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For the American electronic dance music group, see.Cheating in video games involves a player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal, in order to make the game easier. Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers), or created by third-party software (a game trainer or debugger) or hardware (a ). They can also be realized by exploiting; this may or may not be considered cheating based on whether the bug is considered common knowledge. Contents.History Cheating in video games has existed for almost their entire. The first cheat codes were put in place for purposes.

Playtesters had to rigorously test the mechanics of a game and introduced cheat codes to make this process easier. An early cheat code can be found in, where typing '6031769' (based on driving license) enables the cheat mode. Within months of 's 1981 release, at least two commercial trainers appeared. 1983 advertisements for 'The Great Escape Utility' for (1981) promised that the $15 product 'remodels every feature of the game. Stop startup delays, crashes and chest waiting. Get any item, in any quantity.

Cheatbook is the resource for the latest Cheats, tips, cheat codes, unlockables, hints and secrets to get the edge to win. This page lists the codes which may be input into the Console Window, a special debugging window which may be accessed by pressing the ` key (button may vary on non-American keyboards). Press the up or down arrow keys to traverse through previously executed commands. Many codes can be turned off by repeating the command.

Start in any room, at any rank. Handicap your aim. Even add items'.In a computer game, all numerical values are stored 'as is' in memory. Gamers could reprogram a small part of the game before launching it. In the context of games for many 8-bit computers, it was a usual practice to load games into memory and, before launching them, modify specific memory addresses in order to cheat, getting an unlimited number of lives, currency, immunity, invisibility, etc.

Such modifications were performed through statements. The, Amstrad CPC range and ZX Spectrum also allowed players with the proper cartridges or add-on to freeze the running program, enter POKEs, and resume. Some games tried to detect the Multiface and refused to load if it was present. The earliest models had no ability to 'hide'. Later revisions either included a switch, hid if been opened and closed the menu before loading the game, or automatically hid.For instance, with POKE 47196,201 in for the ZX Spectrum, immunity is achieved. Magazines such as regularly featured lists of such instructions for games.

In order to find them a had to interpret the and locate the critical point where the number of lives is decreased, impacts detected, etc. Sometimes the term POKE was used with this specific meaning.Cheating was exploited by technology-oriented players due to the difficulty of early cheats. However, a cheat industry emerged as gaming systems evolved, through the packaging and selling of cheating as a product. Cheat-enablers such as cheat books, game guides, cheat cartridges helped form a cheat industry and cemented cheating as part of gaming culture. However, cheating was not universally accepted in early gaming; gaming magazine condemned cheaters, taking the stance that cheating was not part of their philosophy of fairness. They also applied this in reverse; games should also not be allowed to cheat the player. Guides, walkthroughs, and tutorials are sometimes used to complete games but whether this is cheating is debated.Later, cheating grew more popular with magazines, websites, and even a television show, dedicated to listing cheats and walkthroughs for consoles and computer systems.

POKE cheats were replaced by trainers and cheat codes. Generally, the majority of cheat codes on modern day systems are implemented not by gamers, but. Some say that as many people do not have the time to complete a video game on their own, cheats are needed to make a game more accessible and appealing to a casual gamer. In many cases, developers created cheats to facilitate testing, then left them in the game as they expanded the number of ways people could play it.

With the rise in popularity of gaming, cheating using external software and hardware raised a number of copyright legal issues related to modifying game code.Many modern games have removed cheat codes entirely, except when used to unlock certain secret bonuses. The usage of real-time achievement tracking made it unfair for any one player to cheat.

In online multiplayer games, cheating is frowned upon and disallowed, often leading to a. However, certain games may unlock single-player cheats if the player fulfills a certain condition. Yet other games, such as those using the, allow developer consoles to be used to activate a wide variety of cheats in single-player or by server administrators.

Many games which use in-game purchases consider cheating to be not only wrong but also illegal, seeing as cheats in such games would allow players to access content (like power-ups and extra coins) that would otherwise require payment to obtain. However, cheating in such games is nonetheless a legal grey area because there are no laws against modifying software which is already owned, as detailed in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Cheat codes The most basic type of cheat code is one created by the game designers and hidden within the itself, that will cause any type of uncommon effect that is not part of the usual game mechanics.Cheat codes are usually activated by typing secret passwords or pressing controller buttons in a certain sequence. Less common activation methods include entering certain high score names, holding keys or buttons while dying, picking up items in a particular order and otherwise performing unintuitive actions. Some games may also offer a console that can be used to edit game parameters. Effects might include unlocking a character or improving a character's performance: for example providing a car with greater acceleration, entering or, unlimited money or ammunition, or just visual gags with no practical purpose, such as 'Tutu Qwark' in.Unlike other cheating methods, cheat codes are implemented by the game developers themselves, often as a tool to playtest certain aspects of the game without difficulty. One of the earliest known examples of this type of cheat is the, created in 1986 by Konami developer as he worked on the 1985 arcade game for use on the. Hashimoto is quoted as saying 'The arcade version of Gradius is really difficult, right? I never played it that much, and there was no way I could finish the game, so I inserted the so-called Konami code.'

Main article:A bot is a type of artificial intelligence (AI)–based expert system software that plays a video game in the place of a human, to perform actions (repetitive or not) that enable advantages to be achieved.Modification of runtime game data Cheating can easily be achieved by modifying the game's data while it is running. These methods of cheating are often less reliable than cheat codes included in a game by its creators. This is due to the fact that certain programming styles or quirks of internal game logic, different release versions of a game, or even using the same game at different times or on different hardware, may result in different memory usage and hence the trainer program might have no effect, or stop the game from running altogether. Modifying game data usually constitutes a violation of a software license agreement that prohibits modifying the program at all. The for the allows a player to insert codes to edit a game's memory values. Memory editing Cheating via memory editing involves modifying the memory values where the game keeps its status information.

