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 don't think that kind of thing was allowed in the exercise yard...
Not a weird cheat, but I've always thought the POKE that let Sabreman go through the jungle was useless, as it losts the object of the game, travelling through a jungle labyrinth...
I have a vague memory of a poke for Elite that would give you max credits. This was great if you intended to spend a load of credits straight away, but if you decided to earn a few credits first, the credit counter would clock back around and you'd be as poor as a church mouse. (Though this could be my fuzzy memory at work)
There's plenty of iffy pokes. E.g. infinite lives in Abu Simbel Profanation is very handy until you happen to fall into water, at which point you get stuck in an infinite loops of deaths. It's possible to poke your way out of it with another multiface poke though.
How about an infinite lives POKE for any Dizzy game? Anything that extends your time with that eggy bast is just torture. The only good cheat for a Dizzy game is where you (1) Reset the Spectrum, (2) Load a good game, (3) whilst waiting for the good game to load you destroy the Dizzy cassette.
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More seriously, the worst Spectrum cheat I ever heard of was entering any sequence of your letters in PSION Scrabble and replying Yes when challenged by the Spectrum. I mean, cheating to win in Scrabble against a computer gains you nothing in the way of fun. At least infinite lives in most games allows you to see screens or enemies you might otherwise never get to see, but cheating in Scrabble?
In Shanghai Karate, you could turn the game upside down and Waltzing Matilda would play on the title screen after pressing the right combination of buttons....can't remember what they are though....
Opening the umbrella indoors in 'How To Be A Complete Bastard' and being turned into an oven usually makes me laugh.
It's not really a cheat though.
The ones were you could simply press a key during normal gameplay (without entering a code or POKE first) to affect things I thought were pretty crappy, I usually just put those down to sloppy programming. Like holding down 'Extend Mode' to walk through walls on Gauntlet, just pressing 'Enter' to skip levels on The Newzealand Story, etc.
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I don't think that kind of thing was allowed in the exercise yard...
There's plenty of iffy pokes. E.g. infinite lives in Abu Simbel Profanation is very handy until you happen to fall into water, at which point you get stuck in an infinite loops of deaths. It's possible to poke your way out of it with another multiface poke though.
[This post bought to you by the Discerning Gamers of the World Campaign to Eradicate Dizzy and Look Insightful on Forums Commitee]
More seriously, the worst Spectrum cheat I ever heard of was entering any sequence of your letters in PSION Scrabble and replying Yes when challenged by the Spectrum. I mean, cheating to win in Scrabble against a computer gains you nothing in the way of fun. At least infinite lives in most games allows you to see screens or enemies you might otherwise never get to see, but cheating in Scrabble?
And I agree , 'invincible' cheat/pokes are the most pointless ever.
there's one where his house keeper sucks him off the edge
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I quite like the 'object rain' cheat. But it's utterly pointless from the point of view of playing the game.
It's not really a cheat though.
The ones were you could simply press a key during normal gameplay (without entering a code or POKE first) to affect things I thought were pretty crappy, I usually just put those down to sloppy programming. Like holding down 'Extend Mode' to walk through walls on Gauntlet, just pressing 'Enter' to skip levels on The Newzealand Story, etc.