Got some nostalgia for Epic Pinball series, was setting up Extreme Pinball in DOSBox and noticed that none of the cheats seemed to work, except the 13 balls cheat (hold B+A+L+enter on the balls option) All these other cheats I've seen all over the internet didn't work at all (like the antigravity cheat) - the exception being press down (pull back the plunger) to get a new bulletproof shield in Urban Chaos, which I'm guessing is just a bug/oversight

After wondering if it was something to do with my settings, my cycles being set too high, do I have to unlock these cheats somehow, I eventually discovered there's actually two different revisions of the game, which are confusingly both "version 1.0"

The disc that has no Electronic Arts logo on it has the cheats enabled:

Any disc with Electronic Arts on it does not have the cheats enabled (there are also some other differences outside the game, such as the non-EA version having some shareware Epic games included and a printable Epic Megagames order form - it seems this version was distributed by mail directly by Epic themselves as there's no mention of EA anywhere outside of the logo upon starting the game, whereas EA handled retail distribution)

So what exactly is different between these releases? The non-EA version has a few files timestamped 10/31/1995 (MAIN.EXE, TABLE_A.O32, TABLE_B.O32, TABLE_C.O32, and TABLE_D.O32), whereas the EA versions have those same files timestamped 11/2/1995. So my guess is that those "cheats" are actually debug commands the developers forgot to disable, and didn't catch it until after the non-EA version went gold

Just thought I'd post this here in case someone else is wracking their brain as to why the cheats won't work, they might come across this post while Googling it