Has anyone ever put a chair on a turbo controller?

[RASK1904]

I did this manuver on a few games I can remember. I think on Rygar I found a spot near the start of the game where enemies keep arearing and put my audimin on the Nes Max and went out with some friends. And when I came back my guy was maxxed out. I vagly remember doing stuff like this I was just wondering who else might have done this. The reason it came to mind is I'm playing the new castlevania(ds) and have been diong it to max out my guy. I already beat it. I know this might take away from the game. I just wanted to hear stories. What game. What thing.ect.
Thanx RASK1904:rockets:

[Zap!]

I did this manuver on a few games I can remember. I think on Rygar I found a spot near the start of the game where enemies keep arearing and put my audimin on the Nes Max and went out with some friends. And when I came back my guy was maxxed out. I vagly remember doing stuff like this I was just wondering who else might have done this. The reason it came to mind is I'm playing the new castlevania(ds) and have been diong it to max out my guy. I already beat it. I know this might take away from the game. I just wanted to hear stories. What game. What thing.ect.
Thanx RASK1904:rockets:

Wow, I thought only I did that. Amazingly, I did it only once, on, (gasp) RYGAR!

[SpaceHarrier]

It was PSO, possibly version 2 on DC. The game had an auto-logoff after 10-30 minutes of idle time. I cannot for the life of me remember the purpose of this, but I put a rubber band around the thumbstick so my character would run in a circle indefinitely. I dunno what the heck I was doing where I needed to keep logged on yet not be playing. It might have been a lengthy quest (where if you disconnect you can't get back in) or something.

And at least one circumstance where I just wanted to freely type while simultaneously running in circles in the lobby. Sometimes it's the simple things.

[R.Sakai]

I did it for Final Fantasy Mystic Quest :)

Put your guys on the little arena battles on the map, and set your Marvel card binder on the corner of the pad enough to keep the button down. Since the game defaulted to just selecting 'fight', I could set my guys on those stupid repetitive arenas and come back later with em' finished.

I know I've done it on other games, but this was the one I always remembered , hehe

[wallydawg]

tony hawk pro skater with the infinite grind cheat, do some tricks/manuals to max out the multiplier, found a circle bowl to grind on and came a few hours later.

I think we had one score reset back to zero haha

[Damaramu]

Didn't use a chair, but a rubberband on a TurboGrafx controller for leveling up Sadler in Exile.

[Wraith Storm]

Didn't use a chair, but a rubberband on a TurboGrafx controller for leveling up Sadler in Exile.

I got this for my Duo over a year ago and never played too far into it. I need to give it another go.

I bought Gauntlet Legends for the Dreamcast and I placed my character at just the right distance from a monster generator and put a rubberband around the attack button. That was some EASY power leveling:2gunfire:

I also can't forget the DAMN draw system in Final Fantasy 8. See a new monster? He has a new spell? Rubberband the button after it's set to "Draw", make a sandwich, and your maxed out with 100 of the new spell.

[Xander]

Did the rubber thingy for FF6 famour waterfall exploit.

And DQVIII too. IIRC I made my guy run in circle to pass the time for alchemy, or something similar.

[Lerxstnj]

For Colecovision, I used to put the Turbo gas pedal under a seat cushion to rest my foot. I thought that's what the op meant in the subject line.

[AB Positive]

never a chair, but turbo button + book + FF7's basketball game in the Golden Circle = plenty of GP :D

[skaar]

Zelda II, yes. Killing those floating eyes.

Rygar there was a bit in a tower I'd go back and forth over and over, I remember that...

Will ponder this further.

[Leo_A]

In Ridge Racer 64, there's a unlockable car if you go 99 laps or something. So I put a book on the controller pressing the accelerator and let the car bounce around off walls for 99 laps (Always would manage to complete the lap) while I went and did something else.

Closest story I have to that fits this topic.

[theChad]

I remember reading a tip in OPM for some racing game that said to load up a certain circular track and put a rubber band around the analog sticks, with the "left" direction on the right analog stick configured to be accelerate so your car would travel in a perfect circle at top speed around this track. I don't remember what the benefit was though...

