Mechwarrior
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This cheat has been provided so you can sit back, play the game, quicklywin, say to yourself "How neat! I've won...", and stuff the game away inyour archives in a short period of time.
The basic premise behind Mechwarrior is that you're the only surviving sonof the leader of Ander's Moon. A group of Mechs attacked the planet, killedyour family, and installed a new government on the planet. They also stolea valuable Chalice which is a heirloom of family power or something. Your jobis to track down the killers, find the Chalice, and restore your family topower on Ander's Moon.When you start out, you will usually be on one of the Davion planets, butmight start out on a Kurita planet. Travel immediately to the Kurita planetof Land's End.When you get to Land's End, enter the bar and order a drink. The barkeep willtell you to come back later. Go to the mech complex and sell your Jenner, asyou won't need it for a while, and can make a nice profit here. Besides, itwill be a lot more expensive to haul it along with you where you're going.Go back to the bar. The ruffian you meet there will tell you "Grig can befound on...". Make a note of the planet he gives you and go there. Ihave seen New Samarkand, Tabayama, and Delacruz often. It will always be aKurita world.When you get there, you will meet Grig. Accept his mission to deliver apacket to his agent on Dustball, and go there. Dustball is a Steiner world.When you get to Dustball, there will be a little scuffle. You can eitherFIGHT then RUN, or RUN then RUN. Just make sure that you RUN the second time.After that, go to the bar and order a drink. The barkeeper will tell you toreturn later, but you can just order another drink and he'll give you someinformation and the name of a Marik planet, such as Gibson, Mosiro, orSadurni. Travel there.When you arrive on the Marik planet, go to the Mech complex. The man therewill tell you that you might find Kangaroo Jack on Tancredi IV or Okefenokee(Davion planets). When you leave, you will be shot at by a sniper. RUN.When you get to the Davion planet, go to the bar. Order a drink, and you'llbe introduced to a guy named Kearny. He'll give you some information, and ascrap of paper with an address on it, telling you to meet him there. When youleave the bar, go ahead and follow the address. Then HIDE and FIGHT.When you finish that, read the news net. You'll note a few news items inwhich you were involved. You'll also get a message from Jordan Rowe, tellingyou where the Black Widows currently are. That's your next destination. Itwill be a Kurita world like Thestria or Proserpina.When you get there, go into the bar. You'll see some of the Black Widows,and get a story. CHALLENGE it.You'll get in a fight, and some woman named Tasha will save your butt. She'lltell you that Matabushi is your enemy, not the Black Widows, and that Kearnywas just trying to get you killed. Go ahead and leave the bar.If you read the news net, you'll see that Tasha gave you some files supposedlyfrom Matabushi telling about your family's execution. Read on, and you'llfind something about Matabushi announcing a new commercial strategy. Anothernews item from Jordan Rowe will tell you to meet up with Kearney on Albiero.Go there.When you get there, you'll land in the middle of a battle, and see Tasha.Follow her. You will see Tasha and Kearny confronting each other, and have todecide whom to trust. I would suggest you trust Tasha.When the smoke clears, Tasha will give you a data disk explaining the actionwhich killed your family, and who was behind it. She'll also give you fivemillion bucks, which isn't too bad. She'll tell you that the Chalice you'reafter is on a Kurita planet called Kirchbach (as far as I know, this is alwaysthe same) guarded by four Battlemasters and one Warhammer.Another loose end to tie up is Grig. Head to the planet where you first foundhim (New Samarkind, Delacruz, or Tabayama) and you'll meet a bum. Ask him toGO ON with his story. Make a DEAL with him.When you see Grig, WAIT for the situation to improve. You'll get a chancewhen there are only two guards with him, STRIKE now. He'll try to make adeal with you. Don't go for it, and PULL THE TRIGGER. You'll pocket someeasy cash.You've now done everything you need to do except get the Chalice back. Theabove actions should have taken about a year of game time, meaning you've gotabout four more years to go. You should have about 10.5 million bucks, so goahead and invest in some mechs and crew. SAVE THE GAME before you try to hireany crewmembers, because the game will sometimes crash when you do.You'll want to end up with a good crew and some good mechs, I would suggest youget four Battlemasters. You'll need money for this, and there are two ways youcan get it:#1 Go around buying Mechs at industrial planets and Mech-manufacturing planets (such as Alshain (Kurita), Herperus II (Steiner), Calloway VI (Marik), Ares (Liao), and Marduk (Davion). Other good planets include Amity, Alderbaran, and Galax. Buy mechs at these planets, and travel to various backwater and out of the way places like Land's End and Baxley. There are a huge number of these planets. Anyway, you can sell Mechs at these places for a nice profit.#2 Norton Utilities. Save the game, NU it, and give yourself some cash. Money is offset 73 (49h). Fill the three bytes with $FF, and you'll get about 16.7 Million. Or if you're REALLY greedy, go to byte 76 (4Ch), and change that one to 01h to 0Fh (0Fh will give you about 250,000,000).Once you get cash, hire a crew and start practicing doing jobs for the varioushouses. When your crew gets good enough go to Kirchbach and kick some...