Ultima IX contains several unused maps, which prove that the Bob White plot was true.
Look at these screenshots:
Find more screenshots at Lord Eternal Dragon’s website and ultima-ascension.de.
How to access the unused maps
In 2001, it was finally discovered how to access these maps. First of all, download the file gamestate.ini and copy it into your Ultima IX directory. Open it. Lines that start with a semicolon are comments and will be ignored. Now take a look at the uncommented lines:
Map=89
X=12000
Y=12000
Z=2000
Time=1200
You can easily choose your starting map and location this way. As you will see, it’s also easy to change the interface and equipment by editing the gamestate.ini file.
Next, open the file options.ini and search for this line:
start=0
Replace this with:
start=c:\ultima9\gamestate.ini
c:\ultima9\
is the installation path of Ultima IX on your machine. Done!
On most maps, you will start off in the air, and you will need to enable the fly cheat to explore the maps. Insert the line
ctrl+alt+f
= toggle_avatar_fly
into your default.kmp file.
List of all maps
- 0
- The Lunch Room
- 10
- Shame
- 100
- Demo Above Ground
- 101
- Demo Under Ground
- 102
- Gremlin Demo Map
- 103
- Spider Demo Map
- 104
- Weapon Equipping Demo Map
- 105
- Dina’s Enclosed Mess
- 107
- Aaron test map
- 11
- Abyss
- 118
- Map 118
- 119
- Rands Test Map
- 12
- Tower of Exultation Level 1
- 120
- Crumps personal map
- 121
- junk.21
- 122
- Amy’s Test Map
- 123
- Franzingruven
- 124
- Myque’s Test Map
- 125
- Map 125
- 126
- Dina’s Destard
- 127
- Map 127
- 128
- Amy’s Dungeon Test Map
- 129
- QmazeTest Bill and Scott
- 13
- Tower of Exultation Level 2
- 130
- Dina’s Crazy Map
- 131
- Myque’s Experiment
- 14
- Avatar’s House Earth
- 140
- Gary’s Another Test Map
- 141
- Gary’s Test Dungeon
- 142
- Gary’s Test Map
- 143
- Scott World
- 144
- Herman’s New Gerbilville
- 145
- Herman’s stupid test map
- 146
- Jen’s Joyebean Land
- 147
- Jim’s Happy Evil Map
- 148
- ScottJ’s Cavern Test Map
- 149
- Bill’s Creature Map
- 15
- Asylum Underground
- 150
- Torch Test - Poof!
- 151
- Bill’s Bubba’s World
- 152
- Torch Test - Alpha Bitmap
- 153
- The Map That Keeps Getting Trashed
- 154
- Great Balls o’ Fire!
- 155
- Chuck’s Usecode Test Map
- 156
- Jen’s Test Too
- 157
- Todd’s Test
- 158
- Scottie-cake’s Brave New World
- 159
- Great Balls O’ Fire Underground
- 16
- Covetous Level 0 & 1
- 160
- Creature map
- 161
- ScottJ’s Riverbank template
- 162
- Margery Must Die
- 163
- Dave’s Combat Save/Load test map
- 164
- Copy of britannia
- 165
- Britain Test
- 166
- Seth B Map
- 167
- Hutsville (DMA)
- 168
- Herman’s scratch copy of Britannia
- 169
- Herman’s Other Copy of Britannia
- 17
- Covetous Level 2
- 170
- Avatar’s House Earth (copy)
- 171
- Hassan’s Map
- 172
- Combt Audio Test Map
- 173
- Seth’s Dungeon O’ Fun
- 174
- Seth’s Caverns O’ Fun
- 175
- Steve’s Map
- 176
- Special Combat Audio Test Map
- 179
- Test Map for Scott
- 18
- Covetous Level 3
- 180
- Bob Dodd’s World O’ Pain
- 184
- Jen’s Copy of Cove
- 186
- terry’s test map
- 187
- Marsh’s New World
- 189
- Down the Rabbit Hole (ScottW)
- 19
- Covetous Level 4
- 192
- Jason’s Map
- 193
- Jason’s Map 2
- 195
- art’s map test trinsic
- 196
- Lord British’s Castle (ScottW)
- 198
- Cari’s Finished Characters
- 199
- Scott’s Maze
- 2
- Asylum
- 20
- Covetous Lift Shaft
- 200
- Joe’s test map
- 201
- Dave’s Sound Test
- 202
- Dave’s EAX Sound Test Map
- 205
- Victor_Caverns R Us
- 207
- Bill’s Lighting Test
- 21
- Cove Underground
- 211
- Map 211
- 213
- Herman’s Wrap Map
- 214
- Victor_Map
- 215
- Binky’s Map
- 216
- Avatar - Raven Contents Test Map
- 22
- Ethereal Void
- 227
- art’s working map2
- 23
- Stonegate Underground
- 230
- Copy of Britannia (Don’t change triggers!)
