Game 86: Gorf

This passage from Wikipedia make me chuckle.

Gorf was originally intended to be a tie-in with Star Trek: The Motion Picture but after reading the film's script, the game designers realized that the concept would not work as a video game.

No shit, Jamie. Now, Dave Nutting Associates could have gone down in history as the first video game developer to realize that maybe Star Trek isn’t the best source material to use for a shooty blast’em up game, but then they went ahead and used the Enterprise sprite, and also used a very Federation-like design for the encounter against the Gorfian flagship (a prophetic adaptation of TWOK, perhaps?). And then it wastes no time in ripping off Space Invaders.

Even the sprites are copied!

To be fair, Midway was the licensed North American distributor for Space Invaders, but I’m still a little surprised that they were able to get away with lifting the look and feel wholesale into their own original game.

The gameplay is tweaked a bit. Gameplay features eight-directional movement instead of just two, though you’re limited in how far up the screen you can move. Instead of barriers, there’s a force field which automatically lowers to let your shots out, and is gradually chipped away by the invaders. The invaders are less numerous, only attacking in an 8x3 phalanx instead of an 11x5 one, and the last lousy invader doesn’t quite reach the same warp speed. Mystery saucers are always worth 100 or 300 points, and the shot counter doesn’t affect this.

But perhaps the biggest change is that you no longer have to wait in between shots. You’re still limited to one bullet on the screen at a time; firing will erase your previous bullet, and this takes some getting used to. It’s easy, at first, to accidentally fire your second shot too soon, and ruin your otherwise perfectly aimed first shot. But this feature gives you a lot more flexibility and margin for error; if you realize a shot isn’t going to hit anything, you don’t have to wait for it to clear the screen before firing again.

All of these tweaks serve to make it quite a bit easier than Space Invaders, though there’s one thing that makes it harder for me; I have a slightly difficult time distinguishing the invaders’ shots from the background. I don’t know if this is because of my color-blindness, but I find I have to focus harder to see the shots than I do when there’s a black background.

As this is based on Wizard of Wor hardware, including the Votrax chip, it verbally taunts you, in the same nigh-incomprehensible voice synthesis as its predecessor. Emulation isn’t quite accurate yet, but video footage of the real thing doesn’t sound any better, just different. It does seem a bit less chatty than the Wizard, but no less sarcastic.

After killing the last invader, it moves on to the next round.

Now it resembles Galaxian, though not to the extent that the previous round resembles Space Invaders. You’ll face two five-Gorfian formations at once, and the bottom Gorfian in each formation fires a laser weapon while the other four swoop at you Galaxian-style.

And then Gorf somehow gets even more shameless.

Again, Midway also was the North American distributor for Galaxian, but just what did this license permit them to do, exactly? This?

It’s not exactly the same as Galaxian. Once again, you can move in eight directions and can fire early, canceling out your previous shot, and this serves to make it easier than Galaxian. The hardware seems to struggle with so many sprites, as the Galaxians’ movement is a bit choppy while they move into formation. Shooting Galaxians mid-swoop is still worth more points than shooting them in formation, but the flagships are always worth 300 points regardless of if you take out their escorts first or not.

And sometimes these huge red demons just show up for a few seconds.

The next round is my least favorite.

In retrospect, it reminds me of Gyruss, at least visually, but doesn’t play much like it. There’s only one ship on screen at a time, and they are tiny, and really difficult to hit. They get larger as they get “closer” but move around so much that they don’t really get easier to hit. You don’t actually need to kill any of them, but on later loops, their shots will come at you from any direction, and sometimes are nearly impossible to dodge.

Finally, there’s a showdown with the Gorfian flagship.

Now you have to blast through a force field while the enemy safely takes pot shots at you from behind it. On later loops, the flagship also has some of those red demons to harass you. There’s a tiny, pixel-wide opening in the flagship hull, and you will immediately destroy the flagship if you land a shot there. Most of the time, though, your shots will hit some other part of the ship, and blow off a small chunk of it, which in defiance of Newtonian physics will then “fall” and possibly hit your ship. Blasting off chunks will eventually carve open a bigger tunnel to the flagship’s vulnerable core.

