Article 27519 of rec.games.video: Newsgroups: rec.games.video Path: uwm.edu!wupost!uunet!morrow.stanford.edu!yawn!xris From: xris@yawn.Stanford.EDU (Chris Holt) Subject: Re: Road Rash Message-ID: <1992Feb20.224721.16711@morrow.stanford.edu> Followup-To: rec.games.video Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service) Reply-To: xris@yawn.Stanford.EDU (Chris Holt) Organization: Stanford University References: <1992Feb20.195034.26177@cco.caltech.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 22:47:21 GMT Lines: 49 Road Rash is indeed incredibly frustrating. I've made it to level 5, and placed on every course but Palm Desert. I had to do it all in one day, though. There is no way I can handle the last two levels unless I've played all day, and gotten accustomed to the courses with the Diablo. I can't memorize the courses, either. I just remember the places I tend to crash the most. Unfortunately, I got to Palm Desert at 1am, and I just couldn't concentrate enough to finish. I kept crashing in the easiest places. However, there is a way to make it MUCH easier to win. I don't use any cheats in games, but I know other people do, so here goes: The password has stores all the data of your game in it. Since there is no battery in the cart, that's pretty obvious. The first five numbers (the ones in the upper left) contain your placement in the five races at the current level. The first number in the last set of five numbers (bottom right) is the level you are on, and the second number is the bike you own (0 being your starting bike, 7 being the Diablo). Also encoded somehow is the number of tickets you get, your winnings, and maybe other things. Now, while you can't magically give yourself a better bike or go to a higher level (I believe the check bits to the code would be incorrect), you CAN switch your placement in one race for another race. For example, suppose you finished first on PCH for level 1. Your password would look something like this: 00001 2PT43 23RTU 10J32 To finish first on Palm Desert, just switch the 1 and the first zero and keep everything else the same: 10000 2PT43 23RTU 10J32 That is also a legal password. So in order to win, you just have to be able to place in the easiest of the five races (definitely PCH) five times on all five levels. I can't remember off hand which of the five numbers is PCH, but all you have to do is race PCH first and see which number is no longer 0 (unless you crash or get busted :-) If all you want to do is finish, this should help a lot. Even at level 5, PCH is not hard. I wish I could've figured out the rest of the password code. It's an interesting puzzle. Chris Holt, Fellow Rasher Article 27580 of rec.games.video: Newsgroups: rec.games.video Path: uwm.edu!linac!convex!constellation!spcoltri From: spcoltri@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Steve Coltrin) Subject: (password cheats in) Road Rash Message-ID: <1992Feb21.213853.12502@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: spcoltri@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Reply-To: spcoltri@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Organization: Department of Stormwater Mismanagement, Norman, OK References: <1992Feb20.195034.26177@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Feb20.224721.16711@morrow.stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 21:38:53 GMT xris@yawn.Stanford.EDU (Chris Holt) writes: >Road Rash is indeed incredibly frustrating. When the laws of physics change between levels? Bloody right... >However, there is a way to make it MUCH easier to win. I don't use any >cheats in games, but I know other people do, so here goes: >The password has stores all the data of your game in it. Since there is >no battery in the cart, that's pretty obvious. The first five numbers >(the ones in the upper left) contain your placement in the five races at >the current level. The first number in the last set of five numbers >(bottom right) is the level you are on, and the second number is the >bike you own (0 being your starting bike, 7 being the Diablo). Also >encoded somehow is the number of tickets you get, your winnings, and >maybe other things. Now, while you can't magically give yourself a >better bike or go to a higher level (I believe the check bits to the >code would be incorrect), you CAN switch your placement in one race for >another race. Actually, you can switch placements with either bike or level, and bike and level with each other. Furthermore, you are not limited to just swapping digits between these seven positions, but you can increment any one of them and decrement any other, and still have a valid password. >For example, suppose you finished first on PCH for level >1. Your password would look something like this: > 00001 2PT43 > 23RTU 10J32 If instead you finish _last_, you will get: 0000F ????? ????? 