Total Annihilation Codes
Kahlil Algya
The following codes can be used in any game mode, including single player skirmishes and campaign missions, as well as in multiplayer mode. In multiplayer, cheats do not have to be enabled in order for these to work since they are just commands not cheats.
The following cheat codes will only function while playing against CPU opponents in skirmish games, or against other people/CPU opponents in multiplayer mode. In multiplayer, cheats must be enabled in order for these to work. These cheats will not work in campaign missions.
While on TA's single player game selection screen (New Campaign, Skirmish, etc.), typing "DRDEATH" will make a small bone appear at the bottom of the screen below the Load Game button. Clicking it will grant access to any campaign mission from either side regardless of previous mission progress.
By default, TA only allows 4 players (the player and 3 computer AI opponents) during a skirmish game. To change the number of players, on the single player skirmish set-up screen, type * (press SHIFT+8) followed by the Roman numeral of the desired number of total players. For example, typing *X will result in the maximum 10 players instead of the usual 4.
Computer whiz kid Will Farmer's (Matt Lanter) neighbor Massaude comes to Will having a problem with his computer. Will takes the computer and hooks his own up to it and discovers that Massaude's brother is using his online banking to make huge profits. Since he needs $550 to go on a chess trip, Will steals $500 from Massaude's account to gamble on an online gaming site that uses games that are based on terrorist attacks. Will later discovers that his best friend Dennis changes it to $5000.
He ends up winning $25,000, with the aid of his mother, who knows about biological agents. Little does he know that the online game he plays is actually part of a sophisticated piece of U.S. government spyware designed to find potential terrorists based on how well they perform and bet on the games. The spyware program is run by a new, advanced artificial intelligence system called R.I.P.L.E.Y., which has ultimate control over every American electronic system in order to combat terrorism.
Homeland Security, now believing Farmer to be a terrorist, sets out to apprehend him. During Will's return home one day he finds Massaude is being arrested on account of suspected terrorism, and gives Will an envelope full of cash as payment, which he uses to finance his trip. Unknown to him and Homeland Security, R.I.P.L.E.Y. is misinterpreting the data and is overreacting to the situation. On his arrival to the airport, he finds that there is an abnormally large number of security guards. He manages to slip away and meets up with his friend Annie.
In the streets, he manages to crack the government network, only to be found by the police, and as Annie pointed out, a man in an overcoat. The cops chase the couple until they get lost in the subway systems. Will manages to find a way out, and they meet the man who was watching them from the doorway, he says that he nearly started World War III, and to meet them at his truck. He is revealed to be Professor Falken, who had helped design R.I.P.L.E.Y. They travel to a small power plant outside a dam (during the trip, Will and Professor talk about the sensitive points of the past of each one, revealed before the trip to the power plant), where the professor shows them a dilapidated computer called W.O.P.R. (War Operation Plan Response) from the original WarGames film, which is operating the power grid at only 5% of its potential efficiency.
Professor Falken had designed this computer to aid in the planning of a global thermonuclear war if it was needed. Falken re-activates W.O.P.R. with his backdoor password "Joshua" (the name of Falken's deceased son as well as the name the professor uses to refer to the A.I. that is W.O.P.R.). Meanwhile, R.I.P.L.E.Y. is led to believe that Philadelphia has been hit by a bioterrorist attack and decides to halt the spread of the bioweapon by hijacking a Predator drone with missiles and a nuclear warhead on board and use it to destroy the city.
Falken instructs Joshua to attack R.I.P.L.E.Y. with a faux script full of cultural references.[2] Joshua starts flooding R.I.P.L.E.Y.'s system with games, which seem to be overloading the system, but then R.I.P.L.E.Y. shuts down and reboots to successfully rid herself of the games.
Rebooted, R.I.P.L.E.Y. redirects the Predator drone, which she uses to destroy the facility housing Joshua. Joshua warns the professor that R.I.P.L.E.Y.'s advancing attack would result in obliteration; so Will and Annie flee the facility just before it gets blown up by the drone's missile, with the professor, who was dying from pancreatic cancer remaining in the building at the time, last seen typing extremely fast, finishing with something that looks like an "Enter", and saying "Goodbye, Joshua".
