Cheats in Current Games?

Cheats in Current Games?

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DKS

Original Poster:

1,675 posts

184 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Is this still a thing? I can't remember the last time I saw a type in code or button sequence on a game.
What I'd really like to do is see all of the games I just can't play, like Alien Isolation. I can't stand playing it, but it's so well designed I'd just like to wander around the space station. I was totally absorbed until the poxy alien turned up and that ruined it for me. I liked the quests, and the bits with people and the androids were fine.
Also Alan Wake was a bit flawed in terms of combat but the scenery was nice and I was curious about the plot.

Is there a way? I like the way you can cheat on Half-Life and Steam knows and turns off achievements; I'm happy with that.

Ekona

1,653 posts

202 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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PC or console? I assume PC as you mention Steam.

Plenty of trainers/mods/hacks out there for PC games, console gamers are pretty stuck though.

DKS

Original Poster:

1,675 posts

184 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Whoops. I meant console, specifically Xbox 1/360, POS3. I metioned Steam as the reaward system could be disabled to keep it fair.
Also I'd like to revisit the Uncharted games, too, but the combat in the first two is so infuriatingly hard I can't face it.

Tim330

1,128 posts

212 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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What game was this cheat for

up, down, left, right, ABC+Start?

or IDKFA?

Dick Dastardly

8,313 posts

263 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Wasn't it up, c, down, c, left, c, right, c, a b c and start? Made sonic the hedgehog do something special, though I can't remember what.

Ekona

1,653 posts

202 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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UUDDLRLRBA Start
ABACABB

Only codes you ever needed as a kid biggrin

GTAV has some pad-entered cheats, I've yet to try them though.

DragsterRR

367 posts

107 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Xyzzy

Am I showing my age?

Tim330

1,128 posts

212 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Dick Dastardly said:
Wasn't it up, c, down, c, left, c, right, c, a b c and start? Made sonic the hedgehog do something special, though I can't remember what.
That turned you into a ring & other objects which you could deposit.

Butter Face

30,299 posts

160 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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GTA V has cheats for invincibility, full weapons etc.

I'm going to have a play through again with some cheats, you can't use invincibility on missions though.

Dan_1981

17,389 posts

199 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Tim330 said:
What game was this cheat for

up, down, left, right, ABC+Start?

or IDKFA?
First one I'm pretty sure was one of the Sonics on the Mega Drive - you knew it had worked when you heard the bells / rings ring.

maxdb

1,534 posts

157 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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u,d,l,r, a & start was sonic 1
Sonic 2 had the sound test - 19,65,9,17 etc
Sonic 3 had the incredibly hard u,u,d,d,u,u,u,u,u
Super Mario was better - on level 2 you can smash through the bricks and run along the top of the screen and end up in world 7/8 in no time smile
Super Mario 3 had the run in the background by holding down button on the white block

New games don't really have them as far as I'm aware. Most people just make and download trainers.

Mastodon2

13,826 posts

165 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Cheats had a place when games were legitimately hard, they're not really needed now since most games are so easy.

Z06George

2,519 posts

189 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Mastodon2 said:
Cheats had a place when games were legitimately hard, they're not really needed now since most games are so easy.
+1 Same goes for things like walk throughs. You'd never need one now but I don't think I would have got through tomb raider 3 (I think it was 3) without one.

MrBrightSi

2,912 posts

170 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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No need for cheats when you have games like ARMA.
Jump on the editor few hundred men in a grouped attack.
Decide realistic 1 shot death is too much.
Spawn ZSU for quad cannon invincibility.
10 squads of ultra accurate AI have an AT guy each.
Insta death - quad cannon style.
Go through every group deleting everything AT.
2000 rounds of unhindered death dished out.

Arklight

891 posts

189 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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If your looking at PC games, most are susceptible to programs like tsearch.

Easy to change most numeric figures within games.

Jezz172

788 posts

179 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Tim330 said:
What game was this cheat for

up, down, left, right, ABC+Start?

or IDKFA?
IDKFA - Doom!!
IDDQD or IDCLIP too smile

Some Gump

12,689 posts

186 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Brucken playing hero quest.

Proper old school.

airweaz

250 posts

117 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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All of the GTA cheats to my knowledge are about calling certain numbers on the mobile.

Its a clever way of doing it. I don't cheat on that game mind as it invalidates your %complete.

olliethehut

135 posts

173 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Ones I'll always remember -
IDKFA in Doom for all the weapons / health / armour etc
Cooper Team in Syndicate for weapons / research / cash
Sega rally 2 - Pull up on handbrake and press view change during car select to choose the SR1 Delta / Celica

P-Jay

10,565 posts

191 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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airweaz said:
All of the GTA cheats to my knowledge are about calling certain numbers on the mobile.

Its a clever way of doing it. I don't cheat on that game mind as it invalidates your %complete.
GTA IV had that, you could call certain numbers to activate cheats, also you could call numbers you find on billboards and whatnot and hear funny recorded messages. You could also call the police to come, it did add a certain depth to it - they dropped it for V though.

Most GTA games require you to use certain controller sequences.