★ APPLICATIONS ★ DEPLOMBAGE ★ POKE EASY PLUS|Amstrad Action) ★ |
| Poke Easy Plus Plus | Applications Deplombage |
Poke Easy Plus+ is billed as 'The Ultimate Game Hacking Tool', a claim which would put it in the same league as the Multiface/Insider combination from Romantic Robot, which weighs in at a whopping £62.90. So how does it measure up t.o this big claim? Can you hack it? The purpose to which game hacking devices are put is simple: to extract cheats for games from the game program itself. In the usual course of events this would take some understanding of machine code: if you have 'The Knowledge' then finding such unsporting means to beat your CPC is no great sweat. The trouble is that for the great majority of games players machine code is too much hassle. So, rather than find out for themselves, they check out Cheat Mode in AA every month. This is the market Poke Easy Plus+ is aimed at people who don't know how games work.
You get a manual and a gift wrapped disk. The manual is written in a light style, and you can imagine the author talking you through the tricky steps of using the program. The type quality is poor, although the layout is much better. Overall the manual's good. Using the program is not difficult: you reach a main menu with a few different options. There are facilities to de-protect games (including DJL speedlock. Firebird and header-less) - but note that the backups are fingerprinted for easy identification. Pirate copies are likely to be traced Poke Easy Plus+ achieves a high standard of actually finding pokes for games. It includes the facility for finding them on disk as well as on tape, and there is also a level'change facility. What's more to the point is that novices will find it far easier t.o use than a conventional disas sembler, and after a while it becomes second nature. Generic programs like this are often jacks of all trades. Poke Easy Plus+ is more reliable than most, but it still isn't perfect.
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