Land a hit on the core, and you get a fireworks display.

And as the flagship explodes, you’ll be verbally congratulated, and given a space promotion, indicated on the cabinet itself by an array of lamps (which MAME simulates if provided with appropriate artwork files).

Then it repeats at a higher difficulty, the Gorfians becoming faster and more aggressive. Your ship also becomes faster, but only with the first promotion.

I’ve made it to the fourth rank of Space General, but I can’t seem to get any farther.



Unusually for an arcade game, especially one so early, Midway released an official strategy guide, an “ISDF Combat Manual,” as a promotional item, with gameplay tips and background information. The gameplay tips didn’t really inform me of anything I didn’t already know, but the background information chapters state that the ISDF had previously fought campaigns against the Space Invaders and Galaxians, making Gorf a semi-official sequel of sorts, and also retconning those games as canonically, victory is impossible (as it is in Gorf). The Gorfs are an empire of sentient robots, which consume metals for sustenance, and intend to conquer earth in order to eat our coin supply. They operate on a telepathic hive-mind wavelength, but are rigidly structured in hierarchal roles, and are deliberately programmed to attack in random patterns so as to be unpredictable.

Gorf’s lead designer, Jay Fenton, began designing a sequel in 1982 called Ms. Gorf, but abandoned the project due to the North American video game crash of ’83. As of this writing, the source code is on floppy disks but has not been dumped, and nobody is completely sure what they would do with the code if it were. Coincidentally (or maybe not), Jay himself would, years later, transition to female, and now goes by Jamie.

Gorf also had a homebrew port to Jaguar, a system so notoriously temperamental and difficult to program for that it made Saturn development look easy, and it has been noted for its arcade accuracy. I don’t know if it’s really needed in the era of MAME, but the sound effects do seem a bit punchier, and the Votrax audio is ever so slightly more intelligible.

Gorf was the last true video game by Dave Nutting Associates, a company which had developed, in partnership with Midway, Gun Fight, one of the first CPU-based arcade games ever, and the earliest playable in MAME. Dave Nutting’s brother, Bill Nutting, had manufactured Computer Space in partnership with the team that would become Atari. In a way, Gorf closes a very old chapter in video game history, if only in a symbolic way.

The treasury of Wizardry

In my last post, I briefly described the treasure system of Wizardry, where one of two treasure values are selected to determine your reward. This value involves another table system, but it is very badly designed, with bugs, irrelevant values, and a lot of noise in the data files, which I’ve left out of these tables.

Reward types

Rewards #0 through #9 are loose gold dropped by monsters who aren't guarding treasure chests.

Rewards #10 through #19 are the standard treasure chests.

Reward #20 is Werdna's stash on level 10.

Reward #21 is the LVL 7 Fighters' stash on level 4.

To use an example, Lvl 1 Mages have a [Reward 1] value of 1 and a [Reward 2] value of 11. Here’s the treasure sub-table representing Reward 1, which you will get if you fight a Lvl 1 Mage in a random encounter.

1
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[4d5] * 10 gold

This is fairly straightforward. It’s just a random amount of loose gold, with a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 200. It's doubled if the encounter happened in a room, but there wasn't a treasure chest. The amount will be evenly distributed among all party members who are in a condition to collect gold.

It’s the Reward 2 values, which are used when you kill an enemy in a room that had a treasure chest, where things get interesting, complicated, and buggy. The Lvl 1 Mage has a Reward 2 value of 11. The sub-table for reward 11 looks like this:

11	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[4d5] * 10 gold
	20%	Item 3-17
	10%	Item 19-33

So first of all, this comes in a chest, as Reward2 treasures almost always do. The chest can be trapless, or have a poison needle trap, or gas bomb, or “Type3” trap, and there is an equal chance of each outcome. If “Type3” is selected, then it will either be a crossbow bolt, exploding box, splinters, blades, or stunner trap, with a 20% chance for each subtype.

