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Your first cheat?

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    #32
    carbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭carbsy


    I remember making my own cheat for Renegade on the Amstrad CPC 464 using a Multiface 2 interface plugged into the parallel port.A quick push of one of the buttons and I had the Renegade code in front of me.Finally, after weeks of trying I managed to increase my lives. :) God that was sweet.


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    #33
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,438 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    One of the creatures games on the C64 had a cheat that would activate when on a certain part of the title screen you licked your finger and ran it along controller port 2.
    Untitled Image




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    #34
    SeantheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    The Sonic , same as OP would have been mine.

    Some memorable ones that I constantly used were

    - IGOTPINK8CIDBOOTSON for Alient Trilogy :P
    - operation cwal and show me the money for Starcraft :)

    Also had a Game Genie for the Megadrive,

    I've not used cheats since the PS2...except for GTA games, I cheat on every single GTA game without fail...health/weapons/armor all the way :)


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    #35
    TomJoe Wallace
    Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭TomJoe Wallace


    Is that Gremlins Burning? I think it is ! Not 100% ! :O


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    #36
    Burning Eclipse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    TomJoe Wallace wrote: »
    Is that Gremlins Burning? I think it is ! Not 100% ! :O

    :D

    Yes, Gremlins 2 on the NES... 1990. I've been 'cheating' in games for 20 years now.


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    #37
    Wossack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,016 ✭✭✭Wossack


    A,B,A,C,A,B,B for blood in Mk1 on the megadrive

    <3


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    #38
    madrab
    Registered Users Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    Cant remember my first cheat but some of the first that i remember
    Mario 1 - finding the level warp
    New Zealand story - finding wormholes by shooting your bow everywhere
    Mario 3 - finding the severt way to finishe the 3rd(?) level and then finding the magic flute ( :) )
    NES - owning a game genie!
    Doom - idkfa et al


    good times!


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    #39
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,781 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Midnight Resistance on the C64, you had to push all the buttons on the keyboard at once for unlimited lives.
    Handier using a book to squash them all !:D


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    #40
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    I can't remember any of the old C64 cheats, but I would've got them from magazines or sometimes they came printed on the manual. On a slightly related note, who else wants one of these?

    I can remember 3shreddedwheat as the cheat for (I think) the super squad of players in Sensible Soccer on the Amiga.

    Also, Impule9 for all weapons in Quake :D


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    #41
    allanb49
    Registered Users Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    UDLR ABC Start on sonic one


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    #42
    TomJoe Wallace
    Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭TomJoe Wallace


    I stopped cheating after the release of MGS1 ;D


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    #43
    Jazzy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    Prepare for the Gamesmaster Data Burst

    pretty sure it was only Bad Influence that had the data burst


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    #44
    Kxiii
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Kxiii


    Jazzy wrote: »
    pretty sure it was only Bad Influence that had the data burst

    I was trying to think of the name of that show the other night. All I could remember was the blonde spikey haired woman off it and the data burst.

    http://www.bad-influence.co.uk/index.htm


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    #45
    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Xenon 2. Invulnerability. F7 at startup. Then 'I' in-game. Very difficult game without it.


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    #46
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Probably 'console - god' for me.


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    #47
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    COINAGE
    PEPPERONI PIZZA
    QUARRY
    WOODSTOCK

    and of course:
    PHOTON MAN
    BIG DADDY

    Haha, those were the days, Age of Empires ftw.

    No clipping in Doom used to be a good laugh. As for consoles i think its actually Sonic again.


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    #48
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Not the first but one I remember to this day.

    nthgthdgdcrtdtrk

    Off by heart, entered many times.


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    #49
    Praetorian
    Registered Users Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    Wasn't it "goobers" for wolfenstein 3d?

    idkfa iddqd definitely burnt into my brain. Damn u carmack!!!!


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    #50
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Mr E wrote: »
    Probably a C64 cheat. Anyone remember warm resetting the C64 with a bent paperclip? You connected the 1st and 3rd strips on the expansion port. The machine would reset back to the C64 BASIC screen, and you do a POKE to change a value in the game, and a SYS command to get back into the game.

    Man that's a long time ago now. I'm old.
    Oh yeah, old school :) I managed to get an Action Replay cartridge from a friend in England and had hours of fun inputting all the POKE codes into my favourite games :)
    Kharn wrote: »
    On a slightly related note, who else wants one of these?
    Awesome :D


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    #51
    mayordenis
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,634 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    First one I can remember is from Warcraft 2 it was "Glittering Prizes" **** load of currency.


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    #52
    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Praetorian wrote: »
    Wasn't it "goobers" for wolfenstein 3d?

    idkfa iddqd definitely burnt into my brain. Damn u carmack!!!!

    And not to forget idspispopd.

    Yes, it was "-goobers" or "-next" in the command line for wolf3d (depending on version). Then something like CTRL+Shift+Backspace (or alt or enter or some combination like that), iirc. Then Tab+letter for various codes.


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    #53
    D-Generate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    idkfa and the other ones bring back memories!

    Anyone remember "gabbagabbahey" to turn on cheat mode in Descent?


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    #54
    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    D-Generate wrote: »

    Anyone remember "gabbagabbahey" to turn on cheat mode in Descent?

    Yeah. I still remember most of the cheats for that. It was an extremely difficult game, even on the low levels of difficulty, so the cheats were well used.


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