Eschalon Savefile Editor

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This package is a collection of applications which let you edit your character in savegames of Eschalon Book I and Eschalon Book II by Basilisk Games, or edit map files from Book 1.

Right now it supports the editing of just about everything you'd want to edit, though there's still plenty of values in the file of whose purpose I'm unaware. See the TODO file for information on what needs to be done with the app still, which is quite a bit. The README file should be pretty informative as well. The app is released under the GNU GPL 2.0.

The apps were developed on Linux, and they use Python, GTK+, Cairo, and PyGTK to do its stuff. It works on Windows as well. I know that those packages are available on OS X too, but I don't have easy access to that platform, so I'm not sure what needs to be done to package it up. (See the "related" section below for an app which is probably much easier to get running on OS X)

Disclaimer

The app seems stable enough for me, but use your head and keep a backup of any files that you use this on. Note that most map files have an associated file with a ".ent" extension which would need to be backed up as well. Let me know if anything ends up eating your files, because I'd like to fix any bugs which may exist. Just don't get upset if it does. :) This application should be considered beta software still.

Also, and this should go without saying, this app will certainly allow you to construct character files and maps which Eschalon never intended to have in-place. Be aware that if you go crazy with the settings, you could very well end up with a file that Eschalon can't deal with, or which has subtle effects on the gameplay which may not be immediately apparent.

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Related

Orion Transfer (specifically Samuel Williams and Hermann Gundel) created a character editor for OSX called Goblin Hacker, which looks real nice, and from a visual perspective, at least, puts my app to shame. <smile> It seems that getting all the prerequisites for my application installed on OSX is somewhat nontrivial, and frustrating for non-techie users, so if you're on OSX, it looks like this is probably a far better solution for you, at least for character editing.

Contact

Feel free to email me at pez@apocalyptech.com if you've got questions or concerns. I'm also logged in to irc.freenode.net as the user "sekhmet" if you'd prefer that. Alternatively, here's a thread at the Basilisk Forums which I watch.