I was approached by “Death Strike” about adding a patch for Savage Empire to the Ultima Patcher. Apparently, the GOG version of the game contains a bug which disables the alternate ending but a later fixed version was released on the compilation CD with 7 Cities Of Gold (anyone who has ever spent time hunting for Ultimas on Ebay should be familiar with this particular CD). They created a patch to update the GOG version which I’ve added to the Ultima Patcher.
Other than that, I’ve added in the latest default installation directories which appear to have changed every time I look, updated some links and changed the Beautiful Britannia download URL. You can download the new version from here.
You’re just the best. Thank you for maintaining this package.
Hi,
First apologies for my complete lack of technical knowledge and thank you for making these patches.
~I have downloaded Ultima V from GOG and downloaded your patch which I hope allow the original music to play.
I have no idea how to make the patch work. Should I copy it into a certain file does it need to be unzipped or something?
An idiots guide would be very much appreciated.
Loved this game 25 years ago…
Unzip the UltimaPatcher.rar file. The files that it contains unpack all in its own folder called UltimaPatcher. Then, navigate to that folder you just extracted and run UltimaPatcher.exe.
Choose your game to patch, then the options you wish to add.
It should automatically find the installed directory of the game. If not, it will prompt you to manually select it using a standard path choosing window you’ve probably seen many times before.
Good luck and have fun!
I am so grateful that SOMEONE is seeing to keeping up with these timeless games even in 2020!
Is there a succinct list of everything this patcher does, and the changes it makes?
Not really. It will tell you what is available for each game when you run it.