N64 Cheat Codes were THE BEST | Punching Weight [SSFF]

Video game cheat codes are dumb and fun, so what happened to them? From our favourites like Goldeneye to Tony Hawk Pro Skater, here’s a look at definitive cheats on the N64 and why it was the beginning of the end for video game cheats.
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[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

First off, thanks so much for FOUR YEARS! If you haven't scooped up a t-shirt or pin, we're having an SSFF merch fire sale so now's the time - www.stopskeletons.com/shop Secondly, did anyone spot the secret in the video yet? If you haven't, no cheating!!

[@CommodoreFan64]

Thanks for the awesome video, but wish you guys had stickers in the merch store so I could put them on one of my laptops/netbooks(yes I still have an ACER, and Lenovo Netbook I still use), so it can be seen more often, or a key chain I can hang from my bag everyday.

[@greenhowie]

Four more years! Four more years! Seriously though, I love the pure positive vibes from this channel. It's a nice soothing tonic. Keep 'em coming.

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome video

[@MEUProductions]

So... in Rogue Squadron, if you type in “CHICKEN” on the passcode screen, then you will be instantly put into an AT-ST walker mission. When I was 5, I did not know how to spell chicken, and my older brother was not home. I asked my great grandma, a Polish immigrant, to write the word on a napkin for me. She then wrote “chicken” not only in cursive... but also in Polish. I did not play the mission that day.

[@djb5255]

Yes, more please.

[@lauraschantz9058]

I remember that level! When my bro found out about this code, he was super-stoked to show me, so we could laugh at the fact that not only could you play as an Empire ship, it was the DORKIEST ONE IN THE MOVIES. :D We've always been big fans of the AT-ST.

[@ELEKTROSKANSEN]

kurczak

[@benayers8622]

I loved that mission :) good times kids these days miss out they are poisoned by micro transactions and online multiplayer instead of split screen goodness

[@benayers8622]

You could fly the naboo fighter too from what i remember and deaddack was a code there really were good cheats in that game

[@NitroRad]

Wampa Stompa from Shadows of the Empire has always been my favourite just because of how difficult it is to enter. You have to hold EVERY button on the controller, and a direction on both the pad and the stick. It's physically impossible to input without either getting a third hand from a friend, or using your face.

[@Destroyer12334]

Yup, I used my chin. 8 year old me was working really hard to make that one work. It felt like one of those cheats that was made up on the playground by someone who -really- liked to embellish their stories.

[@mjverostek1278]

Rubber bands, my dude.

[@tacos5682]

CHIN

[@benayers8622]

Great star wars game better than the new battlefront lol ps2 battlefront was good but the newer gen one not so much

[@Dunseith27]

I used tape if I got got frustrated with trying to do it by hand, waaaaaay too much tape

[@domcolosi]

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention that you can turn Banjo into a washing machine.

[@m2pt5]

WISHYWASHYBANJO, if I remember correctly.

[@CI254]

He seemed worried because of the "Save deletion" thing, but IF I REMEMBER RIGHT (Feel free to correct me), that only happens if you used multiple cheats to open worlds early. The goofy codes like Washing Machine weren't affected by that so you could do those without everything going bye-bye.

[@SharkandMinno]

@@CI254 pretty sure it happens if you use too many infinite items cheats - happened to me - thought they were joking :/

[@CI254]

@@SharkandMinno Yeah, those too. The ones that are actual cheats to give you an advantage in the game will result in the save. But the goofy ones are safe. Sorry to hear that though. Rare don't bluff.

[@thatguy3718]

BANJO BEGS FOR PLENTY OF EGGS

[@tallestrose]

Oh, it's so awesome to finally have a clear explanation on the origin of the SSFF name! I honestly thought it was because skeletons are a criminally common enemy in games and you guys were trying to make a pro-skeleton political statement.

[@Adam-cq2yo]

Skeleton unlives matter!

[@NimhLabs]

Right now your bones are wet--encased in their meat prison.

[@edwardtjbrown1979]

What

[@Spindash54]

Debug Mode in the Sonic games was always my favorite. Putting any item anywhere in a level made it a sort of mini Level Editor mod. And I loved making a million Super Sonic boxes, smashing them all at once, and crashing the game because of a likely memory overflow or something.

