Garfield: Caught in the Act/Hidden content

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Mega Drive version

"Heather"

When paused, press . This will max out Garfield's health, lives and projectiles, and cause the text "HEATHER" to appear when the game is paused. Pausing three times after this will cause the game to reset.

It is not known who "Heather" is, although Heather Meigs worked on the game as a tester and so might have used this code during development.

99 projectiles

When paused, press .

Extra life

When paused, press .

Refil health

When paused, press .

Temporary invincibility

When paused, press  START . This will cause Garfield to flicker for a while.

Skip level

When paused, press  START . The next level (or next part of the current level) will be loaded in.

Free movement

When paused, press  START . Garfield's collision will be turned off, and his X and Y positions can be freely manipulated by the D-Pad. While Garfield can still collect items, the face buttons do nothing in this mode, so the code must be entered again in order to legitimately finish levels.

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When paused, press . Like the other cheats, a laughter sound will play, but the effects are not known.

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When paused, press . Like the other cheats, a laughter sound will play, but the effects are not known.

Game Gear version

Debug menu

Pause the game and press . The options are as follows:

• LEVEL: A level select. Press to jump to the selected level.
• SOUND: Select a value, and press to play its associated sound effect.
• MUSIC: Select a value, and press to play its associated music.
• GARFIELD Y/X: Prints Garfield's current X and Y coordinates.

Press to display the next page with even more options:

• X WALK: Modifies Garfield's walking speed on the ground.
• X RUN: Modifies Garfield's running speed on the ground.
• X JUMP WALK: Modifies Garfield's walking speed in the air.
• X JUMP RUN: Modifies Garfield's running speed in the air.
• X DECEL: Modifies the rate of deceleration from movement.
• Y JUMP SPEED: Modifies the momentum of Garfield's jump.
• Y GRAVITY: Modifies the height of Garfield's jump (lower bit).
• Y GRAVITY A: Modifies the height of Garfield's jump (upper bit).
• Y SPEED LIMIT: Modifies the proper speed of Garfield's jump.
• GUN: Sets Garfield's weapon.
• LIFE: Adjusts how many lives Garfield has.
• POWER: Adjusts how much health Garfield has.
• CONTINUE: Adjusts how many continues Garfield has.
• UNLIMITED LIFE: Set this to any non-zero value for infinite health.
• UNLIMITED GUN: Set this to any non-zero value for infinite weapons.

Free movement

Free movement is enabled after closing the debug menu with (see above). Move Garfield around with the D-Pad and press to place him.

PC version

Level select

Go to the password screen and enter the following as a password:

Then press Enter at the top of the screen to display the Levels submenu.