Cheat Code Appreciation Thread - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A

Cheat codes are gay little baby nonsense that's like editing the game files except only in a homosexual way the developers permitted you to. Maybe next they'll permit you to give them a blowie. That's basically what you're doing every time you put in a cheat code.

The virgin cheat code vs. the chad hex value editing.

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if you name your guy wompastompa in shadows of the empire you can play as a yeti
 
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O, O, O, O, O, O, R1, L2, L1. Triangle, O, triangle. (Or was it square 6x?)

That's to spawn in tanks for GTA3. I can't remember any other cheat, but I know this one because I made a melody out of it many years ago.
 
R2 R2 L1 left down right up left down right up ..or at least close enough. Given a few minutes with a controller all of the GTA3 codes come back to me like rainman
 
In Formula 1: Championship Edition/Formula 1 '97 from Bizarre Creations and Psygnosis for the original Playstation, if you use the code "BOX CHATTER", announcers Murray Walker and Martin Brundle are represented in the bottom corners of the screen as very simple puppets. I think that it's still one of the all-time greatest cheat codes in history in terms of whimsical absurdity.


There are some other amazing cheat codes in the same game (also included in the video above), such as "BILLY BONUS" adding a grainy black-and-white "film" filter and old-fashioned cigar-shaped Formula One cars, "VIRTUALLY VIRTUAL" changing the graphics to Virtua Racing-style untextured polygons, "PI MAN" removing the wheels and adding a Wipeout-style blue exhaust effect, "LITTLE WEELZ" adding ridiculously huge wheels to the cars, and "CATS DOGS" for racing in extremely wet conditions with falling frogs and ribbit sound effects.
 
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