10??? which you can transform into: 11110 ????? ????? 57??? putting you at the last level, giving you a Diablo, and winning all but one race in one swell foop. (The entries marked ?, however, thou shalt leave alone; the checksum apparently keeps better watch over those digits or something.) >I wish I could've figured out the rest of the password code. It's an >interesting puzzle. Well, it obviously contains total winnings and current cash, as well as Natasha's attitude towards you, along with a (IMHO pitifully weak) checksum. I haven't thought of anything else I can prove it contains... arrest record? Your violence quota? (I haven't noticed these affecting game play, so I doubt they're encoded.) >Chris Holt, >Fellow Rasher -- spcoltri@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu unrepentant vi user "If it's in the manual, it's _not_ obscure." Article 930 of alt.sega.genesis: Newsgroups: alt.sega.genesis Path: uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate!sgi!decwrl!pa.dec.com!e2big.mko.dec.com!peavax.mlo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!msbcs.enet.dec.com!ski From: ski@msbcs.enet.dec.com (John Szczypinski) Subject: Re: Road Rash Message-ID: <1993Apr15.194928.28954@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Lines: 123 Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: coupon Reply-To: ski@msbcs.enet.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-3 References: Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 19:49:28 GMT Why not just make your own passwords, like everyone else? The articles below will explain how to do it. There is a similar way to modify passwords for Road Rash II as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article 26084 of rec.games.video: From: xris@yawn.Stanford.EDU (Chris Holt) Organization: Stanford University Subject: Re: Road Rash Date: 20 Feb 92 22:47:21 GMT Road Rash is indeed incredibly frustrating. I've made it to level 5, and placed on every course but Palm Desert. I had to do it all in one day, though. There is no way I can handle the last two levels unless I've played all day, and gotten accustomed to the courses with the Diablo. I can't memorize the courses, either. I just remember the places I tend to crash the most. Unfortunately, I got to Palm Desert at 1am, and I just couldn't concentrate enough to finish. I kept crashing in the easiest places. However, there is a way to make it MUCH easier to win. I don't use any cheats in games, but I know other people do, so here goes: The password has stores all the data of your game in it. Since there is no battery in the cart, that's pretty obvious. The first five numbers (the ones in the upper left) contain your placement in the five races at the current level. The first number in the last set of five numbers (bottom right) is the level you are on, and the second number is the bike you own (0 being your starting bike, 7 being the Diablo). Also encoded somehow is the number of tickets you get, your winnings, and maybe other things. Now, while you can't magically give yourself a better bike or go to a higher level (I believe the check bits to the code would be incorrect), you CAN switch your placement in one race for another race. For example, suppose you finished first on PCH for level 1. Your password would look something like this: 00001 2PT43 23RTU 10J32 To finish first on Palm Desert, just switch the 1 and the first zero and keep everything else the same: 10000 2PT43 23RTU 10J32 That is also a legal password. So in order to win, you just have to be able to place in the easiest of the five races (definitely PCH) five times on all five levels. I can't remember off hand which of the five numbers is PCH, but all you have to do is race PCH first and see which number is no longer 0 (unless you crash or get busted :-) If all you want to do is finish, this should help a lot. Even at level 5, PCH is not hard. I wish I could've figured out the rest of the password code. It's an interesting puzzle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article 26171 of rec.games.video: From: spcoltri@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Steve Coltrin) Organization: Department of Stormwater Mismanagement, Norman, OK Subject: (password cheats in) Road Rash Date: 21 Feb 92 21:38:53 GMT xris@yawn.Stanford.EDU (Chris Holt) writes: >Road Rash is indeed incredibly frustrating. When the laws of physics change between levels? Bloody right... >However, there is a way to make it MUCH easier