Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance

To do: Document the prototype version

Heroes of the Lance is a dungeon crawler of sorts (a port of the Atari ST original) that seems to have been very sloppily and hastily put together. Though the concept is interesting, the execution was poor.

Disabled Debug#

Game Genie code AESNNYPA re-enables a simple debug mode.

Map Select#

Hold Down on Controller 2 at the title screen, and the text "MAP No. 00" will appear with a hex map number. While still holding Down, press A to increase the map number by 0x01 or B to increase the map number by 0x10.

Map Number Display#

During the game, press A on Controller 2 to display the current map number and some other variables.

Unused Music#

Track 8 on the NSF is a very short, unused piece of music that seems like it was intended for the "Game Over" and/or "Bad Ending" scenes, both of which are curiously silent.

Regional Differences#

Menu#

In the North American version, the locations of the "Take" and "Score" options were swapped due to text limitations.

Japan	US

Below is a translation of the Famicom version text:

Hero Select        Give
Magic User Spells  Drop
Cleric Spells      Score
Use                Save
Take               Load

References#