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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

idspispopd

doom 1 no clipping

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (2 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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

007-373-5963 Strait to Mike Tyson

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Gothic's "Marvin". And, OFC, dooms IDDQD and IDKFA 😊

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hesoyam and impulse 101

And the most powerful one: bind w kill

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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

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Leavemealone - GTA Vice City

Rocketman - GTA San Andreas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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 cafΓ©s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TGRTVN

Final level in Bubsy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I am thrilled to see some love for Bubsy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

DNCASHMAN to make it rain money in Duke Nukem 3D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

DULLARD for cheat mode on SNES and I think Genesis Mortal Kombat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

furious the monkey boy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Power overwhelming ... Glittering treasures.

Warcraft 2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 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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[–] boydster 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ABBAABBA. Skip level code for Aladdin on the Sega Genesis.

Edit: and the Zelda name cheat for NES!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

One button fatalities were awesome! And playing without hyper speed felt just too slow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

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

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PORNTIPSGUZZARDO All acievements and $500,000 in Sim City 2000. You could do it over and over for unlimited money.

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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.

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OBOYOBOYY for hyper speed in guitar hero 2 and 3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Use any ship you want in a mission in Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the Nintendo DS.

Up, Down, Left, Right, Select, Start, B

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Warcraft III: iseedeadpeople to remove fog of war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Wampa Stompa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

A B A C A B B

"Get over here!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JUSTINBAILEY

Play without the power suit in OG Metroid

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[–] zaphodb2002 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Let's see if anyone knows these:

  • Up down left right a+start
  • up c down c left c right c a+start
  • up up down down up up up up up a+start
  • covertops
  • iddt
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

007 373 5963

Mike Tyson's Punch Out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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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