Gauntlet II is one of my all time faves and I play it often with MAME.
The only problem is they went PC and weakened the White Male characters the Warrior and Wizard from G1.
They reduced the Wizard's extra shot power and reduced his shot speed and in an ultimate sacrilegious move the Warrior with extra shot power in G2 is no longer able to kill everything with one shot.
I couldn't stand that so I actually wrote a disassembler program in Qbasic that hacks the ROMS and I returned the Wizard and Warrior back to their former glory, (And a few other tricks like making the ?Food always worth 200 health and cutting down on how much the Acid puddles hurt).
I admire your hi-tech prowess, but hi-tech or no, that is still called cheating!
That rocks! I was starting to look at playing with them, since I wanted to be able to control the starting levels and such, but I never figured out how the 16 bytes or so that change (in the volatile file) affect that. I prefer the elf myself, mainly because of the extra speed and shot power.