Game:

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance (2021)

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Step 1) Hack in the Dark Alliance I Tower4 level into Dark Alliance II.

Step 2) Enter Tower4.
The game loads the level and freezes as soon as it plays. Editing the level to remove all Fire Elementals from the map makes it work fine. My theory as to why it crashes: I believe there is a naming clash because there is a new enemy in DA2 also called "fireelemental". I think the map loads the new fireelemental enemies, and then sends some kind of instruction to them, probably putting them into a hiding animation, which the DA1 enemies have and the DA2 enemies do not, causing it to crash. With that resolved...

Step 3) Killing the Steel Golem doesn't cause the Onyx Sword to drop. I don't know why yet. I tried replacing items on the map with onyxsword, which is the internal name of the item, but that doesn't make it appear. I never looked at save file modding for DA2 on the PS2 but it's probably possible to manually edit the byte-level data in a PS2 memory card to give the player an Onyx Sword.

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