Inside the chest, there are three possible treasures. The chest may contain one of them, or two of them, or all of them.

The first treasure is a gold pile, and there is a 100% chance of receiving it.

You have a 20% chance of receiving the second treasure, which will be a randomly chosen item with an index value from 3-17.

You have a 10% chance of receiving the third treasure, which will be a randomly chosen item with an index value from 19-33. Receiving it is not contingent on the outcome of the second treasure; you may receive both items, or one or the other, or you may only find the gold.

Note that whenever you receive an item, it will be randomly given to one of your conscious party members. If that character’s inventory is full, then the item will be discarded, and the game won’t even tell you that you would have gotten something! Therefore, never let any party member’s inventory get full when you are treasure hunting.

The range values are almost certainly bugged. I am almost positive that Sir-Tech meant for the ranges here to be 1-16 and 17-32. But, a badly designed range selector function causes the minimum range to be two points higher than intended, and the maximum to be one point higher than intended. Consequently, there are gaps in the treasure table, leaving some items that never appear as treasure.

In fact, every item-based treasure sub-table is similarly bugged, except for Werdna’s Amulet (treasure 20) and the treasures dropped by the Lvl 7 Fighters (treasure 21), and this is only because another bug keeps the selector function from even reaching the part of the code with the first bug.

The treasure chest system also has some variables called “MFactor,” “MaxTimes,” and “PercBigr.” But these are only used by treasures 22 and 23, which are not dropped by any monster in the game, so I have left this out.

Here’s the full treasure lookup table.

0
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[2d5] * 10 gold
1
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[4d5] * 10 gold
2
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[6d5] * 10 gold
4
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[8d5] * 10 gold
5
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[12d5] * 10 gold
6
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * 10 gold
7
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * [1d2] * 10 gold
8
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * [1d4] * 10 gold
9
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * [1d8] * 10 gold
10	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Type3]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[2d5] * 10 gold
	10%	Item 3-17
11	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[4d5] * 10 gold
	20%	Item 3-17
	10%	Item 19-33
12	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Type3|Teleporter]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[6d5] * 10 gold
	30%	Item 3-17
	15%	Item 19-33
13	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3|Teleporter]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[8d5] * 10 gold
	40%	Item 3-17
	20%	Item 19-33
14	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3|AntiMage]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d5] * 10 gold
	50%	Item 3-17
	30%	Item 19-33
	10%	Item 35-52
15	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3|Alarm]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[12d5] * 10 gold
	100%	Item 3-17
	50%	Item 19-33
	20%	Item 35-52
16	Chest [Trapless|Type3|Teleporter|AntiMage|AntiPriest]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * 10 gold
	75%	Item 19-33
	25%	Item 35-52
	10%	Item 54-80
17	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Teleporter|Alarm]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * [1d2] * 10 gold
	100%	Item 19-33
	50%	Item 35-52
	15%	Item 54-80
18	Chest [Poison needle|Gas bomb|AntiMage|AntiPriest]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * [1d4] * 10 gold
	70%	Item 35-52
	25%	Item 54-80
	5%	Item 81-93
19	Chest [Trapless|Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3|Teleporter|AntiMage|AntiPriest|Alarm]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	[10d10] * [1d8] * 10 gold
	100%	Item 35-52
	50%	Item 54-80
	10%	Item 80-92
20
	Percent	Reward
	100%	Werdna's amulet
21	Chest [Poison needle|Gas bomb|Type3|Teleporter|Alarm]
	Percent	Reward
	100%	Latumofis pot.
	100%	Deadly ring
	100%	Rod of flame

To go with the treasure table, here’s a simple item list, with only the items that can drop in chests (or were meant to). More detailed tables on what the items actually do await further below.

