GOG has added Hellfire to Diablo 1!

If you’ve read my previous blog post you’ll know I’m a big fan of the original Diablo. If you want an in depth look at the GOG version go there.

The news is in the title but there’s a bit you may not know about Hellfire. There are hidden classes, disabled quests and a disabled multiplayer.

Hellfire is added to the splash screen

Enabling the hidden classes and disabled quests is very simple.

1. Open Notepad
2. Paste just this one line in the file: cowquest;theoquest;bardtest;multitest;barbariantest;
3. Save that file in your Hellfire install folder as command.txt

This is the default Hellfire install folder when using GOG Galaxy:

C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Diablo\hellfire

Start Hellfire and you should now see the Bard and Barbarian available.

I have been unable to get the Hellfire multiplayer to work. GOG uses the 1.01 Hellfire patch which requires a modified hellfrui.dll file. I have that file which works with the original disk version. Unfortunately when I try to use it with the GOG version I get an error at character creation. “Unable to create character”. In any case that multiplayer mode is IPX only anyway.

Enjoy!