Re: Arkanoid II GS cheat codes?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Zorin the Lynx <yakko@zorin.org> wrote:

>Hey folks,
>
>Alright, this is sorta a silly question.. but anyone have cheat codes 
>for Arkanoid II for IIgs? It's a blast to play, but I hate having to 
>start all the way from the first board when I lose all my lives! I want 
>to spend time playing the more advanced boards. Replaying what I've 
>already played 50 times over starts to get boring.
>
>So if anyone remembers cheat codes for this game, let me know.

    I don't believe there were any built-in cheat codes in Arkanoid II,
however Nathan Mates' GameHacker CDA did support it, at least
for providing unlimited lives. There were almost certainly other 
patches and cheats written but I can't remember them off hand.

    Bullwinkle Moose did release a modified version of Arkanoid II
with extensive cheat options, everything from skipping levels to 
forcing specific power-pills to drop by pressing corresponding keys.
The only catch is it came on an early beta version of the game 
(stolen from the 1988 Consumer Electronics Show) so it wasn't 
quite as finished and had bug glitches. I may still have it here,
somewhere.

    It's also worth noting there's a built-in level editor in Arkanoid II
which is accessed by pressing the "c" key. You can jump to any
level (excluding "boss" levels) and play test it. At any rate, below
is the download link for the final version of GameHacker CDA:

ftp://ftp.gno.org/pub/apple2/gs.specific/games/patches/gamehacker/gamehak147.shk

Mitchell Spector