RE: VECTOR: Asteroids cheat (again)

"Sean McLachlan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.arcade.vector
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> It would be interesting to compare the version 1 and 2 programs to
>> determine what was *actually* changed between the two versions. Maybe
>> that might give a clue as to whether or not an actual fix was
>> included in version 2.
>
> I did just that. Other than the vector ROMs being slightly different
> and a "don't display any more than N ships across the screen" I
> didn't see any changes.
>
> -->Neil

I had also heard that the UFO's were made more difficult in the latter ROM
version, to stop the UFO hunters.  I guess that's not true either.  I have
the later ROMs in my upright, and those UFO's can pick me off at will.


Sean McLachlan          Salt Lake City, Utah
[email protected]   Video Game n00b since 2001
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