What is one video game cheat code that will you will always remember?

ultimate mortal Kombat 3, Sega Saturn

c r a z y c y r a x

TENPINTS on Shadow Of The Beast 2. Turned off damage so that your only blocker to reaching the end of the game was boredom.

MARKSTEAM in the name box would unlock all tech and give a bunch of money in Syndicate on the Amiga.

noclip

IDDQD

IDKFA

Contra on NES.

"Give me liberty or give me coin" 10k gold on AoE3

aegis

rosebud

motherlode
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Or is it ;!;!;!;!;!;!;! ?
- The second
I haven't played this game in 2 decades, was a kid the last time I used it... This is the comment I was gonna leave

Crack a candle
One step forward
One step backwards
Turn around three times
Jump forward

i remember buch from gta sa: aezakmi, yecgaa, jumpjet, rocketman, hesoyam, Gta vicecity: BIGBANG, PANZER (?) Gta 3: GIVEUSATANK Aoe 3: <censored>, more wood please (or smth like that) Sims: motherlode

The first Sonic game. At the main screen, up, down, left, right, hold A, press start. You could jump to the final zone, if you were so inclined.

Up, down, left, right, A & start at the same time. I still sing the jingle when sonic 1 starts

That's the one I remember (but as "all three buttons and start") but I have no clue what it actually did.
- Technically it's: hold A, then press start

genie jafar aladdin abu

Fuck that lava level.

The SNES or mega drive version?

Warcraft 3 - whosyourdaddy (makes your units invincible and one-hit every enemy)

It's ThereIsNoSpoon for me - unlimited mana
greedisgood for 1k gold and wood

I also found out that it didn't make them invincible, but rather multiplied their damage and damage reduction by 100x

LEAVEMEALONE (GTA VC) HESOYAM (GTA SA)

NOPOLICEPLEASE (GTA3)

cheesesteakjimmy

On secret of mana 2 (snes), hold L R Start Select then reset to go into sound test menu. Most Square games of the time had L R Start Select as a soft reset shortcut.

impulse101 on half life for all weapons.

LIM on Wolf3D for full health and all weapons

tgm on elder scrolls 4 and 5 for god mode

Poweroverwhelming

Radiofreezerg

There is no cow level.

JUNKFOODNIGHT

ATMOFEREBUS

OCANADA

iddqd

idkfa
- I always preferred idfa, so you'll actually still get to play the whole level looking for the keys.
- idspispopd

Razzle dazzle root beer

Up down left right right left down up

XYZZY, Plough & Y2

(From the Colossal Adventure, played on a multi million $ mainframe, when at uni. Probably in the 5-8 yrs before Doom timeframe)

How do you turn this on (Age of)

Fly and ghost (Unreal 1 : to observe every minute details of the map))

WC3:

WhosYourDaddy - invincible units, buildings, and one shot the enemy

GreedIsGood X - gives X gold and lumber

GTA:SA

HESOYAM - cash, hp, vehicle repair (on top of my head)

AEZAKMI - locks wanted level

UZUMYMW - a pack of weapon, IIRC no. 3 of 3

BAGUVIX - unlimited health

FULLCLIP - unlimited ammo

For GTA SA I remember chittychittybangbang to make your car fly.
thereisnospoon

69E5D9E4

Racecar

How do you turn this thing on

32167 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)

The one from the sims I it was “katching” one and the other was “motherlode” maybe the spelling is not correct but I will never forget those codes.

prince.exe megahit

Ooh is this for Prince of Persia?
- Spot on!

GZELVXSE

Game Genie code for invincibility in Super Mario Bros 2.

The konami code

I have it on a T-shirt & still try it on games randomly to see if there's an easter egg.
- It works on my kids' Fisher Price controller, game boy, and switch

Setting the name to COOPERTEAM in Syndicate (DOS)

idkfa

iddqd
- idclip
- I also remember idspispopd or something like that but not sure what it was for haha

hold: r1, r2

press: up, down, left, right, right, left, down, up

I had San Andreas on PS2 as a kid, only played it on PC a little bit as an adult; but, the fact that you type the cheat codes on a keyboard means they kinda make words, so i forgot the PS2 ones and i remember some PC ones.

AIWPRTON

HESOYAM

motherlode

Klapaucius!;!;!
- Rosebud!;!;!;!;

Original Mortal Kombat blood code:

ABACABB

ABACABB

Based
Mortal Kombat for me also, but 3, on the Sega. BADLADCRUD

It was almost a poop joke and I was young, don't blame me. I don't even really remember what it did. Maybe unlocked Noob Saibot?

pow

Name your character Totoro for invincibility in all Fromsoft games.

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE

ABYXABYXBABAYXXABYX - infinite thermal detonators in one of the Star Wars SNES games

Everylittlethingshedoes - unlock all magic in Warcraft 2

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND - something in Turok 2. I think all weapons?

mpkfa God mode for Blood.

