Gaming

There was an Arkanoid cabinet in my arcade that if you whapped the coin slot with your palm you’d get a free credit. I was a 7 yr old Arthur Fonzerelli

In baldur's gate dark alliance 1, if you use the level warp cheat, you can go kill the onyx golem at level 1 and for some reason it gives you infinite experience. I discovered this as a kid and never saw it on any of the cheat sites.

GBA Pokemon game, a friend let me test his save of the latest Pokémon at the time(2004 maybe) and me without any intention of doing so went in a bug like I went thru a wall or something, everything was black, I was so afraid I ruined his cart I rebooted and after that he had like all his Pokémon at lvl 100 maxed out !

He praised me like a god at school hahaha, everyone was asking me to do the same for them, I couldn’t and said I only do it for the bro LOL

NHL 2001 you could flip the puck in the zone on net from anywhere outside the blue line and goalies would just flip and miss it every time. Exploited this against my little brother for a few games until every game was in the high 20’s low 30s.

Battlefield 3 on Kharg Island and Operation Firestorm maps. In the middle of both maps there's a tall tower. By accident me and a friend discovered it was possible to be launched inside the tower by clipping through it at the top, just under the platform (happened by jumping out of an aircraft at random).

Doing this you had complete 360 view of everything, and no one could spot you from the outside, and they were not able to harm you. So we just took some snipers and clipped through at the edge and back in again after the shot. It was so insane, and no one could see our position. I've never seen anyone else use this exploit not even a clip on YouTube.

We made it reproduceable by using the drone which you could climb on top of and self boost under and inside the tower 100% reliably. Sometimes we were busted and the helicopters tried to kill us, but even their rockets couldn't hurt us!

So when Minecraft got introduced to Xbox it was the super early stages of minecraft, so there wasn’t much. But there was a duplication glitch with the dispenser I think it was and I used it to basically have chests and chests full of everything, especially diamonds. I had to create hidden bunkers to hide it all because my friends would try to sneak into my home and take some all the time. Eventually I let them in on the glitch and we would just end up building absurd shit out of diamond/gold/iron blocks. And of course we eventually went crazy with TNT

Killing hookers in GTA. Free segs

lol I didn’t the air drop thing too

No man’s sky. The difference solar systems you visit all has their own economy’s and they all had a favored resource that they were willing to pay a ton of money for. They would also sell resources that other systems may need. So I basically spent two days of my life going from system to system completely destroying their economies until I was a multi billionaire

Duplication glitch for dying light. I do not recommend. Made the game boring when I found the glitch.

I figured it out and then started searching it, thinking no way was I the one to discover it first. Didn't find any results at the time; still didn't think I was the first but nice to find something not widely known about.

Not a "rocket science" thing, I figured out the invulnerable alchemy build in Witcher 3 before they nerfed it. It was some potion that gave invulnerable for 2 seconds, but then an ability that kept potion effects active as long as you're high toxic, so just keep chugging potions and never get hurt.

Good times.

I remember dupe in minecraft

Dead Space 3. While still in space, I saved and quit, came back later and found that the resource caches respawned. Did this a few times and had (at the time) plenty of resources to craft items for my Survival mode run.

(Later found out that I should have spent a few days using this trick to make all the medpacks and ammo I needed for later in the game)

Not so much an exploit, but still. The Warhammer Online servers had an US and EU server, and the US server got the patches 24hrs before the EU one did. I noticed that they were overhauling the crafting system and some ingredients were removed due to no longer being needed. Instead of outright removing them, they replaced them with 'black dye', which was pretty hard to craft.

So the moment I noticed that, I emptied the auction house of that minor ingredient, loaded up all my mules with it and mailed as much of it as I could get my hands on to my alt characters.

The next day, the patch landed and I had some 15000 pots of black dye, the rarest there was. By selling them off a few at a time, I could buy whatever I wanted for the remainder of time I spend in that game.

In Football Manager you can add another manager if you want to play co-op or just want to control two different clubs. Which is pretty neat. You can also use it to make your club rich by adding a manager to take over a rich club and have them buy one of your worst players for all their money. You can also take over a club that own a player you want and buy them for free. So you can get almost everything you point at.

