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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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[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 12 points 10 hours ago

IDKFA Power overwhelming

[–] comfyquaker@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

furious the monkey boy

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

r1 r2 l1 r2 left down right up left down right up <- all weapons in gta 3

MADEMAN <- all weapons gta 1

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 10 hours ago

idspispopd

doom 1 no clipping

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 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

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

You missed half the code! UUDDLRLRBA

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 hours ago

And <select><start> if you're two player

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[–] SlamWich@lemmy.world 1 points 6 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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

Edit: and the Zelda name cheat for NES!

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

TGRTVN

Final level in Bubsy.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I am thrilled to see some love for Bubsy

[–] enjoy_slurm@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

007-373-5963 Strait to Mike Tyson

[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

RRTANGENTABACUS-Episode 1 Podracer hahaha

[–] ADKSilence@kbin.earth 6 points 10 hours 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.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours 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

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] urata@lemmy.world 6 points 10 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.

[–] Thorman1@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

DNCASHMAN to make it rain money in Duke Nukem 3D

OBOYOBOYY for hyper speed in guitar hero 2 and 3

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours 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

[–] dcoe@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago
[–] plm00@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

Warcraft III: iseedeadpeople to remove fog of war.

[–] woodenskewer@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours 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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

NTHG THDG DCRT DTRK

Oh and IDKFA

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

hesoyam and impulse 101

And the most powerful one: bind w kill

[–] burt@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago

A B A C A B B

"Get over here!"

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 7 hours ago

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.

JUSTINBAILEY

Play without the power suit in OG Metroid

[–] MochiGamer@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I never beat the game but I'll always remember using Red5 in star wars dark forces 2. And the level skip code of course.... "Deeznuts"

[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I was going to use that exact cheat! The other one I used was to explode cars if you even barely tapped one

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours 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.

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.)

[–] weaponG@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

007 373 5963

Mike Tyson's Punch Out

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