Worst Cheat Codes

[DrDeath3191]

We remember some of the great cheatcodes. Your Konami codes, your "There is no cow level", or your standard God-Mode affair. However, there is a dark side to cheat codes as well. Some are pointless, while others are just a chore to activate. Which codes were the absolute worst?

I was young when I played the original Crash Bandicoot. I love that game. But it's code to get 100% was absolutely brutal. It takes 24 buttons to activate it. For a young boy, that's just bullshit! Normally the codes for the game are only 8 characters long. So when you finish the first line of the code, two more show up! It was like getting smacked across the face. It may not seem that bad now, but I remember loathing that code.

 

[Radeonx]

A lot of the old school games required you to type in, gigantic, 20+ character codes with a controller.
It took fucking forever just to get gigantic heads.

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

Jumping the hurdles in Vice City was a pain. Like 4 different codes.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Umm...the jump 15 feet in the air code from GTA: SA. You'd take damage from the fall, and invincibility didn't prevent it.

 

[seious]

well i was remember playing gta2 at the age of 8 my freind had brought over a cheat code book we decieded to mess about until we saw a code called a sucide code but i was young and handnt really watched news or ever heard of the word we pushed along and entered and very short code only discover that we died and thats why i never use cheats the end

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

PS 1 and PS2 cheats might as well have had you hit every button on the controller in a random order, for all their complication.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Sonic 2 had a gay ass method of inputting the cheats.
DBZ:Budoki 2 was annoying to input that (L2 + menu)x9000 cheat.

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

I remember using my Action Replay MAX to unlock the song Trippolette for the original Guitar Hero.

...The code was 40 lines long, with around 12 or 13 characters per line.
It took me about three times before I got it right...

 

[Numb1lp]

Hitman Blood Money is so confusing.

 

[Jadak]

Does anyone else remember how to activate the cheat mode in Shadows of the Empire? Ugh...

 

[C117]

The Silver Bullet code in Medal of Honor: Frontline. Sure, it makes your bullets glow orange-red and gain the ability to kill every freaking Nazi with one shot, but the Nazis' ALSO get those bullets! And since I'm not equipped with telescopic radar eyes, I need to enter the Bullet Shield code to simply survive!

 

[zombie711]

gta scuicide cheat

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[maddawg IAJI]

Big head mode? Other then that I would say the Killer Cars cheat in Saints Row. It's funny when you mean to activate it but when your 5 missions from the end and you accidentally Saved with it on well. It's just a pain to drive to missions and then stay alive in said missions.

 

[Necrofudge]

All of the grand theft auto games
Nowadays if I play one I can memorize all of the fun little codes I used to use but when I was a youngin and I was playing vice city and whatnot the codes made me angrier than I've ever been for any reason anywhere at all period no question indeed. But maybe not that much.

Isn't there a code in Oblivion/Fallout 3 that makes you commit suicide?

If not, the code that kills everything, including Dogmeat... dammit

I don't remember any cheats at all for the game console versions but in the PC version you can open up a windowish thing and type in lines of code to lay waste to your enemies, spawn items, change everything to blue, etc.

 

[Fear Gingers]

i like how now weve got the console to screw around with well on pc anyway. using that theres loads of stuff you can do like spawn items and teleport. but a bad code was 'goto' on that Risen game. it teleports you anywhere in the map which is really useful cos you have to unlock fast travel. the problem is you have to spawn on people abd when you do it disables their actions. so basically you cant talk to them or kill them. its bad when you use it on a major character, had to restart my whole game cos of it

 

[Lullabye]

I dont know how many of you remember the third star wars movie game(the one where aniken becomes darth vader), but there was a code whose description everywhere i read it on the internet was "giant lightsabers". stupidly i assumed it meant I would get a giant fucking lightsaber. well i inputted the code and started playing the game. Guess what? i didnt get a giant lightsaber. In Fact, it wasn't until the first boss sith fight that I knew the cheat even did anythng at all. IT GAVE THE FUCKING ENEMY GIANT FUCKING LIGHTSABERS THE SIZE OF A FUCKING FIRETRUCK! whatever happened to cheats helping the player?

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Kill self codes are always a bother, Especially when they are linked to certain buttons and don't tell you about it.

 

[CrysisMcGee]

well i was remember playing gta2 at the age of 8 my freind had brought over a cheat code book we decieded to mess about until we saw a code called a sucide code but i was young and handnt really watched news or ever heard of the word we pushed along and entered and very short code only discover that we died and thats why i never use cheats the end

Little too much sugar this morning? I would say suicide codes are fairly useless.

 

[Eatbrainz]

The GTA codes that make your wanted level go up