Makes the game really boring though. I loved doing it when I was young though. I also used it to win some games because I could just control the opposition and give them some ridiculous tactics. I still do this sometimes, but only if my game crashes and I have to redo some matches.

In Fable, buying and selling the gems to the store in Oakvale.

In the original Demon's Souls, if you brought up your inventory it would auto save. I would bring up the inventory as a quick save and would hop out of game if I was about to get got so I wouldn't have to start over a level. Kinda defeats the purpose of the game but all the same.

Not an exploit, but something the game never tells you it's possible. If you pressed the 0 key in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, you knocked out your opponent instantly.

Not really an exploit but me and my were screwing around with the the game files of Half Life Blue Shift 2 and figured out that we could change the text appearing in the start game credits. We went nuts with it.

In Fable 1, it was a big deal in the game that prices were based on local supply, so the more of an item the vendor has, the cheaper it gets. However, it reached to supply change immediately, so if the vendor had a lot of a thing and you bought it all, the price would jump and you could immediately sell it for profit.

In addition, profiting have you a little bit of Will experience. And you get an experience multiplier in combat. And some vendors are wandering around monster-infested parts of the world.

So you stock up on gems and head to the Darkwood, fight some monsters until your multiplier is 12ish, then talk to a vendor and sell all the gems, then buy them for cheaper and sell them back. You'd get a ton of gold and Will experience really quick.

Old old game called theme park. This was in the days where we had no internet. Anyway it was an amusement park “sim”. The trick was to set up a fries shop right next to the drink shop. Lower the price of the fries, set the salt content as high as you could and raise the price on the next door drinks.

Sim goes for cheap fries, becomes thirsty due to salt content and spends good bucks on drinks.

I made the Sekiro Demon of Hatred run off a cliff. It was very satisfying.

Project zomboid: floating bases lol. It's so cheesy. Someone made a mod that fixes it in a way similar to rust, where buildings collapse when unsupported

I figured out how to get out of the map in Riften, Whiterun, and Solitude and found the merchant chests to get free money. I did this with Whirlwind Sprint and figured it out well before I ever saw it online.

In GoldenEye on the N64 we discovered a way to get Trevelyan to kill himself with the grenades from his own grenade launcher on Cradle. Made completing the game on 00 Agent difficulty a lot fucking easier.

I played FIFA Soccer Manager in 1998 or so. I noticed when you start a match, it opened in a separate Window / process that showed up as „match.exe“ in the taskbar. If you hit Alt+F4 during the match, the exe closed and whatever current score it had was passed to the main game as the result of that match,

I didn’t discover this one, but I wasn’t above exploiting it. After having already played it twice, and getting the Platinum, I enacted the “loot glitch” on Horizon Forbidden West. Please note: this is after I’d already expended hundreds of hours on grinding for parts. I just got fucking tired of it.

Morrowind on xbox, I found out on accident that if you custom enchant a weapon to give you stat boost when equipped then hold the x and a buttons it quickly switches to the weapon and putting it away. The thing is, every time you equipped the weapon it added the stats, but it didn't take them away when put the weapon away. So +5 +5 +5 etc. you had 255 in a stat real quick. Strange thing is I never saw anyone post about the exploit online (This was early internet days). I felt pretty special.

I used to play "legend of the cryptids" a mobile card game. Ever so often you would have raids and you got to fight the same boss over and over until you got to the max level where you received a card reward. Usually you could only get one or two of them per event. At some point I figured out if you didn't accept any rewards from the previous bosses until you had started the last boss fight it would duplicate the last boss leaving you free to farm 20 odd cards. I kept this going for about 2 years until I told some of my guild mates and eventually word spread enough that the Devs realized. Didn't get banned though!

I remember collecting hundreds of air drops in the dino safe house in dying light. As long as you didn't take them all, they would respawn every time.

Dunno how much of an "exploit" it is, but in new CoD it's way faster to max level a pistol if you punch people with it, instead of trying to shoot them.