1	LONG SWORD	Weapon
2	SHORT SWORD	Weapon
3	ANOINTED MACE	Weapon
4	ANOINTED FLAIL	Weapon
5	STAFF	Weapon
6	DAGGER	Weapon
7	SMALL SHIELD	Armor
8	LARGE SHIELD	Armor
9	ROBES	Armor
10	LEATHER ARMOR	Armor
11	CHAIN MAIL	Armor
12	BREAST PLATE	Armor
13	PLATE MAIL	Armor
14	HELM	Armor
15	DIOS POTION	Consumable
16	LATUMOFIS POT.	Consumable
17	LONG SWORD+1	Weapon
18	SHORT SWORD+1	Weapon
19	MACE+1	Weapon
20	STAFF OF MOGREF	Weapon
21	SCROLL/KANTINO	Consumable
22	LEATHER + 1	Armor
23	CHAIN MAIL + 1	Armor
24	PLATE MAIL + 1	Armor
25	SHIELD + 1	Armor
26	BREAST PLATE +1	Armor
27	SCROLL/BADIOS	Consumable
28	SCROLL/HALITO	Consumable
29	LONG SWORD -1	Weapon
30	SHORT SWORD -1	Weapon
31	MACE -1	Weapon
32	STAFF +2	Weapon
33	DRAGON SLAYER	Weapon
34	HELM + 1	Armor
35	LEATHER -1	Armor
36	CHAIN -1	Armor
37	BREAST PLATE-1	Armor
38	SHIELD -1	Armor
39	JEWELED AMULET	Misc
40	SCROLL/BADIOS	Consumable
41	POTION OF SOPIC	Consumable
42	LONG SWORD + 2	Weapon
43	SHORT SWORD +2	Weapon
44	MACE + 2	Weapon
45	SCROLL/LOMILWA	Consumable
46	SCROLL/DILTO	Consumable
47	COPPER GLOVES	Armor
48	LEATHER + 2	Armor
49	CHAIN + 2	Armor
50	PLATE MAIL + 2	Armor
51	SHIELD + 2	Armor
52	HELM +2 (EVIL)	Armor
53	POTION OF DIAL	Consumable
54	RING OF PORFIC	Misc
55	WERE SLAYER	Weapon
56	MAGE MASHER	Weapon
57	MACE PRO POISON	Weapon
58	STAFF/MONTINO	Weapon
59	BLADE CUSINART'	Weapon
60	AMULET/MANIFO	Misc
61	ROD OF FLAME	Misc
62	EVIL CHAIN + 2	Armor
63	NEUT P-MAIL + 2	Armor
64	EVIL SHIELD +3	Armor
65	AMULET/MAKANITO	Misc
66	DIADEM OF MALOR	Armor
67	SCROLL/BADIAL	Consumable
68	SHORT SWORD -2	Weapon
69	DAGGER + 2	Weapon
70	MACE -2	Weapon
71	STAFF -2	Weapon
72	DAGGER OF SPEED	Weapon
73	CURSED ROBE	Armor
74	LEATHER -2	Armor
75	CHAIN -2	Armor
76	BREAST PLATE -2	Armor
77	SHIELD - 2	Armor
78	CURSED HELMET	Armor
79	BREAST PLATE +2	Armor
80	SILVER GLOVES	Armor
81	EVIL SWORD + 3	Weapon
82	EVIL SSWORD + 3	Weapon
83	THIEVES DAGGER	Weapon
84	BREAST PLATE +3	Armor
85	LORDS GARB	Armor
86	MURASAMA BLADE	Weapon
87	SHURIKEN	Weapon
88	CHAIN PRO FIRE	Armor
89	EVIL PLATE + 3	Armor
90	SHIELD + 3	Armor
91	RING OF HEALING	Misc
92	RING PRO UNDEAD	Misc
93	DEADLY RING	Misc

Common item properties

Here’s an overview of some of the item properties that are common to multiple item types, but aren’t self-explanatory.

Boltac

How much of this item Boltac’s has in stock at the start. This decreases when you buy one, and increases when you sell one, but Boltac’s will never sell you cursed items, even if he has them in stock. They persist from game to game; if you sell Boltac’s a Lord’s Garb, then delete every character from the roster and roll a new party, Boltac’s will still have that Lord’s Garb in stock until somebody buys it.

