What is one video game cheat code that will you will always remember?
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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DOOM: IDDQD - god mode, IDKFA - all weapons / items
SimCopter - I'M THE CEO OF MCDONNELL DOUGLAS unlocks all helicopters
Superpower multiply
Rosebud for money in the Sims
Don't forget all the :;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;
didn't play much og sims, but sims2 (and later, iirc), motherlode gives more.
i also had a few custom items i could drop in to a house, too.
Or motherlode
Also "move objects on"
Just gonna delete these bills here... Hey why not the whole mailbox?
I also once had a sim make enough garden gnomes to fill every single tile of the street... Then he kicked one. 😂
Konami code, natch
"up up down down left right left right B A B Start"
Contra - NES
Actually it works in a whole bunch of Konami games, and of course some modern games have thrown it in as an homage.
Isn’t it just ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA? No second B?
IDKFA, and many others
IDSPISPOPD ... and I even remember what it abbreviates.. why?
Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Pieces Of Putrid Debris
Idk why it has also stuck with me, it's a really cool cheatcode
Something to do with getting the chainsaw if I recall correctly but it never worked for me, or on whatever version of the wad I had.
This is the one I use to prove my old nerd cred, lol
IDDQD
IDCLIP
The konami code
I have it on a T-shirt & still try it on games randomly to see if there's an easter egg.
It works on my kids' Fisher Price controller, game boy, and switch
idkfa
idspispopd
rosebud
motherlode
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Or is it ;!;!;!;!;!;!;! ?
The second
I haven't played this game in 2 decades, was a kid the last time I used it... This is the comment I was gonna leave
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🅱️🅰️Select Start
Gives you 30 extra lives in Contra on the NES
I like that you specifically remember 2-player mode
Haha, I noticed that, too. That's the one I always did - but not the one you'll see printed on tee shirts, etc.
I vaguely remember if I wanted to play it in single player, I would press select first before entering the code for it to trigger in the correct mode. LOL
Is it a "cheat" code if it's basically required to beat the game...?
It wasn't required. It was the dark souls of the time.
While I was exaggerating, it and Contra 3 were brutally hard!
This is the one I was looking for. So famous its been used in numerous games.
AKA the Konami Code
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
Worked in most of the TMNT games too.
aegis for Age of Empires II. Instant building, gathering, research, etc. And of course marco for revealing map and polo to remove fog of war. cheese steak jimmy's for extra food and lumberjack for extra wood. I always struggled to manage those two resources. But even more importantly, how do you turn this on, for that cool siege sports car.
Man, I played a lot of AoE as a child and teenager.
Don't forget robin hood and rock on.
motherlode
Klapaucius!;!;!
Rosebud!;!;!;!;
Impulse101 for Half-Life to get everything from the very beginning and create havok for the scientists.
And of course the Konami Code
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
You missed half the code! UUDDLRLRBA
And <select><start> if you're two player
Yep brain fart nice catch
"ACK! Well. I seem to be seriously wounded."
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start
IDKFA
IDDQD
black sheep wall
power overwhelming
IDSPISPOPD
Jinx
IDSPISPOPD
IDKFA Power overwhelming
My username. If you enter urata as your name when you play Castlevania III for NES you start with the mage character (Sypha Belnades) available from the start.
Also iddqd for god mode and idkfa for all weapons in DOOM because that game was way too hard when I was a kid.
ROSEBUD
howdoyouturnthisonidkfaiddqd
idclip
iddt
I also remember idspispopd or something like that but not sure what it was for haha
It's the same as idclip (no clipping mode, ie, wall through walls). I think it's the original version and idclip was introduced into later games or something like that. It's been a while!
Ah yes that does sound familiar! And it's sure been a while... feel old now haha.
Starcraft
Cheat: power overwhelming
Effect: invencible units
The Protoss would chant the words in such a cool tone and way.
Imagine beating an entire Zerg wave with one unit.
Up, Down, Left, Right, A, Start - Sonic The Hedgehog.
howdoyouturnthison - Age Of Empires 2.
idspispopd
doom 1 no clipping
IDDQD
B-A-R-R-A-L as the name of a new save in Donkey Kong Country to start with 50 lives. Also the Konami code obvi
GABBA GABBA HEY
BIG RED
The PANZER code in GTA Vice City to invoque a tank. I typed that shit like crazy when I was a child playing in the good ol' cyber cafés
Then you activate comeflywithme, turn the gun around and start shooting to get insane speed boost... those were the days
ABACABB
all bastards are cops are bastard bastards!
