The password for the final level of Crazy Castle on the Gameboy is GIFT.
(I have a friend with hyperthymesia and this was the last thing we spoke about)
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Don't remember if any other titles used it, but BARACUDA on Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis/Mega Drive for level select.
Not sure if it works for the other versions or on any of the collection games it's included in, though.
If you put as your name grm3110 in NBA jam you can play as death
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My ICQ number; various employee numbers and alarm codes long since changed from previous jobs; procedures and rules from those jobs; all kinds of cheat codes from games that I no longer play or own; various old computer protocols, port names/numbers, etc. that no longer matter; and I'm sure more stuff (and some other stuff that, living in Japan, isn't relevant to anyone here).
left-jump-left-1P-left-fire_bubble-left-1P
Iddqd
Rosebud
What did dqd stand for anyway? I know the spispopd and kfa/fa ones (though the doom wiki says it's full ammo, whereas I always thought it was firearms armor because it does both those things), but there's nothing on the wiki about the meaning behind dqd
You're not going to believe this but, I smashed DQD on my keyboard as a child by accident after typing in ID for IDKFA.
I'm not entirely certain how I managed to brute force discover a cheat code, but at least 3 other phrases enabled GODMODE in the original doom.
I've always held DooM as some of the original simulation hypothesis proof.
ZAPHODBEEBLEBROX is the code for level select in the wonderful game “The 7th Guest”.
3.14159265359 (ok the last 9 is actually an 8 but it's followed by a 9 so I round up).
Not exactly obsolete, but there's no reason for anyone to memorize that many digits of Pi except for trivia. Number of times it has come up in trivia: 0.
I used to stop there but just beyond it some small palindromes follow, so they're somewhat easy to remember (and gives even more useless nerd cred)
3.14159265358979323 (you got 535, then the 8 leads into 979, then 323).
down, right, left, right, square, circle, square, triangle, circle, square, right, left
The level select code for Abe's Oddysee on the PSX. The last time I actually used this code was probably some time around 2002, maybe even earlier.
Damn that's some nostalgia. I can almost remember the invincibility code from Abe's Exodus, but not quite.
Donkey kong country on SNES
B A R R A L on the save game selection menu
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Is this ~~loss~~ IDE jumper settings?
Yes, but you have to guess which motherboard.
Back when wr used parallel IDE, most motherboards only had two IDE connections. Each connection could support two devices, a master and a slave. If you had a hard drive and a CD-ROM, it was best to put them on separate channels. This is because only one device could talk at a time, and the slower CD-ROM would block the faster hard drive from operating. If you had to put them on the same channel, then the hard drive should be the master so it gets priority.
Then there's scsi. My family wasn't rich enough to have scsi shit when I was growing up, but I do know a few things. On paper, it's very simple; give each device a unique ID on the bus, and then attach terminator blocks at each end. I'm also aware that, in practice, this description is a cruel joke.
The model codes to 2nd and 3rd Gen Intel I series chips. Made figuring out what processors were in used laptops quite easy back in the day. Now I have to Google them (doesn't help that their naming scheme is more confusing).
RRTANGENTABACUS
I know it primarily as a cheat code in Star Wars pod racer on N64, but I've seen it in other games too, and even referenced in different non-gaming contexts. I still don't really know what it means.
When I was a kid I remembered it as "RR-Tan-Genta-Bacus". It wasn't until decades later I realised it is real words "tangent", "abacus".
Former NBA players Jarrett Jack and Chris Duhon are cousins.
L1 R2 R1 R2 left down right up left down right up
The idqdd for the game ChexQuest (which ran on that engine) was "charlesjacobi". I assume this was a dev's name.