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Bob12231

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well, with abit of tinkering, some hex editing and a small guide i found u can change the skill points.

packer/unpacker tool: http://www.mtcelestia.org/bt4savpak.7z

save location: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\BardsTale4\Saved\SaveGames\SaveGame1

*if u dont know how to hex edit read about it. its really REALLY simple..

this is the guide: //creds to Jamey

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I made a simple change to start with. One of my Mercenary characters is Baedish and did not receive her bonus skill points at levels 3 and 10. I want to rectify that.

I tried unpacking the file and found it saved in a mixed text and binary format, so I'm editing using a hex editor (HxD). Comparing that character (whom I left with an unused skill point) with another, I found that there are two values which are notably different:
EarnedSkillPoints
AvailableSkillPoints

Each is stored as an IntProperty. There is a trailing two bytes after the IntProperty appear to always be 0x00 0x04. Then there are eight null bytes. Then the Int value is stored in binary.

Since my characters are level 15, the non-Baedish characters should (and do) have 0x11 as their EarnedSkillPoints. Melody should (and does) have 0x13 as her EarnedSkillPoints.

My Baedish non-Melody characters have 0x11. I changed that to be 0x13.

Similarly, I changed the value for AvailableSkillPoints form 0x01 to 0x03, which should reflect 3 skill points to available to spend.

This worked, but only after I realized that I needed to use the 10 minute old save rather than the one from when I exited the game.

This appears to have worked to allow me to get the correct skill points on my Baedish characters, which fixes my biggest problem (not enough skill points for an Archmage build or to buy Cleric skills).

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Personally, I'd be hesitant to make more substantive changes to the save file without better understanding the file format. It appears to be a hybrid text and binary, so I suspect it is coming out of some standard serialized that I'm not familiar with. Good luck to others who are trying to make tweaks to their saves.

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good luck and backup your saves )
 

Michael1973xt

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Please update this trainer to correctly work for the newly released "Director's Cut" version of The Bard's Tale IV please very soon MrAntifun/Wemod.
 
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