Beware that if you do this on a two player game, it is very The challenging stages repeat after 7 (i beleive that's right, could be 8),Īnd when you make it to the 255th level, you should have in excess of 4*10^5
Long as ten minutes of avoiding missles before you get the third cycle. Of them before they escape through the bottom of the screen. On the third such cycle, you must shoot both What you are looking for is a cycle when neither of The trick is to have just the two blue ones circulate, and watch The 'Y' are the yellow ones (or whatever colour they are) and the 'B' are theīlue ones. Two blue ones in the first collumn, at the bottom of the screen, it is On the first or second screenfull of aliens, kill all of them, except the > OK, how do you get the Galaga aliens to stop shooting at you until wave 256?
BECOME SOMEONE GAME CHEAT ARCHIVE
A quick search of Google’s USENET archive will show some posts talking about the cheat as early as 1985 - here is one: Mikel Manitius
However, there may have been posts on USENET, which is archived by Goggle Groups. And of course, the BBS has long been retired like all other BBSes. I remember learning the Galaga cheat by reading something on a local computer Bulletin Board System (BBS) in the 1980s (can’t remember when). However, if the cheat was widely known shortly after the game’s release, then it is very very likely that it was a planned cheat by someone at Namco…. Chance happens after all, and Galaga was an extremely popular game. Of course, without hard evidence, we just don’t know. It isn’t likely that someone in the 1980s would have poured a ton of quarters in the machine to try weird things over and over again to find a loophole. You can’t just move your ship to the right and leave it there for 10-15 minutes because enemy shots occasionally come from the right to kill you - so if someone discovered this by chance, they would have had to spend 10-15 minutes dodging two enemies that just happened to be the right two. Someone would have had to kill everything but the left two enemies, and then dodged fire for 10-15 minutes.
Others then discovered the cheat when they watched him play the game at an arcade.Ĭonsidering that this cheat is very obscure, it is unlikely something that was discovered by chance. It is rumoured on the Internet that a Namco programmer added the design flaw (or discovered the design flaw and kept it secret) to ensure that he could always get the high score when he visited an arcade. But, was this intentional or not? All cheats must be subtle to pass validation -)
BECOME SOMEONE GAME CHEAT CODE
The mystery about this cheat is that no-one knows if it was a bug or an actual cheat that someone from Namco added prior to releasing the arcade game.Ĭhristopher Cantrell examined a ROM dump of the game back in 2005 and picked apart the code - you can read his analysis here: What he found was that the cheat was caused by a subtle design flaw in the logic of the game that allows the two left (or right) bees to fill up and clog a shot buffer used by enemy Galaga. Since Galaga was one of the most popular games of the 1980s, people definitely wanted to get the high scores on it -) What this means is that you can get some pretty sweet high scores on Galaga arcade machines if you are patient. At this point, you can safely kill them and no enemies will fire at you for the remainder of the game (they can still crash into you to kill you though). If you destroy all of the enemies on Stage 1 except for the left two enemies (shown to the right), then dodge their fire for about 10-15 minutes, they stop firing at you. In the classic arcade game Galaga (1981), there is a well-known cheat for those who are patient.
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