Two cheats for Eclipse: First Wave Directors Cut

[Guest markhammill]

While I was at the meet on Saturday I remembered to mention to Midnight that while I was playing Eclipse 1.3x I somehow gained infinite lives.

It turns out there are in fact two cheat which were put there to aid testing of later levels: infinite Lives and Level Skip

It must be very simple to enable as I came across it by mistake.

Any ideas?

[Guest mike-oh]

I keep thinking about destroying all the asteroids on the first level to see if that will unlock a cheat, never tried it but it seems it might be possible.

[Guest markhammill]

From what I gathered from Midnight there are only two cheats and they are activated by key presses before the game starts

[Guest mike-oh]

Ahhhh, just aswell cos i've just had a go at the asteroids and there is NO way that can be done!

[Guest markhammill]

Good point

[Guest muff]

all asteroids can be destroyed, it's just not easy :D

perhaps the other suggestion is a better way to go tho :lol:

[Guest blewer]

perhaps the other suggestion is a better way to go tho :D

Come on muff, more hints needed :lol:

[Guest beersoft]

i know what the cheats are, and im open for bribes :lol:

later

Owen

[Guest markhammill]

I might know as well, and I'm not letting beersoft beat me to it :twisted:

Press the correct button while loading to activate the cheat.

If you get infinite lives the version number changes to 1.31

If you get level skip the version number changes to 1.32

Good luck mike-oh maybe you can beat beersoft to it.

[Guest NIGHTMARE]

does it work with the demo?

[Guest markhammill]

Sorry don't know

There aren't many buttons or directions though so it shouldn't take long to work out.

[Guest midnight]

you need infinite lives in the demo :shock:

[Guest muff]

nah, he wants the level skip for the 1 level demo :lol:

[Guest beersoft]

i thought to skip to the next bit of the demo all you had to do was die 3 times?

later

Owen

[Guest mavisdavis]

well i must of tried every single button now and i can't fine it :lol: Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest midnight]

Right then, Mark is correct, the version number changes when the cheat is activated, so, the only place you can see the version number is while loading, meaning you must press a button while the game is loading (if you left it until it loaded then its too late), and the time to press it is as soon as the version number appears :lol:

(i know ive made it too easy now, but hidden in the above sentence are the keys you press :D)

Oh, and obviously the level skip cheat works by pressing a certain button while playing a level that will then skip you to the next level.

[Guest pwest13]

Right

left

late

late = 8 ? :lol:

[Guest Pondrew]

Wohoo! I got level skip to work!

Although now that I think of it, I prefered having to work at it as I did to get to level 5. Think I'll forget the cheat and do it the hard way...

[Guest midnight]

oh, by the way, if you cheat you dont get a high score :lol:

cant make it too easy now can we :D

[Guest ustguitarista]

is it possible to have both cheats enabled at the same time? unlimited lives while you skip level? :roll:

[Guest markhammill]

Only one cheat at a time :lol:

[Guest midnight]

correct, theres cheating, and theres killing off the game, this is why we didnt have an invulnerability cheat, if you want to see all the levels/level bosses etc you are still gonna have to play it :lol: