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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Glorb on November 22, 2006, 02:40:22 PM
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Cheat codes: What are they? Well, we already know, but how do you feel about them? In my opinion, cheat codes are practically a neccessity in some games. For example, the GTA games have some of the best cheat codes in any games, and would be nearly incomplete without them. Sure, there's standard stuff like health and armor and weapons, but there's also stuff like causing riots, making cars explode or fly like a plane, playing as a different character, making the main character fat or thin, and all sorts of other silly junk. Other games have creative methods of entering codes. Take the convuluted method of making the (in?)famous coin-filled ship appear in SMB3: I forget, but it involves timing the level exit just right, making sure your score ends with a certain digit, and other stuff.
Oh, and because I'm in the mood, here's a little game to play: match the cheat code to its game. Bonus points for identifying what it does.
1. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
2. Type "idspispopd"
3. R1, R2, L1, X, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up
4. Hold "G", "O" and "D" simultaneously
5. Highlight your save file, hold L + R and press A
6. Enter "PAKING PAKING PAKING PAKING" as a password
A. Kid Icarus
B. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
C. Gradius
D. New Super Mario Bros.
E. Doom
F. Commander Keen
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1 = C
Don't remember what it does, but come on, the Konami code, yo.
2 = E
It enabled "no clipping" for me.
Logic tells me that 6 = A, and that 5 = D.
So after that I guess that 3 = B, and 4 = F
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To me, cheat codes seem fun when they let you do things you normally cant do...
wait that doesnt make any sense.
Like, they are good when they let you got to areas not in the game, but things like unlimited health just ruin the whole point of the game.
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By the way, how many things like infinite health and stage skipping were originally put in for debugging purposes, and then just left in due to laziness?
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the convuluted method of making the (in?)famous coin-filled ship appear in SMB3: I forget, but it involves timing the level exit just right, making sure your score ends with a certain digit, and other stuff.
I don't consider that cheating so much as a "programmed feature." Also since it doesn't give you the coins automatically.
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Rare is notorius for cheats and other hidden stuff. I remember those useless Stop n' Swop items from Banjo-Kazooie.
Better yet, here's a question for ya'll. What is the best cheat code ever?
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Suicide!
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Kill Dash from Debug Mode on Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, to be specific.
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Best code ever was big head mode on Goldeneye 64.
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This doesn't really count as cheat codes, but I like the Action Replay codes that allowed you to play the test levels in Windwaker.
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Treasure ship in SMB3 isn't really a "cheat".
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Best cheat code ever is the Master Code in Turok 2 (BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND). Seeing stick-thin dinosaurs with big heads makes me chuckle.
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Best code ever was big head mode on Goldeneye 64.
Nah, DK mode was way better than that.
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He must have been talking about that, because there is no standard big head mode. And also because I've heard him talking about DK mode before.
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Yeah, I have the game... It's called DK mode, but it just enlarges the head, hence, big head mode.
My favorite cheat code ever? Well, I dunno if I can pick a favorite, but I like the code in Goldeneye where you can unlock all the guns. Dual silver PP7s, foo'!
Also, not really a code, but I like the superjumps in Halo 2.
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Yeah, I have the game... It's called DK mode, but it just enlarges the head, hence, big head mode.
It also does the limbs, hence, DK mode.
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Well, a cheat I really want to love is the Super Drive-By Shooting code in GTA: San Andreas. It changes the driving controls so that you can manually aim and shoot while driving, thus making missions like "Wrong Side of the Tracks" more easy. Sadly, it makes your vehicle go really slowly, and your bullets mysteriously never hit anything, making the code pretty much utterly useless.
As for the best code ever, I'd have to say Dog mode from Rise of the Triad. I mean, c'mon! It's like God mode, except you're a dog!
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Well, there are a number of cheat codes that have always stuck in my mind for various reasons. The first was a password for the Sega Master System (SMS) game "Golvellius". In the game, you have to go through seven dungeons to defeat seven boses, after which you can purchase seven magical crystals that permit you to enter the last level.
But the password
SEGA SEGA SEGA SEGA
SEGA SEGA SEGA SEGQstarted the game from a debug file, where SOME of the bosses and crystals were taken care of, but SOME (like the second) had the crystal yet unbought, and SOME (like the first) had the boss completely undefeted. The rest of the file was also consistently inconsistent like that.
Next, we have the SMS game "Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap", which had a notorious debug code
3YGU PYZ ZY7K NRRWhich allows the player to be play as Wonder Boy's human form (normally impossible past the first part of the game), and gives the player all weapons, armor, and shields, as well as an obscene amount of gold and infinite magic.
The best part of the code, though, is that you can FIND it in the game's instruction book, in a screenshot that shows how, in the game, you retrieve a password.
Then we have another SMS game, "Quartet". I don't remember the exact code, but my older brother was playing around, making up fake codes: "Then I push pause 3 times, reset twice, hold up-left and 2 on controller 2 and... Hey! That wasn't supposed to work!" The code opened up a little bonus stage that was played before the main game.
And finally, this last one is a code that I had heard of once as a li'l-un, and since have doubted that it was even real.
Until hunted it down just now:
http://www.defunctgames.com/shows.php?id=feuds-41
(read down, it's not about Wind Waker).
...and those are all the most memorable codes to me.
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I can't remember specifics, but there was some N64 game (a racing game of some sort) I was playing before. Anyhoo, I tried skipping a coring cutscene by tapping A (I'm impatient), and when the game started, it was totally different. Not a minigame, but apparently a full-blown extra game with something like five levels of third-person shooter fun. It wasn't the most sophisticated extra game, but I'm surprised they managed to fit that much extra junk on one cartridge.