These numbers represent the values in my copy of the game, and not the copies floating around on Asimov. I believe that the copies on Asimov are all based on a pirate copy that has already been played, and I have restored these values to the numbers found in the PC and NES versions, which I believe accurately represent the Apple II version’s out-of-the-box stock.

AC

Equipping this item lowers your AC by this much. Negative values raise it, which is bad. A few non-armor items have this property.

Special: Casts

You can use the item to cast a spell. Sometimes this comes with a chance of depleting the item, which will cause it to transform into a different item. For instance, Staff of Mogref has [Casts: MOGREF, 25% BROKEN ITEM], which means it can cast Mogref, but has a 25% chance of turning into a Broken item when you do. Items without this second designation will never be depleted.

Special: Invoke

Like casting, except that you invoke the item during a camping session and the effect is unique. Every invokable item except for Werdna’s Amulet can be depleted.

Special: Critical hits

Equipping this allows you to critical hit like a ninja. Pointless, because the Shuriken is the only weapon with this ability, and only ninjas can equip it.

 

Special: Heal X

Carrying this (you don't need to equip it) gives you a 25% chance of healing X points each step and each round of combat. If you have multiple healing items, only the one with the largest value takes. The Ring of Healing and Lord’s Garb heal 1, and Werdna's Amulet heals 5. The Deadly Ring is supposed to hurt you 3 points, but doesn't in this version because the game logic selects the "bigger" default value of 0 over the Deadly Ring's value of -3.

Protection: Class protection

When monsters of the protected type(s) target you, there's a 50% chance that it silently fails, causing them to lose their turn. Note that all monster actions, including breath attacks, party-hitting spells, and actions without obvious targets like running or calling, always target a random living party member. Class protection will not protect you from breath attacks or group spells that targeted a non-protected character.

 

Melee attacks are a special case, due to some strange programming. Melee attacks technically target  two party members - the first can be any living member, and the second is someone in the first three ranks. This means two separate class protection checks, and either one may nullify the attack. It's possible for the same party member to be targeted both times, in which case if they have protection there is a 75% chance of nullifying it.

Protection: 2x damage

Your melee strikes do double damage against monsters of the targeted classes.

Protection: Elemental protection

Breath attacks and group-targeting spells of the indicated element(s) do half damage. In addition,

• Physical – You are immune to paralysis effects from hits. You will also never suffer critical hits.
• Poison – You are immune to poison effects from hits.
• Drain – You are immune to level drain.
• Stone – You are immune to stone effects from hits.
• Magic – When a monster targets you with any spell, the spell is silently nullified. Note that spells cast by monsters always target a randomly chosen living character, even if it's a group-affecting spell like Mahalito. Magic protection will not protect you if a group-affecting spell targets a non-protected character.

Weapons

Two tables. The first describes general properties of all weapons, and the second describes special properties of magic weapons. Magic weapons are bolded.

