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Finding Cheat Codes For A Living

Posted by timothy on from the innate-not-inmate dept.

selan writes: "The Baltimore Sun has an article about the guys from GameShark who spend their time digging up cheat codes. 'For hours on end, hackers here squint over thousands of lines of numeric coding that translate to great feats of accomplishment on a video game.'" Good work, if you can get it.

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  1. man strings by ChazeFroy · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    What's the big deal with this? You can sometimes find stuff with strings or a hex program.

  2. How can they do this under the DMCA? by Tsar · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Looks like they'd be handing themselves out to dry every time they bypass a copyrighted game's system for acquiring health, weapons, points, etc.

    Remember, if we use cheat codes to make our games easier, then the terrorists win.

  3. Thanks to the brave guys at Gameshark by darylp · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    For providing the means to absolutely RUIN on-line console games like Phantasy Star Online.

    You've provided a valuable service to the gaming community!

  4. Oh my god, my eyes! by Xenopax · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Good work, if you can get it.

    How is "squinting" over thousands of lines of code good work? Basically the job we are looking at here is looking at code for hours and hours so you can find that one number that make a character immortal or whatever. Now I don't know about everyone else, but I prefer to writing my own stuff rather than spending hours reading over someone else's work (which has to be reverse engineered to read, so goodbye comments, formatting, etc.)

    Like I said, this may just be me. But personally I can't see the attraction of a job that involves reading code when you can get one writing it.

    -Xenopax