LWSPIRAL.STR contains variations of this string:

Placeholder for the Fire 2 riddle - type answer to get by

2DEvents.txt contains this string and similar variations of it:

H_House P54(not used)

According to Npcdata.txt, NPC placeholders are named:

Boob

TRANS.txt has a few of these:

Placeholder Text

QUESTS.txt contains a ton of debugging messages, not really any interesting ones though.

Hero / Villain Quest

If you were to somehow talk to Alice Hargreaves before choosing either dark or light path the following message will be displayed:

"It should be impossible for you to see this right now.  If you are reading this, tell Bryan that the event and/or logic of this quest is messed up because you should either be good attempting the Hero quest, or evil attempting the Villain quest and you are apparently neither."

Map Notes

MAPSTATS.txt contains the "Notes" table column. It lists descriptions for some maps from the game:

Name	Notes
Emerald Island	Training Island--Lush, tropical island
Harmondale	Home town map--hills and scattered trees. Water ok
Erathia	Human Capital--low hills, river (with fort built on top), near lake
The Tularean Forest	Elvish capital--Cliffs, waterfalls, forest
Deyja	Necromancer zone--wasteland
The Bracada Desert	Wizard's area--desert w/ oasis, sharp mountains
Celeste	Cloud city
The Pit	Underground undead city (indoor map)
Evenmorn Island	Haunted island of the church of the sun and moon. Perm. fog
Mount Nighon	Warlock Capital--Snowy mountains. Warlock home inside of volcano
The Barrow Downs	Dwarvish lands (no dwarves outside)--rough hills, rocky
The Land of the Giants	devils, titans, dragons--mountainous and desolate
Tatalia	human territory--swampy with some nice, cultivated areas
Avlee	Elvish territory--slightly tropical, nice beach, lush
Shoals	Underwater terrain
The Dragon Caves	Repeatable map (needs special coding)
Lord Markham's Manor	Repeatable map (needs special coding)
The Bandit Caves	Repeatable map (needs special coding)
The Haunted Mansion	Repeatable map (needs special coding)
The Temple of the Moon	Half cave, half ruined temple of the moon
Castle Harmondale	Expandable player castle (starts with monsters)
White Cliff Cave	Goblin caves. Good place to put gold from robbed bank and new monsters
The Erathian Sewers	Thief guild and sewers. Many entrance/exits. Golem guarded treasure
Fort Riverstride	Erathian border fort. Fort lies ontop of river. (fortified bridge)
The Tularean Caves	Caves near the elvish castle. Used as POW camp for humans. Secret entrance to castle thru here
Clanker's Laboratory	small laboratory. Good place for "experimental" items.
The Hall of the Pit	Entrance to The Pit. Small guard station.
Watchtower 6	Last remaining Necromancer border watchtower.
The School of Sorcery	The place where all sorcerers learn their craft.
The Red Dwarf Mines	Mine taken over by medusas. Dwarves here are statues to be rescued
The Walls of Mist	training ground for the cloud city. Walls are made of "mist"
Temple of the Light	revival branch of the Church of the Sun
The Breeding Zone	training ground for the underworld.
Temple of the Dark	revival branch of the Church of the Moon
Grand Temple of the Moon	Ruined old temple of the moon
Grand Temple of the Sun	Ruined old temple of the sun
Thunderfist Mountain	Volcano dungeon connecting to Stone city (dungeon 20)
The Maze	minotaur maze used by the warlocks to breed new minotaurs.
Stone City	Dwarven city. Charge to enter if no dwarves in party.
Colony Zod	Surviving colony of the devils
The Mercenary Guild	main mercenary guild
The Tidewater Caverns	pirate's caves. Fills with water periodically
The Wine Cellar	Basement under house for vampire "family"
The Titans' Stronghold	home of the giants
The Temple of Baa	temple of Baa that hasn't quite got the bad news yet.
The Hall under the Hill	Faerie mound with shrunken dwarves
The Lincoln	ship used to transport MMIII characters here
Castle Gryphonheart	Queen Catherine's castle
Castle Navan	Elf king's castle
Castle Lambent	Wizard's castle (council of wizards)
Castle Gloaming	Necromancer's castle (headed by Archibald)
The Dragon's Lair	Dragon's Lair on Emerald Island

Developer Dungeon

Like in the preceding and the following games, there is a hidden dungeon that resembles the offices of New World Computing, the studio behind the game, populated by characters referencing the development team.

To get there, go to the Shoals, and look for a sunken pirate ship in the middle-right side of the map. Behind some rocks at the bottom of the ship is a chest with a Temple in a Bottle item inside. Use this item to get warped to The Strange Temple.

To do: Add information on any interesting sights there.