to win. I don't use any >cheats in games, but I know other people do, so here goes: >The password has stores all the data of your game in it. Since there is >no battery in the cart, that's pretty obvious. The first five numbers >(the ones in the upper left) contain your placement in the five races at >the current level. The first number in the last set of five numbers >(bottom right) is the level you are on, and the second number is the >bike you own (0 being your starting bike, 7 being the Diablo). Also >encoded somehow is the number of tickets you get, your winnings, and >maybe other things. Now, while you can't magically give yourself a >better bike or go to a higher level (I believe the check bits to the >code would be incorrect), you CAN switch your placement in one race for >another race. Actually, you can switch placements with either bike or level, and bike and level with each other. Furthermore, you are not limited to just swapping digits between these seven positions, but you can increment any one of them and decrement any other, and still have a valid password. >For example, suppose you finished first on PCH for level >1. Your password would look something like this: > 00001 2PT43 > 23RTU 10J32 If instead you finish _last_, you will get: 0000F ????? ????? 10??? which you can transform into: 11110 ????? ????? 57??? putting you at the last level, giving you a Diablo, and winning all but one race in one swell foop. (The entries marked ?, however, thou shalt leave alone; the checksum apparently keeps better watch over those digits or something.) >I wish I could've figured out the rest of the password code. It's an >interesting puzzle. Well, it obviously contains total winnings and current cash, as well as Natasha's attitude towards you, along with a (IMHO pitifully weak) checksum. I haven't thought of anything else I can prove it contains... arrest record? Your violence quota? (I haven't noticed these affecting game play, so I doubt they're encoded.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From news Thu Jul 15 09:24:21 1993 From: rlw@cbnews.cb.att.com (robin.l.williams) Subject: Road Rash II: RACE AGAINST ALL COPS! Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 01:44:36 GMT I finally finished Road Rash II (without using the Wild Thing 2000) and was suprised to see I entered a new mystery level (6). This level had me racing against ALL cops in racing leather. They appeared to be all riding Diablo 1000 Nitros!!! Awesome!!! Anyway after finishing the new stage; the game locked-up and I had to turn it off. 1). Has anyone else seen this? The password code at the end of the game does not let you access this mystery stage. Strange!!! 2). Is this a hint of Road Rash III? 3). Is this a legitimate hidden level? If anyone wants to try: Here is a code with the Diablo 1000 Nitro, >$30K cash, and all stages finished EXCEPT Alaska. Good luck! 0U63 5JU1 Robin From news Thu Jul 15 09:24:26 1993 From: msc9309@geovax.ed.ac.uk (Dave H.) Subject: Re: Road Rash II: RACE AGAINST ALL COPS! Date: 13 Jul 93 11:25:09 GMT rlw@cbnews.cb.att.com (robin.l.williams) writes: > I finally finished Road Rash II (without using the Wild Thing 2000) > and was suprised to see I entered a new mystery level (6). This level > had me racing against ALL cops in racing leather. They appeared to be > all riding Diablo 1000 Nitros!!! Awesome!!! > Anyway after finishing the new stage; the game locked-up and I had to > turn it off. Yes, I have had this, although I don't think ity said level six and it was quite a short race I believe. Why did you think they were all cops, and what is the Wild Thing 2000? -- | Dave Haddock MSC9309@GEOVAX.ED.AC.UK |Roosta "There aren't any real people | | Department of Geography | here at all! | | Drummond Street |Zaphod "So what's new" | | Edinburgh EH8 9XP SCOTLAND | (Hitch Hiker's - Fit the Eighth) | From uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!malgudi.oar.net!uoft02.utoledo.edu!jupiter!kiraly Wed Jul 28 15:33:05 CDT 1993 Subject: Road Rash II Codes From: Jim Kiraly Date: 26 Jul 93 22:16:09 EST I remember (I think) someone posting the algorithm used for the passwords in Road Rash II. A friend of mine has rented the game and we have figured out how to add more money by changing the third and fourth digits ($150- $4000 a shot). If the person who I remember (I think) posting this could send me some mail on how the algorithm works it would be much appreciated. Thanks... __ _____ __ __ __ __ _____ ______ _____ __ __ __ __ _ ___ ___ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ __ _ __ ____ _ ______ _______ __ _____ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ _ _______ _____ __ __ __ __ _____ __ __ __ __ ______ _ From uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!constellation!midway.ecn.uoknor.edu!steve Wed Jul 28 15:33:07 CDT 1993 From: steve@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Steve Coltrin) Subject: Re: Road Rash II Codes Date: 27 Jul 1993 18:04:45 GMT Jim Kiraly writes: >I remember (I think) someone posting the algorithm used for the passwords >in Road Rash II. A friend of mine has rented the game and we have figured >out how to add more money by changing the third and fourth digits ($150- >$4000 a shot). If the person who I remember (I think) posting this could >send me some mail on how the algorithm works it would be much appreciated. I don't recall seeing any previous posts on the algorithm; if there was one, I would appreciate if it were posted, mailed, strapped to a pigeon's leg, whatever... I rented RR2 for a week a few months ago, and managed to learn a small amount about the encoding scheme. I'll dredge up what I can from memory... The game appears to interpret each character as representing a five bit value, from 0 = 00000 to 9 = 01001 to A = 01010 to V = 11111. I _think_ the numerals are the low 10 and the letters the high 22, but my notes are elsewhere. The first four characters encode your cash in hand. The game seems to do something like putting the base-16 representation of ($ / 10) in the high four bits of the characters, modulo some weird occasional bitflipping/incrememting/decrementing and similar odd treatment of the low bits, and maybe involving the eighth character in some checksum calculation... I never completely figured it out. I did find that taking a valid code, incrementing one character by two, and decrementing another by two, produces another valid code, with a different amount of money... so, you could add two to character 3, sub two from character 4: gain $150 add two to character 2, sub two from character 3: gain $2400 add two to character 1, sub two from character 2: gain $38,400 Take care, though; wrapping from the high end to the low end, or vice versa, produces a bad code (so you will not always be able to apply any given transformation to any code), and if you give yourself too much money it wraps around to very little. The fifth and sixth characters seem to encode what level you're playing, what bike you have, and whether you've been nice to Natasha. I never found any pattern in them. The seventh character is a bitmap of which of the tracks you've qualified on: 00001 (= 1) means you've qualified on Alaska alone, 01000 (= 8) means Arizona (unless I've forgotten the order...), et cetera. The checksum on this character is a strict xor with the eighth character; if you take a valid code, flip any bit(s) in the seventh position, and flip the same bit(s) in the eighth, you will have another valid code, qualified on different tracks. The eighth character appears to be a checksum against all the others. The checking against the seventh is very simple; I couldn't completely find how it checked against the others very well. If I've made any mistakes here, chalk it up to the months since I rented the game; if I just plain make no sense, blame my caffeine habit. >Thanks... vIjatlhpu'. -spc, speaking only for myself (hi, boss) From uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!draco.macsch.com!godzilla.id.macsch.com!dsb Wed Jul 28 15:33:09 CDT 1993 From: dsb@godzilla.id.macsch.com (Deepak Brar) Subject: Re: Road Rash II Codes Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 23:53:21 GMT In article <1993Jul26.221610.4992@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, Jim Kiraly writes: |> I remember (I think) someone posting the algorithm used for the passwords |> in Road Rash II. A friend of mine has rented the game and we have figured |> out how to add more money by changing the third and fourth digits ($150- |> $4000 a shot). If the person who I remember (I think) posting this could |> send me some mail on how the algorithm works it would be much appreciated. |> |> Thanks... Here's something I got on here from il@bambam.u.washington.edu around June 24: Label digits as 1234-5678 Increase 2 while decreasing 3 by twos for money. Increase 3 while decreasing 4 by twos for smaller amounts of money. Increase 5 and 8 by ones to change level. Decrease 4 and increase 6 by twos to select bikes. I haven't tried it myself. |> __ _____ __ __ __ __ _____ ______ _____ __ __ __ |> __ _ ___ ___ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |> __ _ __ _ __ ____ _ ______ _______ __ _____ |> __ __ _ __ __ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ _ |> _______ _____ __ __ __ __ _____ __ __ __ __ ______ _ Deepak ------