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Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by stavros »

dguest wrote: post #93
rhema wrote: post #27

9 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you COULD if it were the computer player. The "hack": -start a game with a normal tank VS ultra computer player as p2. -save the game (as a file). -open the game file. -read the ASCII text and just flip which player has which text. Now, I had my…

I "hacked" Cap'n Hector in Escape Velocity. The game was shareware and he'd show up to ask you to pay the fee. After the trial period he'd start lobbing missiles at you. There was a basic editor you could open to adjust all the ship stats and weapons, so while you couldn't turn him friendly you could at least de-claw him. I remember thinking it was weird how "easy" it was to work around, but it's hard to imagine the…

Also, if the game is single-player, you don't care: Simply let the players enjoy the game how they want to enjoy it.

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by LocalH »

stavros wrote: post #121
dguest wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I "hacked" Cap'n Hector in Escape Velocity. The game was shareware and he'd show up to ask you to pay the fee. After the trial period he'd start lobbing missiles at you. There was a basic editor you could open to adjust all the ship stats and weapons, so while you couldn't turn him friendly you could at least de-claw him. I remember thinking it was weird how "easy" it was to work around, but it's hard to imagine the…

Also, if the game is single-player, you don't care: Simply let the players enjoy the game how they want to enjoy it.

Shigeru Miyamoto feels personally attacked by your comment :)

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by flyinghamster »

r721 wrote: post #104

There exists 3D version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_3D http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

Back in the early 2000s, that scene was HOPPING. A whole bunch of mods were around, some of which seem to have disappeared, particularly Armored Warfare Evolved.

A couple of things happened (at least to my perception): a bug cropped up in the Apocalypse mod where hitting a small shop would cause it to burn for over a minute, disrupting multi-player game play, and on the servers there was an invasion by trolls complete with Nazi avatars, who drove players away (myself included).

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by LocalH »

microtonal wrote: post #112
HerbManic wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While not the first hack by a long shot and not even mine but I always loved the idea of how it worked. There used to be program called Gamehack or something like that. Essentially you would start the game and point this application at said game in RAM, then take note of something like the score being "187" or whatever. Jump into 'Gamehack' and it would search for everything in memory with that value. You would then…

This reminds me of Game Genie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie They really markted that well has having to enter codes, but of course, they were just ROM addresses + values to pretend to be at those addresses.

Obfuscated, however, because they didn't really want people being able to properly make their own codes.

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by LocalH »

ticulatedspline wrote: post #70

Mother of all games. Played so much SE when I was younger, one of my all time favs. This version is ok but I prefer the original which is easy enough to run via dos-box, emulators of similar ilk or even online in a few places: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Scorched_Earth_1991 https://dos.zone/scorched-earth/ https://www.playdosgames.com/play/scorched-earth I loved turning the explosion to the max and launching Nu…

Scorched Tanks on Amiga got decently close

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by krupan »

meshko wrote: post #17
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #11

A related page: Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games http://www.whicken.com/scorch/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092060 )

yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.

It had multiplayer, as long as you were all sitting at the same computer:-)

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by stavros »

LocalH wrote: post #122
stavros wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, if the game is single-player, you don't care: Simply let the players enjoy the game how they want to enjoy it.

Shigeru Miyamoto feels personally attacked by your comment :)

I gave myself a million lives in Super Mario and there's nothing Miyamoto can do about it!

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by krupan »

Original scorch had a text file with all the sayings the tanks would "shout" out just before firing. Trading those around on BBSes was part of the fun. I still remember, "from Hell's heart I stab at thee!" which is probably from some classic literature that I don't know, lol!
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