King's Bounty Saved game Format
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King's Bounty Saved game Format
| Format type | Saved game |
|---|---|
| Save locations | Unknown |
| Elements saved | Many |
| Games |
This format is used to save the whole game state for King's Bounty.
As the save files do not require re-insertion into group files, nor are compressed, yet maintain their own full copies of the game world, they provide good opportunity to distribute custom levels or maps.
File format
A save always takes exactly 20421 bytes.
0x000 - 0x00A | name
0x00B | class
0x00C | rank
0x00D | spell power
0x00E | max # of spells
0x00F - 0x01F | is villain N caught
0x020 - 0x027 | is artifact N found
0x028 - 0x02B | is continent N available
0x02C - 0x02F | is orb N found
0x030 - 0x03D | number of spells N
0x03E | knows magic
0x03F | siege weapons
0x040 | current contract
0x041 - 0x045 | hero army
0x046 | Option: Delay (0-9)
0x047 | difficulty
0x048 | Option: Sounds
0x049 | Option: Walk Beep
0x04A | Option: Animation
0x04B | Option: Show Army Size
0x04C | hero continent
0x04D | hero X
0x04E | hero Y
0x04F | last X
0x050 | last Y
0x051 | boat X
0x052 | boat Y
0x053 | boat continent (0xFF - no boat)
0x054 | mount mode (0x00 - boat, 0x04 - fly, 0x08 - horse)
0x055 | Option: CGA palette
0x056 - 0x069 | spell sold in town N
0x070 - 0x074 | contract cycle (5 villains)
0x075 | last contract (starts as 0x04 to flip to 0x00 on first run)
0x076 | max contract (starts as 0x05)
0x077 | steps left (until end of day)
0x078 | ? //unknown3
0x079 - 0x092 | castle owned by... (0x7F = no one, 0xFF = you, LOW 5 bits = villain)
0x093 - 0x0AC | visited castle N
0x0AD - 0x0C6 | visited town N
0x0C7 | scepter continent ('encrypted')
0x0C8 | scepter X ('encrypted')
0x0C9 | scepter Y ('encrypted')
0x0CA - 0x8C9 | fog of war (1bpp)
0x8CA - 0x94B | garrison troops
0x94C - 0x973 | foeF coords (2 bytes each, 5 per continent)
0x974 - 0x979 | map chests coords (2 bytes each, 1 per continent)
0x97a - 0x981 | orb chests coords (2 bytes each, 1 per continent)
0x982 - 0x991 | teleporter coords (2 bytes each, 2 per continent)
0x992 - 0x9E9 | dwelling coords (2 bytes each, 11 per continent)
0x9EA - 0xB01 | foeH coords (2 bytes each, 35 per continent)
0xB02 - 0xCA5 | foeH troops (3 bytes each)
0xCA6 - 0xE49 | foeH numbers (3 bytes each)
0xE4A - 0xE75 | dwelling N troop
0xE76 - 0xEA1 | dwelling N population
0xEA2 | scepter key (to XOR scepter coords with)
0xEA3 - 0xEA4 | base leadership
0xEA5 - 0xEA6 | leadership
0xEA7 - 0xEA8 | commission
0xEA9 - 0xEAA | followers killed
0xEAB - 0xEB4 | hero army numbers
0xEB5 - 0xFB8 | garrison numbers
0xFB9 - 0xFBA | time stop ("free" steps left)
0xFBB - 0xFBC | days left
0xFBD - 0xFBE | score (never actually used)
0xFBF | ? // unknown1, always "00"
0xFC0 | ? // unknown2, always "00"
0xFC1 - 0xFC4 | gold
0xFC5 - END | map dump
Notes
- Player name is padded with spaces
- There are 26 castles, 26 towns, 17 villains, 25 troops, 14 spells and 4 continents in the game.
- Coordinates always take 2 bytes and always go in X, Y order.
- Scepter coordinates are XORed with scepter key upon load/save.
- Troop and villain indexes are in production order (as seen in .CC files).
- Dwelling populations are kept in BYTEs, 250 being maximum possible value.
- Hero and castle army numbers are kept in UINT16LEs, 5 per army.
- Hostile foes only have 3 troops and their numbers are kept in BYTEs.
- The mount mode is also an offset into hero's sprite-sheet.
- The map is a complete dump in King's Bounty Map Format.
Coordinates
The game is consistent with it's map coordinate system, which goes in the bottom-to-top, left-to-right order. That means top left corner has coordinate X=0, Y=63.
Credits
Originally devised by the openkb project, with best regards to the modding community. If you find this information helpful in a project you're working on, please give credit where credit is due. (A link back to this wiki would be nice too!)