Cheaters Anonymous: Space Shuttle

[Cupcakus]

Yes! I'm back at it for you closet cheaters out there :-) I see no reason in the world, why those of us less fortunete to not have the great game skills of our companions to not be able to see the later levels, and end screens we are entitled to :-)

 

Allow me to bring that joy to you.

 

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Cheaters Space Shuttle

Infinte Fuel on Game 3. Earn the rank you always wanted!!!

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Available for download on my web site.

 

http://www.atariage.com/~clarkin

 

Double Dragon coming soon!!! As soon as I can narrow down how it works, the lives/health memory address "moves" locations, so it's hard to track down a place to mod the code. Every time I think I have it something else happens as a result. The current version I have now give you 16 lives and full health every screen, but does not display the mission titles for each mission, it just progresses through each screen as if it was the same level... I will get this one working soon, I promise!!!!

 

And as always, I make these hacks by request. PM Me if you're ashamed to be a cheater, I won't tell on you :-) If there is a game you always wanted a high score on, or to finish but never could because of the difficulty, let me know and I'll help you out :-)

[Nukey Shay]

That's funny...I could have sworn that I made one already.

You get 6 dockings for the price of 1, too...talk about a time-saver!

 

No prob...just giving you da biz

 

What I'd like to see is a ramcart that has a cheat interface built-in...now THAT would be a hot seller!

[Cupcakus]

That's funny...I could have sworn that I made one already.

You get 6 dockings for the price of 1, too...talk about a time-saver!

 

No prob...just giving you da biz

 

What I'd like to see is a ramcart that has a cheat interface built-in...now THAT would be a hot seller!

 

I can't find any other space shuttle cheat at that link :-) Trying to take credit again, for my work :-) I see how it is.

 

I thought about 6 docks for one, but the object of my cheats are that you still get to "play" all the elements of the game, there is just no danger of losing. In my Solaris, you get to play the whole game, there is just no chance you can lose... Same with Pitfall!... If I gave you 6 free dockings for the price of one, you havn't really played the game... the satellite gets NUTS after the third docking, and I think you should have that experience.

 

And... of course... What if Commander isn't your goal at all? :-)

 

Besides I do this mostly because have fun crawling around the binary in a hex editor, dissasembling the code in my head, trying to translate hex values into opcodes to find the perfect place to instill a cheaters hack :-)

 

When I have enough Cheaters Anonymous titles, I will release a cart containing them all. :-)

[Nukey Shay]

Hehe...by the way, the sixth satellite is as erratic as it gets (which is bad enough)...it doesn't appear to get any more erratic than that (Scott and I were adding 99 dockings at a time in one version, IIRC). You could still dock six times if you wanted to. But in any case, everyone will have enough fuel to finally do those "experiments" listed in the manual without losing their minds and sliderules

 

A cart?! Cool...if it's something that goes between the cart and VCS, that sounds even better than some kind of dipswitch thing that I was thinking of! Sorry for prying...how would you want them to be selected?

[Scott Stilphen]

Yes! I'm back at it for you closet cheaters out there :-) I see no reason in the world, why those of us less fortunete to not have the great game skills of our companions to not be able to see the later levels, and end screens we are entitled to :-)

 

Allow me to bring that joy to you.

 

Too late

 

http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/26spa...paceshuttle.htm

 

Forgive the pictures (got corrupted).

[Cupcakus]

I havn't given much thought to how I would want them to be selected... but I don't think you would have the choice to turn off the cheats. If you could do that, they would be repro carts of Activision titles, and I'd be in trouble :-)

 

As it is, making cheaters carts with their titles may not be so wise, so we'll wait on that.

 

And...

 

Yes :-) I was extatic when I saw those Commander screens a few months ago, but that doesn't nearly compare to the joy you get when you see it on your own TV screen, after 6 of your own dockings

[Nukey Shay]

Agreed...having infinite fuel you can at least kick back for a while, preferably while listening to "Southern Cross"

 

On the carts, I didn't really mean a custom cart with the cheat patches in place. I was thinking more along the lines of a genie-esque cartridge...where codes are dialed in through the controller and the game rom "activated" after that (there was a patch that does this through emulation...but I can't remember what it was called at the moment). Is that the kind of cart you were referring to?