I was reading some Goldeneye stuff, and found that apparently, a lot of people consider the Archives cheat to be one of the hardest to earn in the game. That surprised me. Yeah, I know I said it was probably the most difficult cheat I've earned so far, but I had assumed that the cheats I hadn't earned would be harder. Especially considering that the first time I beat Archives on 00 Agent at all I had a time of 1:50. And I had thought I wouldn't be able to earn the hardest cheats until I had done just about everything else in the game. Aztec still seems like an intimidating stage to me.

One cheat I had assumed would be hard was the Control/Infinite Ammo cheat. But I recently earned it. I had assumed it would be hard because I thought the stage was hard enough on its own to simply beat. But I had only beaten that stage (believe it or not) once on Secret Agent. The first time I tried for the cheat, I died when I set off the remote mines to destroy the armed mainframes. I set the mine on the last one, and backed out of the room to avoid the explosion, and then when I set it off... I was killed by another exploding mainframe. Opps. That had never happened before. Timewise, I was on track to have earned the cheat otherwise; the timer was about 8:45 at that point. When I tried again, I successfully beat the stage and earned the cheat, in about 8 and a half minutes, and with plenty of life to spare. This stage used to be pretty intimidating, but I think I have at least Secret Agent under control (I'll have to see what 00 Agent is like). It just so happened that my Secret Agent reply file was up to Control, too, so, with new confidence, I beat that stage and earned the cheat again at the same time.


I imagine the Train cheat will be hard to earn, but I finally just beat the stage on 00 Agent. That was a pretty tough stage. I practiced a bit on the lower difficulty levels. For one thing, I needed to experiment to find a good way of setting up the shot during the hostage situation. I finished in over 8 minutes, and something less than 6 is needed. I'm really not sure how to cut my time on this stage, since I had to go sort of slowly just to stay alive.


I don't like games that are fun.