What are your favorite cheats for retro games?

[Ackman]

That makes your favorite games better?

Mine
1] The contra 2 30 lives cheat.

2] The infinite lives cheat for Shadow of the Ninja

3] The kill your team mate off to get his lives cheat in Double Dragon 2 NES.

Of course it's definitely more satisfying not cheating but if you've beat the game a few times and just want to play for fun without the frustration it helps a bit.

[Emuaust]

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[Sparkster]

I have a few, but these are using emulation/hex editors, but still sooooo awesome...

1 - Mike Tyson's Punch-Out - one punch TKO - this is a combination of 2 codes, where your opponent is already on his last bit of health, and has been knocked down twice already.

2 - Any Dragon Warrior/stat-increasing RPG - raise strength to ff or 255, and enemies become total jokes.

And there are any number of games where you can use the hex editor to make the final boss laughably easy, or start on the final level. It can sometimes take work, but it's great for annoyingly hard games, or games you've beaten so many times, you just want a little amusement!

As for glitches/built-in cheats. Contra is certainly up there. Also Mega Man's Elec Beam/select button trick. Silver Surfer's invulnerability code is another great one... if you can stomach even 2 minutes of the game in the first place.

[Steven]

I LOVE codes that allow you:

-to skip levels/pick which level you want to start off on

-unlimited lives/continues

-invincibility

For longer games without passwords or saves, nothing is more awesome than the game having a level select code. In essence, it operates as a password feature the game should have had in the first place :)

[Swamperon]

Sonic the Hedgehog:

UpC, DownC, LeftC, RightC, A+START: Debug mode, oh yeah!

It's a shame more games don't allow you to access the debug mode within games.

More of a glitch but the item duplication trick in the original Pokemon games was awesome as well.

[Emperor Megas]

I don't like cheats that aren't glitches. Glitches are the exception because they're part of the original code that you're exploiting, so it doesn't feel like cheating, or a crutch, so much as mastery of the game.

In any case, one of my all time favorite cheats has to be what we dubbed "going invisible" in the arcade version of Rolling Thunder. You fall backward to the right (while facing left) from a platform, into a stack of boxes below at the end of the 5th and/or 10th level. Then you jump up, and then again over the boxes, and you're actually in the background of the stage, behind the huge computer monitor. You can't attack the enemies, and they can't attack you either since the game thinks that you're in the background, behind a wall. From there you can just walk to the end of the stage, which is really close. It's especially helpful if you're low on bullets.

There's also the rearm glitch in the same game that allows you to stock up on bullets by simply walking back to an storeroom door after advancing the screen so far ahead, and another where you can make the hooded enemies get disoriented and interrupt their attack patterns by jumping straight up in the air. Lastly, there's one where you can drop through the floors of the second and 7th stage on your way to the exit and save tons of time.

In the arcade game Rygar, you can attack the lavamen enemies as they emerge from the ground by jumping up and attacking them through the sky if you have the sun charm power up.

There's also the classic Galaga cheat where you can make the enemies run out of ammunition on the first stage, which, which done lasts the duration of the game.

[Flack]

I am dating myself by saying "Identify #9".

[Superman]

I always liked the stay jumping on the koopa troopa and get extra lives trick at the end of 3-1. I thought it was funny (and kinda cool) that they started giving you symbols instead of numbers for your lives. Of course, I didn't think it was funny when I got too many and the next time I died, the game was over.

The Megaman 3, control trick was also very fun. Slowing the game down was sometimes helpful and being able to just jump in a pit/sky, was always helpful!

[Sparkster]

I always liked the stay jumping on the koopa troopa and get extra lives trick at the end of 3-1. I thought it was funny (and kinda cool) that they started giving you symbols instead of numbers for your lives. Of course, I didn't think it was funny when I got too many and the next time I died, the game was over.

The Megaman 3, control trick was also very fun. Slowing the game down was sometimes helpful and being able to just jump in a pit/sky, was always helpful!

Never could pull off the Koopa trick.

I liked the MM3 tricks at first... the high jumping especially, but as a gamer, I'm more of a soloist, so using the foot on the 2nd controller wasn't exactly pleasing to me.

After a while, I decided the best way to play a game was the way it was meant to be played... until I finished it, or until I determined that my skills weren't good enough to get through it.

[Polygon]

Sonic the Hedgehog:

UpC, DownC, LeftC, RightC, A+START: Debug mode, oh yeah!

This plus the good old Konami code.

[retroman]

aaeaulpa..gamegenie.tmnt2 the arcade game nes...and 0073735963..tyson punchout nes

[Robocop2]

IDDQD and IDDKFA will always hold special places in my heart

[digitpress Jim]

The blood code for Mortal Kombat baby! A,B,A,C,A,B,B

[Polygon]

IDDQD and IDDKFA will always hold special places in my heart

Crap!

I totally forgot about PC games. Now I want to play some Doom or Doom 2. Did you ever try using those in Heretic? ROFL

[jonebone]

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start, always and forever.

Blood code on Mortal Kombat was also a huge deal back in the day.

[Gooch3008]

Ikari Warriors........ A B B A lol.

and uhhh in Ultima 6 when you you talk to iolo and say spam over and over haha

[c2000]

POD PLEASE in Lotus 2 R.E.C.S. (cool mini-game)
The no clipping cheats in games like Wolf3D, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D.
The 2-player mode code in Story of Thor 2 (Legend of Oasis)

[Tommittaja]

Save states.

[Emperor Megas]

The blood code for Mortal Kombat baby! A,B,A,C,A,B,BThat's not really a 'cheat' though, is it?

[mobiusclimber]

Level select in Sonic so I can skip that stupid Marble Zone. XD

[bangtango]

1. Microwaving the hamster in NES Maniac Mansion, which I discovered on my own without reading about elsewhere.

2. Beating Bowser with one hammer in SMB 3, if you manage to reach him in the Hammer Bros. suit. Also discovered on my own without reading elsewhere.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I am dating myself by saying "Identify #9".

Don't forget "S" and "J" as well!

[Emperor Megas]

Level select in Sonic so I can skip that stupid Marble Zone. XDI liked the Marble Zone. ^^;

I thought the music was really mellow, and I liked rolling into the blocks to move them instead of pushing them.

[Swamperon]

Level select in Sonic so I can skip that stupid Marble Zone. XD

What's wrong with Marble Zone? Marble Zone is cool! It's that awful Labyrinth Zone that needs to be skipped. *shudders*

[Polygon]

That's not really a 'cheat' though, is it?

Yeah. That's just making it how it was supposed to be.


I liked the Marble Zone. ^^;

I thought the music was really mellow, and I liked rolling into the blocks to move them instead of pushing them.


What's wrong with Marble Zone? Marble Zone is cool! It's that awful Labyrinth Zone that needs to be skipped. *shudders*

Both those, except for the comment about Labyrinth Zone. There isn't a single level on Sonic 1, 2, or 3 that I don't like.

[Natty Bumppo]

Dark Wizard - the trick that allows you to equip anyone (barring summoned monsters) with the ghost scythe. Doesn't really make the game much easier since the AI is pretty much dumber than a box of rocks anyway - but it is a lotta fun to freeze most of the opposing units and waltz right by them.

[Robocop2]

Crap!

I totally forgot about PC games. Now I want to play some Doom or Doom 2. Did you ever try using those in Heretic? ROFL

ha I remeber the first time I tried that....whoops:o