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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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psychodan said:cyrusjumpjet said:
up-up-down-down-..... well, you know the rest.
This has got to be the all time number one cheat code. I can start saying this code around any old school gamer I know and they will finish it.
I'm quite a 'old school' gamer(first Playstation etc) but I don't think I've ever seen that so you must be talking about pacman old school or even before that hahaha =/
The cheat codes I remember the most are ones on Duke Nukem Time to Kill, Apocalypse(Bruce Willis did the voice acting) and Grand Theft Auto games.
Duke Nukem had things like infinite ammo and infinite health so you could just charge through it and I still enjoyed it, good story, music and feel... "Mmm Bacon bits" haha =P
Apocalypse was the same but even though I had infinite health, ammo and lives you could still die because of the way the levels were designed for example you could fall to your death in some of the levels or you could fall into magma =/
And Grand Theft Auto(San Andreas mostly) had the great spawning cheats like to spawn a Rhino(tank) or a Hydra(harrier jump jet) weapon cheats and making your character fat or muscle y,
And being honest I'm the only one out of my friends that completed San Andreas to about 90%+ without using cheats(almost had all the tags =D).
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Pepperoni pizza
coinage
Guess ;]
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up up down down left right left right B A
Someone needed to finish it -.-;
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I used to be addict of age of empires . And Gold was so precious so I think my most memorable cheat would be "robinhood" for gold !!
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enolagay - nuclear destruction in mechwarrior
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Super Contra series in NES, at the title screen,
press: Right Left Down up A B Select Start
and you got 30 lives
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godmode- got me unstuck on fallout 3, it gave me a checkpint with no health and loads of enemys around, died seconds after respawning, backup checkpoint was like 10 hours back.
rosebud. -The sims
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prince megahit
wolf3d -goobers
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You guys mentiono IDDQD but not IDKFA? You cant have god mode without all of the guns man! thats just unheard of!
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mailpup said:
StarCraft - Show me the money - 10,000 minerals and gas.
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JUSTIN BAILEY
original metroid
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turok for N64
nthgthdgdcrtdtrk = god mode
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en0nym0us said:
uuum, Game Shark fTW!
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Lokalaskurar said:
Typing "Wrath of the gods" in Age of Mythology... man, that was a lifesaver!
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A-B-B-A
Ikari Warriors baby!!
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Cheats for systems before memory cards are what make this thread significant imo. Those codes that made you feel invincible, well as invincible as a game w/o a memory card could make you.
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Super C: Up, down, Up, down, A,B,A,B, select, start .... 10 lives I beleive.
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Sonic 2 on the Megadrive.
Play music 19, 65, 9, 17 in the options in that order, then do up down left right A+Start on the opening screen to get the level select.
Sonic 3 on the MD was hard as hell to execute.
The moment you after the Sega logo fades from black to white and you see Sonic rolling in you have about 1 second to press Up Up Down Down Up Up Up Up to get the level select.
Can't think of any others. Didn't really cheat in games obviously. Either that or I just cheated so much I think I'm legitimately playing the games!
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Down, R, Up, L, Y, B ---- Street Fighter 2 for SNES to pick the same character.
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doubleeduck level 22 in lemmings
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All good Starcraft classic cheats
showmethemoney
food for thought
bigbertha
blacksheepwall
operation cwal
the gathering
power overwhelming
modify the phase varianc
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