#i actually managed to beat the game without any cheats and it was ridiculously tedious and frustrating

[sleepyfikou]

the discovery of the cheat code in Bionicle GBA is great because the infinite lives cheat helps offset one of more unfortunate game design conflicts of that game. it features large open levels which are meant to be thoroughly explored, but the system of limited lives means you'll constantly be restarting the levels from the beginning and undoing all of your exploration efforts, forcing you to retread all of that ground in order to reacquire the lightstones and matoran you lost.

a limited lives system can work fine in an arcade-style linear action game (like, say, Matoran Adventures), but there's a reason you generally don't see that sort of thing in exploration-heavy games.

with infinite lives, though, that stress is completely removed, and you're free to explore the levels without being forced to redo everything every 10 minutes. i hope that will allow more people to enjoy the game! the controls are a bit strange, but i find it quite fun otherwise, and you get used to the controls after enough playtime.