Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge reverse engineering adventures

This repo is an attempt to reverse engineer as much of Wizardy 6 as possible. There have been a number of previous reverse engineering efforts such as Cosmic Forge editor and various save game modification tools such as baneedit, but they are closed source and the file formats remain largely undocumented.

Let's see if we can change that!

File format docs

Most up to date file format docs are stored in file_format_docs

Examples

Here are some things that are kind of working. They assume that you have the original game data in a gamedata/ folder.

Monster graphics:

python -m loaders.pic_viewer .\gamedata\mon25.PIC

Map parsing:

python .\loaders/render_map_walls_reconstructed.py --map-id 8

Wall textures:

python .\loaders\extract_mazedata_tiles.py

Items, Monsters, XP tables:

python .\loaders\scenario_viewer.py .\gamedata\scenario.dbs

Screen viewers:

python loaders/ega_viewer.py .\gamedata\TITLEPAG.EGA

Character portraits:

python -m loaders.pic_viewer .\gamedata\WPORT1.EGA

Fonts:

python -m loaders.render_font "this is a stylish wizardry 6 font!" --max-width 150

Messages:

python -m loaders.message_parser 10010

Character Roster:

python loaders/pc_viewer.py gamedata/PCFILE.dbs

Sounds:

python -m loaders.sound_player gamedata/sound02.snd

Usage of AI tools

This repo uses many AI tools including Codex, Claude, and Gemini. LLMs are extremely effective reverse engineering tools in many different ways, including:

• Binary disassembly and logic analysis
• Binary pattern recognition and searching
• Correlating local reverse engineered information with information found online
• writing throwaway code for quick iteration and testing of many possibilities