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

Spindash54 I used to play Sonic 2 and 3 for hours jump making "torture" course where I set Tails to jump and then make him jump on platforms but put crazy stuff in his way. Now we call that Mario Maker.

[@ruthmcnally310]

I’m still so happy that they made sure to include Debug Mode in Mania.

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

@@ruthmcnally310 Debug is part of every game, they just don't let you have access to it. Sonic games like others added a code to debug on the fly and just told people how.

[@XaneMyers]

In the first Sonic game, I'd place lots of the fish and platforms in the sky in Green Hill Zone then challenge others to the "levels". A shame the objects unloaded after they went off-screen and things like checkpoints, monitors, and rings only worked when placed the first time...

[@tacos5682]

@@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0 in sonic 2 with debug in hill top zone you can make tails loop the screen by going into debug while about to fall to your death

[@GamecubeIsGreat]

Say it with me: "Yes, I cheated. And I'm okay with that."

[@bruhmom3nt]

This aged poorly

[@ItsNerfOrNathan]

not sure if derek caught the joke here but banger comment

[@benayers8622]

The cheats made things good lol now they charge you real actual cash instead and call it a micro transaction... i hate the future

[@ColoniaContraAtaca]

I love the Turok2 stage select cheat, and use durinh multiplayer, that lets you and 3 friends to play single player maps with enemies and all, the game runs at 5fps, and is really a PunchingWeight haha

[@ZeOHKay]

The Simpsons: Hit & Run had a lot of great cheats, but my personal favorite was a cheat that sent your car flying every time you honked the horn. Oh, and congrats for the 4 years!

[@creativeusername7951]

"Esses the Esses From Effing"...oh you shouldn't have said that...

[@AdamTheGameBoy]

I mean they're all bones

[@myst9900]

@@AdamTheGameBoy exactly lol

[@MattZelda]

Rule34 GO

[@CommanderWiggins]

T H E B O N E Z O N E

[@TheDoctorProfessor]

Congrats on 4 years! I've been here for at least 10!

[@bojackson3073]

im confused. is this a different channel than the happy video game nerd?

[@TheDoctorProfessor]

@@bojackson3073 nah it's the same channel just renamed. HVGN is a retired concept but all the videos are hosted here. Derek's style has changed a bit, the result being the curremt SSFF.

[@davistoa]

@@TheDoctorProfessor I was personally more of a fan during the HVGN time (introducing me to what would become some of my most favorite games of all time, including the best horror game ever, Enemy Zero) but Punching Weight is such a wonderfully creative and dumb show that still keeps me coming back, so credit to Derek for still being fresh and unique even 11 years later.

[@SheepGoatGaming]

8:15 This is untrue, Grunty only deletes your save files for the more debuggycodes, like opening note doors or world entrances or removing obstacles.

[@Buurazu]

also she only deletes the save file that you're currently playing on

[@darkprogame389]

Yup, the Stop n Swop codes are excluded from that

[@0dayrepairs]

I came here to say this as well. You're free to test out all the egg & key codes, none of them will mess with your save. I'd definitely encourage you to try, it adds some extra bits of levels that you didn't get to see.

[@alfo2804]

How does the deletion take place? Does she just interrupt you via text box and come out with something like, 'Hippity hoppity, your save file is now my property', or does a cutscene play out? Does it happen as soon as you enter too many codes or the next time you save or something? Do you get chance to reset the console before it happens?

[@darkprogame389]

@@alfo2804 IIRC at the last code you enter you get a warning You also get a warning at your 3rd code and actually have a choice to accept or not So yeah, it's quite lenient

[@mspeter97]

Hang on, Battle for Naboo has dev commentary? On an N64? How much space did they use up?

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

SERIOUSLY! It’s pretty hefty too, about 5 minutes for every level.

[@Treychik]

Can't stop surprising how creative people were back then...I mean having serious limitations, yet making awesome games...amazing!

[@SeltsamerAttraktor]

That's factor 5 for you. They came up with some speech compression algorithm that also found its way into Pokemon Stadium.

[@grn1]

@@SeltsamerAttraktor Pokemon Stadium also had a special multi-bank memory technology that allowed them to fit twice as much data on the cart as normal. Sadly I can't find any of the pages that talked about it.

[@Helvetica_Scenario]

@@SeltsamerAttraktor Isn't this the same tech that was used for the Resident Evil 2 port, or something similar?

