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Action Replay Powersaves Mac And MacbookSo if youve ever cheated at a video game, which most of us have, lets face it, then read on. The first ever cheat Apparently, the first ever example of a cheat found in a video game was on the coin-operated arcade game, Computer Space, in 1971. According to popular video game law, if you powered the machine up whilst holding down the two buttons on the left, you could start the game with a top score of 14. Unfortunately this appeared to only work a number of units, perhaps the first batch Who knows Since there were only one thousand units were ever produced, its a little difficult to definitively confirm this. Things have moved on a bit since then, not just in terms of the actual creation of the video game but the methods and means in which to cheat an advantage over the game design; you could say that there has always been a kind of symbiotic evolution between games development and cheat development. Action Replay Powersaves Crack The CodesCrack the codes Cheating, however, wasnt just for the pleasure of the end user, it started life during the vital debug development process of the game. For testers, and those lucky few who had access to a game long before it was ever released to Joe Public, the ability to cheat was essential. After all, how could they ever test the gap between the platforms on level 12, if they could only get as far as level 10 Okay, so maybe it wasnt quite a black and white as that, but the testing process was made significantly easier by introducing cheat codes and considering these backdoors used fixed memory locations, which meant their removal could cause unexpected bugs, this made the whole process too costly and problematic, hence they were left in. Cheat codes, such as the one above, could be a phrase, the measurement of one of the developers beards in millimetres or a sequence of key presses. One of the first and more popular examples of a personalised cheat code can be found in Manic Miner. When on the title screen press Enter followed by the number 6031769, which was supposedly either developer Matt Smiths phone number, or a part of his driving license. Once the number was typed in, a boot would appear where the lives are normally displayed, then pressing the number 6 and combination of numbers 1 to 6, you could select which level you wanted to start the game from. Type-in cheat entries kicked off a slew of imaginative and seriously bizarre codes that ranged from the famous XYZZY that appeared in the original Colossal Cave, to the quite unprintable Engage Ridley Mother of Metroid and the similarly extremely unprintable Carmageddon cheat code. The Konami Code Not a Dan Brown offering, but a cheat code that first appeared in the 1986 game, Gradius for the NES. Unfortunately, it didnt hit the popularity that it enjoys nowadays until the release of that nigh on impossible run and gun game, Contra. The code would allow you, when entered at the title screen, to gain thirty lives which also made the Konami Code known as the Contra Code, or the 30 Lives Code, but it didnt stop there, the code proved to be so successful and receive so much world-wide fame that Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the creator of the code, insisted and added the code to pretty much every Konami video game ever created. Theres even a reference to it in the Disney Animated Movie, Wreck it Ralph. What is the Konami Code It is: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and Start. POKE it a few times Cheat codes were all fine and well, but what if a game didnt come programmed with a cheat code Or the code was somehow removed prior to public release That being the case, the clever gamer would have to POKE around the game code.
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