Id	Name	Name Unknown	Price	Bolcac	Classes	HitMod	HitDam	SwingCount
1	LONG SWORD	SWORD	25	Infinite	FSLN	4	1d8	0
2	SHORT SWORD	SWORD	15	Infinite	FTSLN	3	1d6	0
3	ANOINTED MACE	KNOBBED STICK	30	Infinite	FPBSLN	2	2d3	0
4	ANOINTED FLAIL	STICK W/CHAIN	150	Infinite	FPSLN	3	1d7	0
5	STAFF	STICK	10	Infinite	FMPTBSLN	0	1d5	0
6	DAGGER	DAGGER	5	Infinite	FMTSLN	1	1d4	0
17	LONG SWORD+1	SWORD	10000	0	FSLN	5	1d8 +1	2
18	SHORT SWORD+1	SWORD	15000	2	FTSLN	4	1d6 +1	2
19	MACE+1	KNOBBED STICK	12500	0	FPBSLN	3	2d4 +1	2
20	STAFF OF MOGREF	STAFF	3000	1	MB	1	1d6	0
29	LONG SWORD -1	SWORD	1000	0	FSLN	-1	1d8	0
30	SHORT SWORD -1	SWORD	1000	2	FTSLN	-1	1d6	1
31	MACE -1	KNOBBED STICK	1000	0	FPBSLN	-1	2d3	1
32	STAFF +2	STICK	2500	Infinite	FMPTBSLN	2	1d4 +2	1
33	DRAGON SLAYER	SWORD	10000	0	FSLN	1	1d10 +1	1
42	LONG SWORD + 2	SWORD	4000	0	FSLN	6	1d10 +2	3
43	SHORT SWORD +2	SWORD	4000	0	FTSLN	5	1d6 +2	3
44	MACE + 2	KNOBBED STICK	4000	0	FPBSLN	4	1d8 +2	2
55	WERE SLAYER	SWORD	10000	0	FSLN	5	1d10 +1	2
56	MAGE MASHER	SWORD	10000	0	FTSLN	5	1d6 +1	2
57	MACE PRO POISON	KNOBBED STICK	10000	0	FPBSLN	3	1d8	2
58	STAFF/MONTINO	STAFF	15000	0	FMPTBSLN	1	1d5 +1	1
59	BLADE CUSINART'	SWORD	15000	0	FSLN	6	1d3 +9	4
68	SHORT SWORD -2	SWORD	8000	0	FTSLN	1	1d6	1
69	DAGGER + 2	DAGGER	8000	0	FMTSLN	3	1d4 +2	2
70	MACE -2	KNOBBED STICK	8000	0	FPBSLN	0	1d8	0
71	STAFF -2	STICK	8000	0	FMPTBSLN	-2	1d4	1
72	DAGGER OF SPEED	DAGGER	30000	0	MN	-1	1d4	7
81	EVIL SWORD + 3	SWORD	50000	0	FSLN	7	1d10 +3	4
82	EVIL SSWORD + 3	SWORD	50000	0	FTSLN	6	1d6	4
83	THIEVES DAGGER	DAGGER	50000	0	TN	5	1d6	4
86	MURASAMA BLADE	WEAPON	1000000	0	S	8	10d5	3
87	SHURIKEN	WEAPON	50000	0	N	7	1d5 +10	3

HitMod

Increase your character’s HitMod by this much, allowing you to hit more often. Negative values decrease it.

HitDam

The weapon’s base damage, per successful hit.

SwingCount

The number of strikes per turn. This does not stack with the number of swings your character would normally get. The higher value is the one that takes.

A SwingCount of 0 is essentially equivalent to a SwingCount of 1, since all characters are guaranteed at least 1 swing at any level.

Id	Name	Special	Protection
20	STAFF OF MOGREF	[Casts: MOGREF, 25% BROKEN ITEM]
29	LONG SWORD -1	[Cursed]
30	SHORT SWORD -1	[Cursed]
31	MACE -1	[Cursed]
33	DRAGON SLAYER		[Class protection: Dragon ] [2x damage: Dragon ]
55	WERE SLAYER		[Class protection: Were ] [2x damage: Were ]
56	MAGE MASHER		[Class protection: Mage ] [2x damage: Mage ]
57	MACE PRO POISON		[Class protection: Insect ] [Elemental protection: Poison ]
58	STAFF/MONTINO	[Casts: MONTINO, 10% STAFF]
68	SHORT SWORD -2	[Cursed]
70	MACE -2	[Cursed]
71	STAFF -2	[Cursed]
72	DAGGER OF SPEED	[AC: -3]
81	EVIL SWORD + 3	[Alignment: Evil]
83	THIEVES DAGGER	[Invoke: Become a ninja, 100% BROKEN ITEM]
86	MURASAMA BLADE	[Invoke: Increase strength by 1, 50% BROKEN ITEM]
87	SHURIKEN	[Alignment: Evil] [Invoke: Increase MaxHP by 1, 50% BROKEN ITEM] [Critical hits]	[Elemental protection: Poison Drain ]

The Dagger of Speed is the only weapon with an AC modifier. It's negative, which is bad. This might be an error, but on the other hand, this weapon swings an amazing 7 times per round, so perhaps this is a deliberate tradeoff.

