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Please be aware that you must have a Mac that is capable of running OS9 and or Classic. That means the 'newest' Mac machine you run this game on must be be a PPC (Power PC) G5 operating Tiger (OSX 10.4). The 'oldest' Mac machines you can run these games on goes back fifteen years. (note that Exile runs native in OSX and does not require Classic).
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Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven |
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Developer: New World Computing This game has unused areas. |
The sixth installment of the Might and Magic series, this game had been released after a five-year gap and is the first in the series to use an all new graphics engine with full 3D.
To do: Version differences. https://www.speedrun.com/mam6/thread/zx7ez |
- 2Developer Credits
- 3Unused Areas
- 3.1List of Areas
- 3.2How to Visit
Thievery is a skill supposedly intended to work in a way it does in Might & Magic VII - to steal items and gold from NPCs and shops. The skill can be added to a character.
(1 byte) is the address for the first character's thievery skill. Setting it to a positive value will add it to the character.
New World Computing (NWC) Dungeon
To do: Go more into detail on the characters and names that can be found in the NWC dungeon. |
There is a hidden dungeon named New World Computing (the company who developed the game) which contains hallways and rooms that appear to resemble the offices of the company at the time. There are characters, friendly and hostile, that are named after the developers. The dungeon can be accessed by following these steps from a newly started game:
- Go to the west side of the bank and click on the wall to get a Fly scroll.
- At the north end of the Buccaneer's Lair, use the scroll to fly up to the roof and click on the wall up there. You will be taken to Dragonsand.
- Run forward and click on the obelisk and get 20 stats added permanently for each character.
- The left wall can now be clicked on, which will send you to the NWC dungeon.
The dungeon can be looted for unlimited money (until it caps at 10,000 gold), unlimited food and bottles and various other items. There is a well which grants +256 to all stats temporarily. To leave, you must exit the dungeon and click on a specific wall outside the structure.
(Source: http://www.mightandmagicworld.de/mm6/NWC.shtml) |
List of Areas
zddb02.blv
Single room.
zddb03.blv
Single room.
zddb04.blv
Single room.
zddb05.blv
zddb06.blv
zddb07.blv
zddb08.blv
zddb09.blv
Looks like a copy of the map for Arena.
zddb10.blv
That is a pretty huge dungeon in comparison to the others. The entrance seems to be a hatch which can be found on a ceiling somewhere at the beginning of the dungeon. The dungeon can be split on several distinct areas. In each of the areas you get a message with some task you need to perform to progress. Here are the ones that appear:
All tasks can be completed although there is a dead-end at the 3rd section.
zdtl01.blv
zdtl02.blv
Tower-like area with a long staircase and multiple rooms on the top.
zdwj01.blv
How to Visit
There are a couple ways to visit these areas:
Changing the Start Map
1. Open mm6.exe with a hex editor and change the field at the address
to any of the unused maps.
2. Start a new game.
Using MMEditor
MMEditor allows to open any internal map while in the game.
Using Debug Options from Chinese Version
The Chinese version provides some debugging options, including level select.
Notes
All unused dungeons:
- Have 0% chance for random encounter.
- Take 672 days to refil.
- Have no monster spawns.
- Use music track 7.
The item Wooden Flute doesn't have any use in-game. This led to fans speculating about secret uses of the item, and a few fans formed a guild in celebration of the item. The guild, as well as one active fan who had passed away, Lord Brinne, are name-dropped in Might & Magic VIII. The flute in that game has the secret use of allowing players to enter the NWC dungeon in that game.
The Might and Magic series | |
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NES | I: Secret of the Inner Sanctum |
Mac OS Classic | II: Gates to Another World |
DOS | III: Isles of Terra • IV: Clouds of Xeen (Demo) • V: Darkside of Xeen (Demo) • IV + V: World of Xeen • Swords of Xeen |
SNES | II: Gates to Another World (Europe) • II: Gates to Another World (Japan) • III: Isles of Terra (Prototype) |
Windows | VI: The Mandate of Heaven • VII: For Blood and Honor • VIII: Day of the Destroyer • IX: Writ of Fate (Prototype) Clash of Heroes |
PlayStation 2 | VIII: Day of the Destroyer |
Heroes of Might and Magic | |
Windows | II: The Succession Wars • III: The Restoration of Erathia |
Other | |
Game Boy Color | Warriors of Might and Magic |
PlayStation 2 | Shifters |
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Author: | New World Computing |
Publisher: | The 3DO Company |
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heroes3installdisc.toast_.sit (375.21 MB)
MD5: 817944ff13dd0be5326837cf48d5685a
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
heroes3updater.dsk_.sit (398.39 KB)
MD5: 2de7a882ea0ebf066d9b6597a7efb7fe
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
New World Computing Bundle Mac Os Pro
Heroes3PlayDisc.toast_.sit (460.96 MB)
MD5: 17bee33955fb35cf419bf0bf4525d354
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
Heroes3.pdf
'Value pack' containing the original Heroes of Might and Magic III, along with the two expansions, Armageddon's Blade and The Shadow of Death.'
New World Computing Bundle Mac Os Catalina
'The three games fit on 2 CD's. The only documentation included is PDF's of the original manuals and a brief install guide.' --MobyGames.com
A note about the manual link available from above:
This is a PDF'ed version of Readme files available, combined together.
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See also Heroes of Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic II, Heroes of Might and Magic IV, Heroes of Might and Magic V.
Architecture: PPC
Runs in the Classic Environment available up to Mac OS X 10.4.
At least demo is running in Sheepshaver - Mac OS 9.0.4.