[@RedY0shi]

My favorite is the cheat code in Sly 2 that gave you a gadget that was Tom from Toonami! He could distract enemies and he was really useful in the early game!

[@ethanlaborde]

Wow, really? I played Sly 2 a ton as a kid, and never knew it had any cheats!

[@lightninstriker10]

"Hey! Heyyy! PEANUUUUUTS!"

[@myst9900]

I did not know that but I guess it makes sense since CN did promotions with Toonami back then.

[@PerryMason123]

You missed one of the kings of N64 cheats: Diddy Kong Racing, as well as Perfect Dark, though that was a lot like Goldeneye.

[@iwinrar5207]

He did say racing games had alot of their own things. Rush games baby

[@dilloncostilla3412]

Seriously! Diddy Kong Racing becomes a whole new game when you put in JOINTVENTURE !!!

[@djosearth3618]

He says at the end he holy limited it to N64 and further to games of which he owns physical copies . Probably largely in order to capture their own footage first hand ;]

[@inukithesavage828]

And golden eye paintball mode!

[@eddydiaz5005]

@@dilloncostilla3412 wats that

[@GiordanDiodato]

I love Big Head mode. Especially in Spyro 2 Also, in ReIgnited, they kept all the cheats in the original Spyro trilogy and even added some cheats. Thanks TFB.

[@KylerSnowBro]

Congrats on the anniversary guys! Been watching since your HVGN days and have been satisfied with every video you've put out.

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

Thank you!

[@deadwafflez9685]

@singular on1 Splatterhouse

[@jook13]

NBA jam is the king of this. Big head, play as celebrities, ect... one of the main reasons I loved that game as a kid

[@Karmy.]

Triple Play 99 had some fun ones too, big heads small heads big players small players big balls small balls and a bunch more that could be unlocked

[@satoshikong8852]

NBA Jam, THPS & GTA will forever be the holy trinity of video game cheats.

[@douglasthequilava]

wasn't there one NBA Jam game with a cheat that let you play as politicians?

[@izay99]

Half court dunks in NBA Jam is the best cheat ever!

[@izay99]

Well, I take that back. 30 continues in Contra 3 is the best cheat ever. That is the only way I could ever beat that game.

[@Rogerztheurbanlegend]

One of my favorite cheats? The awkward money cheat for Simcity on the SNES.

[@m2pt5]

That was more exploiting a glitch than cheating. You were just causing the money value to underflow and wrap around to the max value.

[@Rogerztheurbanlegend]

@@m2pt5 I mean, technically, exploiting a glitch is still cheating.

[@floyd9572]

Love that cheat. Hate pulling it off. lol

[@m2pt5]

It's a more recent game, but The Stanley Parable had a few funny cheat codes (and a "serious room" where you got sent for using the server command to enable cheats, 'sv_cheats 1'.) Two of the silliest are, 'bark' causes every press of the "use" button to make a dog barking sound, and 'raphael' replaces all the narrator's audio with various intonations of "Stanley!"

[@tobiaszillmer279]

Hidden Fact: The V-Wing (The Car) License plate says "KOELSCH", which is a type of beer, that's popular in Cologne, where Factor 5 originally was based.

[@FancyGeeks]

"Not the kind that sells hot sauce" Bawahahahaha.

[@reagandow850]

Fancy Teeth - LMFAO

[@foolio1990]

Derek, we need to talk about the notes you're missing on your original Banjo-Kazooie save.

[@Stavekoff]

Spyro 2 and 3 had great character modifiers, i loved turning spyro green and flat

[@LakituAl]

I loved skating on a squid.

[@antshield]

Classic Sonic's Debug mode still blew me away. It was like magic to my young mind.

[@Lancetwilight]

Congratulations on 4 years. I'm a newer fan but I love your stuff. You'll always have me as a fan.

[@Bunni89]

My favourite weird cheat code name is "Hero Is A Giant Pair Of Trousers" (Dragon Quest IX )

[@whitley2141]

I loved cheats that gave you scrapbooks of concept art. My favorite was Crash Team Racing. For me these kinds of cheat codes were like an inside look into how the game was developed over time. Also it served as a "Thank you for playing. Here's a treat!" for players.

[@omgdontstealvids123]

I loved the cheats in Turok evolution (Turok 4). The zoo level cheat was awesome, but my personal favorite was the “invisible” cheat that had a bug, where all the humanoid enemies in the level would just keep running into you, it was the funniest thing, especially in the cloud level where they would just straight up push you off the map. Those were the days man.

