Windows XP Pinball Cheat. Im lovin' it.

The Cheat [space cadet]
Okay, first up for those who perhaps are not so interested in spending many hours trawling through pages and pages of assembler code, I’ll skip straight to the good bits and give you a run down of the sneaky CHEAT_MODE I found hidden in the pinball game included with windows XP.

Load up the game and type the words hidden test. Looks pretty normal? Well, as your ball is flyin’ ’round, click on the pinball machine. Drag your mouse around. The ball follows your every command - blatantly ignoring the laws of gravity we have come to expect it to follow!

There’s more too. The “hidden test” mode has a bunch of functions put in there to help the developers out during the game’s creation. Here’s ones I found, or can see in the code:

h: Shows the high-score table, with an entry of 1,000,000,000 for you to put your name next to.
m: Shows the amount of system memory
r: Increases your “rank” in the game
y: Shows the game frame rate in the title
These ones I can see are trapped in the code, but I can’t see what they do:
b, F11, F12, F15 (how do you do that? Key code 0x7E)

Original link

Good thing to play when you're really bored.

Interesting but somehow it doesn't work for me..

Works for me, really run for some reason.

u gotta put the space in between the letter. ahah this is cool

Interesting stuff. I wanted to quit at this high score, but even if I tried to make my pinball into the dreaded hole after six attempts, the ball still keeps coming back and I don't even know if there's a limit.

Wow, never thought it would work for me. Nice.

Interesting stuff. I wanted to quit at this high score, but even if I tried to make my pinball into the dreaded hole after six attempts, the ball still keeps coming back and I don't even know if there's a limit.

The same thing happened to me too. I'll never cheat again!

works for me, pretty fun when u r bored

Not really, it's boring in itself by cheating because nothing gets accomplished in the end

it isn't working for me

never mind I got it to work

it did get old
i stopped after 20 million. lol

Does anyone actually play Windows XP pinball regularly?

And just wondering, what is your high score (without cheating).

1,000,000 something, played on my laptop while travelling on the plane.

6,300,000 approximately. I was pretty bored.

Last edited by H Rock on Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

my hightest is 4566750

6,300,00 approximately. I was pretty bored.

That's impossible.

no it isn't if i played enough i could do it every day

You're stupider, no, just as stupid as you look. Take another look at that number you wrote.

what do you mean by that?

6,300,00

Don't tell me you don't see what's wrong there.

opps thought it was 6,300,000

OK, I made a mistake. So what?

That's impossible.

Actually, it's very do-able. All it takes is a few hours of practice.