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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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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 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!"

[–] RacerX@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

GZELVXSE

Game Genie code for invincibility in Super Mario Bros 2.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 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

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 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.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 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

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] weaponG@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

007 373 5963

Mike Tyson's Punch Out

OBOYOBOYY for hyper speed in guitar hero 2 and 3

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.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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

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

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

cheesesteakjimmy

[–] burt@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

A B A C A B B

"Get over here!"

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 3 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

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

r1 r2 l1 r2 left down right up left down right up <- all weapons in gta 3

MADEMAN <- all weapons gta 1

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Up down left right right left down up

[–] urquell@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] simon574@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

32167 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)

[–] axis@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Leavemealone - GTA Vice City

Rocketman - GTA San Andreas

[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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 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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[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Star Wars Battlefront II PS2 invincibility:

Pause

Hold L2/R2

Up, up, up, left, down, down, down, left, up, up, up, left, right

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.)

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 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

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

BARACUDA for level select in Sonic 3D Blast.

Alternatively, CALLACAB for Vector Man.

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