Battle Square global variable

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Is there any way to use Dalekeeper II to determine which ranks and levels I've completed and which I still have to complete in Battle Square?
I screwed up and lost track and don't want to start over. This segment is tedious enough.

 

While I certainly support delving into the bowels of the game to solve your problems, I do kind of wonder why you wouldn't just take the easy way out by restarting and cheating through it.

 

I wasn't sure if I could install and use the "skip Battle Squares" patch without redoing the whole Ice Temple; or at least the basement.

Also it seems I have a really old version of G3 Tweaks installed as there is both ease-of-use and tweaks; and the G3 Tweaks does not ask about skipping Battle Squares, only Ease-of-Use does.

I'll have to look at the cumulative changelog for G3 Tweaks since 1.2 to see if it is worth updating.

What I'd really like is a mod so you can be told what ranks and levels you have completed and which you still need to do.
Something like "Level 1 finished, level 2 ranks 3, 4, and 6, level 3 not attempted, level 4 not attempted, level 5 not attempted, level 6 rank 3, level 7 not attempted..."
Either that or a scorecard for each rank.

 

I think I have figured it out. However, there are 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary and those that do not. If you are not in the first of the pair, you won't get it.

It seems vary simple, but I must have missed it in my first glance with Dale Keeper II. Easy to do considering the number of variables to scroll through.

A little more than 3/4 of the way down it says "BATTLESQUAREWINRANK?" where ? is a number from 1 to 9, kinda like an MS-DOS wildcard.
Each number should be self-explanatory.
The value is based on simple binary flags. The position of each bit is relevant to the number of squares you cleared for each rank. As each level in the ranks requires a minimum of 3 squares, and has a maximum of 7, the values range from 4 to 124.
So win level 1 (3 squares) and bit 3 (starting from one on the right and going to the left) will be set. Win level 5 (7 squares) and bit 7 will be set. win level 3 and bit 5 will be set. Levels you have not yet won will have the corresponding bits reset (cleared, set to 0), and ranks you have not win any levels in might not have a variable at all, or they will be zero.

It's much simpler than I'm making it sound.
Look at the value, convert to binary. Say you have a value of 80 in Dale Keeper II. Convert it to binary. You can use Windows Calculator. Calc prior to Windows 7 (Vista and before) should be set to "scientific", while Calc in Windows 7 or later should use "Programmer" mode.
You get
1010000
Ignore the two trailing zeros and count
You have completed levels 3 and 5, or won with 5 and 7 squares.

That's it, just count the position of the 1's going from right to left.
Simple binary.