I’m currently playing All Star Baseball 99 and there is a cheat code that makes all the players into flat paper like characters. Got me thinking that favorite cheat codes could be a good thread. Share your favs!
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I loved all the different things you could do in Goldeneye in both solo and multiplayer mode, like giving everybody giant heads or “paintball mode” or in multiplayer matches limiting it to just certain types of guns that get dropped like rocket launchers or whatever.
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Unsurprisngly, the Missingno glitch is one of my favourites.
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I like the game genie code to Stop Skeletons From Fighting because a cool YouTube channel used it as their name.
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I wasn’t aware that’s where they got the name from!
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Invincibility, All Guns, Infinite Ammo.
Why, yes. I’ll run around the Bunker and destroy every single piece of electronic equipment - even the lights.
Security alarms? No problem. I have a Rocket Launcher with infinite ammo. I’m gonna make this game crawl.
(I love GoldenEye, even today. I occasionally load it up on Switch when I’m not sure what to play - just to screw around.)
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Missingno is a great one! I miss all the weird glitches and rumors from that era of games 
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Neither did I, that’s so cool!
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gotta go with the classic, IDDQD
honorable mention to IDKFA (which I posit did not stand for ‘kick fucking ass’ as was playground lore; I believe it’s “keys, firearms, ammo” because you could use IDFA to just get guns and ammo but no keys)
GABBAGABBAHEY from Descent is just fun to type
and of course, Warcraft II’s “disco”
I was debating between this one and Goldeneye, I could never help myself but get unlimited rare candies when I was young to cruise through the Elite Four, but now I use it the smarter way (if you want to do the hard grinding yourself) of getting a buttload of hyper potions cause they’ll drain your bank account buying them and you don’t have many more money making opportunities at that point.
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Remind me to put an actual classic cheat code into my game somewhere. If it isn’t the konami code even better.
Favorites are ones where the developers give a peek at their character. In most (all?) touhou games there’s a menu screen and an associated phrase to type on the keyboard. In touhou 16 it was ilovebeer.
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I loved Tomb Raider 2’s exploding Lara cheat because it was a few inputs short of the All Weapons cheat, so messing up badly enough while trying to input it could end with you just instantly gibbing yourself.
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I just recalled all the old passwords from Star Wars: Rogue Squadron that unlock new ships and even an AT-ST mode.
Such a good game.
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Not a cheat code exactly, but I remember being absolutely amazed as a kid when I figured out jumping on polar’s head 10 times in the second warp room in Crash 2 gives you 10 free lives
Oh, yes, I remember the good ol’ ‘Deaddeck’ in Rogue Squadron or the ‘cheat code’ in Shadows of the Empire on the N64 where you could enter the debug mode. You just had to press all the buttons and then use your nose to tilt the n64 control stick in certain directions.
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I’ve been playing since 1998 and I’m over grinding so if there’s any way for me to get unlimited rare candies, I’ll take it lol
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I don’t know if this counts as a cheat because it’s more of a glitch or exploit, but the cloning glitch in Gold and Silver was so cool. My friend and I would clone each other’s starters and then trade a copy off to the other 
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My first Pokemon was Diamond, my roommate got Pearl, and first thing he did was start several new games and do some trades so we could both have all three starters from the jump.
Miss my lil’ Piplup.
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