> Cheats have even helped with the classic games. I would only imagine that Don Hodges made all of those bug fixes by using cheats to access those stages; imagine how long it would take to complete 255 stages of Pac-Man or Dig Dug, or the DK kill screen, without cheating or warping straight there (and yes, using Pac-Man's rack test to skip stages is also considered cheating!).
IIRC, Don Hodges only analysed (Z80) game code and saw what was wrong there ...
But it's true that good cheats are useful to see that a game is playable till its end (when there is one of course) ...
Steph from The Ultimate Patchers
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