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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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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 days ago

Konami code, natch

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 day 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.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] GeekMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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)

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

weaknesspays

(extra money in SimCity 4)

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[–] daytonah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Fanny magnet in vice city.

Minecraft: Open to LAN -> allow cheats
I really thought I discovered a massive bug with that one when I was little lmao

[–] root@aussie.zone 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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Gives you 30 extra lives in Contra on the NES

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like that you specifically remember 2-player mode

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[–] rocci@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nothing rolls off the tongue quite like Genie - Jafar - Aladdin - Abu... gets you to the last level of the SNES Aladdin game

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

L33T SUPA H4X0R

[–] riot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day 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.

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[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

Surprised nobody mentioned "motherlode".

Something like 50k simoleons in The Sims 2. Absolutely essential to any save file.

[–] Diddlydee 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] UrukGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sega Mega drive from when I was 3-4 years old.

Sonic the hedgehog - unlock all levels cheat: Up down left right A Start (twice)

[–] shaman1093@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] wax@feddit.nu 6 points 1 day ago

E=MC2 TROOPER

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[–] Grofit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

DULLARD πŸ˜…

Also a bonus code I won't forget:

ADE-NAI-WRA-LKA

You can all guess what games they are from.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Donkey Kong Country

B A R R A L - 50 lives

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ROBINWOOD (I think) in AoE II

[–] gege999@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

How do you turn this on ftw

[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

IDKFA Power overwhelming

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Call Cousin Vinnie

It gave you a boatload of money in SC3K

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

poweroverwhelming

foodforthought

thereisnocowlevel

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

[–] urata@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days 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.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

howdoyouturnthison

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