Old handwritten game notes/codes - have any?

[zeldaboy 41]

Came across these in a bin of stuff, not mine (pretty positive some were from an old friend though). I know I have seen some threads on NA in the past for this, feel free to share! Always thought these were cool to see. 

 

 

Edited November 17, 2019 by zeldaboy

[fcgamer 3,933]

I don't think I actually have any if this stuff, but I love seeing it!

[DoctorEncore 3,559]

I do think this stuff is cool and I've seen a lot of of it as I've been buying hundreds of CIB NES games over the last year, but I usually just toss it. I'm a collector, not a hoarder so I hate having extra stuff I'll never look at or use.

That being said, I'll make sure to get a pic and post it here before disposing in the future. Good idea for a thread.

[doner24 1,073]

Awesome thread, I’ll share the ones I’ve found over the years when I get back from vacation. 

[ZBomber 54]

These aren't handwritten so I don't know if it counts, but still thought this was cool. When I was going through some of my old Star Wars toys at my parents' house earlier this year I came across these pass code print outs for the Rebel Assault games. I printed them out July 29, 1998 according to the date on the bottom, so it was pretty crazy to think they're over 20 years old at this point.

 

 

[austin532 457]

Wow, those 5th and 6th pics look near identical to my writing when I was a kid. Where did they come from?

[twiztor 663]

this post being started by zeldaboy will seem really appropriate. i would hand draw maps for each of the Legend of Zelda games, and i still have most of them. here's some noteworthy stuff:

this map also has the dungeon maps drawn on the back. i have a similar, but less complete one, for the 2nd quest also.

a huge Zelda 2 overworld map. i've got dungeon maps too, but they aren't great to look at.

while digging these out, i also found a letter from the game counselors at Nintendo. enjoy!

Edited November 18, 2019 by twiztor

[Neo Geo strong 68]

Closest thing I have is hand written level passwords in a few genesis games.

[Tanooki 4,557]

One month way back in the days of the NES+GB+SNES on the market they put out these little books in one issue that had a green cover with some kind of Fido Dido looking head on the front in a small shape.  I may still have it around somewhere but I wrote a heap of codes in there and other notes.  I never liked, wanted to or ever bothered making maps.  I wanted to enjoy games, not write them, save that for D&D.

[ookii_risu 205]

Awesome stuff, @twiztor!

I never did any mapping myself, but my brother used graph paper to map out dungeons in Zelda.

I had some handwritten notes in my CIB MTPO. Sadly, I don't have it anymore to share.

[guitarzombie 740]

No but I had a little green book I wrote every home run I hit in RBI Baseball 3 with who and how far.  I was at about 550ish when I stopped I think.  Id hit plenty in one game cuz I always used the AL all stars haha.

[Makar 1,886]

Oh yes. I wrote down tons of combos to get good monsters in dragon warrior monsters.

Also wrote down tons of passcodes for megaman to get back to where I was if I had to turn off the game. 

I also remember having to hand draw one of the puzzles in boktai to figure it out.

[docile tapeworm 3,464]

I have some I always find in yard sale lots. I can never bring myself to toss it. So I keep them. I’ll try to get some pics. 

[Tanooki 4,557]

Oh hey I found the book I still had it, also an old independent study too from the 16bit era in the original envelope with the letter that came with it which surprised me.

 

[MeganJoanne 365]

I got far too many things to post here.

Maps for Air Fortress, Deadly Towers, Dr Chaos, Dragon Warrior II, Hydlide, Legacy of the Wizard, Milon's Secret Castle, Super Pitfall, W&W III and more, a lot of stuff, including a handful of PS1 game maps just because I enjoyed doing these things during that time of my life. Plus various pages of game passwords that I was working on cracking, some I did to near completion, others I never quite found everything, all done at a time before ever having a computer.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aGfoRnSHZ9jSXHeo9

 Have a lot more other notes and whatnot but haven't taken pics of or scanned because it just takes a lot of time and I just never got around to it all. Maybe one of these days, may not have the papers forever and it'd be good to have them in access on the computer our my google drive or photos. But then after hooking up the scanner and looking over all of them, ugh, nah, forget it, too much work, most has been long since typed in notepad documents anyway. Even though there was a time I relied on paper, once I didn't need it anymore, never really want to go back to it. But every once in a while I open up the box that has all my old paper stuff and think, wow, sure has been a long time.

Edited November 21, 2019 by MeganJoanne
minor edit

[MeganJoanne 365]

One of my more simpler single page maps, Ironsword :

The Guardian Legend, old hint for raising score easily and quickly to max out experience fast (a long time ago I used to write everything in caps) :

Another note with a small hand drawn image to go with it, this for the final boss of Vice Project Doom (not needed but something at the time I had of an idea to do with every game, but never did) :

One of my later maps I did on graph paper, Spiritual Warfare (actually got this one dated too) :

Most of my maps are too big to put here, multiple pages and whatnot. Everything back then was done by hand, notes, little drawings, all the mapping on graph paper, it sure was a different time, now it's all notepad and paint in windows 10 which is so much easier, but somehow some of the creativity that came with drawing stuff by hand on paper has been lost.

Edited November 21, 2019 by MeganJoanne
minor update

[portabello 85]

I know I have some old paperwork from PC games like Myst that are pretty funny. I also have some original GB codes from the 90s I could dig up. Below was a silly thing I did while playing Ufouria a few years back. I wanted to document the passwords during my progress. Bottom right is the final boss if anyone is interested in giving that a whirl.

[DoctorEncore 3,559]

Awesome stuff @MeganJoanne!

2 hours ago, portabello said:

I know I have some old paperwork from PC games like Myst that are pretty funny. I also have some original GB codes from the 90s I could dig up. Below was a silly thing I did while playing Ufouria a few years back. I wanted to document the passwords during my progress. Bottom right is the final boss if anyone is interested in giving that a whirl.

Were there some other popular games that used this type of colored ball/marble grid system for passwords? I have a vivid memory of this exact thing but I never played Ufouria. Maybe a Mega Man game?

[portabello 85]

Just now, DoctorEncore said:

Awesome stuff @MeganJoanne!

Were there some other popular games that used this type of colored ball/marble grid system for passwords? I have a vivid memory of this exact thing but I never played Ufouria. Maybe a Mega Man game?

Yeah, Mega Man on GameBoy used a similar grid system. I have notes somewhere from the 90s, I'll post when I find them.

[MeganJoanne 365]

Such a great game, Ufouria! Now you done got the main theme in my head. Its a good thing.

Edited November 24, 2019 by MeganJoanne

[portabello 85]

from back in the day...

[8-bit_boice 46]

Not necessarily codes... But this was stuffed in a Xenophobe box that my friend picked up at a garage sale.

[Richardhead 2,163]

Did Dude use Kathys note to write codes for The Immortal or did Kathy write a note on dudes Immortal codes? We will never know.

[zeldaboy 41]

Very cool stuff all! Wish I had more to share.

[DoctorEncore 3,559]

Slightly off-topic, but I found this gem this week. A fully filled, but never mailed Acclaim registration tucked inside a CIB copy of Heavy Shreddin'. I love that the dude just bought WrestleMania, but it's already his favorite game.