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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 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

HESOYAM

GTA:SA extra health and money.

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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours 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 13 hours 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!"

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start
IDKFA
IDDQD
black sheep wall
power overwhelming

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] shaman1093@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] wax@feddit.nu 5 points 16 hours ago

E=MC2 TROOPER

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 13 hours ago

POWPOWPOW

JACKBENIMBLE

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 38 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

DOOM: IDDQD - god mode, IDKFA - all weapons / items

SimCopter - I'M THE CEO OF MCDONNELL DOUGLAS unlocks all helicopters

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[–] root@aussie.zone 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

β¬†οΈβ¬†οΈβ¬‡οΈβ¬‡οΈβ¬…οΈβž‘οΈβ¬…οΈβž‘οΈπŸ…±οΈπŸ…°οΈπŸ…±οΈπŸ…°οΈSelect Start

Gives you 30 extra lives in Contra on the NES

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I like that you specifically remember 2-player mode

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a "cheat" code if it's basically required to beat the game...?

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't required. It was the dark souls of the time.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 18 hours ago

While I was exaggerating, it and Contra 3 were brutally hard!

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Rosebud for money in the Sims

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 14 hours ago

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. πŸ˜‚

[–] polluteyourjorts@lemmy.one 19 points 22 hours ago

Don't forget all the :;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

Or motherlode

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 34 points 23 hours ago

Konami code, natch

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

poweroverwhelming

foodforthought

thereisnocowlevel

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago

God mode in Duke Nukem 3D, "dncornholio". Come get some...

[–] riot@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago

Don't forget robin hood and rock on.

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

howdoyouturnthison

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 12 points 23 hours ago

IDKFA Power overwhelming

[–] urata@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago
[–] axis@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Leavemealone - GTA Vice City

Rocketman - GTA San Andreas

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 23 hours ago

idspispopd

doom 1 no clipping

[–] krewllobster@beehaw.org 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Starcraft (original): black sheep wall

Reveals the whole map by removing fog of war.

[–] dmegatool@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

all your base are belong to us : Remove requirements for building

there is no cow level : Was it insta win or god mod ? I don't remember the effect, just the code πŸ˜…

[–] Jhogenbaum@leminal.space 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Power overwhelming ... Glittering treasures.

Warcraft 2

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Uhhhh not to be that guy, but um, ackhshually, "power overwhelming" was for StarCraft and it was "Glittering Prizes" for Warcraft 2

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[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"Cheater!" - I loved that voice

[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

β€œidclip” for Doom

β€œpot of gold” for Warcraft 1

Oh and of course, how could I forget β€œhow do you turn this on” (x20 usually) for Age of Empires II

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

hesoyam and impulse 101

And the most powerful one: bind w kill

[–] dcoe@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours 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 16 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Saoirse@hexbear.net 1 points 15 hours ago

UP, C, DOWN, C, LEFT, C, RIGHT, A+C+START Sonic 1 debug mode.

[–] enjoy_slurm@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

007-373-5963 Strait to Mike Tyson

[–] comfyquaker@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

furious the monkey boy

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