Cannon Fodder
The Sensible Software team often put hidden messages into their games, and Cannon Fodder is another classic effort from them. There's a couple of hidden messages at the start and very end of the game, discovered by Galahad/Fairlight when he made the WHDLoad install for the game back in 2001.
If you decrunch the file VIRGPRES.RAW, everything appears to be normal when the default palette is applied:
But if you alter colour palette entry 31 from black to white, the hidden text appears:
But the most famous hidden message in the game is undoubtedly the end sequence screen, stored in the file WON.RAW:
If you take the first letter of each of the individual messages "Far out", "Unreal", "Crazy dude!", "Kool, babe", "Yippeee!", "Outrageous" and "Uurgggggh!" you'll notice that it spells "FUCK YOU".
I can't think of any other development team other than Sensible Software that would have the balls to release something like that!
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I have to admit when I put this screen together I had no idea many years later it would be revealed!
I mean who'd have thought!
Cheers,
Stoo
Stoo Cambridge 18/10/2023 1:35pm (13 months ago)
I remember typing in "joolslives" or something and lot of fresh recruits where walking in the main menu screen - anyone can confirm there was a cheat like that?
Daniel 29/04/2018 10:31am (7 years ago)
Galahad: I guess I gave up waiting for you to post the pictures! (Plus I never read the Cannon Fodder WHDLoad readme before now so didn't know about it!)
Codetapper 07/10/2016 10:25pm (8 years ago)
Jesus wept, I wrote about this over a decade ago.......why so slow? ;)
Galahad 07/10/2016 9:26pm (8 years ago)
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