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Finding Cheat Codes For A Living
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.
Because up-down-up-down-left-right-A-B is for infinite life. We all know that up-down-up-down-right-left-A-B is infinite cash.
- Marco
the infinite code was up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, A, B, select, start
When i was a child, i dreamed of growing up to be a video game designer(didn't everyone in my generation?). When i got a little older, it was the cheat codes that fascinated me. I was never too fond of using them myself(except for the ones that corrected OBVIOUS errors in the game[that damn heat guage in excitebike... bye bye with the gamegenie]), i always preferred the original degree of challenge of the game. But still... there was a certain allure to hacking into somebody elses code, figuring out how it works, and sticking in your own little "improvements". The heart of a reverse engineer.
In reality, many slashdotters are able to(and perhaps already have) done this sort of thing for themselves in their spare time. The thing that amazed(and still amazes) me was that someone would actually be willing to pay people to do this. capitalism is a CRAZY thing i guess.
anyway, i really enjoyed this article.
Nice work if you can get it.
lysergically yours
Probably for games testers to help them test everything effectively.