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What is that one video game cheat code you'll never forget about?

I'll start us off with the classic "Explode All Cars" cheat from the classic 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as that is one that I remember using a lot for no rhyme or reason:

R2, L2, R1, L1, L2, R2, SQUARE, TRIANGLE, CIRCLE, TRIANGLE, L2, L1

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

HESOYAM

GTA:SA extra health and money.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I remember the cheat but not the exact game lol. Definitely Sega Mega Drive though.

ABRACADABRA (R for d-pad right, D for d-pad down).

Going by a Google search it could've been Vectorman or Ecco 2. Or both because I played both a lot back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

GZELVXSE

Game Genie code for invincibility in Super Mario Bros 2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

cheesesteakjimmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ratchet and clank 3, the cheat code is told to you in a cutscene:

"Aren't you going to unlock his secret costumes? Here, I'll put in a cheat code. Up up down down left right circle square square... Haha! Look! He's in a tutu!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Surprised nobody mentioned "motherlode".

Something like 50k simoleons in The Sims 2. Absolutely essential to any save file.

[–] burt 3 points 2 weeks ago

A B A C A B B

"Get over here!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

San Andreas Max Health + $250k. Saved me in the warehouse mission in Las Venturas lol. I hope I'm getting this right:

R1, R2, L1, X, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just looked it up, I knew that one was etched into the folds in my brain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

JUGGYDANCESQUAD - Blood Rayne

If ya know, ya know

and in the sequel "HAVETHISDARKREALITYTAINTQUEEF"

Simply because.... well that statement is funny

YOUCANSEEANICEICEKEYWHICHYOUCANHAVEFORFREE - Because that damn key tortured me as a kid

and finally

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND because I was too dumb to play Turok 2 fairly

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Warcraft III: iseedeadpeople to remove fog of war.

[–] the16bitgamer 3 points 1 week ago

Flying car cheat in San Andreas. I don’t know what the buttons are, by my muscle memory is so ingrained that if I start it I can usually get it after 1/2 attempts. Even if I haven’t touched the games in years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I had San Andreas on PS2 as a kid, only played it on PC a little bit as an adult; but, the fact that you type the cheat codes on a keyboard means they kinda make words, so i forgot the PS2 ones and i remember some PC ones.

AIWPRTON

HESOYAM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Up up down down A B A B Start

&

A B A B A C C

I’m old.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

the first 'cheat code' that came to mind here isn't for a game:

Select β€’ Play β€’ Select β€’ 30 β€’ Select

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Triangle triangle square circle X L1 L1 down up

Spawns the Hydra in GTA SA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

BARACUDA for level select in Sonic 3D Blast.

Alternatively, CALLACAB for Vector Man.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Doom had IDKFA that just basically gave you all the weapons and keys. I was a pretty young kid when that game was popular and all I wanted was all the guns.

It’s not a code, per se, but the method to get unlimited money on SimCity for SNES is forever in my brain. (I didn’t always use it but sometimes, I just wanted to make a cool city and not do the tax and budget stuff.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

As others have already mentioned, IDKFA for Doom and didn't it work in Doom 2 as well?

I only ask because when ID Software released Heretic, a swords and sorcery style Doom game, I remember typing in IDKFA, expecting the same results. It was the Doom engine after all. Except typing in the classic code kills you instantly!

Another isn't strictly a cheat code. On the old 8bit computers the UK, you could enter some programming code to change the memory before loading in a game. (This is over simplified.)

Because of the altered memory, it would effect the game in some way. E.g. infinity health or lives.

I found a listing in a magazine which you could type in to help with the ZX Spectrum version of Batman: The Movie.

In this platform game, with the cheat, when a bad guy tried to climb a ladder, they would freeze.

This was very helpful and worked wonderfully all the way through the game. That was until you reached the very end whereupon the Joker was on a rope ladder attached to a helicopter.

The code interfered with the end of game boss in a way it wasn't expecting and the game would crash.

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

B A B A β€Œβ€Œβ†‘ ↓ B A ← β†’ B A Start

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Skitchin

At the warning screen, B A Down A Start Start (Spells BADASS)

Activates cheat mode, and then you can use the password screen to input cheats. But the only one I used is MONEY which starts you with 10,000 dollars or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

DNCORNHOLIO
DNSTUFF
god mode and all guns, items, money in Duke Nukem 3D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Leavemealone - GTA Vice City

Rocketman - GTA San Andreas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

klapaucius - money cheat for Sims 1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

bb.moveobjects

I wasn't particularly wowed by the gameplay of the sims 4, but I really enjoyed the building mode, especially with the freedom to put stuff exactly where I wanted, collision and autosnapping be damned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Alternatively, Rosebud;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;! - Sims 1 for those times you wanna have a rich family from the start and move_objects on for when God needs to be their butler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

DULLARD πŸ˜…

Also a bonus code I won't forget:

ADE-NAI-WRA-LKA

You can all guess what games they are from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sega Mega drive from when I was 3-4 years old.

Sonic the hedgehog - unlock all levels cheat: Up down left right A Start (twice)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Minecraft: Open to LAN -> allow cheats
I really thought I discovered a massive bug with that one when I was little lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Shift+Control+B (in the Polish version), then klapaucius/rosebud from The Sims and you could do rosebud;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;, it would error out because of the trailing semicolon, but still add money to your account, so you just held down Enter until you were satisfied with the amount of cash in your account

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