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Anybody remember that lock-on catridge from Sega, it was only compatible with Sonic 2 and 3, with a other game, the cast of the early Sonic Games should appear, posing wierdly, with the words "NO WAY!" On the top, but, if you press A,B, and C at the same time (I can't remember the code, but it's something like that) It should make a minigame appear.
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That would be the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge. With Sonic 2, you can play as Knuckles in the games. With Sonic 3, you can play Sonic 3 the way it was meant to be, before it was rushed for release, and they had to release Sonic & Knuckles as "part 2". With Sonic 3 + S&K, it plays straight through both games.
I don't remember the details on the minigame thing, since it's something like it's a random level based on whatever invalid cartridge you put in, and some game, Sonic 1 maybe, allows you to select any random level you want via a code or something (if I recall correctly).
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Heh, I have a good memory of a cheat code. I was at one of my friend's house, watching him play GTA: VC. He entered a code at the part where you get the "fastest speed boat" in the game. He entered a few cheat codes, including something like "Moon Gravity." The hting was, he was driving the boat with the Moon Gravity cheat on. He was riding around when a big wave flung him into the air. Unfortunately, there was a nearby bridge, and his boat landed on top of the bridge. He was stuck there, and had to start all over from before the boat thing. I was laughing the whole time.
As for my favorite cheat, it's more of a glitch. I really enjoy the Missingno. quirks in Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow. Very interesting and mysterious, they are.
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Oh, I thought of some more cheat codes/glitches I like:
Yeah, Mr.Melee, I like the Missingno infinite-items cheat, I used that a lot on Pokemon Red :P
I also like most Tony Hawk's Pro Skater cheats. Perfect balance and always-special, to be specific. Oh, and I always had fun changing my character to Spider-man and turning off gravity in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater x2. That allowed for some crazy Spidey fun :D
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The only Cheat that's craved into my brain forever is the Rayman super cheat.
FJSJ!C620P
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Some cheats I can still remember.
NTGTHDGDCRTDTRK = THE ULTIMATE CHEAT CODE in Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. (it's "On the eighth day, God created Turok", only they misspelled "eighth")
Name your medium difficulty save record "_Wampa__Stompa", pause, highlight "Options", hold left on d-pad, hold all c-buttons, hold L and R, push analog stick 50% to the left, hold it for three seconds, then alternate to the right, and back, a few times = debug mode in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.
And then some Game Genie codes, mainly stuff like D5E5-776D (how to get General Leo in Final Fantasy III (as in VI)), and EEB0-EFA4 (that would be a walk-through-walls code for Chrono Trigger).
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With Sonic 3, you can play Sonic 3 the way it was meant to be, before it was rushed for release, and they had to release Sonic & Knuckles as "part 2".
What? I highly doubt that a single game was supposed to have that many zones. And, could that even fit on one cartridge?
(Also, the minigame on the No Way! screen was just the blue ball Chaos Emerald-collecting thing, wasn't it?
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Yeah, think so, I heard something about there being over a million levels. *plays game* Hold on! I nned to get past level #4209! It's jsut like level 78, only this one has a diffrent cloud in the sky! It's Cirrus!
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From Wikipedia:
The "lock-on technology" was actually a way of making up for the fact that the developers of the Sega Technical Institute could not meet the deadline for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Originally, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was to be released with Knuckles as a playable character, and with all the Sonic & Knuckles levels playable (the level select screen in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 features inaccessible Sonic & Knuckles levels and music for said levels can be played in the sound test). Time constraints forced them to split the project in two, releasing Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with the completed levels and continuing work on the uncompleted ones, plus adding the "Super Emeralds" extra bonus games, and the lock-on gimmick. Indeed Sonic the Hedgehog 2 had once run into similar problems, resulting in the original Hidden Palace and several other levels being removed.
P.S. - The ROM of S3&K is the same size as some other Genesis games.
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I wish they would've made a way to play the entire Death Egg Saga as one game. That would've pwned.
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definitly
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Hmm, okay. Dang, that would have been a huge game, though, compared to the previous 2 Sonics!
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Sega needs to make that game, They could even bring back the time travelling and Super Peel-out from Sonic CD. I can already imagine what the bad future of Hill Top Zone looks like.... *drools*
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Uhhhh, Lava Reef?
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Well, hopefully they'll do something like that in a Sonic classics compilation or whatnot.
Speaking of which, anyone remember the cheat codes for the old Sonic games? They were weird. I mean, the sound test stuff in 1 and 2 was unorthodox, but then there was the stuff with pressing two or three buttons at just the right moment of the title screen in Sonic 3, and all kinds of other convoluted methods in the other games.
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I believe the stage select code for Sonic 3 had you pressing the D-pad directions in time with the BGM beat.
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That reminds me, I remember trying to do a code on Sonic Chaos for Game Gear that my friend told me. It involved pressing something right as Tails blinked. I think it was a fake code. :(
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i remember that code thats one of the hardest codes in the game
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The other day, when I was playing WarioWare: Touched, my friend said that if you fart into the microphone, you get a surprise. I didn't believe him, I just did it for...the sake of argument. Yeah, that's it.
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i did that you have to do that on a specific game can remember wich though
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Really? Because farting into microphones is the one feature missing in several DS games (for example, it would make Ping Pals infinitely more fun).