Hacking Windows Pinball

[Get In The Van I Have Candy]

Open up the Microsoft Pinball that all Windows XP users have.

Go to Start>All Programs>Games>Pinball

Load up the game and type the words hidden test. Looks pretty normal? Well, as your ball is flyin’ ’round, click on the pinball machine. Drag your mouse around. The ball follows your every command - blatantly ignoring the laws of gravity we have come to expect it to follow!

There’s more too. The “hidden test” mode has a bunch of functions put in there to help the developers out during the game’s creation. Here’s ones I found, or can see in the code:

h: Shows the high-score table, with an entry of 1,000,000,000 for you to put your name next to.
m: Shows the amount of system memory
r: Increases your “rank” in the game
y: Shows the game frame rate in the title
These ones I can see are trapped in the code, but I can’t see what they do:
b, F11, F12, F15 (how do you do that? Key code 0x7E)

Many thanks to http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com

Love me for finding this.

I remember working at my old job me and my employees would play this game and whomever have the highest score was l33t. Damn a year to late

 

[critikaldesignz]

I don't have Windows pinball, my comp was custom built :sad:

 

[Missy "C"]

it doesnt work for me

 

[_carmi]

where do u type the words hidden test?

 

[Helena]

omg I LOVE YOU for finding this!

 

[Casey]

lmao that was fun. nice one man.

 

[tennis_dog]

haha, nice find.....im gonna do this to friends at school and tell them to beat it in a class period....thanks a bunch....genius

 

[Missy "C"]

great, just got it!!!!! thx so much, i love you!

 

[_carmi]

where do u type the words hidden test?

please?

 

[Get In The Van I Have Candy]

please?

Just load up the game cutie and type it. Then play. No there is no box to type it in just type the words that I described and you should be set.