Up, Down, Left, Right, A, Start - Sonic The Hedgehog.

howdoyouturnthison - Age Of Empires 2.

HeyGabbaGabba for Descent. Tried it in Decent 2 and it knocked me down to 1hp :D

Aspirin. I learned how to type in GTA as I couldn't figure out how to pause the game and type it so had to be quick.

"up up down down left right left right B A B Start"

Contra - NES

Isn’t it just ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA<start>? No second B?
Actually it works in a whole bunch of Konami games, and of course some modern games have thrown it in as an homage.

tuck tuck tuck and arrrrwalktheplank are two of my favourites. The first summons a monster truck in AoE3, and the second has a large pirate ship jump into the battle in Free Space 2.

Actually there is a set of missions in FS2 that can only be reached by cheating to become invincible during an event you were supposed to die I think.

I find it neat when companies put in assets and extra content most players wont find without trying to break things a bit.

IDKFA, and many others

IDDQD
IDSPISPOPD ... and I even remember what it abbreviates.. why?
- Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Pieces Of Putrid Debris
  
  Idk why it has also stuck with me, it's a really cool cheatcode
- Something to do with getting the chainsaw if I recall correctly but it never worked for me, or on whatever version of the wad I had.
- This is the one I use to prove my old nerd cred, lol
IDCLIP

DOOM: IDDQD - god mode, IDKFA - all weapons / items

SimCopter - I'M THE CEO OF MCDONNELL DOUGLAS unlocks all helicopters

Superpower multiply

Star Wars Battlefront II PS2 invincibility:

Pause

Hold L2/R2

Up, up, up, left, down, down, down, left, up, up, up, left, right

thisisunsafe

xyzzy

Rosebud for money in the Sims

motherlode
Don't forget all the :;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;
didn't play much og sims, but sims2 (and later, iirc), motherlode gives more.

i also had a few custom items i could drop in to a house, too.
Or motherlode
Also "move objects on"

Just gonna delete these bills here... Hey why not the whole mailbox?

I also once had a sim make enough garden gnomes to fill every single tile of the street... Then he kicked one. 😂

Konami code, natch

ROSEBUD

YO BRO GO ROB BOB

guitar hero 3 unlock all songs

Play the four colors that do not match each character in the phrase

Black sheep wall - StarCraft map reveal

show me the money black sheep wall power overwhelming operation cwal food for thought

How I played Starcraft as a child

R2 R2 L1 R2 Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up.

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.

jessica16

Crusader: no regnet/ noch remorse

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.

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🅱️🅰️Select Start

Gives you 30 extra lives in Contra on the NES

This is the one I was looking for. So famous its been used in numerous games.

AKA the Konami Code

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

Worked in most of the TMNT games too.
I like that you specifically remember 2-player mode
- Haha, I noticed that, too. That's the one I always did - but not the one you'll see printed on tee shirts, etc.
Is it a "cheat" code if it's basically required to beat the game...?
- It wasn't required. It was the dark souls of the time.

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

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.

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)

Its the Konami code

Up up down down L R L R B A Start
- Don't forget to add a select before start if you want 30 lives for the player two as well.

SLXPLOVS

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

weaknesspays

(extra money in SimCity 4)

This and also how to get $999,999 in Sim City for SNES/SuperFamicon in the tax screen at the end of the first year.

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.

Don't forget robin hood and rock on.

Fanny magnet in vice city.

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

L33T SUPA H4X0R

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

You missed half the code! UUDDLRLRBA
- And <select><start> if you're two player
- Yep brain fart nice catch
and create havok for the scientists

"ACK! Well. I seem to be seriously wounded."

IDKFA Power overwhelming

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)

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.

poweroverwhelming

foodforthought

thereisnocowlevel

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.

howdoyouturnthison

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

Call Cousin Vinnie

It gave you a boatload of money in SC3K

PEPPERONI PIZZA BIG DADDY

E=MC2 TROOPER

Donkey Kong Country

B A R R A L - 50 lives

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.

ROBINWOOD (I think) in AoE II

How do you turn this on ftw

“idclip” for Doom

“pot of gold” for Warcraft 1

Oh and of course, how could I forget “how do you turn this on” (x20 usually) for Age of Empires II

ABACABB

all bastards are cops are bastard bastards!

idspispopd

doom 1 no clipping

klapaucius - money cheat for Sims 1

Porkcharsui in the original pc version of Grand Theft Auto. If you named your character this, you had an overlay with coordinates so you could find your way easier, you'd get all the guns and the possibility to toggle a kind of sped up mode.

Oh and howdoiturnthison in Age of Empires 2 to get an AC Cobra with machine guns

I remember the cheat but not the exact game lol. Definitely Sega Mega Drive though.

