Crime Busters cheat...

[+CharlieChaplin]

Hello,

 

in Crime Buster you control your police-car by shooting to arrows displayed under the road, which is very awkward. Only if you master this, you get to the main event where you have to shoot gangsters in their houses/dwellings.

 

Afaik, there is built-in cheat in the cart, that allows one to skip this shooting arrows sequence to control the police car. How is that cheat activated or which key / key-combination do I have to press to activate it (to skip that sequence) ?!?

 

-Andreas Koch.

Edited February 26, 2012 by CharlieChaplin

[JohnBuell]

As I recall, all of the cheats had to do with shooting very specific parts of the bulletin board. See http://www.consoledatabase.com/cheats/atari8bit/crimebuster/ for instance, though that's a different easter egg.

 

On a related note, does anyone know what office this was programmed at? Chicago or California?

[JohnBuell]

Found it! Thanks Brad! Charlie, hit the space bar, see below.

 

There are a couple of undocumented features in the Crime Busters game! To get these features there is a certain way you must turn on the Atari 8 bit computer with the Crime Busters game cartridge installed. Hold down the Option button when turning on the Atari computer. Continue to hold down the Option button, you will see a black screen, very quickly hit the select button, if nothing happens, trying hitting the Select button a couple of more times. If nothing still happens, turn off the computer and start over again. If you are successful the first screen of Crime Busters will come up while you are still holding down the Option button. Let go of the Option button and shoot the title screen to get to the next screen. On the next screen, on the Wanted "Z" Poster in the far right hand bottom corner of your screen, shoot the left hand bottom Blue Thumb Tack that is holding the poster to the board. It may take 5 to 8 shots to completely get rid of the blue thumb tack. If all has been done right so far you will Not normally start the game, but jump back to the first screen of the game. Now notice the two New extra credits across the bottom of the screen that come up in succession that were not there before. The New Credits in white letters, will tell you who wrote the Crime Busters program for Atari and who did the Art work graphics for the Crime Busters Game. Now start the Crime Buster Game as usual. Now you can skip the car chase game screen by hitting the space bar! You will now find at least three new characters that were not there before, Santa Claus, Oscar and Old man! Have fun!

[Gunstar]

Found it! Thanks Brad! Charlie, hit the space bar, see below.

 

There are a couple of undocumented features in the Crime Busters game! To get these features there is a certain way you must turn on the Atari 8 bit computer with the Crime Busters game cartridge installed. Hold down the Option button when turning on the Atari computer. Continue to hold down the Option button, you will see a black screen, very quickly hit the select button, if nothing happens, trying hitting the Select button a couple of more times. If nothing still happens, turn off the computer and start over again. If you are successful the first screen of Crime Busters will come up while you are still holding down the Option button. Let go of the Option button and shoot the title screen to get to the next screen. On the next screen, on the Wanted "Z" Poster in the far right hand bottom corner of your screen, shoot the left hand bottom Blue Thumb Tack that is holding the poster to the board. It may take 5 to 8 shots to completely get rid of the blue thumb tack. If all has been done right so far you will Not normally start the game, but jump back to the first screen of the game. Now notice the two New extra credits across the bottom of the screen that come up in succession that were not there before. The New Credits in white letters, will tell you who wrote the Crime Busters program for Atari and who did the Art work graphics for the Crime Busters Game. Now start the Crime Buster Game as usual. Now you can skip the car chase game screen by hitting the space bar! You will now find at least three new characters that were not there before, Santa Claus, Oscar and Old man! Have fun!

 

I wonder if that cheat still works with the 320K file version...I still have to mod my SMS light gun to work with Atari before I can try it out.

[+CharlieChaplin]

Thanks folks !

 

Also got a link from Fandal to Digitpress where several A8 easter eggs and cheats are listed (including Crime Buster):

http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/atari8bit.htm

 

Greetings and thanks - Andreas Koch.