So-called "GPL grip cheat"?!?!?

GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] Prix Legends". So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... -- Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

It's not a hoax. You have to type "Make my car drive just like a modern F1 Ferrari" while the menu is loading. Case is significant, you have to get it exactly right the first time. You have 2 seconds to type it and it isn't displayed on the screen while you type. What, you expected it to be easy? This is GPL! "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > > -- > Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which > deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan > > The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

that = bollox David Buttery wrote:

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > >

I doubt if it's true..............but with all the other hacks done to GPL, who knows....................<G> -John David Buttery <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > > -- > Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which > deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan > > The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

It was a joke from ages ago, it must have found it's way into PC Gamer without them checking it, a bit like Bert ending up on the Bin Laden poster :-))) Alex "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > > -- > Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which > deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan > > The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

"Alex Cameron" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:i0EN7.10505$[email hidden]... > It was a joke from ages ago, it must have found it's way into PC Gamer > without them checking it, a bit like Bert ending up on the Bin Ladenposter > :-))) > > Alex Sure Sure Alex....thats what the ALIENS made you say....but we know better... dave henrie

I can't get it to work in the main menu. Attempting a few more combinations, but it sounds like BS. David I "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > > -- > Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which > deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan > > The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

Alex Cameron <[email hidden]> wrote on 30 Nov 2001: > It was a joke from ages ago, it must have found it's way into PC > Gamer without them checking it, a bit like Bert ending up on the > Bin Laden poster Probably so. Actually, if you look at a selection of racing sims on that database, quite a few of them seem very dodgy. Try GP3, for example. -- Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

"David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but...

You assume correctly. Load of old bollocks. However -it is not true to suggest that it's impossible to cheat in GPL. If you wanted to badly enough - you could. Doug

"Douglas Ellison" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9u7odu$6mi72$[email hidden]...

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> > "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > > Prix Legends". > > > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > You assume correctly. Load of old bollocks. > > However -it is not true to suggest that it's impossible to cheat in GPL.

If > you wanted to badly enough - you could. > > Doug > Yes you 'could' but it would be fairly obvious looking at replay anlyser if someone increased their power or grip levels with the new traction circle tool. One thing I've noticed about the fast guys compered to me (about a second a lap down) they don't pull more G's just more concistant G's all the way trough corners. But with lots of patience and a Hex editor I'm sure you 'could' cheat. Alex

I knew it........I knew I was right! I knew all the fast guys cheated in GPL........I just "felt it in my bones!" "Bones" never lie! I feel so much better about my 1:16's at Watkins Glen now.......(that's my PB in the Lotus at WG......I can't do better than a 1:18 in the Eagle or Ferrari....never tried the other cars)......now I know anyone who beats me is cheating! Finally, I can start serious work on my GPL-Rank.....ohhh goodie! Thank you David Buttery for exposing the entire GPL and VROC community as the cheaters that they are! I think I'm gonna take the day off from work and celebrate! Regards, Tom Pabst PS: To those of you scrambling for that copy of the BRD's email address.....it is as follows: SimonBallpresidentANTISPAMFROMVROCWHINNERS&[email hidden] "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > Prix Legends". > > So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > > Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > > -- > Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which > deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan > > The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

Douglas Ellison <[email hidden]> wrote on 30 Nov 2001: > You assume correctly. Load of old bollocks. > > However -it is not true to suggest that it's impossible to cheat in > GPL. If you wanted to badly enough - you could. Well, of course. Unless all programming becomes impossible[1], that will always be the case. [1] Now that I come to think of it... try typing "SSSCA" into Google. Scary. And insane. And bonkers. Politicians will love it. -- Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

Make sure you include yourself in your defamation of character lawsuit, you do such a nice job all on your own! Ryan

Tom, I thought you'd learnt your lesson by now? Rafe Mc On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:48:42 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I knew it........I knew I was right! I knew all the fast guys cheated in >GPL........I just "felt it in my bones!" "Bones" never lie! > >I feel so much better about my 1:16's at Watkins Glen now.......(that's my >PB in the Lotus at WG......I can't do better than a 1:18 in the Eagle or >Ferrari....never tried the other cars)......now I know anyone who beats me >is cheating! Finally, I can start serious work on my GPL-Rank.....ohhh >goodie! > >Thank you David Buttery for exposing the entire GPL and VROC community as >the cheaters that they are! > >I think I'm gonna take the day off from work and celebrate! > >Regards, > >Tom Pabst > >PS: To those of you scrambling for that copy of the BRD's email >address.....it is as follows: >SimonBallpresidentANTISPAMFROMVROCWHINNERS&[email hidden] > > > > > >"David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the >> Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] >> Prix Legends". >> >> So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, >> and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the >> main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). >> >> Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... >> >> -- >> Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which >> deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan >> >> The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com >

Anybody check for foam around the mouth? :-) Stephen "Rafe McAuliffe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Tom, I thought you'd learnt your lesson by now? > > Rafe Mc > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:48:42 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >I knew it........I knew I was right! I knew all the fast guys cheated in > >GPL........I just "felt it in my bones!" "Bones" never lie! > > > >I feel so much better about my 1:16's at Watkins Glen now.......(that's

my > >PB in the Lotus at WG......I can't do better than a 1:18 in the Eagle or > >Ferrari....never tried the other cars)......now I know anyone who beatsme

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> >is cheating! Finally, I can start serious work on my GPL-Rank.....ohhh > >goodie! > > > >Thank you David Buttery for exposing the entire GPL and VROC community as > >the cheaters that they are! > > > >I think I'm gonna take the day off from work and celebrate! > > > >Regards, > > > >Tom Pabst > > > >PS: To those of you scrambling for that copy of the BRD's email > >address.....it is as follows: > >SimonBallpresidentANTISPAMFROMVROCWHINNERS&[email hidden]

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> > > > > > > > > > > >"David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >news:[email hidden]... > >> GPL has no cheats, right? So, I load up the "Cheatbook" from the > >> Christmas 2001 issue of PC Gamer (UK), and what do I see? "Gran[sic] > >> Prix Legends". > >> > >> So I click on it, expecting to see something like the Engine Swapper, > >> and I see "Super grip cheat", activated by typing a certain word on the > >> main menu ("you have to type it fast" says the info). > >> > >> Please tell me this is a hoax. I assume it is, but... > >> > >> -- > >> Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which > >> deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan > >> > >> The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com > > >

In article <uTNN7.59606$[email hidden]>, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> writes: >I knew it........I knew I was right! I knew all the fast guys cheated in >GPL........I just "felt it in my bones!" "Bones" never lie! Ok, now this is just stupid...and sad... Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank - under construction... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.