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Secret of the Silver Blades

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Secret of the Silver Blades
Secret of the Silver Blades cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Mac OS (Classic) MicroMagic Inc.
Publishers
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Engines
Gold Box
Release dates
DOS 1990
Mac OS (Classic) 1991
Windows August 20, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) August 20, 2015[1]
Linux August 20, 2015[1]
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Secret of the Silver Blades on Wikipedia
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Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Pool of Radiance (series)
Curse of the Azure Bonds 1989
Secret of the Silver Blades 1990
Buck Rogers (series)
Champions of Krynn 1990
Neverwinter Nights 1991
Pools of Darkness 1991
Gateway to the Savage Frontier 1991
Death Knights of Krynn 1991
The Dark Queen of Krynn 1992
Treasures of the Savage Frontier 1992
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace 1992
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures 1993

Key points

Characters can be imported from Curse of the Azure Bonds.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
 Run in DOSBox.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Hillsfar, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The retail version requires the manual to answer copy protection questions (see Skip copy protection prompts). The GOG.com version has the copy protection cracked (anything will be accepted).[2]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Launch with start.exe Hoop parameter[3]

Run the game with start.exe Hoop

Skip copy protection prompts

Launch with start Hoop Gem parameters[3]

Run the game with start Hoop Gem

Gold Box Companion

Gold Box Companion is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, party HUD, raising level restrictions, character editing, etc.)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\BLADES.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\BLADES.CFG[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE\
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The default save folder can be changed by editing BLADES.CFG.
Saves are SAVGAMA.DAT to SAVGAMJ.DAT.
Character files are *.WHO. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file.
VAULT.DAT contains vault contents.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

  1. ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References