Christmas NiGHTS Cheats
for Saturn

Special Times

Christmas NiGHTS changes its appearance based on the date and time. Here are a few special times to try during the winter months (November thru February):

Time      Effect

3:00 am   Lunar eclipse

6:00 am   Northern Lights

7:00 am   Bright sun

9:00 am   Crescent moons

12:00 pm  Rainbows, clouds & confetti

3:00 pm   Candy

6:00 pm   Strange stars

9:00 pm   Bright stars

12:00 am  Hearts

Hide from the Alarm Egg

The Alarm Egg cannot get you if you stand on a platform which is above another area.

Picture Files

If you place Christmas Nights into a PC or Mac CD-rom drive and look on the disk, you will find a folder titled 'Extra'. If you open this folder you will find two more folders titled '16m' and '256'. These two are duplicates of the other. Inside the folders you will find two BMP files that are viewable on your computer. These pictures show (Christmas) Nights, Chris and Clara.

Special Dates

Christmas NiGHTS changes its appearance based on the date and time. Here are a few special dates to try throughout the year:

Date        Effect

12/25/1996  Santa Claus cameo

01/01/1997  Happy New Year message

02/14/1997  Valentine's hearts

04/01/1997  Play as Reala

Skin of Your Teeth Bonus

If you finish a Mare (enter the Ideya palace with the Ideya) when the timer is below 19, you often get a better grade than when there is a lot of time left.

Disable the Alarm Egg

It is possible to knock the Alarm Egg down by jumping at it. If you manage to knock it into the purple 'sea' surrounding each level, then leg it up the nearest hill, the Alarm Egg should go away for at least two minutes!

Note: On some early versions of NiGHTS, if you knock the Egg too far the game crashes with the error "Object ALARMEGG escaping off edge of map."

Extra Move while Performing Stunts

If you start doing a stunt or loop just before you enter the 'power loop' you still get credit for it when you complete it.

Hyper Jump

Jump then hit Jump before landing. While in the air from your Bounce Jump, hit Jump again. You should hear the sound that you hear when the Nightmaren take your Ideyas. Repeat this and you can reach goodies that NiGHTS can not! You can even cut across your dreams in 10 seconds flat.

Acrobatic Techniques

Here's a more-or-less complete list of acrobatic techniques. The numbers below indicate the direction in which Nights is facing.

                 6

            8        4

                        2

         10    Nights    1

                        3

            9        5

                 7     

In the tables below, Move is the move to be performed, Direction is the direction as indicated above, and Button is the trigger to be pressed to execute the move.

Move          Direction   Button

Twister       1           R

Parasol       2           R

Roulette R    3           R

Arrow         4           R

Screw         5           R

Tornado       6           R

V-Fall        7           R

Ax R          8           R

Typhoon       9           R

Wind         10           R

Move          Direction   Button

Mixer         1           L

Dance         2           L

Roulette L    3           L

L-Wing        4           L

Basket        5           L

Ballet        6           L

T-Fall        7           L

Ax L          8           L

Drill         9           L

Space        10           L

Move          Direction   Button

Swing         1           R + L

Moon          2           R + L

Cross         3           R + L

Rock'n Roll   4           R + L

Triangle      5           R + L

Boomerang     6           R + L

Spin          7           R + L

Sling         8           R + L

Sonic         9           R + L

Scorpion     10           R + L