u/hekliet

I used to grind Princess Maker 2 a lot some time ago when I was obsessed with it. Today, I felt an urge to install it in DOSBox again, but instead of grinding, I started editing my savefile. I figured out where all the stats are located, and then wrote this script to do the patching. You can patch your saves selectively and with the values of your choosing by editing the script, it's really self-explanatory. It should make exploring different endings easier, if you don't mind the cheating.

Homepage: above

Github: https://github.com/hekliet/princess-booster

I've been hacking on this for quite a few hours, and I wanted to make a write-up so I'd have a reference next time I'd be doing something similar. And perhaps it could be of help to someone who's trying to achieve the same thing: to set up a network share between a Linux host and an MS-DOS guest running in QEMU. DOS networking can be a bit hairy for someone who doesn't have the experience from way back when. (Like me, I was happily using Amiga computers and V.34 at that time and only joined the Intel-based world later when computers shipped with Windows 98.) And documentation/discussion on this specific thing seems to be a bit sparse, so maybe it's good to have another resource out there that shows how to do it in a more step-by-step way.

EDIT: Doc has been updated to add 'packet driver over NDIS' so both Samba share and packet driver are available.