007-373-5963 Strait to Mike Tyson
“idclip” for Doom
“pot of gold” for Warcraft 1
Oh and of course, how could I forget “how do you turn this on” (x20 usually) for Age of Empires II
hesoyamandimpulse 101And the most powerful one:
bind w killpoweroverwhelming
foodforthought
thereisnocowlevel
WC3:
WhosYourDaddy - invincible units, buildings, and one shot the enemy
GreedIsGood X - gives X gold and lumber
GTA:SA
HESOYAM - cash, hp, vehicle repair (on top of my head)
AEZAKMI - locks wanted level
UZUMYMW - a pack of weapon, IIRC no. 3 of 3
BAGUVIX - unlimited health
FULLCLIP - unlimited ammo
thereisnospoon
For GTA SA I remember chittychittybangbang to make your car fly.
TGRTVN
Final level in Bubsy.
PEPPERONI PIZZA BIG DADDY
E=MC2 TROOPER
God mode in Duke Nukem 3D, "dncornholio". Come get some...
DULLARD for cheat mode on SNES and I think Genesis Mortal Kombat.
Put an N64 controller in my hands, and I've still got the muscle memory for all the fatalities in Mortal Kombat 3 Ultimate Edition. As well as Shang Tsung's entire move set.
Oh and HALIFAX? !YNGWIE! to unlock the Naboo starfighter in N64's Rogue Squadron.
Racecar
How do you turn this thing on
weaknesspays
(extra money in SimCity 4)
This and also how to get $999,999 in Sim City for SNES/SuperFamicon in the tax screen at the end of the first year.
Mk3 for super Nintendo
Kool stuff - Up up down down left right a b a
Kooler stuff - Select b a right left down down up up
Scott's stuff - X b a y up left down right down
One button fatalities were awesome! And playing without hyper speed felt just too slow.
Descent. Gabba Gabba Hey
"Cheater!" - I loved that voice
Black sheep wall - StarCraft map reveal
How I played Starcraft as a child
How do you turn this on (Age of)
Fly and ghost (Unreal 1 : to observe every minute details of the map))
Up, down, left, right, A & start at the same time. I still sing the jingle when sonic 1 starts
That's the one I remember (but as "all three buttons and start") but I have no clue what it actually did.
Technically it's: hold A, then press start
DNCASHMAN to make it rain money in Duke Nukem 3D
ABBAABBA. Skip level code for Aladdin on the Sega Genesis.
Edit: and the Zelda name cheat for NES!
Down up left left A right down to get the cheat menu on Mortal Kombat on the Sega Megadrive.
On Revenge of Shinobi set the number of shurikens on the Options screen to 0 and wait 20 seconds. The zero turned into an infinity symbol, giving you unlimited shurikens.
Porkcharsui in the original pc version of Grand Theft Auto. If you named your character this, you had an overlay with coordinates so you could find your way easier, you'd get all the guns and the possibility to toggle a kind of sped up mode.
Oh and howdoiturnthison in Age of Empires 2 to get an AC Cobra with machine guns
Call Cousin Vinnie
It gave you a boatload of money in SC3K
ROBINWOOD (I think) in AoE II
How do you turn this on ftw
genie jafar aladdin abu
Fuck that lava level.
The SNES or mega drive version?
SNES
FROTZ
furious the monkey boy
The one from the sims I it was “katching” one and the other was “motherlode” maybe the spelling is not correct but I will never forget those codes.
Original Mortal Kombat blood code:
ABACABB
Based
Mortal Kombat for me also, but 3, on the Sega. BADLADCRUD
It was almost a poop joke and I was young, don't blame me. I don't even really remember what it did. Maybe unlocked Noob Saibot?
prince.exe megahit
Ooh is this for Prince of Persia?
Spot on!
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
Power overwhelming ... Glittering treasures.
