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Play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar (US edition · English) Online
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
Play AD&D: Hillsfar online on NES, pursue class-specific guild quests, explore the city and tackle riding, lock-picking, archery and arena challenges.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
Quick start
Choose START, create a character and pick a class. Once inside Hillsfar, go to that class's guild and accept the first assignment. Write down the person or place named in the conversation, then use the city descriptions to find the correct entrance. If it is closed, check the in-game time. On horseback, watch the lane ahead and decide early whether to jump or duck.
Controls
City movement: the D-Pad turns the character; press the facing direction again to step forward. A and B confirm or perform actions according to the current activity. Horseback: A jumps obstacles and Down ducks. The lock-picking, arena and archery sequences have separate context-sensitive controls; follow their prompts. START begins the selected game or character and is used by menus as documented on screen.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar — About this game
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar is a single-character adventure set in a city ruled by Maalthir's Red Plumes. The player creates a fighter, thief, cleric or magic-user, reports to the appropriate guild and follows class-specific assignments by questioning residents and locating buildings in Hillsfar or the surrounding countryside. Rather than relying on conventional turn-based battles, the NES game repeatedly changes form: travel becomes a horseback obstacle course, thieves pick locks, and other tasks use mazes, an archery range or staff fighting in the arena. Buildings operate on a clock and some locations only matter to a particular class, so careful notes and attention to time are as important as reflexes. Battery-backed character storage supports returning to longer quest lines.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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