[@luria2498]

I love how enthusiastic and positive you are throughout this entire video. It makes it very engaging and enjoyable to watch! Awesome video :)

[@rilril5129]

Loved the Conker's BFD Cheat screen where you'd get yelled expletives at for using some cheats.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Two of my favorite cheats were Slow/Turbo Mode in Goldeneye. I remember testing it on certain levels, like on "Cradle". If you play on Slow mode (which takes FOREVER), you're greeted with Bond running slowly towards the helicopter and it takes off without him haha! Using Turbo makes Bond grab onto the chopper and he flies away.

[@Solarasthma]

How about when Devs added content that was intended to be found, but only accessible via gameshark/action replay?

[@ultralowspekken]

True words

[@MixMasterLar]

Make Ikari Warriors Playable: When you die, A B B A Unlease your inner dancing queen

[@jocloud31]

One of my favorites was the Playstation version of Nascar '98. If you started a race and Paused, you could hold down all four shoulder buttons to unlock Paintball mode. When you held triangle you'd shoot paintballs out of the front of your car that would spin out anyone they hit. Combine that with realistic damage and the 24 car field pretty quickly turned into a 3-4 car race. Too much fun.

[@Joe-bx2md]

This is a little off topic, but it is n64 and video game related. I always loved the glitch in ocarina of time where it is raining in kakrioco village (bombed the spelling) where you walk in, but right before it starts to rain, you leave, and everything is in a green fog, when you walk into Lon Lon, it is blue. Funny story about this, when me and my brother were exploring green hyrule and blue Lon Lon, the fog was like an inch in front of your face if I am remembering correctly. And all of a sudden, the Luigi looking dude whole face was on the screen at it scared us both.

[@OwtDaftUK]

GTA games were good for cheats.

[@greenhowie]

Flying Tank is my spirit animal.

[@douglasthequilava]

I memorized the PS2 Tank cheat for San Andreas... too bad I don't have a copy of it that works anymore...

[@nthgth]

San Andreas was the best for cheats. Flying cars, the cops didn't know their cars will fly with speed 😂 And the one where cars slowly float up when you collide with them 🤣 Why these didn't make it past that game I'll never know

[@psycologo121]

The best cheat code ever was moon gravity in th Tony Hawk pro skater games

[@MixMasterLar]

Punked my dad with that code once. Look on his face was priceless

[@Shannon-wg8pv]

I rate the flying cars cheat from GTA up there also. Spent so many hours just flying around vice city haha

[@XaneMyers]

@@Shannon-wg8pv In Vice City, the main thing I did was start a new game (so I could only encounter the VCPD and SWAT) then spawn the Rhino and endlessly fight the cops. That was fun!

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

The Quack mode doesn’t remove animation frames, it disables Motion Interpolation, which smoothly animates between each keyframe. Quake I lacked this feature, although Quake II did have it.

[@AnActualDimetrodon]

My favorite was always 'Jub Jub' in the original Star Wars Battlefront, which 'shrunk' all the characters on the field. In effect they were just constantly crouching and moving at normal speed, but seeing Stormtroopers shuffling around was always funny.

[@lankyGigantic]

My favourite, I can't remember the name of it, but it's from Ratchet & Clank 3. When you pressed the quick select button, instead of just pausing the game behind you, it would send the camera spinning around your character like in the Matrix or something.

[@TheLastRaven6]

Oh yeah, I know that one. You had to get enough skill points for it, but it was pretty cool.

[@skamensch4306]

Tony Hawk's Proskater 2: Disco-Mode. Skateing on rainbowramps :D

[@MixMasterLar]

It's the best. Every game needs a Disco Mode

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

My favourite game ever for cheat codes is Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (along with all the other Lego games by Travellers Tales) because they handle the codes amazingly, there’s a huge section of the menu with like 50 “extras” which let you do tons of stupid stuff, switching your characters, making everyone wear those stupid glasses and moustache disguises, and there’s even some Star Wars-specific references like making Chewbacca carry C3PO like he does in Empire Strikes Back, or having the ships tow the Death Star instead of bombs. The extras are all unlocked by finding red power bricks hidden in levels and then buying the extra in the shops. Some of the extras are proper cheats too, for example there’s a hidden red brick in the last stage of Empire Strikes Back that unlocks Disarming Troopers, which replaces every Stormtrooper blaster with A CARROT, and makes them harmless except from melee attacks, which makes it easier to get true Jedi in some levels. It also affects the player, if you use the code and play as a stormtrooper, you don’t get a blaster either! It makes a few stages unbeatable in story mode since you need to reflect trooper lasers, but you can disable the extra at any time so it’s fine.

