Cheats you discovered

[Inky]

I remeber playing DK jr (I didn't think it weas that bad), and got to the Mario's Hideout sc reen. I found that if you walk to the end of the little platform you start on, and keep walking into the platform to the right and hit the button, DKJr jumps twice, and it crashes the game. Then if you hit reset, it starts a new game. You press the button and you lose a life, but then the game plays normally with the only exceptioon being that there are unlimited lives (and I believe no monsters).

 

Haven't been able to successfully duplicate it on an EMU yet..

[Scott Stilphen]

Inky, can you email me? I have a question about this trick. Thanks.

 

scottith@ptd.net

[Ze_ro]

I actually discovered a cheat myself in the Jaguar game Atari Karts. The game has 4 levels, and in each level there are 4 races. The fourth race in each level is the "Miracle Race" where you can win a new kart to race with. To actually get to this race, you must beat the other three races... and once you beat the Miracle Race, you can go on to the next level.

 

Here's where my cheat came in. If you win the whole first level (Miracle Race and all), when you go on to the second level, the Miracle Race will be "greyed out" so you can't select it. However, what you can do is go to the Miracle Race for the first level, and as soon as the race starts, reset the game (*+# on the keypad). Now choose the 2nd level, and the cursor will already be on the Miracle Race! Beat it, and you can go on to the next level, and cheat your way through that too.

 

Yeah, it's not a 2600 game, but I was still pretty impressed with myself

 

--Zero

[Joel D. Park]

the only cheat I ever discoverd was on Epyx Winter games for the Commodore 64, I found that if you did nothing but fell on your butt on figure skating you could get a perfect 6.0.

 

Now I can't imagine how I figured that out.. I just remember really sucking at figure skating, so instead of trying to play I would just see how many times I could fall down just to pesture every one else who was playing.

[Tempest]

I discovered that in the Atari 400/800 version of Jungle Hunt (and probably in the 5200 version too), that if you beat the game through once, wait until the timer starts being added to your score, and then press reset you can start a new game with the bonus time and points.

 

Actually what happens is that the timer continues to be added to your score even though you just started a new game. This results in a few extra lives (one or two) and then the timer is 9999 (although it will eventually start to count down). Now when you beat the game again you get a huge time bonus in addition to the "cheat bonus" you started with. You can go into the second level with a ton of bonus lives this way.

 

Tempest