Armor

Once again, two tables. One for the general properties of all armor, and one for special properties of magic armor. Magic armor is bolded.

Id	Name	Name Unknown	Type	Price	Boltac	Classes	AC
7	SMALL SHIELD	SHIELD	Shield	20	Infinite	FPTBSLN	2
8	LARGE SHIELD	SHIELD	Shield	40	Infinite	FPSLN	3
9	ROBES	CLOTHING	Armor	15	Infinite	FMPTBSLN	1
10	LEATHER ARMOR	ARMOR	Armor	50	Infinite	FPTBSLN	2
11	CHAIN MAIL	ARMOR	Armor	90	Infinite	FPSLN	3
12	BREAST PLATE	ARMOR	Armor	200	Infinite	FPSLN	4
13	PLATE MAIL	ARMOR	Armor	750	Infinite	FSLN	5
14	HELM	HELM	Helmet	100	Infinite	FSLN	1
22	LEATHER + 1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	Infinite	FPTBSLN	3
23	CHAIN MAIL + 1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	Infinite	FPSLN	4
24	PLATE MAIL + 1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	1	FSLN	6
25	SHIELD + 1	SHIELD	Shield	1500	Infinite	FPTSLN	4
26	BREAST PLATE +1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	Infinite	FPSLN	5
34	HELM + 1	HELM	Helmet	3000	0	FSLN	2
35	LEATHER -1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	0	FPTBSL	1
36	CHAIN -1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	0	FPSLN	2
37	BREAST PLATE-1	ARMOR	Armor	1500	0	FPSLN	3
38	SHIELD -1	SHIELD	Shield	1500	0	FPTSL	-1
47	COPPER GLOVES	GLOVES	Gauntlet	6000	Infinite	FSLN	1
48	LEATHER + 2	ARMOR	Armor	6000	0	FPTBSLN	4
49	CHAIN + 2	ARMOR	Armor	6000	0	FPSLN	5
50	PLATE MAIL + 2	ARMOR	Armor	6000	0	FPSLN	7
51	SHIELD + 2	SHIELD	Shield	7000	0	FPTSLN	5
52	HELM +2 (EVIL)	HELM	Helmet	8000	0	FSLN	3
62	EVIL CHAIN + 2	CHAIN	Armor	8000	0	FPSLN	5
63	NEUT P-MAIL + 2	PLATE ARMOR	Armor	8000	0	FPSLN	7
64	EVIL SHIELD +3	SHIELD	Shield	25000	0	FPTSLN	5
66	DIADEM OF MALOR	DIADEM	Helmet	25000	0	FMPTBSLN	2
73	CURSED ROBE	ROBE	Armor	8000	0	FMPTBSLN	-2
74	LEATHER -2	ARMOR	Armor	8000	0	FPTBSLN	0
75	CHAIN -2	ARMOR	Armor	8000	0	FPSLN	1
76	BREAST PLATE -2	ARMOR	Armor	8000	0	FPSLN	2
77	SHIELD - 2	SHIELD	Shield	8000	0	FPTSLN	0
78	CURSED HELMET	HELM	Helmet	50000	0	FSLN	-2
79	BREAST PLATE +2	ARMOR	Armor	10000	0	FPSLN	6
80	SILVER GLOVES	GAUNTLETS	Gauntlet	60000	0	FSLN	3
84	BREAST PLATE +3	ARMOR	Armor	100000	0	FPSLN	7
85	LORDS GARB	ARMOR	Armor	1000000	0	L	10
88	CHAIN PRO FIRE	ARMOR	Armor	150000	0	FPSLN	6
89	EVIL PLATE + 3	PLATE ARMOR	Armor	150000	0	FPSLN	9
90	SHIELD + 3	SHIELD	Shield	250000	0	FPTSLN	6