[@Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer]

15:30 Hudson Soft did that for the Sega Saturn as well, it had a special Hudson Button on it.

[@trentfarrell]

WampaStompa from Shadows of the Empire. Definitely my personal favorite.

[@ShadowBlazer3000]

So much fun with Shadows codes.

[@Matthew-wg1cf]

Codes absolutely made that game. I dont even want to know the time I spent messing with that debug

[@THEREALDATALORD]

Shouts to that lie about pushing the truck to find mew.

[@ultralowspekken]

Hoaxes are just as good as cheats :')

[@fzysknr]

One of my favorite games for cheats was the 2000 'Spider-Man' game. Not only did it have the usual big heads, big feet, and unlimited webbing, but there was a Pulsating Head cheat where Spidey's head would slowly grow and shrink rhythmically.

[@Xyariax]

I allways loved Twisted Metal 2 from their secret versus map cheats to actual secret techniques, or how about racing as a T-Rex in Need for Speed 2.

[@diegog1853]

How about a punching weight episode on duke nukem 3D on sega genesis? I just learned about this a few minutes ago, and oh my gosh is so ridiculous you guys have to cover it xD

[@ultralowspekken]

I second this and also add a good fps variant -- try lookig for homebrew Wolfenstein 3D for genesis. It's a work in progress, but that's how a genesis fps that works should have been made.

[@gamenerd4444]

4 years for SSFF and hopefully many more to come. Keep it up Derek, Grace, and of course Launchpad.

[@cwooddirector]

One of my favorite N64 cheats as a kid came from Rogue Squadron. In addition to the Naboo Starfighter and the car there were other unlockable ships. The Millennium Falcon (which normally the camera pans past in the hanger) was unlockable with a cheat. But the really cool thing was that if you put in another cheat after that one then you could unlock a super secret ship. You go to the hanger and head to the Millennium Falcon. Once you have it selected, you push up and the camera goes around and behind the Falcon to reveal a TIE Interceptor. Getting to fly that around was super cool to me, especially since the Naboo Starfighter code was already put in on our copy when we got it and I had no idea that there was a playable TIE Interceptor.

[@projectz975]

In Rush 2 Extreme Racing USA, my favorite was the tire size cheat. loved driving the big SUV with 10" wheels 🤣

[@TornadoADV]

I miss my monthly edition of Tips & Tricks. Good Times.

[@myst9900]

Ah yes I remember getting my grandparents to buy that magazine for me. Loved how it had almost no advertisments too. It even got me into one of my favorite RPGs of all time Chrono Cross.

[@youtubed3951]

cheating starts now....that's what projared said a year ago

[@blackwolfrules56]

Which would be fine if CP wasn't involved.

[@MixMasterLar]

Oof

[@hasslevania8138]

#Oof

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@blackwolfrules56 And apparently it wasn't since he's still a free man instead of rotting in prison. Doesn't mean his career is saved...

[@Jamman88888]

for me, my best memory of cheats, was the fusion of cheats and achievements found in ratchet and clank 3, I had a lot of fun as a child trying to figure out what the achievements were (I didn't have the internet back then, so it could take days to figure out some of the obscure ones), and then feeling super rewarded every time I did one, because it would help unlock a new cheat.

[@Henners]

Here’s something neat about the goldeneye codes. When you do the button codes it pops up what the code activated was in the corner. This also occurs when using a gameshark. Therefore that means the game shark is actually accessing the button combination in memory !

[@KageMaxwell]

I did wonder where that name came from. Thanks! 💀

[@ElBribri]

nowdays "cheats" are locked behind paywalls (just as everything else) pretty much as mobile games do

[@Titleknown]

And this is why capitalism sucks! Because they give you nice things only to take them away and sell them back to you for extra! Worker owned businesses FTW, fuck the shareholders, guillotine the EA/Activision/Ubisoft execs, bring back our damn cheat codes!

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Just look at Rage 2. They are locked behind its Deluxe Edition.

