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Okay this is random but it came into my memory today after reminiscing with a friend earlier about the GOOD OL DAYZ of arcades and how much money we wasted on various games. Eventually the topic came to D&D: Shadow over Mystara which we both played a metric shitload of whenever it was available. Great game. It was basically two arcade cabinets put side to side, the one I played on may have been a retouched Tower of Doom one I can't remember but it was big enough to kill an entire playground of children.
Anyways, I remember back in the day while waiting for turns or just sitting there drinking a Coke I'd watch this group of Asian teens play SOM and they would always have this glitch or cheat activated. I have no idea what the fuck hocus-pocus they did, they never spoke English, and even if they did I get the feeling they'd be dicks about it since they were insular little fucks. Here's what I can vaguely recall from memory:
-It may have had something to do with the "name your character" screen. They had some way they would be able to run the timer up a couple seconds by hitting some combination of buttons or having some special name selected, I genuinely don't know. I do know they could run the timer up though.
-The big thing about this glitch/cheat is they'd be completely invincible to just about everything in the game. Regular attacks, magic attacks, I'm not sure about instant death like the dragonfire but anything else they'd never die to. The most health I'd see them lose is maybe like 20% of their lifebar before it refused to budge. I assume, again, this health loss only occurs because they need to have done something in the "name your character" screen to make their character invincible so they likely got smacked up until that screen came up.
-Another big thing is I'm pretty sure picking up some items would completely crash the game. The one I remember most was the Orb. If somebody picked it up then the screen would suddenly go into this teal/greenish color and hang there until it was reset by the people in control of the arcade. This made the owners hate these Asians by the way and after a few months told them to fuck off.
Does anybody know how to replicate this?
Anyways, I remember back in the day while waiting for turns or just sitting there drinking a Coke I'd watch this group of Asian teens play SOM and they would always have this glitch or cheat activated. I have no idea what the fuck hocus-pocus they did, they never spoke English, and even if they did I get the feeling they'd be dicks about it since they were insular little fucks. Here's what I can vaguely recall from memory:
-It may have had something to do with the "name your character" screen. They had some way they would be able to run the timer up a couple seconds by hitting some combination of buttons or having some special name selected, I genuinely don't know. I do know they could run the timer up though.
-The big thing about this glitch/cheat is they'd be completely invincible to just about everything in the game. Regular attacks, magic attacks, I'm not sure about instant death like the dragonfire but anything else they'd never die to. The most health I'd see them lose is maybe like 20% of their lifebar before it refused to budge. I assume, again, this health loss only occurs because they need to have done something in the "name your character" screen to make their character invincible so they likely got smacked up until that screen came up.
-Another big thing is I'm pretty sure picking up some items would completely crash the game. The one I remember most was the Orb. If somebody picked it up then the screen would suddenly go into this teal/greenish color and hang there until it was reset by the people in control of the arcade. This made the owners hate these Asians by the way and after a few months told them to fuck off.
Does anybody know how to replicate this?
