Castle Of the Winds

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(Oddly I have never tried them)

 

Increased Constitution

Continue casting the magic arrow spell even after running out of mana. Stop casting the spell when your character's current and maximum hit points have increased. You character's constitution should also be increased.


More HP

Turn off visual effects in the options section under the file menu. Use a spell that increases your health. Use it until the screen stops showing your HP. Then, cast an attack spell (fireball, etc.) You will get a few thousand HP.


Maximum HP

Cast any spell continuously until your mana reaches approximately -8000. When this happens the mana should stop decreasing when you cast a spell. Then, cast a healing spell and it will add to your HP until reaching 32767. Note: If you cast more health spells after you reach that number, your HP will turn into a negative number.


Easy Item Finding

Create a character and select Detect Item as a first spell. Go to the dungeon, and save the game prior to descending a level in this or any dungeon. Enter the dungeon and cast Detect Items. If the items revealed are not desirable (spell books, armor, weapons, money), load the saved game and repeat. Since a different dungeon appears with each load, valuable items will eventually appear.


Easy Treasure

It is possible to save just before entering a level in order to load and reload that next level to hunt for valuable items. The best item to hunt for is a Wand Of Clone Monster. Save a few Wands Of Clone Monster. When you get to the levels with Hrungnir in Castle 1, or the Giant Kings in Castle 2, clone off the Giants however many at a time you can without getting killed in the process. When you kill off the cloned Giant Kings, you will get enormous amounts of treasure.


Hex Editing

You can use a hex editor to hack your saved game file. Make sure you have a calculator or something that can convert between Decimal and Dexadecimal numbers. Create a copy of the file, and rename it. This way if you mess up, you haven't screwed up the original. Also, if you're running Castle of the Winds while hacking to see your progress; remember you need to re-load the saved game after saving the hacked file to see any changes.

If you have no idea how to hex-edit a file, well, now's a good time to learn, and what better way to learn, than to cheat?

Graphs are set like this:
[Description] - [Hex Location] - [Modifier]

The Modifier means the number in the hex location times the modifier. So if the location reads '02' and the modifier is 'x256' then the result is 512 (2 x 256 = 512). The game adds multiple modifiers together. Simple, no?
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Current HP - 94 95 - x1 x256
Maximum HP - 96 97 - x1 x256
Current Mana - 98 99 - x1 x256
Maximum Mana - 9A 9B - x1 x256

So if you wanted to have 200 HP, you would set location '96' to the hex number C8.

If a number is greater than 255 (FF), you need to go to the next set.

Thus for 255 HP, you would set '96' to FF (255) and '97' to 00 (0).
And for 256 HP, you would set '96' to 00 (0) and '97' to 01 (1).
(255 x 1) + (0 x 256) = 255
(0 x 1) + (1 x 256) = 256
Confused yet?
Divide the amount you want by the largest, then use smaller numbers for filler. Got it? Okay. So...

If you wanted 270 HP. 256 divides into 270 once, with a remainder of 14. So you would set '96' to 14 and '97' to 01. Voila!
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Note about stats: 100 is the maximum. In Hex, that's 64. It would be silly to set it higher, because the game doesn't seem to recognize values higher than 100.

Blue STR - 80 - x1
Blue INT - 81 - x1
Blue CON - 82 - x1
Blue DEX - 83 - x1
Green STR - 84 - x1
Green INT - 85 - x1
Green CON - 86 - x1
Green DEX - 87 - x1
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There are two places to set experience. Make sure you set BOTH values to the SAME AMOUNT!

Experience - 9E 9F A0 A1 - x1 x256 x65536 x16777216
A2 A3 A4 A5 - x1 x256 x65536 x16777216

It is probably best to check how many experience points you need for the next level, and enter that value minus 10 to 50. That way, you can also learn new spells and the shops will have new stuff when you gain a new level. Also, the last number sets a HUGE amount. You probably will never need to set it at all. Unless you are getting so high up in levels that you need 16 million points...
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Armor Class - A6 A7 - x1 x256

Normally, when you have no armor, your AC is 0. But if you set this value yourself, and remove your armor, your 'naked' armor class will be the difference between the set value and the value of the armor. So you don't have to worry about re-setting the value if you equip new armor.
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Copper - 742 743 744 745 - x1 x256 x65536 x16777216
Silver - 758 759 75A 75B - x1 x256 x65536 x16777216
Gold - 76E 76F 770 771 - x1 x256 x65536 x16777216
Platinum - 784 785 786 787 - x1 x256 x65536 x16777216

Remember the exchange rate if you want a certain amount.
10 Copper = 1 Silver
100 Copper = 1 Gold
1000 Copper = 1 Platinum

Okay, This is tough... here's a file I found on my system all about this cheat:

Download Hex cheat here