[@Lugmillord]

As an old Rareware fanboy, I loved that Banjo and Diddy Kong Racing had codes as part of the main game. Racing in DKR with all balloons set to maximum turbo (ROCKETFUEL + FREEFORALL) is hilarious. And uncontrollable. Also, CHEATSUPERBANJO in Banjo-Tooie just makes it so much better to replay.

[@elmoisred616]

Oh man this just gave me a flood of nostalgia. I remember unlocking the Naboo Starfighter on Rogue Squadron months before episode 1 came out and my 12 year old self was just ECSTATIC seeing a ship from the upcoming Star Wars movie when no other details about the movie was out yet besides the trailer. I felt like I had insider information.

[@CoalCoalJames]

To be fair I think micro transactions / always online killed cheats far more than achievements.

[@benayers8622]

Lol i just commented the same then scrolled down and saw this.. too true what a future to be alive in i feel like in back to the future iv somehow ended up in the bad timeline future and someone needs to go bak in time and fix things so this timeline can go bye bye and everything can be aa it should lol

[@WitheredFreddo]

I miss when cheat code's we're still a thing Like Dk mode. At-least lego is keeping it alive.

[@Quackensteinmonster]

Barely these days. Anymore those codes are just character unlocks

[@SoundDefenseRB]

Something fascinating was uncovered by Rare developers within the past year or so: Stop N' Swop was planned not just for Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but Donkey Kong 64 as well! In fact, they were planning on introducing it to all of their games going forward. However, Nintendo noticed at some point in development that Donkey Kong 64 was scanning the critical pieces of memory as soon as the game started up, which was not allowed in their book. They sent Rare a notice telling them that they could not do this, and so Stop N' Swop was scrapped from that point on. This revelation comes from the Twitter account of longtime Rare developer Paul Machacek.

[@Rebelsk8s]

Still love it that when you spam left mouse button on a critter in Warcraft 3 and it's expansion The Frozen Throne, it explodes, smashing the ground, scattering blood and leaving an atomic mushroom like cloud for a few seconds on the field. Totally useless since it can't damage anyone. But a great sight you get and it's a cheat that I still use regularly whenever I play WC3 :)

[@magmos6346]

No mention of .Wampa..Stompa? SHAME!

[@KyrkogrimCwn]

Cheats made Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire such a replayable game. Kicking butt as a Wampa, the Monty Python style credit sequence, changing your ship to the Millennium Falcon. Good Times.

[@notaspacellama988]

is projared gonna be in this?

[@GamecubeIsGreat]

Was looking for this comment. I cannot think of cheat without him now.

[@TheJum]

Man, I wish you had included the “dual wield two different weapons” code for Goodeneye. I freakin loves that one. Granted, it is basically as much of a glitch as it is a code. It was basically a specifically button order that - when pressed fast enough - would let you use two different weapons at the same time(if they were adjacent in the cycle). Still, I thought it was so cool.

[@AlphaStrategyGuides]

I was friends with the guy who used an Action replay to hack the original GE 007 cheat codes (and his alias at the time was none other than 'Doctor Doak', and he lived in Edinburgh, Scotland). It was only because he found them, and then published the full list online, did Nintendo make them official. I'm glad that you got that bit of history right when it came to those cheat codes. :)

[@GMMReviews]

You should ask ProJared for his opinion on cheating!

[@Aqua_Xenossia]

I have a lot of favorite cheat codes, but one that kind of stands out to me and really encouraged players to look around...was Sony hiding entire demos in their Interactive Sampler Packs that came with the PS1, and the entire URNOTE campaign that rewarded players for recording commercials, folding magazine pages, and even decrypting what their mysterious messages were.

[@Lucas_van_Hout]

15:29 when I saw that controller earlier today. I wondered if you could put exclusive content in a game that you could only unlock with that turbo switch controller. To get to know they actually did that(, and on the same day,) is breathtaking.

[@Humbird00]

Some of my favorite cheats came from me experimenting with a game genie on the SNES. I was playing secret of Mana and tried to change the item you get from the chest in the first village. It turns out that the chest can trigger all kinds of unexpected cutscenes and events. One game genie code made the end-game fight against thanks start when you open that chest. Kinda hard to fight thantos when you're level 1 while inside the small room of a house basement. But my favorite code was the one that SHOT YOU INTO THE OCEAN!

