Secret of the Silver Blades (DOS)

Secret of the Silver Blades
Developer: Strategic Simulations Publisher: Strategic Simulations Platform: DOS Released in US: 1990 This game has debugging material.

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Debug Modes

Similar to Curse of the Azure Bonds, there are two parameters that can be used with start.exe. These parameters are entered without minus signs and with spaces.

The first parameter is Hoop and it does the following:

• Skip the title screen.
• Allow debugging by pressing Control + D. The output from this mode will be shown in DEBUG.TXT.
  • Any code run by the program is logged.
  • Control + Z dumps what affects each party member has.
  • Control + C quits the program.

The second parameter is Gem and has these effects:

• Skip copy protection.
• Get maps for all of the areas.
• When the player is in a training menu, there is code that is supposed to activate free training with the J key. However, it doesn't work here, since the menu no longer uses keyboard shortcuts.
• Alt + X key combination kills all the enemies, complete with a message saying "The Gods intervene!".

Thus, using both parameters would amount to typing start Hoop Gem in the DOS command prompt.

(Source: Simeon Pilgrim)