- 233
- my map
- 235
- Jim BTest. (copy)
- 237
- Map 237
- 238
- testgenerator
- 239
- Jim Test Underground.opy)
- 24
- Britain Sewers
- 25
- New Despise.ngeon
- 26
- Terfin level 1
- 27
- New Shame
- 28
- Dungeon Destard (old)
- 29
- Dungeon Destard (old dragon)
- 3
- 4 islands
- 30
- Covetous 2
- 31
- Covetous 3
- 32
- Son of Covetous 3
- 33
- Son of Covetous 2
- 34
- Map 34
- 35
- Deceit 1
- 36
- Britain Catacombs
- 37
- NPC Map Test
- 38
- underground moonglow
- 39
- Fake Moon Triggers
- 4
- Moonglow
- 40
- Ambrosia Sweet Ambrosia
- 41
- Stonegate Fix
- 42
- Map 42
- 43
- Deceit 2
- 44
- Abyss Dungeon Map
- 45
- Wrong
- 46
- Terfin dungeon
- 47
- New Destard
- 48
- Anti-Void
- 49
- Castle Prison
- 5
- Cove
- 50
- Hythloth Upper Levels
- 51
- Valley of souls
- 52
- Lb/Blackthorn fight
- 53
- Scary Monsters
- 54
- DropInAbyss
- 55
- Bone Armor Ritual Map
- 56
- Fake Column Triggers
- 57
- Shame
- 58
- Ambrosia Sweet Ambrosia copy
- 6
- Terfin
- 60
- Map 60
- 61
- Water
- 62
- Air
- 63
- Earth
- 64
- Fire
- 65
- One Small Step
- 66
- Hallways of Insanity
- 67
- Stonegate Roof
- 68
- -
- 7
- Trinsic
- 70
- SEM Test
- 77
- Dragon Highway test
- 8
- Valoria
- 80
- 64 by 64, 20 polys per
- 81
- 64 by 64, 193 polys per
- 82
- 64 by 64, misc objects
- 83
- 64 by 64, chunk crossing items
- 84
- 64 by 64, high-poly count
- 85
- 64 by 64, building cluster
- 86
- 64 by 64 , buildings sparse
- 87
- 64 by 64, high texrure, low items
- 89
- Buc2NewMag
- 9
- Britannia
- 90
- Mariah’s Basement
- 98
- E3 Demo for Real
- 99
- E3 Demo Underground
Notes
- Most maps are just test maps for the programmers and will crash your game.
- Don’t miss Map 98 - It’s the one that had been shown at the E3!
- Some maps work better with earlier (i.e. unpatched) versions of the game.
If you haven’t explored some of the unused maps yet, do it now! You might not believe it, but you can really access these maps; they are included in the game. It’s a great feeling to wander around in Asylum or climbing mountains near Cove.
Many thanks to TumbleWeed Dragon, Eternal Dragon, and Grandor Dragon, who made this possible.
