Ever been the first person to find a cheat?

[Dimitri]

I mean this as in, there's some widely known code or cheat that nobody knew about until you discovered it. I'm asking this as today, through some ROM hacking, I found codes for a dozen previously unknown boards in Virtual Pinball on the Genesis.

Other than that, me and my friend were the first to Gameshark the hidden debug menu in Mario Kart 64. Though really, credit is doe to him, since he found it, I just made it work properly...

Anyone here have any similar experiences, be it through ROM hacking, cheat devices, or simply lucky button pressing? :)

[I'll hold on posting the VP codes until someone expresses interest -- they've been submitted to GameFAQs, though so they should be out there soon enough.]

[Famidrive-16]

What's the debug menu?

I've never discovered any 'cheats', but I did discover a shortcut on the final Bowser level in Super Mario 64. When you get to the spinning platforms, face towards the camera, duck, then when your platform reaches the top of the circular movement, do a backwards fliponto the next ledge. Really hard to explain, but it works, and I got it printed in the cheats section on world-of-nintendo.com back in the day (before it became one giant ad site)

And for Game Genie, I typed in one weird code for Super Mario Bros 3 that I forgot. Whenever I finished a level, I would immediately warp to the next world. When I got to the Ice World, I couldn't move all of a sudden, and the game started playing all the music in the game one by one. Then it stopped, gave off a static circuit on the screen, and started playing glitchy sounds, then froze. Weird.

[kainemaxwell]

I discovered a hidden cache of weapons in the SNES Jurassic Park one time.

[Dimitri]

What's the debug menu?

Use this code: 8818EDEF 0002

Then press the GS button on the title screen. A menu will pop up with options like "get all gold medals now", and you can set 2-player to use a vertical split-screen. This could probably be turned into an activator code, but I'm lazy like that.


I've never discovered any 'cheats', but I did discover a shortcut on the final Bowser level in Super Mario 64. When you get to the spinning platforms, face towards the camera, duck, then when your platform reaches the top of the circular movement, do a backwards fliponto the next ledge. Really hard to explain, but it works, and I got it printed in the cheats section on world-of-nintendo.com back in the day (before it became one giant ad site)

Cool, I remember reading that. :) Handy little shortcut it was.

Oh yeah, just remembered another one (me and my friends were really into making GG/GS codes back in the day): Use the Game Genie code KISSSY in Super Mario Bros...you can now run through stuff. It screws with the music, freezes a lot, and generally makes the game completely freak out. Good stuff. :)

[Querjek]

I swear, I dicovered a level skip cheat for Rayman Advance WAY before it was ever documented online. I found it on the GBA's release day, 11/6/01 (IIRC), but I never submitted it anywhere.

[joshnickerson]

I was the first to discover the Missingno. items duplicate cheat in Pokemon Red/Blue. Maybe not the first, but I'm pretty damn sure I was the first to report it online (I had an old webpage, "Josh's Pokemon Page"), cause I'd never heard about it before.

[Flack]

Also check out ...

Anyone here ever the first to do something in a game?
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30982

[Half Japanese]

Not the first, but my sister jammed on the buttons on Sonic 3D Blast for Genesis and got a cheat menu to pop up, where I could jump to any level, etc. She tried it again and it popped up again, after that she could basically do it on command. To this day I don't know what the hell the combination is (nor do I care), I just found it funny she could do that by getting mad and mashing buttons.

[pneumaticandy]

I doubt I was the first, but I did once accidentally discover the game Battlezone within the arcade version of NBA Jam. Apparently, I held the joystick in the down position and held each button on both sides of the machine. It boggled my mind.

I also unintentionally discovered how to unlock three minigames in the gameboy game TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan. (Press B, A, and Select at the same time while at the options screen then choose the question mark).

Pretty exciting, huh?

[pneumaticandy]

Also, has anyone beside me ever beaten Mike Tyson without taking any damage at all? (Even blocking)

Pardon if it sounds like bragging, but it is the proudest moment of my worthless life.

[Cryomancer]

I remember finding a couple of the other little sidequest creatues in Elemential Gimmick Gear before there were gamefaqs entries for them...and apparently someone else did at the same time I upped them as they were magically there like the next day. What the hell.

