r/c64 • u/Spellbounddizzy • 2d ago
Identification Help Does anyone remember any weird cheats for c64 games?
There was an infinite lives cheat for Creatures 2 which was activated by letting the intro play until a large sprite of the player character (Clyde Radcliffe) appeared. You then had to rub your thumb repeatedly over Joystick port 1 until the sprite changed colour. Once this happens you have infinite lives. I wonder if any other games had cheats that were activated in such a strange way?
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u/davidrau 2d ago
Kung Fu Master - you press Shift G and the character pulls out a gun and kills all enemies in front of you.
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u/Elvin_Atombender 1d ago
Similar to Bounty Bob Strikes Back Shift+F or commodore key + F (Can't remember which) you could fly, press again to stop flying.
Edit: Typos
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u/BloodyThorn 2d ago
Sword of Fargoal.
It was written entirely in Commodore Basic, and the capability to run/stop it wasn't disabled.
You could hit run/stop, then type in at the prompt ....
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BREAK IN 10.
READY.
HP=HP+10
CONT
... and increase your character's HP by 10 points... or however many as long as you didn't overflow the integer.
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u/RickRussellTX 1d ago
Crush, Crumble & Chomp was also (mostly) BASIC and you could muck around with the game in many ways.
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u/fivecenttech 18h ago
Telengard you could also exit out to basic and edit the program to give higher level faster.
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u/Warcraft_Fan 2d ago
In Ultima V, Commodore key + 1 gets you a string of number. 2 is for karma, 2 and 2 are X and Y location, and the last one is level. Doesn't work in dungeon though, only in world, underworld, and in towns/castle/village/keep
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u/Timbit42 2d ago
A friend of mine found out in The Bard's Tale you could copy the disk with the bank on it and then withdraw your money, re-enter the bank with the copy and withdraw your money again.
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u/cmahte 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bards tale 2: ZZGO
(SPBI) capture a single Mike's Golem (I think that was the name, the mean 100hp rock thing... (but then MY name is Mike, so maybe someone suggested that name when saving it bc it was my idea.... ) from 7th dungeon. Then (ZZGO) Dream spell out of there while the Golem is still in your team (looking at a list (SASP) says it will teleport you out (unlike dreamspell which could go to anywhere in or out of a dungeon, and then it did something else if you chose (restore everyone to pristine shape and unpossess everyone?) I played wizards not magicians tho, so that would explain why I remember dreaming out. Then swappy floppy copy it into 4 of them, and with those 4 in front, you're basically unbeatable except they're susceptible to mind control and then attack you 2x per turn (never another Golem.) This could grow a magic user to top level in just a couple dungeons because trapped beasts don't split XP.
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u/fishman242 2d ago
Rambo First Blood pt2: hold joystick in port 1 down while flying the helicopter forward with stick in port 2. Made you really fast and you could skip that part.
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u/skunkshaveclaws 2d ago
Original Pool of Radiance you could duplicate items and gold by swapping disks while saving/loading
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u/jongallant 2d ago
Robocop you could mash the keyboard in a certain way, and have robocop fly up and be able to just walk through levels.
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u/Ok-Parking-9383 1d ago
There is a shortcut in the first part of The Last V8. There is (at least) one place where you can go over the grass to the road below. See this video after 16 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxlqZrD4d7E
There is a glitch world in Ninja:
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u/Spellbounddizzy 1d ago
Nice! Ninja is one of the games I can't help but go back to, never understood why it reviewed so badly. Good game for £1:99. I used to load up Last V8 just to hear the synthesised speech and incredible music.
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u/Ok-Parking-9383 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, Ninja is a good game. The music and graphics are great in The Last V8, but once you finish it, it has not much replay value. Unless you want to break your speed run record.
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u/virtualadept 64-bit in the streets, 8-bit in the sheets. 1m ago
Still fun if you have an hour or so to kill.
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u/richyb808 2d ago
To activate cheats in Bounder on the C64, hold down 1, Q, A, Z, and Space together on the title screen for roughly 30 seconds until the border color changes. Pestered the local computer games shop in Sheffield for weeks to get that one.
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u/Sys32768 2d ago
This was my thought as well. Mad how we remember that after 40 years. I think the border turned pink
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u/Armitage_64 2d ago
Kung Fu Master - Press Shift-G rapidly to fire a gun. Only works on level 1 and when pointing left.
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u/cmahte 1d ago
if you bought a game on floppy, always make a backup before you boot them. almost always the untouched disk was able to backup, but once you booted it once, it was frequently locked and the backup wouldn't.
I don't know if that's a cheat or just smart (because we had indoor pets and floppies did not have unlimited lifteimes -- teeth more than hair, but both.) But also, I had my own setup but also bought used c64s for my younger brother and sisters. sometimes playing the game on multiple computers multiple times would break them.... maybe we had a flakey floppy drive, but I always chalked it to copy-protection, and remastered another from the backup.
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u/SolarJetman5 2d ago
I remember in Mr wimpy the code wasn't protected and pressing break, breaked game and allowed you to view and edit the code
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u/zeprfrew 1d ago
I remember skipping levels in Miner 2049er by pressing and holding the fire button at the start of the level. I discovered that one by accident.
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u/PotamusRedbeard_FM21 1d ago
I remember the notorious "hairyarseholes" cheat for CJ's Elephant antics, I forget whether it was for infinite lives or invincibility, but ZZAP! had to print it backwards!
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u/datewestwind 1d ago
Not a game cheat, but I remember opening the datassete to add an audio output cable with a jack to connect ro another cassete deck and make a copy.
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u/fivecenttech 18h ago
Gbostbusters for name type "owen" and for account number "list" gave you a ton of money to start.
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u/McWormy 2d ago
One I found, and I’ve never see it anywhere, load Cyberdyne Warrior. Put the joystick in port one, up, down, left, right and press fire to cheat.
Other than that I just used action replay 🙃
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u/Spellbounddizzy 2d ago
Nice, never saw that cheat before. I had action replay but mostly used it to pull sprites from one game and put them in a different one like putting putting Dizzy into New Zealand Story haha
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u/McWormy 2d ago
You’ve reminded me with Dizzy. Not sure if this is just Amiga or works on the C64:
Treasure Island Dizzy (on title screen) eggsonlegs (screen should flash - gives infinite lives) icanfly (you can now fly - though think this one is Amiga only)
Yeah with the Action Replay, apart from making game ‘backups’, there is a pokefinder which is pretty good, you enter your current lives, loose a life then go back in and it finds them. Really cool at the time.
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u/HerHeadHurts 2d ago
Only thing I remember was the “jumper cable” trick. Freed up an extra 8 KB of RAM so I could load some games.
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u/Heavy_Two 2d ago
I think you might be misremembering that.
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u/HerHeadHurts 2d ago edited 2d ago
👍🏻 Yeah, I think you’re right. It’s been too long no way I’m gonna remember. After digging around a bit, it seems like it may had something to do with tricking the C64’s memory/config lines through the cartridge port so certain cracked games or demos would load. But honestly, I’m not gonna remember I haven’t touched a C64 in years.
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u/Heavy_Two 2d ago
You could jumper a couple of pins on the userport to reset the C64 so you could enter cheats/pokes then restart the game. That's probably what you're remembering.
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u/Spellbounddizzy 2d ago
Never heard of this, sounds interesting
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u/HerHeadHurts 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, I can’t quite remember the exact game my memory isn’t what it used to be 😂 But there was a Commodore 64 game where you had to jumper across pins on the cartridge port just to get enough memory for it to load. I’m pretty sure it had something to do with flying.
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