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xKaim
08/07/2025
09:12 PM
#1
I can't get rid of the Turok on N64 cheat menu out of my head. I'll never forget it. NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK in case anyone needs it. You guys have any of these stuck in your heads?
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
suchiuomizu
08/07/2025
09:13 PM
#2
Just the Konami code.
WTF DUH I DUH
HighSeraph
08/07/2025
09:14 PM
#3
Sonic 1 Level select
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She/Her
hivebent4life
08/07/2025
09:15 PM
#4
Plenty of GTA cheats are embedded into my brain from childhood
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Bass
08/07/2025
09:15 PM
#5
CHICKEN lets you play an AT-ST level in Star Wars Rogue Squadron on the N64.

Justin Bailey in Metroid
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monkmith
08/07/2025
09:15 PM
#6
R1, R2, L1, R2, left, down, right, up, left, down, down, left
rocket launcher code from vice city.
Taarsidath-an halsaam.
Quando il gioco e finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola
JeDDyD
08/07/2025
09:15 PM
#7
iddqd (god mode I think) - doom (pc)
Hambo
08/07/2025
09:17 PM
#8
23 is number 1. It's kind of a password.

I guess also Up on Sonic, Down on Tails, L on Knuckles, R on Amy, A on Sonic in Sonic Advance. I think that's the code to get Tails to follow Sonic around.
Hambo's alt.
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Strider102
08/07/2025
09:18 PM
#10
*stays silent for three minutes while listening to this*

https://youtu.be/ZzY3EHPtIBs?si=HwYhafQl7vjrHwMh
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thronedfire2
08/07/2025
09:23 PM
#11
I still know a lot of the age of empires/aoe2 cheats

and of course the konami code
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a-c-a-b
08/07/2025
09:24 PM
#12
I'll always remember ABACABB even though I didn't even own a Genesis.

My friend did though.
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hivebent4life
08/07/2025
09:24 PM
#13
Oh, if the Sims 2 counts, I have plenty of those memorised too. Motherlode, testing cheats, etc
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archizzy
08/07/2025
09:24 PM
#14
Multiple NES things for sure. Everyone knew the Konami code. But the one game that will forever be burned into my memory for all time was for Mike Tyson's Punchout. I will never forget that.

005 737 5423 to go to Major Circuit
777 807 3454 to go to the World Circuit
007 373 5963 to go directly to Tyson

I played that game a stupid amount of times.

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KFHEWUI
08/07/2025
09:25 PM
#15
BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND

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jackgunney
08/07/2025
09:29 PM
#16
R2, L2, R1, L1, L2, R2, Square, Triangle, Circle, Triangle, L2, L1 to blow up all vehicles in GTA: SA

EDIT: this also popped into my mind

Circle, X, Circle, Circle, X, Square to give yourself a nuke in C&C Red Alert Retaliation
So I reached into the glove box, another liquor store went down.
thisworld
08/07/2025
09:30 PM
#17
Konami code, Doom, NBA Jam
Also Up+X, Down+B, L, Y, R, A
Kim_Seong-a
08/07/2025
09:32 PM
#18
Hold L, R, Z, Left on the D-Pad, and all the C buttons. Then hold the analog stick slightly left, then slightly right, then slightly left again, repeating until the debug menu appears.
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EmbraceOfDeath
08/07/2025
09:34 PM
#19
Up Down Left Right A+Start from Sonic.
DULLARD from Mortal Kombat.
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jackgunney
08/07/2025
09:34 PM
#20
Not really a code but I still remember the buttons to lower your weapon in Halo 3.
So I reached into the glove box, another liquor store went down.
vigorm0rtis
08/07/2025
09:36 PM
#21
JeDDyD posted...
iddqd (god mode I think) - doom (pc)

and idkfa (infinite ammo)
misterbum
08/07/2025
09:47 PM
#22
I remember DARBY DAY was an input code for DKC. Cant for the life of me remember what it does.
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Phanir
08/07/2025
09:55 PM
#23
Entering the code LVPVS unlocked Ralph in Rampage 2, I believe. Used to remember Lizzie at some point also.

Edit:
Also remembered the cheat menu unlock in War Gods (N64):
Right, right, right, B, B, A, A.
Needed it for fatalities.
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rick_alverado
08/07/2025
10:16 PM
#24
I remember a few of the codes for Star Trek: The Next Generation for Game Boy. It helps that they were character names.
Kisai
08/07/2025
10:16 PM
#25
5656
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sabin017
08/07/2025
10:18 PM
#26
power overwhelming
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ablegator
08/07/2025
10:19 PM
#27
archizzy posted...
Multiple NES things for sure. Everyone knew the Konami code. But the one game that will forever be burned into my memory for all time was for Mike Tyson's Punchout. I will never forget that.

005 737 5423 to go to Major Circuit
777 807 3454 to go to the World Circuit
007 373 5963 to go directly to Tyson

I played that game a stupid amount of times.
I only had the Tyson one down but could get the other two if it was a multiple choice quiz. Those and the Konami code and the code for Super C.
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Senta
08/07/2025
10:20 PM
#28
Zombies Ate My Neighbors - NYZZ, level 5 password for "New Clones On The Block".

Haven't played the game in over 25 years, yet I've never forgotten it.

http://tinyurl.com/b95dwtg
foxhound101
08/07/2025
10:22 PM
#29
Nah I can't tell you any video game cheat codes. I also don't remember entering codes all that much. ALthough I did like using the gameshark for the PS1, and N64.