[@MisterGreenonion]

My favorite dumb cheat is in San Francisco Rush to drive the flaming wreck that your car turns into when it explodes. The way the game physics work, driving the flaming wreck makes the column of flames blow back directly into the camera so you can't see anything but a mess of red and orange. To be able to see what you're doing, you have to switch to the first-person view, which keeps you from seeing your car at all!

[@pogopope]

Fun fact: a Goldeneye speedrunner modified the game's scripts to add an in-game timer on-screen gameshark code. Really cool stuff, I tried it myself.

[@esbimbamjoh]

In retrospect I loved the foreshadowing of the "unlock all cheats" code in Turok 2. If I remember correctly it was "bewareoblivionsathand" and in the next game the main antagonist was indeed oblivion. Obviously they already had their plans for the sequel...

[@zamnplayerd8802]

My favorite cheat was BCDF for Zombies Ate My Neighbors, because it starts you on The Day Of The Tentacle Bonus Level, which has some goodies. Then you go to the first level, and then go back if you have bazooka ammo left over from your first run of DOTT.

[@TimMessanger]

When we ended up getting gauntlet dark legacy for the ps2, we would always use the code "Purple" as your name so you could always fire your special attack. Along with that code's god like ability your special attacks would render you invulnerable to attacks while the animation played, your shots moved through all walls meaning so it could also unveil secrets and practically kill any enemies in a matter of 1-8 presses depending on the enemy. It just kinda branded you a cheater by making it your name, but I love that little cheat! I only learned recently of the skin codes you could get, but they're pretty neat.

[@gammaphonic]

The PS2 GTA games had some great cheats. I used to activate the cheats for aggressive pedestrians and the one that game all pedestrians weapons. Then I’d run around the city to see how long I could survive. It was great fun :)

[@greenhowie]

My favorite game for cheats was (and still is) World's Scariest Police Chases for the PS1. Slomo jumps, different infinite weapons, Hippie mode, Fish mode, Halloween mode... I could go on but I'd rather watch the inevitable SSFF upload when you get a chance to cover it. Seriously, you'll have a blast.

[@MofoMan2000]

The "rainbow" cheat in Top Gear Rally was more likely a depth buffer test. Pixels being rendered father from the camera would have a different color from ones closer.

[@Ebeeto]

World's Scariest Police Chases for the Playstation had all sorts of janky cheats, including one that replaced all voice over in the game with the Swedish developers' placeholder voice acting in glorious Swenglish. I remember some parts of the later stages' dialogue just being fart noises and yelling, essentially.

[@Fender178]

I can say this the last modern titles that I have ever played that had builtin unlockable cheats was Uncharted 1 and 2 on PS3. It's amazing that battle for Naboo had commentary for every level and the devs were able fit all that on a N64 cartridge. Also very interesting cheats.

[@TheClaybones]

Disco in Warcraft 2 is pretty hilarious. It plays a remix of a song from the first game with lots of unit lines and bits of narration from cinematics. Radio free zerg from Starcraft has a similar effect.

[@Maniac4Bricks]

I only found out a few months ago about a cheat for an N64 game I've had almost as long as I've had an N64. In Pokemon Puzzle League, there is a series of buttons to unlock playing against Mewtwo in multiplayer mode, where the first player is Ash and the second player is Mewtwo. If I recall correctly, this one also had the added bonus of being a "best of 1" match compared to the normal "best 2 out of 3" matches in multiplayer. Unfortunately it cannot be saved and the button combo must be pressed every time when desired to be played. I played this game a ton as a kid and I didn't even know Mewtwo's level in the single player mode. So to see it in multiplayer was amazing!

[@Frigidevil]

Every time I booted up Diddy Kong Racing, I made sure to enter blabbermouth (replaced horrn sounds with character voices) and jointventure, which enabled a 2 player adventure. By far the best way to beat those freaking coin races.

[@Shadethewolfy]

In Symphony of the Night you can actually input different names for your save file to alter Alucard's starting stats in various ways. There's also a way to play through the entirety of Symphony as Richter :D (but I think there you have to have already beaten the game with the good ending, first)

[@TheHappyColour]

Need for Speed 2 on PS had some great cheats 'BusMe', 'CarMe', 'TrexMe', which allowed you to drive as that specific 'vehicle'. It was pretty damn fun for local multiplayer to have bus vs semi races. Fun and slow....