ABRACADABRA (R for d-pad right, D for d-pad down).

Going by a Google search it could've been Vectorman or Ecco 2. Or both because I played both a lot back then.

ILM

HESOYAM

GTA:SA extra health and money.

Also GTA:SA

CHITTYCHITTYBANGBANG: All cars can fly

XMNFB - The unlock all code for Turok Evolution on Xbox.

Black sheep wall

007-373-5963 Strait to Mike Tyson

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

hesoyam and impulse 101

And the most powerful one: bind w kill

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

GABBA GABBA HEY

BIG RED

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 cafés

Then you activate comeflywithme, turn the gun around and start shooting to get insane speed boost... those were the days

Descent. Gabba Gabba Hey

"Cheater!" - I loved that voice

TGRTVN

Final level in Bubsy.

I am thrilled to see some love for Bubsy

ちよたにけらはとほらすてのはてきらとなりはしてと
復活の呪文

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

DULLARD 😅

Also a bonus code I won't forget:

ADE-NAI-WRA-LKA

You can all guess what games they are from.

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.

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

Edit: and the Zelda name cheat for NES!

DNCASHMAN to make it rain money in Duke Nukem 3D

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

To get the hidden multiplayer mini-game screen (if you have a second controller you can play with a friend): at the map screen, hold Select and press X X Y B A.

Glittering prizes

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

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

JUGGYDANCESQUAD - Blood Rayne

If ya know, ya know

and in the sequel "HAVETHISDARKREALITYTAINTQUEEF"

Simply because.... well that statement is funny

YOUCANSEEANICEICEKEYWHICHYOUCANHAVEFORFREE - Because that damn key tortured me as a kid

and finally

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND because I was too dumb to play Turok 2 fairly

BloodRayne is fucking rad
- It's a shame her popularity was so short lived, if she had remained one of gaming's stars we could have gotten a third game (I love you WayForward, especially for the Shantae series and Clock Tower Rewind, but Betrayal was sadly the best subtitle you could have given your entry, and that's not a compliment)
  
  And maybe a movie that wasn't directed by Uwe Boll
  
  As much as I do love the Postal movie, it's probably the only good thing Boll ever made and it's still schlock.

furious the monkey boy

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.

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.

DNNOCLIP

FROTZ

Power overwhelming ... Glittering treasures.

Warcraft 2

Uhhhh not to be that guy, but um, ackhshually, "power overwhelming" was for StarCraft and it was "Glittering Prizes" for Warcraft 2
- Ha! I'm So glad you're that guy. Remind me what was the warcraft 2 phrase was for invincibility. I just remember as a kid I got so good as typing those cheats phrases (that I obv DONT remember very well now) that my fingers would fly over the keys and hit enter and I realized I could type fast

JUSTINBAILEY

Play without the power suit in OG Metroid

You have to put in all dashes in the second row

Leavemealone - GTA Vice City

Rocketman - GTA San Andreas

OBOYOBOYY for hyper speed in guitar hero 2 and 3

Warcraft III: iseedeadpeople to remove fog of war.

007 373 5963

Mike Tyson's Punch Out

A B A C A B B

"Get over here!"

DNCORNHOLIO
DNSTUFF
god mode and all guns, items, money in Duke Nukem 3D

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.

B A B A ‌‌↑ ↓ B A ← → B A Start

WE5T1

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.)

PORNTIPSGUZZARDO All acievements and $500,000 in Sim City 2000. You could do it over and over for unlimited money.

Up up down down A B A B Start

&

A B A B A C C

I’m old.

Are those Sonic codes?

Use any ship you want in a mission in Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the Nintendo DS.

Up, Down, Left, Right, Select, Start, B

the first 'cheat code' that came to mind here isn't for a game:

Select • Play • Select • 30 • Select

BARACUDA for level select in Sonic 3D Blast.

Alternatively, CALLACAB for Vector Man.

Vectorman had a ton of those. ABRACADABRA would restore your HP. BALL and BALD would both display coordinates in the screen corner, one of them had more precision than the other I think. That was more annoying that useful for someone just playing but I remember the codes anyway.

Wampa Stompa

Triangle triangle square circle X L1 L1 down up

Spawns the Hydra in GTA SA

ABACABB - MK blood code

Down up left left A Right Down (DULLARD) - MK cheat menu

Up C Down C Left C Right C Hold A+Start - Sonic 2 debug mode

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

RRTANGENTABACUS-Episode 1 Podracer hahaha

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

NTHG THDG DCRT DTRK

Oh and IDKFA

klapaucius

This seems familiar, what was it for?

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.

Also yodajammies and imayoda

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

DraculasTeabags

Let's see if anyone knows these:

Up down left right a+start
up c down c left c right c a+start
up up down down up up up up up a+start
covertops
iddt