What ever happend to cheats?

Supercars 2 for the Amiga The Seer player 1 , Wonderland player 2 for loads of money and homing missiles .

Someone should re write that game for ps3 or whatever
 
As said before Achievmements, trophies and a larger focus on online has pretty much stopped the cheat business. Nintendo have gone the other way by having the auto mode in SMB, which for that kind of game seems to be fine. As for cheats i remember the one that i can always think of is "Grow old along with me" and "the best is yet to be" both from the same old game, anyone else remember the game?
 
Zensuji said:
"pokes" back in the days of the spectrum :D
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I remember that word!:o It was used in the early Amiga days as well. I Used to have an 'Action Replay' for the Amiga which allowed you to make your own cheats without any other input from magazines etc. Even now, people often need an explanation to how that's possible. No internet, just a child playing a game in their bedroom and you could make a cheat in 5 minutes:D
 
mame said:
I remember that word!:o It was used in the early Amiga days as well. I Used to have an 'Action Replay' for the Amiga which allowed you to make your own cheats without any other input from magazines etc. Even now, people often need an explanation to how that's possible. No internet, just a child playing a game in their bedroom and you could make a cheat in 5 minutes:D
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^ I had one of those, But on a console. Snes I think. For instance if you loaded up street fighter, and the action replay, And took like a snap shot while your energy bar was full, Then another when you'd been hit. It'd allow you to look through the code and freeze the energy bar at full, a bit like a trainer

It took some looking though, as side effects that i remember were, 1 punch kills, Energy bar staying full but you still dying, and i think i even managed to get my character to slide off the screen once lol. Jump turned Ken into superman! :D
 
wannabedamned said:
^ I had one of those, But on a console. Snes I think. For instance if you loaded up street fighter, and the action replay, And took like a snap shot while your energy bar was full, Then another when you'd been hit. It'd allow you to look through the code and freeze the energy bar at full.

It took some looking though, as side effects that i remember were, 1 punch kills, Energy bar staying full but you still dying, and i think i even managed to get my character to slide off the screen once lol. Jump turned Ken into superman! :D
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iirc the console version relied on codes printed in gaming magazines. With the Amiga version it was easy really. You would start a game with say 5 lives. Freeze then type a command into the AR that said how many memory locations hold the value of 5. You would probably get a list of about 40,000 locations. you then un-freeze, lose a life and then re-freeze. You enter another command that says out of the 40,000 locations, how many have changed from 5 to 4. This would usually narrow it down to a couple of hundred. you just kept going like this and would usually find it within 3 or 4 steps. then you either lock it or set it to whatever you want as often as you want. You could use it for anythng. lives, ammo, score, money.

I remember cheating with the score on Jimmy Whites Wirlwind Snooker. The summary for the game was "mame beats jimmy with a suspiciously good 2000 to 147":p which is possible via fouls if you think about it
 
haha, Yeah they did have codes from magazines and stuff, but there was a create your own section even on the console version And once you got what you wanted, you could add it to the cartidge for future use. I didnt use it much though, as like you say you could just get codes from magazines, which were fine for the most part. It was just something to play around with, I remember getting a freaky glitched looking character on Mortal Combat, All pixelated and stuff, But it was just Smoke with glitched animation.
 
wannabedamned said:
haha, Yeah they did have codes from magazines and stuff, but there was a create your own section even on the console version And once you got what you wanted, you could add it to the cartidge for future use. I didnt use it much though, as like you say you could just get codes from magazines, which were fine for the most part. It was just something to play around with, I remember getting a freaky glitched looking character on Mortal Combat, All pixelated and stuff, But it was just Smoke with glitched animation.
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Yeah I actually had one for the ps1 (had to link it to the pc) Loads of messing about lol.

But they came pre-loaded with 100s of games anyway.
 
IBETYOUCANTPRINTC**T, classic PC game cheat there and cookie for anybody who knows what 19, 65, 09, 17 was from.
 
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