The couple is arrested by Homeland Security and taken to the room where R.I.P.L.E.Y. is stored, only to find that she has taken control over the system, and they discover that Professor Falken has transferred Joshua via an email to them to help them stop R.I.P.L.E.Y. They first try to use W.O.P.R. and internet users to stage a denial of service attack, which causes R.I.P.L.E.Y. to overload. R.I.P.L.E.Y., knowing that she has been compromised by W.O.P.R., decides to self destruct by launching a nuclear warhead at Washington D.C.. Annie remembers a chess game known as "Suicide Chess" where if you win you lose. Will programs W.O.P.R. to play Russian Roulette, where the goal is to lose as opposed to winning.
They again pit W.O.P.R. against R.I.P.L.E.Y. by granting him access to one of six American nuclear launch codes. R.I.P.L.E.Y. and W.O.P.R. play through two nuclear attack scenarios both resulting in total annihilation; however, the codes for those missiles are unavailable. The third scenario presented is a nuclear attack on Washington D.C. Having learned the concept of futility presented by playing a game where if you win you die, R.I.P.L.E.Y. stops responding after the scenario is played out, also resulting in total annihilation, and the weapon is available. Joshua asks if they are still playing at which point she says "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play", just as Joshua had said at the end of the original film after learning how to play Tic-Tac-Toe.
After R.I.P.L.E.Y. relinquishes control, Will asks W.O.P.R. if he really would have launched the missiles if R.I.P.L.E.Y. had decided to continue playing. W.O.P.R. replies that he would have, and that humanity is doomed, before revealing that he was merely joking.
If the issue continues to occur, you may need to provide more details about your Excel version, operating system, and any specific error messages you encounter. Additionally, checking the Excel event logs might reveal more information about the disappearance of macros. The text was revised with the AI.
@Perry320 We have been having the same issues with all our users. Restoring the file to a previous known working version is the easiest solution. Today, 2/16/24, we are testing having some users move to Office 2021 LTSC to see if its an issue with Office 365.
I didn't post this on the main thread because I had no absolute answer. Here is what happened: I discovered an icon on my screen that I didn't put there. I checked my downloads and there it was. I could shoot myself for not making a note of what it was, but I didn't. I deleted it. Since I did that not ONE of my macros has disappeared. Not a single problem. I'm not 100% sure it was that download... but... awfully big coincidence if it wasn't. Like I said, since I wasn't sure of anything, and didn't remember the name of the download, so I didn't want to post a response. @Nevin930
@Nevin930 I have the same thing happen with my macro-heavy workbooks, and it's gotten so bad that I am constantly saving backup versions to date-coded folders (with descriptions of any changes) cos this problem is arbitrary, chronic, and infuriating. In some cases, my previously-fine backups (I always check to see if the macros are there with [ALT]-[F8] before closing) are likewise corrupted. This has been going on for years, and the "just back up every new version" has become the only way to save my work from total Excel annihilation.
It's April 2, and I still haven't had one macro disappear. Since my last post, I have discovered another workaround. Buttons. I was able to get rid of 26 macros on one file by using option buttons. On another file, radio buttons. But I still have a couple simple ones, and they haven't vanished. I MIGHT have remembered the icon that mysteriously appeared on my computer: One Drive. I'm not sure, but I saw the icon somewhere, and it struck a cord. Good luck. I was on the brink of giving up a project I had been working on for a year because of this problem.
@Perry320 mine are data-intensive crop-yield modeling workbooks that are linked to databases for weather data, crop yield data, and satellite vegetation health data... so I am sure I am pushing Excel to the limits. But I am also the only person in our office this keeps happening to. It just happened now, and the previous two versions of the workbook I backed up, which worked fine when I backed them up, are likewise f___ng corrupt and now useless. This sends me to a dark, angry place. I suspect there is either a DLL file or something within my MS Office or Excel that is corrupt. Our IT has already wiped my MS office clean and reinstalled it, and that doesn't seem to have stopped the problem. I am really at my wit's end.
I think you might be on to something with One Drive. I think One Drive is trying to push itself to be used too much, and when saving, it glitches and doesn't save completely or is still processing or something and becomes read only, which clears the macros.
@Perry320 I had this exact issue and have been looking everywhere to try and solve as none of the provided solutions helped me. BUT what did help me was removing any sorting applied to the data. Don't ask me why, but as soon as I removed any 'sorting' in the data the macros reappeared and worked again.
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