Secret of the Silver Blades
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| Developers | |
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| 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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| ⤏ Go to series page | |
| 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 |
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| Retail | |
Run in DOSBox. | |
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| GOG.com | |
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. | |
- 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] |
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Run the game with |
Skip copy protection prompts
| Launch with start Hoop Gem parameters[3] |
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Run the game with |
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.DATtoSAVGAMJ.DAT. - Character files are
*.WHO. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file. -
VAULT.DATcontains vault contents.
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GOG Galaxy |
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DOS video modes |
| Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | |||||
| macOS (OS X) | |||||
| Linux | |||||
| Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
| Windows | ||||
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| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | ||||
Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).