I miss the gameshark :(

sabin017 posted...
power overwhelming

Oh wait lol. How could I forget this one!
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Metal_Gear_Raxis
08/07/2025
10:28 PM
#30
...Does Engage Ridley count? :p
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Hexenherz
08/07/2025
10:44 PM
#31
Wampa Stompa
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Shotgunnova
08/07/2025
10:53 PM
#32
bewareoblivionisathand
GOATUNHEIM
icanhearthecriesofcaptainplanet
Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends
And watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame
KJ_StErOiDs
08/07/2025
10:55 PM
#33
"buddamus" But I had to look up what game it was for.
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CRON
08/07/2025
10:59 PM
#34
idkfa
iddqd
idclip
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Unknown5uspect
08/07/2025
11:07 PM
#35
In Soviet Strike the code THEBIGBOYS gave you infinite lives and ammo and CHERNOBYL took you to mission 4 I think.
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Homeless_Waifu
08/07/2025
11:09 PM
#36
Only if twisted metal 2/3 special attacks count.

otherwise I gotta pull out the ol cheat code book
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Alteres
08/07/2025
11:16 PM
#37
huh, I wonder at what point I forgot the gta3 cheats those were muscle memory/reflex for at least a decade

*oh, I do remember some of the Warcraft II ones

those were fun

every little thing she does, etc
........the ghost in the machine...
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OniLink5000
08/07/2025
11:16 PM
#38
I think I can do the exploding cars code on GTA3 from muscle memory.

I remember the MK3 cheats

If I sat down and thought about it, I can probably put in all the sonic 2 cheats

of course I remember badbuddy from Donkey Kong Country. I don't remember the other one or ones.

I remember at least one game genie code. for super mario world.
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DarkAssassin89
08/07/2025
11:25 PM
#39
LRRLRRLRLR

then:

HARDR
TUFST

DKC3 cheats I used every time I did a playthrough beyond my first one.
Dark89
Aristoph
08/07/2025
11:27 PM
#40
Konami Code, of course
Also "PORNTIPSGUZZARDO" gave you a huge chunk of cash in SimCity 2000. I still chuckle at the name.
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Hexenherz
08/07/2025
11:31 PM
#41
I hate that the Sims 1 codes are at the top of my tongue. Iirc you could literally set up one of those water bird novelty toys and just have it hit Enter to enter the code repeatedly.
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hivebent4life
08/07/2025
11:33 PM
#42
DarkAssassin89 posted...
LRRLRRLRLR

then:

HARDR
TUFST

DKC3 cheats I used every time I did a playthrough beyond my first one.
DKC2 also has something similar with BARRALAX, another code I know by heart
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NoxObscuras
08/07/2025
11:34 PM
#43
133 221 333 123 111
Steam/Xbox/PSN = NoxObscuras
HeroFlyChao
08/07/2025
11:37 PM
#44
I think I can remember at least some of the cheats to unlock the stop n swop items in Banjo-Kazooie

Now you can see a nice ice key which you can have for free

out of the sea it rises to reveal more secret prizes

dont you go and tell her about the secret in her cellar

Amidst the haunted gloom a secret in her bathroom


theres some other useful cheats like a golden glow to protect banjo for infinite gold feathers, now you can fly high in the sky for infinite red feathers, dont be a dumbo go see Mumbo for 99 tokens, Give the bear lots of air for infinite underwater air that all off the top of my head.
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EmbraceOfDeath
08/07/2025
11:38 PM
#45
BARRACUDA from Sonic 3D Blast
No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk.
party_animal07
08/07/2025
11:54 PM
#46
Up,Down,Left,Right,A,B,A,C,A,B,B
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SparkMark1
08/08/2025
12:09 AM
#47
YTKX is the last level of Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle.
What's even funnier is they used that password in the picture example on the back of the box.
darkknight109
08/08/2025
12:25 AM
#48
Plenty. Other than the Konami Code, there was:

ABACABB - Blood Code for Mortal Kombat
BARRAL - 50 lives in Donkey Kong Country
BAD BUDDY - Allows second player to switch characters in DKC
DARBY DAY - Sound test in DKC
DYDDY - Instant animal minigame in Donkey Kong Country
CHICKEN - AT-ST mini-level in Rogue Squadron
!ZUVIEL! !BENZIN! - Unlock the Buick in Rogue Leader
Wampa Stompa - Enemy control in Shadows of the Empire
0007 - Passcode for the second level in James Bond Jr.
Wishy Washy Banjo - Washing Machine transformation in Banjo Kazooie
breathe deep - Extra vespene gas in Starcraft
there is no cow level - Instant win in Starcraft
power overwhelming - God mode in Starcraft
radio free zerg - Plays secret BGM in Brood War
JUSTIN BAILEY - Max equipment, both bosses defeated, Samus in her swimsuit in Metroid
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joaquintall
08/08/2025
12:29 AM
#49
a-c-a-b posted...
I'll always remember ABACABB even though I didn't even own a Genesis.

My friend did though.

I read this as in the song Abacab by the band Genesis and that was the only reason you remembered it (time to get my eyes checked!!!)

Anyways, yeah Konami code. I think there's a Mega Man code A1, A3, B2, B5, D3, F4... I want to say that's #4 to skip to Dr Cossack, but I may also be merging 2 different codes, and this actually does nothing. Justin Bailey for Metroid, there's a few for Heretic (quicken and rambo) that makes things much easier.
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SuperVegitoFAN
08/08/2025
12:36 AM
#50
Circle, Right, Circle, Right, Left, Square, Triangle, Up

Triangle, Triangle, Square, Circle, X, L1, L1, Down, Up

Time to fly to las venturas
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