[NetBehaviour] Hidden messagin’

[james morris]

On 8/9/2009, "marc garrett" <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:

>Hidden messagin’
>
>Programmers for 8-bit consoles, whether American, European or Japanese,
>stuck hidden messages — sometimes accessible, sometimes non- — in their
>games all the time.
>
>http://magweasel.com/2009/08/29/hidden-messagin/

Ah yes I remember doing that on a few tape-based games on the old Amstrad
CPC 464. Not a console but nevermind. Most games took to using
convoluted protection systems which counted the number of instructions
executed so if you changed anything you couldn't get in - these were
beyond me, but a few like "Super Robin Hood" by Codemasters, with the
help of cheats published in magazines, I managed to dig around in and
occasionally found hidden messages.

James.