Cheating in single player games

Bubble Bobble - I always entered the code for Original Game and Super. Hated losing a life and play with no power ups.

Gran Turismo 4 - Hated those license tests, couldn't find any cheats to skip it so I gave my memory card to a friend to do it for me.
 
...oh ja, and in Syndicate Wars too (which I played on my dad's old 486). Loved the game, and vaporizing crowds of enemies was a blast (excuse the pun). It basically sped up research.
 
I must say, playing Cyberpunk 2077 made me cheat. I don't cheat unless I conditionally have to in a single player experience, and I haven't cheated in a levelling-mechanic game in a long time.

My game was buggy and I had numerous missions in an incomplete state which didn't want to toggle completion. So, I did an in-game exploit to sell the 'painting' over and over again, which is still in position today to be enabled to purchase everything. I already completed the game at this point in time, but I wanted the Steam achievements.

New game + mode is also technically a cheat. It is a method implemented in a game to allow enhanced replayability by removing the grind element. Basically, your old save is 'trained' to be used anew in a new game experience.
 
Who cares when its just me, sometimes I don't feel like going through that action/campaign/level again sue me mkay..

That said I often play by my own rules which are 1000 times more strict, like it's a hard fail requiring a restart when I lose even 1 core to the approaching hordes in Defense Grid.
 
So most people knows about cheat engine, but before that was Game Wizard 32 Pro. It was actually the first software I ordered by mail and owned legally. Of course it only took a while and few experiments to make a faithful copy with rawwrite (or was it rawcopy?). Reason being its copy protection was bad sectors on the source disk, you know those fun 1.44s. haha.

Nonetheless you could search for a value, manipulate it and even save state. e.g. one bullet spent in death track (the original) would return two bullets. So you would want to shoot things.
 
Herr der Verboten said:
So most people knows about cheat engine, but before that was Game Wizard 32 Pro. It was actually the first software I ordered by mail and owned legally. Of course it only took a while and few experiments to make a faithful copy with rawwrite (or was it rawcopy?). Reason being its copy protection was bad sectors on the source disk, you know those fun 1.44s. haha.

Nonetheless you could search for a value, manipulate it and even save state. e.g. one bullet spent in death track (the original) would return two bullets. So you would want to shoot things.
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Game Wizard was awesome.

I remember trying to, and successfully finding the health bar in street fighter 2
 
I've used "cheat codes" in singleplayer games I know I have no interest in playing through or cheating well after I'm done with the game. I've not done it in the last 15 years at least. It was mostly something as a curiosity when I was younger (spawning a tank in GTA3 or using giveall in Quake 2 after I've played it for the 100th time). There is just no appeal for me to even bother now.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Coming to say this. Cause man I love my Cheats. it the one thing that use to put PC above console.

I see consoles now also allow for "Cheats" on some games, well I saw cheat support on Skyrim.
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They've always had it, in the form of "cheat codes" or a combination of buttons like in Contra (30 extra lives). In fact in the original Medal of Honor (PS1) you unlocked a cheat after every level which you can then use on a level you've already completed.

Don't even get me started on the cheat codes for the original Mortal Kombat games, such as allowing you to press a single button to execute a fatality.
 
HerZeLeiD said:
They've always had it, in the form of "cheat codes" or a combination of buttons like in Contra (30 extra lives). In fact in the original Medal of Honor (PS1) you unlocked a cheat after every level which you can then use on a level you've already completed.

Don't even get me started on the cheat codes for the original Mortal Kombat games, such as allowing you to press a single button to execute a fatality.
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PS I was actually referring to mods ;)
 
I won't cheat in those aspects of a game that I enjoy, but I don't mind at all to cheat in those aspects I see as boring/farming.

E.g. no cheating in Skyrim, as I was quite happy with most facets of the game. Valheim (playing solo) - I wouldn't use a cheat to tame wolves, but I didn't mind cheating in heaps and heaps of lumber, stone and iron for building purposes. Chopping down trees is fun for a while, and then it starts feeling like a chore. I play games for fun, not to have additional chores.
 
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