Skate 3 had a thing in game called skate.reel for you to upload videos you made in the game for anyone to see. A friend and I found that every time you pressed “restart” when watching someone else’s video, it counted as a view. We teamed up and pressed the restart button repeatedly on each other’s videos for a good hour or two while watching tv. Next thing you know, we have the most viewed videos on all of Skate. Others have since passed it but for a good month or two, we both had the top videos.

So many in Morrowind, but the biggest one is the fact that you can cast a spell that lasts for one second and enter dialog or a menu and the time doesn't count down. Fortify speech 100 for 1 second and talk to someone, fortify alchemy 100 for 1 second eight times (with one spell) and open the alchemy menu. Drain skill 100 for 1 second and train it for one gold.

Final fantasy 2 (1992 was ff4 jap)

Item duplication. Had to swap item with an empty space during combat

Madden 07 (xbox) has a glitch in franchise mode where after 3-4 seasons your team will automatically boost every player's awareness to 99 at the end of the season. In that version of Madden, awareness is used as a way to allow the game to create bad players who have otherwise good stats (i.e. Qb with cannon for arm but terrible football IQ).

So basically you could run multiple franchises and just farm that first team for back-ups that jump to 90+ overall the year after they join the team.

When I was little, I found out how to duplicate items in mobile terraria by making and deleting cloud versions of characters and putting their items in a chest and rinsing and repeating.

Back when heists first came out in gta 5, I discovered that the free chrome wheels would add to a car’s sell value. So me and my friends began selling those cheap pickup trucks with chrome wheels until we could afford each and every new vehicle that came along with heists. It took a WHILE but we eventually got everything :]

In Age of Pirates I discovered that you can easily win any naval battle (with smallest ship against biggest). It was just needed to board enemy ship and there was different number of people in your and enemy crew. But even if you was only one against many enemies, you could walk backwards in rounds on the deck and than you have just one opponent at the time against you. It took few minutes to kill everyone, but it was easy to beat it. Sorry for my english.

Not really an exploit but it was patched. Shadowbane MMO had a base class and then specialist profession at lvl 20. Most of the time your profession has all your good skills and abilities and your base class skills were forgotten. I realized, however, that the scaling for the lvl 1 shadow bolt or whatever it was called scaled crazy high if u just focused on it. Also gear to buff it was crazy prevalent since nobody used it after lvl 20...

Anyhow I just threw everything into it and had about 150% critical chance and 250% chance to hit and would roam around one shotting the evasion based gankers who would murder and steal from farming parties. I made 1 million gold in about two days and did that for 3 weeks. Paid for a semester of college selling the gold on eBay.

Eventually they patched the scaling as other ppl caught on that someone could 1 shot people with a lvl 1 attack pretty consistently. Was fun well it lasted.

Goomba skip in 1-1 in the original Super Mario Bros for the NES.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a double jump upgrade, and it’s very clear most of the game was not made with this extra mobility in mind. For several quests you can just jump directly to the end or at least get a position the designers didn’t intend you to get. Granted, you are losing out on some xp by skipping enemies but chances are you’ll end up overleveled anyway.

In The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, play as a Breton or an Orc. Get the Cuirass of the Saviors Hide for total immunity to negative magical effects and the Boots of Blinding Speed for +200 to your speed stat while ignoring the blindness effect.

I have a couple, actually.

While common knowledge even the, I discovered quantum stockpiling in Dwarf Fortress before ever reading about it. I found out that dumping zones could be used to hold an infinite number of "marked for dumping" items. Made storing stone after big excavations way easier.

In Dark Souls 1, I realized that most enemies could be beat by holding up your shield and circle-strafing around them. Kinda boring, though.

While confirmed not to actually be an exploit, I was one of the first people to find out that, in Baldur's Gate 3, the Pact of The Blade Warlock's extra attack stacks with other classes' extra attack. This meant that a 5 paladin/5 Warlock/2 Fighter could deal out 6 attacks in a turn... not even counting haste or anything. When news got out about it, there was a lot of arguing over whether or not it was going to get patched as an exploit. However, Larian ended up confirming that it was intended.