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Post by brian on Sept 1, 2014 9:23:47 GMT
Growing up in the early 90's, I never really knew about Gaming Magazines. Everyone had Ninentendos back then and sometimes I'd happen across a copy of Nintendo Power, but I thought that's all there was!
There were all kinds of cheat codes for NES games that my friends knew.
I always found it funny how SMS games had the cheats (if any) printed right in the back by Professor Playor!
But then there was one code I learned as a youngster I still to this day don't know how we figured out, in fact to this day I rarely see it documented anywhere, for Ghostbusters.
Long story short me and my buddy could never pass the first level. Could never attain (and maintain) the $10,000 needed. I think we used to crash a lot and buy stupid stuff like the Super MarshMallow detector, anyway...
We wanted to know a bank account that would let us start with more money.
Much like Golvellius we embarked on a mission of trial and error with passwords.
And 'lo and behold one worked like a dream.
Initials Q.W. and all zeros for the account = $9,843,200
We finally beat the game that day.
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Post by Maxim on Sept 1, 2014 15:36:23 GMT
Some games have much more chance to "guess" a password than others, and Ghostbusters is on the crappy end of that (10% chance) - I think Golvellius is more like 0.1% chance  See also www.smspower.org/Cheats/Ghostbusters-SMS for GhostBusters passwords. I accidentally transposed two letters in a Price of Persia password and found out that that transposes the digits of your remaining time, helpful when it's a number like 16 minutes. I sent it in to a magazine and everything. I "guessed" the Up, Down, Left, Right cheat code for Incredible Crash Dummies, sent that in too but without any passwords for the screen it gives you, it's no use. I reverse engineered them myself recently. |
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Post by edwithmj on Sept 2, 2014 2:00:43 GMT
I accidentally found the Shinobi cheat and learned the one for R-Type.
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Post by Kaunisto on Dec 17, 2015 23:47:49 GMT
In Populous it was pretty easy to take the repeated parts of passwords/world names and randomly combine them to get couple thousand levels further than I actually played.
I remember I tried to guess passwords for Tennis Ace, but I'm not sure if that ever worked.
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Post by evo4123 on Dec 18, 2015 12:39:38 GMT
cant remember how i come across them but i remember using the wonderboy level select and the action fighter cheats
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Post by barney on Dec 20, 2015 20:21:22 GMT
On the second track (Desktop Drop-Off) in Micro Machines, if you turn your car at the start to face left and drive until you hit the blue pencil, you hear a noise and it jumps you from 3 to 5 lives. I've got absolutely no idea how I ever figured that out back in the day, I've never seen it in any guides and a quick search on Google just now didn't bring anything up either.
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Post by Maxim on Dec 21, 2015 7:55:58 GMT
That's the first not generally known one in the thread, well done I spent a lot of time looking at the code for Micro Machines to try to find these track based cheats, and failed... |
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Post by englishinvader on Dec 21, 2015 8:54:42 GMT
I knew a few Mega Drive cheats as a kid (didn't get the SMS until later). Off the top of my head, the famous level select for Sonic 1 (title screen when Sonic waves finger - up, down, left, right then A + start) and the infinite shurikens cheat for Revenge of Shinobi (go into options, select 0 shurikens and hold A for 20 seconds and the 0 turns into an infinity symbol).
I also remember using a level select cheat for Sonic 2 on the GG (can't remember what it was). You couldn't get the full ending using it though. You have to get all the emeralds; an exercise in mental exhaustion that I've only ever done once and have no inclination to do again.
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Post by Kenneth on Dec 21, 2015 9:50:56 GMT
I had luckily found the secret passage in psycho fox that made you jump from level 1 to level 7 the first week we had the game I think it then took me like six months to finish the game without using the secret passages ^^ |
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Post by Rastanfarian on Dec 22, 2015 1:56:25 GMT
I accidently stumbled upon the Shinobi level select as a kid (hold down and button 2 at the start screen if I still remember correctly). It took me a few days to figure out how I did it after the first time. edit: stupid me I see edwithmj also posted the same thing, I should learn to read the whole thread before commenting! |
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Post by alexkiddinwonderland on Dec 22, 2015 14:25:24 GMT
I accidentally discovered the Continue code on Alex Kidd in Miracle World. At the time I just mashed both buttons while pressing every direction, on the Game Over screen. Eventually it'd register (you'd only need to press up+2 a few times). Eventually I fine tuned the cheat and discovered you'd also need a certain ammount of cash. Only many years later I'd see it documented (not sure if on a tv or a magazine).
I also discovered an invincibility bug which allows you to go through spikes and enemies. I've never seen it documented either and for a long time now I've been wanting to replicate it different rom versions.
Also, on California Games there's this easter egg on the half-pipe event where an earthquake can happen and one of the "hollywood" background letters will drop. I've read this is a random event but I remember I could seldom pull it while at the peak of an aerial turn, overturning, and mashing one of the buttons. Maybe just a random event really but there was a time where it'd pop frequently...
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