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To turn off the B&W dialog in Beyond Dark Castle:
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1) open BDC Data A in your favorite resource/hex editor.

2) search for (in CODE resource #4):
7001B06800206C08

3) replace with:
7020B06800206C08

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FYI: this patch simply changes MOVEQ #$01,D0 to MOVEQ #$20,D0 for the bit-depth
check.  ($20 (32) is millions of colors.)
Here's the original BDC code we change:
 Disassembling from 0704A72A
  'CODE 0004 3830'
     +003CE 0704A71E   MOVEQ      #$01,D0                                 | 7001
     +003D0 0704A720   CMP.W      $0020(A0),D0                            | B068 0020
     +003D4 0704A724   BGE.S      'CODE 0004 3830'+003DE     ; 0704A72E   | 6C08


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To play Beyond Dark Castle with 32-bit addressing on:
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1) open BDC Data A in your favorite resource/hex editor.

2) search for (in CODE resource #3):
D669000C603E265AB6FC00006736

3) replace with:
D669000C603E265AB6FC00006036

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FYI: this patch simply changes a beq.s to a bra.s because I noticed that it always
crashed whenever it didn't branch:
Bus Error at 00B52AC4 'CODE 0003 131A'+03EEC
while reading word from 05B68150 in User data space
 Disassembling from 00B52AA2
  'CODE 0003 131A'
     +03ECA 00B52AA2   MOVEM.L    D2-D6/A2/A3,-(A7)                       | 48E7 3E30
     +03ECE 00B52AA6   MOVEA.L    -$00F4(A5),A2                           | 246D FF0C
     +03ED2 00B52AAA   MOVE.W     -$00F6(A5),D6                           | 3C2D FF0A
     +03ED6 00B52AAE   MOVE.W     D0,D2                                   | 3400
     +03ED8 00B52AB0   ADD.W      $000A(A1),D2                            | D469 000A
     +03EDC 00B52AB4   MOVE.W     D1,D3                                   | 3601
     +03EDE 00B52AB6   ADD.W      $000C(A1),D3                            | D669 000C
     +03EE2 00B52ABA   BRA.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F22     ; 00B52AFA   | 603E
     +03EE4 00B52ABC   MOVEA.L    (A2)+,A3                                | 265A
     +03EE6 00B52ABE   CMPA.W     #$0000,A3                               | B6FC 0000
     +03EEA 00B52AC2   BEQ.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F22     ; 00B52AFA   | 6736
     +03EEC 00B52AC4  *MOVE.W     (A3),D4                                 | 3813
     +03EEE 00B52AC6   MOVE.W     $0002(A3),D5                            | 3A2B 0002
     +03EF2 00B52ACA   CMP.W      D0,D4                                   | B840
     +03EF4 00B52ACC   BLT.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F1E     ; 00B52AF6   | 6D28
     +03EF6 00B52ACE   CMP.W      D1,D5                                   | BA41
     +03EF8 00B52AD0   BLT.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F1E     ; 00B52AF6   | 6D24
     +03EFA 00B52AD2   CMP.W      D2,D4                                   | B842
     +03EFC 00B52AD4   BGT.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F1E     ; 00B52AF6   | 6E20
     +03EFE 00B52AD6   CMP.W      D3,D5                                   | BA43
     +03F00 00B52AD8   BGT.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F1E     ; 00B52AF6   | 6E1C
     +03F02 00B52ADA   SUB.W      $0080(A2),D4                            | 986A 0080
     +03F06 00B52ADE   MOVE.W     D4,D0                                   | 3004
     +03F08 00B52AE0   SUB.W      $0082(A2),D5                            | 9A6A 0082
     +03F0C 00B52AE4   MOVE.W     D5,D1                                   | 3205
     +03F0E 00B52AE6   MOVE.L     A3,D2                                   | 240B
     +03F10 00B52AE8   ANDI.L     #$FF000000,D2                           | 0282 FF00 0000
     +03F16 00B52AEE   MOVEA.L    D2,A0                                   | 2042
     +03F18 00B52AF0   MOVE       #$0000,CCR                              | 44FC 0000
     +03F1C 00B52AF4   BRA.S      'CODE 0003 131A'+03F2A     ; 00B52B02   | 600C
     +03F1E 00B52AF6   MOVE.L     (A3),$0080(A2)                          | 2553 0080
     +03F22 00B52AFA   DBF        D6,'CODE 0003 131A'+03EE4  ; 00B52ABC   | 51CE FFC0
     +03F26 00B52AFE   MOVE       #$0004,CCR                              | 44FC 0004
     +03F2A 00B52B02   MOVEM.L    (A7)+,D2-D6/A2/A3                       | 4CDF 0C7C
     +03F2E 00B52B06   RTS                                                | 4E75


- Ammon 8.99 <skidperfect@kagi.com>