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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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[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

HESOYAM

GTA:SA extra health and money.

[–] LunaCtld@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Also GTA:SA

CHITTYCHITTYBANGBANG: All cars can fly

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months 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!"

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months 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

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months 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

[–] RacerX@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

GZELVXSE

Game Genie code for invincibility in Super Mario Bros 2.

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

cheesesteakjimmy

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago
[–] Surp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Up down left right right left down up

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

ABYXABYXBABAYXXABYX - infinite thermal detonators in one of the Star Wars SNES games

Everylittlethingshedoes - unlock all magic in Warcraft 2

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND - something in Turok 2. I think all weapons?

[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months 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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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Name your character Totoro for invincibility in all Fromsoft games.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Poweroverwhelming

Radiofreezerg

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

There is no cow level.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months 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.)

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

NOPOLICEPLEASE (GTA3)

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

LEAVEMEALONE (GTA VC) HESOYAM (GTA SA)

[–] Hudomi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Warcraft 3 - whosyourdaddy (makes your units invincible and one-hit every enemy)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

greedisgood for 1k gold and wood

I also found out that it didn't make them invincible, but rather multiplied their damage and damage reduction by 100x

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[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

BARACUDA for level select in Sonic 3D Blast.

Alternatively, CALLACAB for Vector Man.

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] UrukGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months 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)

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

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

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

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