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Weekend Open Forum: Most memorable gaming cheat codes
The fact is developers have been building cheats directly into their games for almost as long as video games themselves have existed. They may do so for testing purposes or perhaps to increase the title’s replay value. Some of them are not even designed to give the player an advantage in the game, but rather make it more challenging by making enemies tougher, and some can add a whole new element to gameplay by giving users unusual skills such as the ability to walk through walls or allowing them to modify their character in terms of appearance.
Nowadays it’s easy to jump online and find a cheat within minutes, but there was a time when you’d had to wait months for your favorite games magazine to come out with it, and usually the codes involved entering a complicated sequence of buttons on a game controller. Today we want to hear about those codes that stuck to your memory over the years -- or maybe some that were so ridiculous that you’ll have to Google them. I’ll just mention an obvious one and a more obscure one to get the conversation started: IDDQD for Godmode in Doom II (PC) and pressing B thirteen times while rotating the D-pad 360 degrees clockwise during the match-up screen to get power dunks in NBA Jam (SNES).
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Street Fighter II
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bielius said:
Operation Cwal, Black sheep wall - Starcraft.
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age of empires !
pepperonipizza
robin hood
rock on
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Alien Trilogy on Sega Saturn - fillmyboots and flyto (level#) I always used these to get unlimited ammo and to get past levels I had already finished (I couldn't save games
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how do you turn this on
age of empires 2
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Game: Original Mortal Combat - Sega
Cheat: Blood
At Title Screen: A,B,A,C,A,B,B
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The most famous code has to be the Mortal Kombat blood code for the genesis. People should feel ashamed and embarrassed that they have not already mentioned it: abacabb. Ashamed. I don't even play video games and I remember this one from my youth.
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DjKraid said:
some more classic sims cheats
I'd say rosebud;!;! etc. in The SimsYes and klapaucius and motherlode
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Staffcyrusjumpjet said:
up-up-down-down-..... well, you know the rest.
Ahh, the memories, playing Gradius till late late at night
Actually my cheating pretty much stopped with the NES 8-bit games, I don't use them in PC games at all...
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That cheat in Metal Gear Solid 3 that lets you see The End
The only MGS cheat i'am aware of
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"russformario" in the first Carmageddon, I think it gave you 20 seconds of pedestrian killing lightning
Come to think of it, that DOES sound a bit extreme !
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This isn't really a cheat, as you don't get any weapons or ammo, etc
In Starcraft Broodwar, when playing as Zerg, enter "Radio Free Zerg"
And listen to the Zerg radio transmission!
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twojpodlysyn said:
godmode
noclip
allthebuttons
lumberjack
gouranga
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T77 said:
i cant even remember when was the last time i used a cheat.i guess i never used one.
i always thought that it would defeat the basic purpose itself of using your skills and getting past a level.
moreover i haven't figured out till this date how to enter a cheat and get it up and working.
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Secret Area in Donkey Kong Country: Down Down Y Down Down Y at the title screen.
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It is not really a cheat code, but one of the worlds in Super Mario Brothers gave you virtually unlimited 1up's if you caught the turtle coming down the stairs at the right moment.
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No one mentioned /god
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There is no cow level
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matrix86 said:
Oh where to begin, lol. I used to use cheat codes on whatever game I could. I never really cared about the games, just found it fun to run around with unlimited amo and all that other good stuff.
But then I got married and my wife would actually get upset that I was using cheat codes. Never was sure why it bothered her sop much, but like the saying goes..."if mama aint happy, nobody's happy." So I started actually playing fair...and hated it, lol.
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Cake
Hammer
Earth
Apple
Tap
Anyone remember this one?
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joolsrip
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cyrusjumpjet said:
Wendig0 said:Right, Left, Down, Up, A, B = 10 lives in Super C (Since everyone got trumped with Cyrus's 30 lives cheat)
I saw the post and I knew I had to say it before somebody else did! haha. Game over
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corwin of amber
hurry up guys
DNKROZ
DNstuff
iddqd
idkfa
Windows 95... The memories.
and war aint what it used to be
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CTRL + ALT + ~ the most important key to unlocking it all!
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Cheating is ok if you're doin it for fun, not for progression to higher levels, or to win a multiplayer game.
The face of cheating was changed when "bot" type programs appeared, they we're and still are the highest on my despise list.
Though I remember in the days of MSN Gaming Zone in a Age of Empires I game, in the lobby I forgot to look if the cheats we're enabled, and I got rushed not by troops, but by cars.
ON topic:
glittering prizes Warcraft II
I see dead people Warcraft III
there is no spoon Warcraft III
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