[Fuyukaze]

I cant remember all the games I've done it for but Contact was the recent one. Just position the stylus so your charcter was stuck in constant run and the skill would increase. Game wasnt that hard though.

[Tempest]

I did this for Blue Dragon to get my job levels up to 99. There's a spot in the laser field that you can stand in where the enemies keep spawning and are weak enough to be killed by the barrier spell. I also used a similar trick in FF XII, but that didn't require holding down buttons just clever gambit options.

Tempest

[Tetsu]

Most people know this one, but in Contra III on SNES, when you get to the miniboss in the third stage (the one that looks like an alien helicopter with a flashlight and green guys hopping out of it), you can park your guy on the far left of the screen and put a rubber band over the shoot button. you'll kill all the little green guys and not get hit. come back a few hours later, and the points will rack up, awarding you with free lives.

[sisko]

It was PSO, possibly version 2 on DC. The game had an auto-logoff after 10-30 minutes of idle time. I cannot for the life of me remember the purpose of this, but I put a rubber band around the thumbstick so my character would run in a circle indefinitely. I dunno what the heck I was doing where I needed to keep logged on yet not be playing. It might have been a lengthy quest (where if you disconnect you can't get back in) or something.

And at least one circumstance where I just wanted to freely type while simultaneously running in circles in the lobby. Sometimes it's the simple things.

Ah yes, I remember doing this too. Sometimes the servers would get so busy that you couldn't log in again - this was the good ol standby

[coreys429]

I wish I could rubber band the controller for Desert Bus.

[fuchikoma]

I remember reading a tip in OPM for some racing game that said to load up a certain circular track and put a rubber band around the analog sticks, with the "left" direction on the right analog stick configured to be accelerate so your car would travel in a perfect circle at top speed around this track. I don't remember what the benefit was though...

Gran Turismo 3. 150 mile endurance race around the Super Speedway oval. You can rub the outside wall for an hour for easy credits.

[rbudrick]

I beat several NES games with similar tricks. I'm pretty sure you can do it with both Contra games, not that you'd need to, but it is most useful in SNES Alien Wars. Set game on 2 players, put them back to back and put a c-clamp over the fire buttons. Come back whenever and see your lives maxed. Repeat again every couple of stages in Hard mode.

I used this same trick in Rush N Attack to finally beat it. Because of this trick I had enough lives to practice the really hard parts until I was able to beat it legitimately on one life.

This trick works in a crapload of games, actually.

-Rob

[outsider]

I've done that sort of thing a lot. The most recent case involved using a rubber band to hold the analog stick in one direction while crouching to level up sneak and endurance stats in Oblivion.

[shopkins]

I remember my dad rubber banding or taping a popsicle stick to a 2600 controller to make it easier to play Centipede. I don't know if it actually made it easier to play Centipede, but as a little kid at the time I thought he was like a scientist for coming up with the idea.

[DeputyMoniker]

Yeah, I did that on Rygar. I probably did it in the same spot too. IIRC it was next to a cliff where the enemys would spawn, then fall into a hole and I'd kill them on their way down.
I know I've done it with others but none of them come to mind.

[Draven]

Yep, Kid Icarus. I can't remember what I used to rig it up, but I stood beneath a pot that produces enemies and shot upwards, collecting hearts.

[darkslime]

Someone already mentioned this, but I put the infinite grind cheat on in THPS4 and left it going around a bowl for hours.

[Draven]

Seems like there was a racing game on PS1 I used a similar trick. I'd rubber band both analog sticks together and change the control scheme so it will accelerate at top speed and turn left (I assume). Anyone remember doing this? I'd say it was Gran Turismo.

[rbudrick]

Yep, Kid Icarus. I can't remember what I used to rig it up, but I stood beneath a pot that produces enemies and shot upwards, collecting hearts.

Ummm, you only get 16 snakes out of that. Are there screens where that doesn't apply? Labyrinths? Intriguing.

-Rob

[Bandicat]

Not quite the exact same thing as this topic, but similar... When I used to play Sim City on the SNES I would leave it on overnight and then wake up the next morning with the year being around 2029 and having thousands of tax dollars collected. One time I woke up to find my house and half the city destroyed by a disaster.