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Mclaneinc

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Done that many a time on the C64 and Amiga, I LOVE Flashback and I played it to death with zero cheats but it was so long a game I gave up and watched the Longplay of it and realised I was nowhere near the end :)

 

These days I can't sit and watch the longplay even as my neck gets too painful up after a short time.

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On 8/20/2020 at 6:42 AM, Mclaneinc said:

With the demo for HGII posted by XXL I decided to have a play of the first game, now I love a Ghost 'n' Goblins game variant as much as the next person and considering the sprites etc I think its a lovely game but boy is it punishing or what?

 

Now I knock myself for fun but I wasn't an awful player BITD and I still love a game or 3 and I get through even with the arthritis etc but I'm struggling with HG...

 

Certainly a challenge even with me adding a cheat which is how I don't want to play it as much as I do love a cheat...(address $0068 if interested and I know about the Ctrl L as well)

 

If anything its made me want to beat it more and I love the game with HGII looking superb (but as hard)..

 

Any games you have found just super tough?

How does this address $0068 trickery works? I'm still a total noob regarding A8 stuff!

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Its the location of the number of lives, you can either use Altirra's ability to freeze that address or find the code and remove the decrement instruction with a series of NOP instructions (No Operation or EA in Hex, basically does nothing) (or give yourself a huge number of lives using that address..)

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On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 4:42 AM, Mclaneinc said:

I think its a lovely game but boy is it punishing or what?

 

Here's some patches I made that may make it a little easier.

 

Hobgoblin:

 

Infinite Lives = [C668A5:EAEAXX]
Kill The Timer = [81E901:XXEAEA]
Enemy Can't Shoot = [F0C48A:EAEAXX]

 

Better late than never.

 

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23 hours ago, EddyFree said:

 

Here's some patches I made that may make it a little easier.

 

Hobgoblin:

 

Infinite Lives = [C668A5:EAEAXX]
Kill The Timer = [81E901:XXEAEA]
Enemy Can't Shoot = [F0C48A:EAEAXX]

 

Better late than never.

 

Sorry to bother you guys again.

As much as I'm thankful for the workarounds provided, I still can't understand how to make those changes on the game code.

I want to run the game on a real machine (600XL).

Are there any programs that allow disassembling and editing the code? I mean, on a PC with Windows or Linux...

And, once the modifications were made, how to save the modified code as a .xex file?

Thank you for all of your support!

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