However, with some easy modification of game files, it is also possible to unlock the Bard and the Barbarian, unfinished but playable classes who share the same sprites as the Rogue and Warrior (respectively) but have different stats and abilities. Hellfire adds the Monk to the original playable character classes of the Rogue, the Warrior, and the Sorcerer, bringing the total to four. Character save files can be manually converted from Diablo to Hellfire by renaming their file extension, as described in Hellfire 's Readme, but the conversion is not reversible and destroys all items in the character's inventory. Hellfire is a separate executable from Diablo and therefore has separate save files and does not integrate with the base game.
Diablo 1 and hellfire Patch#
Hellfire received only one patch of its own, bringing it from version 1.00 to 1.01. Hellfire was developed based on version 1.04 of Diablo, so it still features many bugs that were later corrected in Diablo patches 1.05 - 1.09.
It can still be found on sites like Amazon, where it is considered a fairly rare collector's item. Blizzard does not recognize the events of Hellfire as canon or as an official part of the Diablo series ( much like the two Starcraft Mission Packs) and so it has never been redistributed since its original release in the same way as Diablo, and is not included in the Diablo Battle Chest. The expansion adds two additional four-level dungeons, a completely new playable class (the Monk), two unfinished playable classes that can be accessed with a simple config file edit (The Bard and the Barbarian), as well as many new magic items, spells, and other tweaks. However, it was not actually developed by Blizzard (who were working on the eventually-cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans) instead the development duties were outsourced to Sierra On-Line.
Hellfire is the mostly-official single-player expansion to the 1996 Blizzard Entertainment classic, Diablo.