.WACKY WHEELS Wacky Wheels + Cheat Command Line Parameters - The following command line parameters can be used in both the shareware and registered versions of the game: /2 - Fast gameplay. /3 - Really fast gameplay. /debug - Create a ERR.LOG file as you play. turbo - Activate the turbo key [brake]+[fire]. jump - Activate the jump key [brake]+[accelerate]. Additionally, you can specify ONE of the following three weapon parameters: hog - Get 99 hedgehogs. ice - Get 99 ice cubes. fire - Get 99 fireballs. + Misc Command Line Parameters - "NOW" will start the game directly from the main menu. + Miscellaneous - Hitting [F10] during game play will write the screen out to a PCX file. - There is a way to play a track from the registered version of Wacky Wheels in the shareware version, namely, the track featured in the ordering information. Follow these steps: - start a new game and complete track 1 - save the game and quit to the main menu - look at the ordering information - go back to main menu and restore the saved game Wacky Wheels You can edit the WACKY.CFG file to change a number of different things: 872H - number of laps, in longints (back up three and use those four bytes; remember that longints, integers, and words have reversed bytes). 876H - Difficulty level (1=amateur, 2=pro, 3=champ). 882H - Your points. 886H - Opponent's points. 88AH - Opponent's points. 88EH - Opponent's points. 892H - Opponent's points. 896H - Opponent's points. 89AH - Opponent's points. 89EH - Opponent's points. 87AH - Course group (bronze, silver, etc). 87EH - Course number (1-5). 8C3H - Number of porcupines. 957H - Horsepower of your engine (1=12HP, 2=6HP). Changing your character type is slightly more complicated. First, edit location 86AH as follows, remembering your old character number. 0=Uno, 1=Sultan, 2=Morris, 3=Peggles, 4=Razer, 5=Ringo, 6=Blombo, 7=Tigi At location 8A2H should be the number of your old character. Somewhere between 8A6H and 8BEH should be your new character number. Switch those bytes, so the one with the new character number has the old one in it, and your character number has the new number in it. Note that changing the course group in the shareware version will not permit access to the registered version course groups, but will instead crash the game. Wacky Wheels To see the Dopefish, a creature from Commander Keen, start any single player race. When everybody else moves, stand still. Hold down the brake, and turn left all the way around until the Dopefish shows up. Note: the lion that starts the race must remain on the screen the entire time; otherwise, the Dopefish won't appear. You can do this as many times as you like, so long as the lion doesn't leave the screen. Also, in the shareware version of the game, there are two ways to play the track shown in the ordering information of the shareware game, which is supposed to be a track available only in the registered version. One way is to play in Championship Mode; you will play that track as a bonus. The sneakier way is to exploit a loophole. Start a new game, and complete track 1. Save the game, and quit to the main menu. Now look at the ordering information. Go back to the main menu, restore the saved game, and voila. There's an inside joke in the game that appears when you select your engine power (6 or 12 horsepower). The caption on the screen reads "Lee & Jackson Lawnmowers." The story behind this is that Lee Jackson (at that time not yet promoted to Music and Sound Director) made a comment at a beta conference that the go-kart engines sounded too much like little Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engines. The game's programmer, Andrew Edwardson, got Lee Jackson back for this remark by including the caption -- "Lee & Jackson," split up in the same way "Briggs & Stratton" reads.