Warcraft 2
Uhhhh not to be that guy, but um, ackhshually, "power overwhelming" was for StarCraft and it was "Glittering Prizes" for Warcraft 2
Ha! I'm So glad you're that guy. Remind me what was the warcraft 2 phrase was for invincibility. I just remember as a kid I got so good as typing those cheats phrases (that I obv DONT remember very well now) that my fingers would fly over the keys and hit enter and I realized I could type fast
I had to look it up because I used to play Warcraft 2 before I learned English so to me the codes were nonsensical lol It's "it is a good day to die" for god mode
I had a bunch of sheets of paper with codes for StarCraft, Warcraft, GTA, and even game genie codes for every Pokemon game.
OBOYOBOYY for hyper speed in guitar hero 2 and 3
A B A C A B B
"Get over here!"
Warcraft III: iseedeadpeople to remove fog of war.
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.
xyzzy
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.
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.
007 373 5963
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
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
BloodRayne is fucking rad
It's a shame her popularity was so short lived, if she had remained one of gaming's stars we could have gotten a third game (I love you WayForward, especially for the Shantae series and Clock Tower Rewind, but Betrayal was sadly the best subtitle you could have given your entry, and that's not a compliment)
And maybe a movie that wasn't directed by Uwe Boll
As much as I do love the Postal movie, it's probably the only good thing Boll ever made and it's still schlock.
JUSTINBAILEY
Play without the power suit in OG Metroid
You have to put in all dashes in the second row
HESOYAM
GTA:SA extra health and money.
Also GTA:SA
CHITTYCHITTYBANGBANG: All cars can fly
GZELVXSE
Game Genie code for invincibility in Super Mario Bros 2.
Leavemealone - GTA Vice City
Rocketman - GTA San Andreas
klapaucius - money cheat for Sims 1
DNCORNHOLIO
DNSTUFF
god mode and all guns, items, money in Duke Nukem 3D
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?
Star Wars Battlefront II PS2 invincibility:
Pause
Hold L2/R2
Up, up, up, left, down, down, down, left, up, up, up, left, right
tuck tuck tuck and arrrrwalktheplank are two of my favourites. The first summons a monster truck in AoE3, and the second has a large pirate ship jump into the battle in Free Space 2.
Actually there is a set of missions in FS2 that can only be reached by cheating to become invincible during an event you were supposed to die I think.
I find it neat when companies put in assets and extra content most players wont find without trying to break things a bit.
DNNOCLIP
Contra on NES.
Minecraft: Open to LAN -> allow cheats
I really thought I discovered a massive bug with that one when I was little lmao
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.)
WE5T1
Up down left right right left down up
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.
Triangle triangle square circle X L1 L1 down up
Spawns the Hydra in GTA SA
noclip
Poweroverwhelming
Radiofreezerg
There is no cow level.
the first 'cheat code' that came to mind here isn't for a game:
Select • Play • Select • 30 • Select
LEAVEMEALONE (GTA VC) HESOYAM (GTA SA)
Up up down down A B A B Start
&
A B A B A C C
I’m old.
Are those Sonic codes?
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.
Crack a candle
One step forward
One step backwards
Turn around three times
Jump forward
B A B A ↑ ↓ B A ← → B A Start
Warcraft 3 - whosyourdaddy (makes your units invincible and one-hit every enemy)
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
It's ThereIsNoSpoon for me - unlimited mana
BARACUDA for level select in Sonic 3D Blast.
Alternatively, CALLACAB for Vector Man.
Vectorman had a ton of those. ABRACADABRA would restore your HP. BALL and BALD would both display coordinates in the screen corner, one of them had more precision than the other I think. That was more annoying that useful for someone just playing but I remember the codes anyway.
NOPOLICEPLEASE (GTA3)
Name your character Totoro for invincibility in all Fromsoft games.
32167 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)
L33T SUPA H4X0R
XYZZY, Plough & Y2
(From the Colossal Adventure, played on a multi million $ mainframe, when at uni. Probably in the 5-8 yrs before Doom timeframe)
MARKSTEAM in the name box would unlock all tech and give a bunch of money in Syndicate on the Amiga.
mpkfa God mode for Blood.
DraculasTeabags
klapaucius
This seems familiar, what was it for?
RRTANGENTABACUS-Episode 1 Podracer hahaha
NTHG THDG DCRT DTRK
Oh and IDKFA
Agoodblasteratyourside Mostimpressive
Star wars battlefront 2 2005 unlimited ammo and health on pc
Have to hover your mouse over a little box that blends into the background image on the instant action page and type the codes in. I still believe that game is better than all battlefronts afterwards too
I was going to use that exact cheat! The other one I used was to explode cars if you even barely tapped one
EREIAMJH to fly in Jedi Knight. I always thought it's just the name of some obscure Star Wars creature. But it's actually a reference to the movie Brazil.
