: Here’s hoping I can win the prize for least relevant post of the year.
: I was binging the Story Page, as folks with a tad too much time on their
: hands are wont to do, when I noticed a curious detail. Despite the Cheat
: Codes page claiming that by and large, proper codes don’t exist outside
: of the Marathon 1 Beta, Hamish mentioned that he used a cheat code
: (BUTTHEAD, in order to remove weapons, supposedly) on Day 5 of the
: Undiscovered Secrets investigation of the Windows 95 version of M2.
: So do cheat codes exist after all? Are they exclusive to the Win 95
: version of the game? Is this misapprehension due to my dearth of
: reading comprehension (a most likely culprit)? Or is all of this a joke
: gone over my head?
: Of course, none of this really matters, since I would be mildly surprised
: to find that anybody has played the Win95 version of the game in recent
: months, so the only thing being serviced here is my idle curiosity.
: Irregardless, if any of you guys can remember back to ye olden days, a
: further look into this matter would be appreciated.
To my knowledge, no, it was a joke; the Windows 95 version didn’t have cheat codes. The closest thing to a cheat code in any version of the game was in vanilla Marathon 1, actually. It isn’t reproduced in Aleph One (even running the vanilla M1 files), though it does also work in vanilla Pathways into Darkness (but not AOPID). More information is available on th~~`~xffsfxfsf
(I think BUTTHEAD was also most likely a joke, BTW.)
