Still, there are lots of titles and companies that remember how much fun having a way to get ahead of the game can be. It is really more of a novelty and oddity than a given. So yes, cheat codes aren’t as prevalent as they once were. It’s comforting when companies remember and carry on traditions throughout installments.
(On a console, hold all four of the left and right trigger buttons at the same time to open the cheats console, then use the onscreen keyboard to enter “testingcheats true.” After that, enter “Motherlode” in the box. In each situation, the “Motherlode” cheat remains, ready to give us an easy $50,000 to spend. The Sims 4, both on consoles and computers, knows how much we needed that extra cash. With Mortal Kombat X, it remembers the way when you would have to button press your way to an extra character, by making you press Up, Up, Triangle on the Tri-Borg variation screen to unlock Cyber Sub-Zero as a playable character. Both know what these installments used to do in the past. Both Mortal Kombat X and The Sims 4 know the score. It pays tribute to all the different ways cheats could be entered at once.īut, some of the best ways games are paying tribute to cheats, even now, is when they remember how things went back in their own series. This page contains a list of cheats, codes, Easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for Retro City Rampage: DX for Nintendo 3DS. But, button presses also apply! Pressing Right, X, Right, Left, Right, R1, Right, Left, X, Triangle will make you temporarily invisible for five minutes, as an example. Entering 1-999-226-348 will spawn a BMX bike. Putting in a phone number like 1-999-72 will make you invisible, for example. One involves selecting specific letters, or in this case phone numbers on the cell phone. On the other hand, Grand Theft Auto V fuses old and new together in a wonderful way. It is another nod to the way things were. There, you could input codes like “unlockitall” to unlock everything, “letsrock” to give you a ton of random weapons, and “mascot” to put every pedestrian into a mascot costume. It calls back to the days where you actually had a space to enter special words to cheat, by letting you go into the HUB menu’s Extras section. This is due to a mix of inputs and actual cheat entering windows. But, they are still valid and salute the simpler times. Games like Saints Row 4 and Grand Theft Auto V respect the time-honored tradition of cheating in different ways. Sonic Mania has a Debug Mode with level select that can be unlocked if you get 16 bonus stage medals, as well as the ability to make Boost Pads play voice clips in Hydro City Zone if you press left, left, left, right, right, right, up, up, up while hanging onto a hook switch.
If you are in the middle of a game and enter some Konami Code style inputs, you can get things like all characters unlocked (up, up, up, left, right, R, A, R, A on the 3DS) or turn on Gawd Mode (up, up, left, right, left, right, down, down, R, B on the 3DS). Say you are playing Retro City Rampage DX. That includes in the area of cheat codes, as both of them take the time to let people who are willing to put in the extra effort and search for secrets be rewarded. They pay tribute to the past in every single way. Sonic Mania and Retro City Rampage DX are both modern games with a classic look. Some titles pay tribute to them as a retro homage to what once was. Cheats may not be as prevalent, but we still see titles saluting them. Yet, even in this dark hour, there are still plenty of games that keep this time honored tradition alive. Gone are the days of enjoying that “taboo” and collecting game magazines or even official books dedicated to ways to beat the system that developers actually included in their own titles. Including a way to get around some of the more difficult elements and make a game a little easier or more interesting is something of a lost art.
To enable the option to save the game just leave the game itself and re-enter it.We live in an era where exploits, unintended ways to beat the system, are more common in video games than official cheat codes hidden away by developers.
Added: Aug 15th 2016Enter the following codes with the directional buttons during gameplay in History or Free Roaming mode to enable the corresponding effect.