Well Count Duckula turned you into a bottle of banana milk. And the title screen changed to Revenge of The Banana Milk. I Think it also gave you infy lives.
I remember a few Playstation games with some silly extra modes (Formula 1 had codes to turn the cars into big-wheel bikes or make Murray come out with random phrases, and Rapid Racer could turn all the boats into motorised rubber ducks that quacked when you collided), but none of them were notably bad.
I don't really remember any cheats on the Spectrum that weren't just pokes or passcodes to get you through the game quicker.
I suppose infinite lives in games like Jet Set Willy, where you could get caught in a repeating death-trap, didn't always work out so well. Or infinite lives in Knight Lore but leaving the time limit on was a bit of a waste of effort.
There was one to set the number of lives in Manic Miner, but if you set it to more than 16 it would start to corrupt and cripple the gameplay in drawing so many Willies at the bottom of the screen.
I do remember that wall-climbing poke for Jet Set Willy, but it invariably got you killed pretty quickly.
Once I typed a random value in a random address whith the Multiface One in the game "The Living Daylights" and Bond turned into a tree. He could still jump, fire and everything.
Isn't there a Jet Set Willy POKE which sucks you up the edges of walls?
I remember reading that in a magazine years ago , probably Sinclair User. I don't think it worked properly. The other 'odd' one for JSW would drop you through the floor if you jumped and there was no headroom (platform immediately above your head etc)
Some modern games can put messages or play sound effects when pressed some keys in sequence, and that's pretty useless. In PC, launching ROTT with -dopefish is completely useless.
In the other hand, if you need some stupid cheats, keep in mind that most games have "n lives" pokes, so you could put n=0 or 1 and play with only 1 live left (could be "n seconds left" in race games, or "n energy left").
Also, a "Non-killable enemies" would be a pretty useless cheat (and I'm sure that you there is at least one game with one of those pokes).
I was there, too
An' you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
Andy, you should probably offer your own opinions as well when starting these threads but anyway.
Enduro Racer - press a few random buttons at the same time and the game sort of gets faster and frameskips a lot but you can't crash. Some of the time. Or something.
Enduro Racer - press a few random buttons at the same time and the game sort of gets faster and frameskips a lot but you can't crash. Some of the time. Or something.
I completed Enduro Racer using this too. I don't think you could really play it though. IIRC it just stuck you to the sides of the screen and had the handlebars up all the time, or something like that. You couldn't crash.
There was an infinite-lives poke for (IIRC) Beach-Head, which worked fine for the first two levels and then got stuck in an infinite loop. By coming through the first two levels without loss, you now had more units than would fit onscreen. It looked as if the game was trying to destroy the surplus units, but the infinite-lives poke meant they just came back again and again...
This isn't really a cheat but in 'The Great Escape' if you are in the lower of the 3 huts and you are carrying the chocolate bar, if you press fire, left and right (to use the object) a prisoner will appear and turn into a stove! Very strange.
This isn't really a cheat but in 'The Great Escape' if you are in the lower of the 3 huts and you are carrying the chocolate bar, if you press fire, left and right (to use the object) a prisoner will appear and turn into a stove! Very strange.
*runs off to try*
*wonders if the choccy bar was the thing you bribed people with in the red cross package a few days in*
*wonders if the choccy bar was the thing you bribed people with in the red cross package a few days in*
It was. You would use it to bride a prisoner to cause a diversion in the exercise yard where you would cut through the wire (i think).
The chocolate bar appears on day 2 of the red cross package.
I think the OP meant "weirdest cheats". Sometimes Pokes and cheats don't really help, make things worse or don't make games easy enough for the cheater. :-P
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What game was that?
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I don't really remember any cheats on the Spectrum that weren't just pokes or passcodes to get you through the game quicker.
I suppose infinite lives in games like Jet Set Willy, where you could get caught in a repeating death-trap, didn't always work out so well. Or infinite lives in Knight Lore but leaving the time limit on was a bit of a waste of effort.
There was one to set the number of lives in Manic Miner, but if you set it to more than 16 it would start to corrupt and cripple the gameplay in drawing so many Willies at the bottom of the screen.
I do remember that wall-climbing poke for Jet Set Willy, but it invariably got you killed pretty quickly.
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I thought that was from Codemaster's Advanced Ho' Simulator
I remember reading that in a magazine years ago , probably Sinclair User. I don't think it worked properly. The other 'odd' one for JSW would drop you through the floor if you jumped and there was no headroom (platform immediately above your head etc)
In the other hand, if you need some stupid cheats, keep in mind that most games have "n lives" pokes, so you could put n=0 or 1 and play with only 1 live left (could be "n seconds left" in race games, or "n energy left").
Also, a "Non-killable enemies" would be a pretty useless cheat (and I'm sure that you there is at least one game with one of those pokes).
An' you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
Enduro Racer - press a few random buttons at the same time and the game sort of gets faster and frameskips a lot but you can't crash. Some of the time. Or something.
You sure about that? :-p
Yeah...I remember this cheat as well!
:lol:
and wasn't the big heads thing on Goldeneye on the N64?
no, that was DK mode. :razz:
*runs off to try*
*wonders if the choccy bar was the thing you bribed people with in the red cross package a few days in*
It was. You would use it to bride a prisoner to cause a diversion in the exercise yard where you would cut through the wire (i think).
The chocolate bar appears on day 2 of the red cross package.
I think the OP meant "weirdest cheats". Sometimes Pokes and cheats don't really help, make things worse or don't make games easy enough for the cheater. :-P