h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yup, I'm enlisting as "Suitsat - Grand Keeper of Cheat Codes, All Time Loser at Hunt The Wocket"

Suitsat - Grand Keeper of Cheat Codes, All Time Loser at Hunt The Wocket, hereby proclaim'ed!

*bangs gabble*

Here is thine holy spork , use wisely , pointy bits forward, there's a good chap.

On the subject of cheat codes my two all time favourites were

Comic Relief "Sleepwalker" on the Amiga 600: typing Dingadingdangmydangalonglinglong into the title screen turned the protagonist sleepwalker's red nose green, indicating the cheat mode was active. From memory this conferred infinite lives and the ability to skip levels.

My absolutle favourite cheat takes cheating to realms of the frankly bizarre. It works, unbelievably, I know because I've done it.

Creatures 2 on the Commodore 64: Load the game from the tape (yes we're talking a few years ago now)

Once the menu screen has loaded take you index finger and lick it.
(I'm not making this up)
and rub it across port 2 vigourously.

The big fuzzy creature will flash multi-coloured - and I forget exactly what this did but I think it stopped your creatures getting killed in the end-of chapter traps which were always fiendishly difficult and usually involved chainsaws.

Welcome to Clan Thing.

Clive.

Googling "Commodore 64 Rub port 2" brought forth the following.

http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D561

Just to proove I aint makin it up (though I did get the port number wrong, so I'm not all knowing after all.)

I hope that Comic Relief "Sleepwalker" offered the opportunity to actually type all of that in. Can't see a player typing that in a modern real time shooter with 50 monsters approaching.

Thanks for the spork. What do I do with it? Display on personal page, use only the spork when eating from now on, wear it as a lucky charm, search H2G2 for upgrades until becomes a multifunctional combat spork?


* to add Thingite info to personal space*

It is multi-purpose. Ocassionally used on the field of battle against hordes of marauding Thursdayists - but more often than not used for picking up croutons in soup and other things in-between such as using the specically modifed tines to tighten nuts on screws on the Trebuchet we keep in the shed behing The Uniform's thread.



If you are familiar with using GuideML - the coding language of The Guide - I've included a piece of code that displays the crossed sporks shield of The Thingites on The Manifesto. Feel free to nick it and use on your Personal space.

Clive

where where where where where???

where what?

Here: A2079272
Sorry for the sloppy language. Did not remember that it's called a blob. Totally green newbie; haven't got the jargon yet

We were all newbies once

Yes I like the fact they are called blobs.

About that Trebuchet: I'll search for cheat codes for those loose nuts. There may also be codes to spawn a fresh Treb in case it gets hit, lost or stolen.

Clive, I did not see myself in the list (I mean the pull-down list). Is that because it updates slowly or is it a special roll of honor or sumthin?

The list updates at a normal speed, Clive updates the list at a very slow speed

Actually Shea does the updating - I have control of the edit button.

Most up-to-date roster I have is 569 Thingites and Shea produced it about 5 weeks ago.

Ah! Balance of power...

I prefer to see it as a monopoly with a decent amount of delegation.

My apologies, Warlord. I hath been absent much lately, and back when I first joined, Shea was extremely quick with the updates, and thou wert tardy with the editing

This is true.

::smell of burnt hair fills the room::
I offer my apologies as well, for grossly misunderstanding the Situation At The Very Top.
I am deeply
And I propose to meet elsewhere as the title of this conversation is becoming increasingly inappropriate (I mean, I already joined)

Would you believe, there's several convo's just for this very thing! Among them such diverse names as No, no, no! and the Boardroom of Evil, Plotting and General Mayhem. We're on the verge of discovering the identity of thsi 'general Mayhem'.