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[MVS]

Gamespot screenshots all have the health bar maxed out, even at the beginning of the game. Sorry but i doubt Kasavin is good enough to finish Ninja Gaiden.

Perhaps they do things different on the editorial side of things these days, I have never run into a situation like you discribe, barring Dongles to run a game. Nor did TECMO send out any saves with Ninja Gaiden Black.

 

[MVS]

Sorry to crush your conspiracy theories and rush to the defense of our friendly competitors, but almost everyone gets screenshots sent to them from the publishers these days. The act of taking our own inferoir screenshots is going the way of the dodo with every passing hour. Although the Xbox debug allows us to take hi-res shots via a computer, it's usually 1) easier to have the publisher supply them, or we're sometimes 2) forbidden to take our own from a non-retail build. So full health bars hardly signal the use of a cheat or a code. And to what the other guy said, it's true, Tecmo never sends out game saves with their games. Capcom does (*coughdevilmaycry3cough*), but Tecmo doesn't.

Indeed. Though, for strategy guides they do require that the author takes any and all screenshots.