Also yodajammies and imayoda
Tenchu stealth assassins ps1: in pause menu left left down down square square triangle square - restore health
Star wars galactic battlegrounds: console -thereisnospoon - win the mission
All the gta ones
ABACABB - MK blood code
Down up left left A Right Down (DULLARD) - MK cheat menu
Up C Down C Left C Right C Hold A+Start - Sonic 2 debug mode
PORNTIPSGUZZARDO All acievements and $500,000 in Sim City 2000. You could do it over and over for unlimited money.
Use any ship you want in a mission in Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the Nintendo DS.
Up, Down, Left, Right, Select, Start, B
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.
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.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
To get the hidden multiplayer mini-game screen (if you have a second controller you can play with a friend): at the map screen, hold Select and press X X Y B A.
Glittering prizes
DULLARD 😅
Also a bonus code I won't forget:
ADE-NAI-WRA-LKA
You can all guess what games they are from.
XMNFB - The unlock all code for Turok Evolution on Xbox.
ILM
Black sheep wall
Donkey Kong Country
B A R R A L - 50 lives
Nothing rolls off the tongue quite like Genie - Jafar - Aladdin - Abu... gets you to the last level of the SNES Aladdin game
SLXPLOVS
Fanny magnet in vice city.
Up down left right Y B X A ..
I'm not even sure that that's right, and I'm not even sure what game it's for.
SNES definitely. Maybe Street Fighter II Turbo? Done at the CAPCOM logo it'd make a sound, then- you could play as the bosses? Maybe?
Or it's the movements for Zangief's spinning piledriver, heh. (It's not)
Its the Konami code
Up up down down L R L R B A Start
Don't forget to add a select before start if you want 30 lives for the player two as well.
True story
Works for Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis and probably the other games as well, but BARRACUDA (b a right right a c up d a) for certain things. I'd like to think it's debug mode, but I don't fully remember since it's been more than a few months since I last played and tried on either 3D Blast, 1, or 2.
R2 R2 L1 R2 Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up.
jessica16
Crusader: no regnet/ noch remorse
Aspirin. I learned how to type in GTA as I couldn't figure out how to pause the game and type it so had to be quick.
hold: r1, r2
press: up, down, left, right, right, left, down, up
thisisunsafe
YO BRO GO ROB BOB
guitar hero 3 unlock all songs
Play the four colors that do not match each character in the phrase
HeyGabbaGabba for Descent. Tried it in Decent 2 and it knocked me down to 1hp :D
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE
pow
Setting the name to COOPERTEAM in Syndicate (DOS)
69E5D9E4
Razzle dazzle root beer
JUNKFOODNIGHT
ATMOFEREBUS
OCANADA
On secret of mana 2 (snes), hold L R Start Select then reset to go into sound test menu. Most Square games of the time had L R Start Select as a soft reset shortcut.
impulse101on half life for all weapons.LIMon Wolf3D for full health and all weaponstgmon elder scrolls 4 and 5 for god modeThe first Sonic game. At the main screen, up, down, left, right, hold A, press start. You could jump to the final zone, if you were so inclined.
i remember buch from gta sa: aezakmi, yecgaa, jumpjet, rocketman, hesoyam, Gta vicecity: BIGBANG, PANZER (?) Gta 3: GIVEUSATANK Aoe 3: , more wood please (or smth like that) Sims: motherlode
"Give me liberty or give me coin" 10k gold on AoE3
aegis
TENPINTS on Shadow Of The Beast 2. Turned off damage so that your only blocker to reaching the end of the game was boredom.
ultimate mortal Kombat 3, Sega Saturn
c r a z y c y r a x
Also from San Andreas (or maybe Vice City) R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up. It was used for different weapon sets and I think you could change the dpad combo at the end for different sets (eg left down right up left down down down)
DIPSTICK to enable chests in rise of the trial. SEEYA for god mode where the protagonist just walks around with his hand of God yawning at how boring it is when there's no challenge. CUJO for dog mode.
Also, LONDON and NODNOL to enable/disable fog.
xaxbcc was my password for years when I was in school
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復活の呪文
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