Chilly Willy Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 (edited) Given there's already a Pitfall 2 hack in the 5200 sub-forum, I figure this should be okay, but if not, feel free to edit this. This is a hack I made more than 15 years ago to Pitfall 2 for the Atari 8-bit home console. The biggest problem I had with the game was that even the slightest error sent you back to the last cross, which might mean having to go back through half a level to get back where you died... and might just die again! It was especially bad on the last level trying to get the darn rope. So I hacked Pitfall 2 to add a save/load game state feature. Press OPTION during the game to pull up the menu. You can format a disk, save to the disk, or load from the disk. Pitfall 2 was "fun" to hack since the protections on it were so hard to bypass. In the end, I wound up leaving the rom strictly alone; instead, I reassembled the game code to 10KB below the rom, stripping out the protection code and adding the save state hack. This hack is a DOS binary program and will play on any Atari with 48KB of RAM. You can run it in Atari800 using the -run option. Pitfall2.zip Edited December 31, 2010 by Chilly Willy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 great! always I have wanted something like it... thanks !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fres Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Wow. Very cool. I had no idea that this existed. Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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