Ultima IV Remastered

Introduction 1

Introduction 2

Character creation

In-game 1

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Ultima IV Remastered is a further improvement of Ultima IV Gold, using all of the enhancements of that fan project and adding much more content to it, turning it into the best 8-bit presentation of Ultima IV. It even reduces the severity of the C64-port’s the loading time by putting everything on a cartridge. The most recent version is 2.2.1.

Features

Graphical Enhancements

• The introduction and the endgame were completely redrawn, now using the full graphical capabilities of the C64.
• Tile graphics now mostly use the tiles from Ultima V, with several new tiles, which did not exist in Ultima V, specially created.
• Objects and monsters in dungeons are now shown in color instead of monchrome (does not go for the walls themselves).
• Dungeons start to dim once a torch is about to run out.
• Maps from peer gems are now shown in color instead of monochrome.
• The dungeon renderer is much sped up, making exploration easier.

Technical Improvements

• Much improved fastloader support.
• Game is now playable from a cartridge with no loading times at all.
• No more music interruptions during disk access when playing from floppy.
• Mixed case text is now possible.

New Game Features

• Active player can be selected in combat and dungeon rooms, making exploration of dungeon rooms and level grinding for selected characters much easier.
• Saving and quitting in dungeons is now possible.
• The game now asks if the player wants to leave a town when reaching the border.
• Joystick control is now implemented.

Fixes

• Meditation at shrines now does give different messages with different number of cycles.
• Dungeon Hythloth got fixed on level 6.
• Countless fixes with the balloon.
• Countless text fixes in NPC dialogues and dialogue choices.

External Links

• Ultima IV Remastered – project page
• Ultima IV Remastered for the C64 – download page