Id	Name	Special	Protection
35	LEATHER -1	[Cursed]
36	CHAIN -1	[Cursed]
37	BREAST PLATE-1	[Cursed]
52	HELM +2 (EVIL)	[Alignment: Evil] [Casts: BADIOS]
62	EVIL CHAIN + 2	[Alignment: Evil]
63	NEUT P-MAIL + 2	[Alignment: Neutral]
64	EVIL SHIELD +3	[Alignment: Evil]
66	DIADEM OF MALOR	[Casts: MALOR, 100% HELM]
73	CURSED ROBE	[Cursed] [HitMod: -2]
74	LEATHER -2	[Cursed]
75	CHAIN -2	[Cursed]
76	BREAST PLATE -2	[Cursed]
77	SHIELD - 2	[Cursed]
78	CURSED HELMET	[Cursed] [HitMod: -2]
85	LORDS GARB	[Invoke: Restores entire party's HP, 50% BROKEN ITEM] [Heal: 1]	[Class protection: Mythical Dragon ]
88	CHAIN PRO FIRE		[Elemental protection: Flame]
89	EVIL PLATE + 3	[Alignment: Evil]

The cursed robe and cursed helm decrease your HitMod by 2, which is bad.

The Lords Garb is flagged to grant critical hits and 2x damage toward were monsters, undead, and demons, but these flags in effect don't do anything. The game logic only checks for these flags on weapons. An oversight?

Consumables

These items all cast a spell when used, and then turn into BROKEN ITEM. Any class can use any consumable.

Id	Name	Name Unknown	Price	Boltac	Casts
15	DIOS POTION	POTION	500	Infinite	DIOS
16	LATUMOFIS POT.	POTION	300	Infinite	LATUMOFIS
21	SCROLL/KANTINO	SCROLL	500	1	KATINO
27	SCROLL/BADIOS	PAPER	500	Infinite	BADIOS
28	SCROLL/HALITO	SCROLL	500	25	HALITO
40	SCROLL/BADIOS	SCROLL	500	0	BADIOS
41	POTION OF SOPIC	POTION	1500	1	SOPIC
45	SCROLL/LOMILWA	SCROLL	2500	0	LOMILWA
46	SCROLL/DILTO	SCROLL	2500	0	DILTO
53	POTION OF DIAL	POTION	5000	0	DIAL
67	SCROLL/BADIAL	SCROLL	8000	0	BADIAL

Misc items

Miscellaneous equippable items.

Id	Name	Name Unknown	Price	Classes	Special	Protection
0	BROKEN ITEM	BROKEN ITEM	0
39	JEWELED AMULET	AMULET	5000	All	[Casts: DUMAPIC]
54	RING OF PORFIC	RING	10000	All	[Casts: PORFIC, 5% BROKEN ITEM]
60	AMULET/MANIFO	AMULET	15000	P	[Casts: MANIFO, 10% BROKEN ITEM]
61	ROD OF FLAME	ROD	25000	MBS	[Casts: MAHALITO, 10% BROKEN ITEM]	[Elemental protection: Flame]
65	AMULET/MAKANITO	AMULET	20000	All	[Casts: MAKANITO, 5% BROKEN ITEM]
91	RING OF HEALING	RING	300000	All	[Heal: 1]
92	RING PRO UNDEAD	RING	500000	All		[Class protection: Undead]
93	DEADLY RING	RING	500000	All	[Cursed] [Heal: -3]
94	WERDNA'S AMULET	AMULET	999999999999	All	[Alignment: Evil] [Cursed] [Invoke: Restores entire party's HP] [Casts: MALOR] [Heal: 5] [AC: 10]	[Class protection: All ] [Elemental protection: All ]

Keys

Id	Name
95	STATUETTE/BEAR
96	STATUETTE/FROG
97	BRONZE KEY
98	SILVER KEY
99	GOLD KEY
100	BLUE RIBBON