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McHale
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Re: How are users supposed to know how each hack alters the game?
12/17/14 10:34 PM


> Unless you are the author of a hack, how are users supposed to know how the hack
> alters the game?

Well, most of the hacks (especially for the golden age roms) are graphical or easily identifiable hacks (like the different mazes in Pac-Man or Elton John glasses on Pac-Man. I would say a large majority of them are identifiable by name alone. In many cases, the original zips had a text file which detailed the hack. I have some of the hacks from when they first came out and have the original zips. Many contain readme files.

A .dat file wouldn't be a bad thing but it would take a lot of work to create one and for most games, unnecessary.

-Mc

Edited by McHale (12/22/14 08:38 AM)







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* How are users supposed to know how each hack alters the game? Big Karnak 12/17/14 08:48 AM
. * This has been asked before RobbbertModerator  12/17/14 11:25 PM
. * Re: How are users supposed to know how each hack alters the game? McHale  12/17/14 10:34 PM
. * Re: How are users supposed to know how each hack alters the game? Traso  12/20/14 08:19 PM
. * Re: How are users supposed to know how each hack alters the game? McHale  12/22/14 08:39 AM
. * Re: How are users supposed to know how each hack alters the game? B2K24  12/17/14 05:13 PM

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