textfiles/games/backdoor.txt

February 20 1989 
 
 
This is  BACKDOR1.arc   ... the first in a series of  
"back doors" to various games.  The source of this info is 
various magazines, and I have paraphrased the articles. 
 
Note that "back door" refers NOT to regular game hints on 
how to play better, but to a way to CHEAT, usually put 
there by the programmer, sometimes caused by a bug.  Usually 
you'll be made invincible if it's an arcade-type game, or  
be able to advance quicker if an adventure game.  
 
Most of these "back door" and "side door" hints are out of 
a GREAT magazine for the Amiga, C64, and C128:  INFO. 
It's a grass-roots, down to earth magazine - the first 
magazine about personal computers to be be entirely done on 
personal computers.  That's "Where It's At".   
 
You owe it to yourself to subscribe to INFO. 
With the exception of most of the ads, everything including 
color screen shots and photos are digitally created, edited, 
composed, printed, and color separated as complete assembled 
pages on 14 Amiga computers running Professional Page (and 
many many other Amiga software products), and output to a 
Linotronic L300 typesetting device at 1235 dots per inch! 
INFO doesn't cover programming techniques, but in my opinion 
it out-shines all the other Commodore mags for news, honest 
opinion, game reviews, and reviews of all C= software. 
 
George Knochel, Lakewood Colorado 
 
 
 
ALL GAMES:  connect a genlock to the Amiga and leave it on 
while playing games, and they'll play 25% slower, which 
allows you to score high.  
 
 
 
ARKANOID 
 
Get into the back door this way:  boot and run the game as 
usual, then select a start screen and begin game.  Press the 
space bar to pause, and type in  DSIMAGIC  (no spaces, and  
don't press Return).  Press the space bar to unpause. 
 
Now a yellow Power capsule named  DS  will fall down.  Catch 
it.  Now you can get any power capsule you want any time. 
Press the first letter of the capsule you want, and it will 
fall down for you to catch:  
  Break  Catch  Disruption  Expand  Laser  Player  Slow 
Catch some Player capsules first to get extra lives. 
 
You can also use two capsules at the same time, like Disrupt 
the ball into three balls, and use Lasers also. 
 
Pressing the  F  key will send you to the Finsl screen where 
you fight DOH, the Dominion Over Hour monster on the cover 
 of the package.  You'll need lots of lives first. 
 
Skip over any screen by pressing  Enter  on the keypad, or  
get through the screen fast (with points too) using a Break 
capsule. 
 
 
 
ARKANOID II 
 
On the high score screen, type in the name  DEBBIE S   
(with the space), and you'll have infinite lives.   
 
 
 
BARBARIAN 
 
Boot and run the game as usual, but at some point after the 
game has started, type in:  04-08-59   ...It will make the 
Barbarian character almost invincible, but he can still be 
killed by very high falls, and by the flame-hurling horned 
demon in the dungeon deep, pictured on the cover. 
 
After you type  04-08-59  the screen will turn gray, telling 
you that you're invincible. 
 
Once you make it to Necron, you must have a shield.  Face  
Necron when he turns to face you.  When he throws a fireball 
at you, press the defense button as it hits your shield. 
 
 
 
BARD'S TALE 
 
How to hoard millions in gold without trying:  Load your 
party, go to the stats screen for the first player.  Pool 
all of the party's gold to the first player, then remove 
him from the party, then load him back in.  Then pool the 
gold to another player.  Repeat this for each player. 
 
Then turn off the computer without saving the game.  Reboot 
and ezch player will have gold equal to the TOTAL the party 
had before.  Repeat if you're really greedy ! 
 
 
 
BETTER DEAD THAN ALIEN 
 
If you are just about to be hit by an alien or a bomb, press 
the ESC key to pause, move your ship out of the way, then 
press  N  to resume the action. 
 
Type  CHAMP  on the options screen, then press the  HELP 
key.  You'll be shown a list of cheat keys. 
 
 
 
CAPONE 
 
To find the "special bonus", go to the front of the Post 
Office.  Shoot the ball at the top of the flag pole, and  
your score will go way up.  If you shoot it again, you'll 
see a screen of the programmers!  Shoot again and you'll be 
invincible, standing in the bank.  At the end of that round, 
you will start at the beginning, except you'll be in warp 
speed. 
 
 
 
DEFENDER OF THE CROWN 
 
To get 1,024 Knights:  After conquering a territory, press 
these four keys at the same time, while the drive is still  
running:  H J K L  ... If you do it just right, you'll have 
1,024 knights both in your home and in your army.  Hey, this 
is good stuff! 
 
Another way was reported in which to get 1,024 Knights, but 
it doesn't seem to work:  After first picking the knight, 
when Robin Hood appears, type PATTERSON over and over until 
the map of England appears.  Don't press the Return key.   
If this trick doesn't work the first time, try again.   
I was only able to get this to work most of the time if, 
before typing  PATTERSON  over and over, I first typed in 
my name with no spaces:  GEORGEKNOCHEL   Yep, Twilight Zone! 
 
Another good trick for Defender of the Crown, for sword 
fighting, is to get the PD program called FUN-BUT 
(fun button), which when run lets you press the F1 key 
continuously instead of clicking on the mouse. 
(but then this is a hint, not a back door). 
 
 
 
DRAGON'S LAIR 
 
This will demo the ENTIRE game (about 18 minutes worth or a 
disk I/O error, whichever comes first).  You can't play it, 
just watch the whole game:  After the credits have finished 
loading, and are being displayed (the red light will still 
be on, but no loading is occurring), press the following six 
(6) keys, simultaneously:   <ESC> R / L N 7    
Yes, all at the same time (use your nose if ya have to - 
just press ESC and hold, then press R and hold, etc.).  
The screen will flash if you did it right.  THEN PRESS THE 
FIRE BUTTON on your joystick.  Sit back and watch all the 
animation.  (I couldn't - my disk 5 had an I/O error) 
 
 
 
DUNGEON MASTER 
 
To advance Ninjas a level, stand in a hall and throw all 
your weapons, then get them and repeat.  This also works 
with magic and Fighter levels:  cast a spell at the air, 
or slash and bash until you gain a level. 
 
 
 
F/A-18 INTERCEPTOR 
 
Select option "2 Free Flight, no enemy confrontation" from 
the main menu.  Then select zero instead of 1 to 4.  The 
screen will go into a spiral and scroll way south to 34 by 
117 degrees, placing your plane somewhere without a runway. 
To take off you have to use the afterburners.  117 degrees 
is the furthest south you'll be able to fly, but you can go 
in other directions.  (Is there more to this back door? hmm) 
 
 
 
FAERY TALE ADVENTURE 
 
Sometimes you can accumulate all the treasure you want by 
going near the item, press space bar, and keep pressing 'T'. 
You'll receive an infinite supply of that treasure. 
 
Save your position in a dungeon.  Then go through it until 
you don't have anymore keys.  Restore your position.  All  
doors already opened will still be open, and you'll have a 
new supply of keys.  Repeat if needed.  Also works in cave. 
 
Jump on the turtle and start slashing.  Your bravery points 
will go up to infinity, but doesn't hurt the turtle or you. 
 
On the island with the Crystal Castle, press the right mouse 
button while talking to the Sorceress and your luck will go 
to 65.  "Ask"ing the Sorceress several times will normally 
boost your luck. 
 
If running low on green keys, use a secret entrance for the 
fort - it is on the left side, almost even with the door. 
 
 
HYBRIS 
 
Boot game and don't do anything until the high scores screen 
appears.  Then type COMMANDER and click the fire button. 
When it starts, wait a few moments and press the F10 key. 
If the extensions of your ship get flickery or glimmer, 
you're now invincible and have unlimited expansions and 
smart bombs.  Get to the other 6 levels of expansions by 
pressing F1 through F5 when you're in unexpanded mode, or 
capture the special "capsules" in the usual way.  Move to  
other game levels (there are three) with the F8 key, and 
turn invincibility off or on with the F10 key.  No High 
scores are collected when you're invincible. 
 
 
 
KARATE KID II 
 
Press the  P  key in single player mode to be taken to the 
next screen.  You can go as far as the Final Encounter.  In 
2-player mode, you can go to the next-to-the-last screen. 
 
 
 
LEISURE SUIT LARRY 
 
Press ALT and X at the same time to bypass the proof-of-age 
questions. 
 
 
 
STARGLIDER  (not Starglider II): 
 
Boot and play as usual until launched and ready to do 
battle.  Then slow down until completely stopped in  
space.  Press the F1 key to turn on the fixed sight, and 
press the backspace key to pause the game.  Now type: 
    js[space]arg[space]s     You should now be invincible! 
You'll know you're in invincible mode when you can 
repeatedly press the  P  key and get additional missiles (up 
to 9).  If the password didn't take the first time, try 
again.  To may have to dock and re-exit for it to work. 
Once invincible, your fuel will remain constant and shields 
will never be depleted. 
 
Also, a secret built-in 3D object viewer running in the  
background is available by pressing the  z  key once you've 
entered the invincible mode.  Use the keyboard to pause [p], 
select [, and .] and manipulate objects - use all keys 
 except q and ESC.  Use the mouse to change point of view 
and magnification and hold down the right button.  .... 
 
 
 
STARGLIDER II 
 
Once the game has started, press  F  for fixed sights and 
then slow the ship to a halt.  Press BACKSPACE to pause, and 
type the words:  WERE ON A MISSION FROM GOD      (really!) 
(The article did not have the apostrophe  '  in We're ...) 
 
Then press  1  (one) on the keyboard (not keypad).  Your 
shield and energy levels will drop to a fixed point.  Press 
the letter  K  to get all the weapons in the game, including 
the neutron bomb.  If you run low on weapons, you can get 
them all back by repeating the process.  Onward into battle, 
young soldiers! 
 
 
 
SWORD OF SODAN 
 
Type  NANCY  then press RETURN on the high scores screen for 
unlimited lives! 
 
 
 
TEST DRIVE 
 
Holding down the joystick button while going around curves 
prevents you from hitting the wall or going off the cliff. 
 
 
 
THREE STOOGES 
 
To really slow down "the hand" which selects the scenes, do 
the slapping game and pull Curly's ear: pull it continuously 
until the time runs out.  
 
 
 
XENON 
 
Let yourself be killed off at the beginning of the 2nd stage 
of the 2nd level, and all aliens in the round are destroyed. 
 
 
 
Press [ENTER] to continue... 
 
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