[@Darkdaej]

My favourite cheat of all time? "there is no cow level" Okay, we're talking PC games (Starcraft, specifically) but the cheat's double meaning of allowing you to skip a level while debunking the 2 year old meme that Diablo had a secret cow level was awesome.

[@davidforget9335]

My favorite was in Ratchet and Clank going commando, the insomniac museum So much cool stuff to play around with

[@jacekmw]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the infamous WAMPA STOMPA cheat for Star Wars Shadows of the Empire, where you could play as an AT-ST or as a Wampa! It required some ridiculously hard inputs to trigger, though, I remember I had to hold down buttons with both hands and rotate the joystick with my chin

[@EvilApple567]

Ohhhh. So while I never played Mario Tennis or Mario Golf on the 64, I did (and still do) play Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on the Gamecube like an addict, and it has those same password tournaments. I remember when I first found the code for one online called the "Hyrule Tournament" and thought it might unlock a Zelda themed secret course, and was super let down when it was, well what it was. Glad to finally know all these years later what they were used for at least! Also it's kinda weird how it seemed like Camelot dropped the Mario Tennis ones after only a couple months but kept inputting them into their games for years to come, although that probably was intentional and they were just used for promotion I guess.

[@Toad64]

Bomberman 64 had a very hard to do cheat that would give you another 4 arenas in multiplayer mode, and they were really good. Unfortunately you had to enter the cheat every time you turned off the system, it didn't save it or anything.

[@SomeLinedPaper]

Some of my favorite cheats were from Humongous Entertainment's line of children's point-and-click adventure games. The devs loved to sneak in wildly inappropriate hidden content, only accessible through obtuse button combinations or by inputting a string of text into the game's internal files. There's something delightfully anarchic about seeing these bright, child-friendly characters doing horribly crude things :p

[@CitizenOfVerona]

Relatively new to the channel but I'm already a big fan. Punching Weight is one of my favorite series on KZbin. Congrats on the 4 years as SSFF, and keep it up.

[@Freezair]

A lesser-known game called Rocket: Robot on Wheels had some great cheats. That's a N64 with an honest-to-goodness physics engine! A lot of the cheats let you mess with the physics, giving you things like low gravity. The main character is a robot with a tractor beam he can use to grab stuff, and one cheat let you grab almost any object in the game. As you can imagine, that one could get pretty bah-roken at times. And if you used the low gravity and high jump cheats together, in certain areas, you could straight up jump out of the level and fall into the void.

[@twitches_z_pyro]

Happy anniversary! I'm really surprised with all the Star Wars game content you didn't have anything from Star Wars Episode 1 Racer. It honestly surprised me how decent of a game it was even today. Probably one of my favorite cheat codes from it is the Dual Mode where if you put in "RRDUAL" for the player name with a bunch of obtuse inputs while entering it, THEN plugging in a second controller into the 3rd port, you could play with 2 controllers (one controller for each engine of the pod racer). Its nothing that would give you any sort of advantage, but it was super cool that they'd make that level of immersive game play option back in the day.

[@jdynamo]

I love the Rush 64 cheats 1 of them unlocked the Alcatraz track and if you used the stop timer cheat and played 2 player practice you could play an endless game of tag. Plus using the cheats in Rush made it a lot easier to collect all the keys in the race courses, which you needed to unlock 2 more cars. I also liked the WAMPASTOMPA code from Star Wars Shadows of the Empire

[@Sanodi21]

Actually, now that you mention cheats, it makes me remember that a lot of games had 'special guests' as hidden characters. Politicians in NBA Jam, Raiden in NFL Blitz, and so on. Would be something neat to hit up in a later video

[@Alkaris]

One thing that became annoying with the arrival the Internet, the meanings and differences between Cheats and Tips got blurred, because people kept referring to Cheats as Tips, and made things increasingly difficult to find what you are looking for specifically for a particular Cheat Code such as passwords and button inputs. That is what really annoyed me most with the Internet emerging with info on videogames and such, because gaming sites like GameFAQs and GameSpot and even IGN were the main ones who did this blurring the lines of what was a cheat and what was a tip or hint for a particular game. I use to collect a BUNCH of cheat books and usually referred to them because they were the most reliable source I had to get a particular cheat I wanted, and it just be pages and pages full of button codes, and passwords.

[@layloeldon9280]

Happy Anniversary! Thanks for the history of the SSFF name.