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macenstein.com - 9/23/2008

First “accelerometer-based” iPhone game cheat discovered!

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Looks like the days of “Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, Select, Start” may be over! One of the best things about game cheats is the usually unlikely series of tasks that must be performed in order to discover them. The iPhone, lacking physical buttons, ...

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