Bizarre glitch/cheat?

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Bizarre glitch/cheat?

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Hey,
I was playing Keen2 over the summer, and accidentally stumbled across a glitch/cheat.
I was in the level Sydney, trying to jump on top of one of those red blocks in the beginning (being really klutzy doing so), when I accidentally pressed a bunch of keys together and a keeny message box appeared, with no text except for the bottom (Which said "Press Enter"). I thought it was incredibly odd and bizarre at the time, but I pressed Enter anyway, and the block I was trying to jump on vanished!
Seems to be this is some kind of cheat code I discovered accidentally, and I've spent hours trying to replicate it with no results. I know it HAS to be some kid of key combination of the keys right around where you normally place your fingers (I wasn't mashing random keys on the keyboard), but I never found out what key combination it was...
Any thoughts? Anyone else seen something like this? I know that in Keen3 in one level, there is a seemingly impossible-to-reach place (Even if you are in God mode), and if you could destroy blocks at will, you would be able to go there.
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Well-known, this one. ;) The tile accidentally has the property of a vorticon elder / message, and it opens the message window, but since there's no message for that particular level, it displays empty. The reason Keen manages to activate it is technical, too; the collision box of the Keen sprite is one pixel higher in the pogo frame, and thus, if pogo is enabled right where the other collision hits the tile, the pogoing sprite's collision box goes right through it, and the message happens.
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I legitimately had no clue this existed. :eek
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I legitimately had a clue this existed. :eek
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It happens in ReedWulf's Let's Play of Keen 2 - I remember it from there...
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shikadi wrote:
StupidBunny wrote:I legitimately had no clue this existed. :eek
I legitimately had a clue this existed. :eek
I legitimately had a clue this existed. :eek
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Post by mortimermcmirestinks »

This happened to me once, but it was in one of the home levels, so it actually displayed the message, and when I went to see the Vorticon Elder, he didn't say anything...
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Post by MOM4Evr »

Wait... This happened to me in Keen2... is the same glitch in Keen4?
And anyway, thanks for the heads-up. Interesting thing to happen when you least expect it...
So, there's no way to get inside that room in Keen3? Or is there? You know what room I'm talking about, right?
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MOM4Evr wrote:Wait... This happened to me in Keen2... is the same glitch in Keen4?
MMS said Vorticon Elder, not Council Member...
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Post by c64cosmin »

Right in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9_MuBROJE
At 3:10 or so...
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Post by MOM4Evr »

Yep. That's what happened to me.
How could I forget about the Vorticon Elder in Keen2? Duh. Sorry.
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