diff --git a/docs/_posts/2024-09-20-cheats.md b/docs/_posts/2024-09-20-cheats.md index 3c30a03..418ac7f 100644 --- a/docs/_posts/2024-09-20-cheats.md +++ b/docs/_posts/2024-09-20-cheats.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ According to Backdoor Cheats, 5 April 1995, there is a cheat in Knightmare: Testing it by memory-editing in apples and rabbit pies appears to show that the cheat is completely fake. While I haven't fully verified it yet in the game -code, this cheat appears to be false. +code, in the context of other research, this cheat appears to be false. ### Source @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ known version of this cheat: > > Throw all five apples into the quest shield and then make each character > consume two rabbit pies from the inventory screen. Now continue with your -> quest and you should find tha your hit points never go down! +> quest and you should find that your hit points never go down! The language used clearly shows that this is an ancestor of the popularly circulated version; e.g. "involves the woodland section on the first level". @@ -38,18 +38,9 @@ circulated version; e.g. "involves the woodland section on the first level". Given that it's the magazine's April 1st issue, it seems likely that this was a fake. The submitter's name is also a clue: "Uli Ingit" = "U lie, innit". -The cheat nevertheless circulated to other magazines. _Zero_ issue 34, August -(1992, at best guess), page 56: - -> Here's a bit of a tip to make this game less of a nightmare to play (not that -> it is a nightmare in the first place, you understand). Er... anyway, in the -> woods on the first section, use your spade to find five apples. Take the -> apples and hurl them at the quest shield on hanging on the wall, then make -> each of your group eat two rabbit pies from the inventory screen - whether -> they like them or not! Now your hit points won't sap your energy levels. - -_The One_ May 1995, page 72, repeated the cheat, exactly as worded in _Backdoor_ -but with correct spelling: +The cheat nevertheless circulated to other magazines and cheat disks. +[Postcard Man's cheats list](https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/26759/AmigaElysianArchive.iso/games/spoil/pmcheats.lha/pmcheats.txt) +added a version of the cheat between 10 February 1992 and 16 July 1992: > This cheat involves the woodland section on the first level. Use the spade to > help you find the five apples. Take these apples and throw them at the quest @@ -60,7 +51,28 @@ but with correct spelling: Note how it's slightly re-worded from the _Games-X_ version, erroneously interpreting that there are only five apples in the section. +It was re-phrased in _Zero_ issue 34, August (1992, at best guess), page 56: + +> Here's a bit of a tip to make this game less of a nightmare to play (not that +> it is a nightmare in the first place, you understand). Er... anyway, in the +> woods on the first section, use your spade to find five apples. Take the +> apples and hurl them at the quest shield on hanging on the wall, then make +> each of your group eat two rabbit pies from the inventory screen - whether +> they like them or not! Now your hit points won't sap your energy levels. + +The Postcard Man wording of the cheat was repeated in this form in various +cheats disks and magazines, including _The Ultimate Cheat Disk_ dated 10 June +1993; _The One_ May 1995, page 72; and _Backdoor Cheats_, the latter of which +added misspellings. A +[Discmaster search](https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?q=%22quest+shield%22&qfields=filename&qfields=ext&qfields=content&sortBy=ts) +shows it repeated in various cheats compendiums between 1992 and 2001, including +some repeating the misspelling "KNIGHMARE". + ![Quest One: The Shield of Justice](../images/Knightmare_quest_1.png "Quest One: The Shield of Justice"){:width="640" height="400"} +{:.center} The phrase "quest shield" presumably refers to the Treguard thing on the wall -in the woodland area, which reads "Quest One: The Shield of Justice". +in the woodland area, which reads "Quest One: The Shield of Justice". A +particular quirk to all of the versions of the cheat is the claim that you have +to eat from the inventory screen, but in _Knightmare_ you eat from the main +screen by equipping the food in a hand.