Exploring the Dungeons of Avalon is a project to disassemble and analyze the executable and data files of the 1991 Commodore Amiga roleplaying game Dungeons of Avalon, and its 1992 sequel Dungeons of Avalon II: The Island of Darkness.
It also intends to research the mysterious origins of the game’s publication and translation into English.
It follows a similar project, Exploring K240, which performed an analysis of the 1994 space sim K240.
What can we learn?
This project primarily intends to discover the following:
- Can Dungeons of Avalon 1 be completed?
- Due to a bug, the final boss cannot be killed. However, the cause has been discovered, and a four-byte hex edit fix is available. The DoA1 ending is now viewable.
- What are the game’s mechanics?
- A more thorough analysis of the game disassembly has now uncovered the secrets of all the primary game mechanics, including character class, character creation and level up, combat mechanics, dungeon format, items and treasure, monster encounters, race and class, save game format, spells, traps, and monster statistics.
- What is the complete game map?
- Maps for every level of both games are available, beginning with DoA1 dungeon level 1. They include full lists of chest contents, monster encounter rates, and other notes.
- When was the game released and translated into English?
- The history has been researched detailed in an article on development and release history.
History
This site was started on 3 June 2019.
In the first month, the project added full maps for each level, translations of information from the German manual, lists of things like items and traps, details of the game’s ending, a partly-annotated disassembly of the German version of Dungeons of Avalon II.
Occasional updates were made between 2020 and 2022. In 2024, the monster graphics and other graphics were ripped.
In August 2026, a new disassembly of Dungeons of Avalon began, revealing numerous other mechanics. These include the effects of spells, more bytes of the save game file, random encounter tables, full monster statistics, flee chance, combat mechanics, item statistics.
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