[Cauterize]

Before the days of internet at my house, i found out thar on Sensible World of Soccer (amiga) you could give yourselves £1 Million in Career mode by pressing 'M'

[djbeatmongrel]

i did come up with a code for GG that mixedd up the theme music running through Zelda: Links awakening but i cant find the paper that had it. it sounded pretty cool :/

[Mr.Faxanadu]

One day, in the early 80's, when I was playing Pitfall for the Atari 2600 I turned the system on strangely and was "warped" to the end of the game (where the white monkey is ??). I learnt that by turning on the atari switch sorta half way you could warp to the end of the game.

Recently I was talking to a fellow gamer buddy about it and he said that this was a classic tip for finishing Pitfall fast !!! X_x I just thought it was my little trick for the longest time !! :(

[Daria]

Shadowrun Genesis, I don't know it was long before we had the internet and I certainly didn't read game mags. I figured out that with a mafia discount you could buy some special armour for less then you could sell it. Infinate money cheat. (:

I figured out some other tricks to that game, just because I played it so much back then but hell if I could name them off the top of my head now. Sort of thing that comes back to you while you're playing the game.

[TRM]

I was the first to discover the Missingno. items duplicate cheat in Pokemon Red/Blue. Maybe not the first, but I'm pretty damn sure I was the first to report it online (I had an old webpage, "Josh's Pokemon Page"), cause I'd never heard about it before.

I remember being a frequent visitor of that page, good stuff.

Anyway, my brother and I found some really useless stuff in the Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers game. For instance, we found a glitch allowing unlimited invincibility (well sort of) and stuff like that. If anyone wants better descriptions, feel free to ask.

[rbudrick]

I found the Konami code in Life force before the code was even remotely popular (only in Contra, as far as I knew at the time). I actually posted this in another thread, so I won't go into detail here.

I also found a seperate 30 lives code for Rush N Attack (which no one has ever reported on before). This cheat also works in Contra III the Alien Wars for SNES on a few levels. I reported this in a recent thread too. This cheat works for a surprising amount of games out there too (and I've never seen it reported for any other game, yet it seems so obvious).

I think I found a few games back in the day that you hold A and start to continue. I'm pretty sure I found a few of these that weren't ever really reported, but now my memory is real fuzzy...dammit.

I used to mess with my Batman (the first NES one) cart (ejecting and such)to make the copyright screen go all Japanese, or at least it looked Japanese to my 14 year-old (at the time) mind.

I used to do a similar thing to get some really messed up effects in Dino Riki.

Using a cart removal cheat that worked on Thunder Force II and Space Harrier, I found I could stage select in Last Battle using the continue code (it would think I already made it to the levels, thus allowing me to continue to them). There are quite a few Genesis games this type of cheat has some pretty crazy effects on, but you can easily kill your Genny carts forever doing this.

I know there's a bunch more I found...I'll post them if I remember.

-Rob

[TRM]

Rob,

I want that Rush N Attack code! That game has been driving me crazy for the last year...

[link1110]

I found the sound test in Defenders of Oasis.

[Big Papa Husker]

I found out the Eyedol code for KI on SNES the day the game was released.... I was trying the arcade codes... and it worked

[JLukas]

It's fun searching games for hidden/unused/beta content. I found these menus a few weeks ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/JLukas/games/fftestm1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/JLukas/games/ffdebug1.jpg

a debug mode and test mode in SNES Final Fight, that have a bunch of memory viewer options, controller test, palette modifier, enables your characters to fire bullets, etc. I posted the codes (Game Genie/PAR) over at gscentral forums if anyone's interested.

In Chrono Trigger I found the unused items and songs with a Game Genie, and later was also the first(?) to fully explore the demo version (finding unused dungeons, npcs/enemies, more cut songs. that version had a lot of changes)

Game Genie codes for Super Metroid - a beta status bar and strange Engrish pause screen "GAME QUIT. WOULD YOU PLAY?"

[rbudrick]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53002

Here you go, TRM!

Not exactly a code, so much as an exploit...

-Rob

[AB Positive]

I remember changing a couple letters in a game genie code for sonic 1 that made every ring worth 255 rings. This was waaaay back, sent it into EGM but never saw if they took it. It made the game rather ridiculously easy.

-AG

[Big Papa Husker]

In Chrono Trigger I found the unused items and songs with a Game Genie, and later was also the first(?) to fully explore the demo version (finding unused dungeons, npcs/enemies, more cut songs. that version had a lot of changes)


Do you still have this code? I am interested in seeing it.