How did people found out about cheats in old games? Players just figured them out by accident? Would developers just send them to magazines?
How would a dev nowadays make people aware of it? Just asking... 👀
How would a dev nowadays make people aware of it? Just asking... 👀
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I was well aware that cheats existed but the fact that I activated one accidentally left me befuddled 🤣
And yes I was one of those kids whose parents let him play whatever he wanted :) I flip flopped between the 2005 Need For Speed: Most Wanted (goated) and various GTAs
Agora, como o pessoal das revistas descobria, é outra história....
Mas não era só com cheat necessariamente; eles incluiam segredos, easter eggs, etc.
Acho que a Nintendo Power era um exemplo disso.
Nowadays someone data mines the game within hours and nothing is hidden
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To falando de coisa q já vem no próprio jogo!
Eu to falando de monster hunter porque muito segue o mesmo contexto de procurar em arquivo do jogo
Os caras veem algo que nunca teve no jogo, procuram qual codigo ativa esse algo e gg, descobriram
Mas a grande maioria dos antigos é oficial com eles falando em revista
old games had very lean memory profiles after all, like in the KBs
I might just leave a cheats.txt file or something in the game files
a link hidden in-game leading to a cryptic obscure blog with puzzles.
then someone quickly solves it and it's easily available on the internet.
Lot's of ways, but in general you had to know your controller. :)
I figure a Dev today could just post cheats to their social media, or reddit.
So you HAD to go home and try it, JUST IN CASE, and spread the pain if it was a baseless rumour.
Sometimes peeps would discover 'em independently, sometimes magazine subscriptions...
One of the downsides of Baldur's Gate 1 being on Steam is that they