The way to achieve this will vary depending on the environment in which the game is running.Memory editing hardware A cheat cartridge is attached to an interface port on a home computer or console. It allows a user to modify the game code either before or during its execution. An early example is the for the ZX Spectrum, and almost every format since has had a cheat cartridge created for it; such as 's range of devices.

Another popular example of this is for, and game consoles. Modern disc-based cheat hardware includes and Code Breaker which modify the game code from a large database of cheats. In later generation consoles, cheat cartridges have come to be replaced by cheat discs, containing a simple loader program which loads a game disc and modifies the main executable before starting it.The legality of this type of devices has been questioned, such as in the case of, in which unsuccessfully sued stating that its cheating device, the, created of games and thus violated law.Memory editing software. Main article:The most basic way of achieving this is by means of memory editor software, which allows the player to directly edit the numeric values in a certain memory address. This kind of software usually includes a feature that allows the player to perform memory searches to aid the user to locate the memory areas where known values (such as the number of lives, score or health level) are located.

Provided a memory address, a memory editor may also be able to 'freeze' it, preventing the game from altering the information stored at that memory address.Game trainers are a special type of memory editor, in which the program comes with predefined functions to modify the memory of a specific. When distributed, trainers often have a single + and a number appended to their title, representing the number of modifications the trainer has available.In the 1980s and 1990s, trainers were generally integrated straight into the actual game. When the game was first started, the trainer would typically show a splash screen of its own, sometimes allowing modifications of options related to the trainer, and then proceed to the actual game. In the cracker group release lists and intros, trained games were marked with one or more plus signs after them, one for each option in the trainer, for example: 'the Mega Krew presents: Ms. Astro Chicken'.Many emulators have built-in functionality that allows players to modify data as the game is running, sometimes even emulating cheating hardware such as. Some emulators take this method a step further and allow the player to export and import data edits.

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Edit templates of many games for a console are collected and redistributed as cheat packs.Emulators also frequently offer the additional advantage of being able to save the state of the entire emulated machine at any point, effectively allowing saving at any point in a game even when save functionality is not provided by the game itself. Cheating hardware such as 'Instant Replay' also allows such behavior for some consoles.Code injection Somewhat more unusual than memory editing, code injection consists of the modification of the game's executable code while it is running, for example with the use of commands. In the case of on the ZX Spectrum computer, a popular cheat involved replacing a instruction DEC (HL) in the program (which was responsible for decrementing the number of lives by one) with a, effectively granting the player infinite lives. On, a common type of video game hacking is through the use of.

Users use a third party program to inject the DLL into their game of choice. Saved game editors Editing a saved game offers an indirect way to modify game data.

By modifying a file in persistent storage, it is possible to effectively modify the runtime game data that will be restored when the game attempts to load the save game.were the most basic means of editing saved game files (e.g. To give the player a large sum of money in strategy games such as ). However, as happened with game editors, dedicated game-editing utilities soon became available, including functions to effortlessly edit saved data for specific games, rendering hex editing largely obsolete for this purpose.If a saved game is stored in multiple files, it may also be possible to cheat simply by mixing and matching these files. For example, if one file represents the items in a treasure chest, while another represents the player's inventory, then the player can save the game before and after picking up an item from the chest, and continue play using the treasure chest file before the item was picked up, and the inventory file from afterward.Network traffic forgery A similar method for cheating in online games involves editing packets to modify outbound network traffic, thus affecting the state of the game.

Although this was more common in the past, modern games are developed with robustness against network and packet modifications, and the terms of service for most games explicitly forbid this form of cheating.Unusual effects Cheat codes may sometimes produce unusual or interesting effects which don't necessarily make the game easier to play. For example, one cheat in makes dinosaurs appear '. Another example occurs in the game, where activating the cheat to extend the range of a bow also allows the enemies to fire at the same distance, thereby eliminating the advantage the cheat would have given. A cheat may even make the game harder to play; for instance, one could give the enemy special abilities, increase general difficulty, make neutral bystanders attack the player or grant the player a disadvantage such as low health points. Cheats in games can make NPCs start rioting or wield weapons. In, the player can activate a cheat to enable blowing off the limbs of NPCs, a feature originally included in the game.

Recently, however, has not included such violent or unusual cheat codes in its games, instead choosing to focus on cheats such as vehicle spawns, player effects (for example, invincibility) and weapon spawns.Some games humorously penalize the player for using another game's cheat codes. For example, using cheat codes from in only displays sarcastic messages from the programmers on screen; using codes from Descent in its sequel lowers the player's shields and energy to 1%. Codes from Doom used in give the opposite of the desired effect, such as instant death instead of invulnerability or stripping weapons instead of providing them. The original Doom 's 'god mode' code 'IDDQD' is non-functional in, but produces a console message: 'Your memory serves you well.'

Other codes make purely cosmetic changes—for example, to what the player character is wearing—but do not enhance the progress of the game. Most of the Grand Theft Auto games have a code to change the player character into an. Other peculiar cheats may invoke 'big-head mode' ( ), replace weapons with other objects, or change the colors of characters.are a related feature. Although such hidden content has no impact on gameplay, these 'eggs' can be found in many games and may hint at future games in a series or give more information on a topic. Some easter eggs can only be found by cheating commands such as.Counter-cheating measures In games having attainable achievements or records, or both, cheats by nature allow the player to attain achievements too easily or score point totals not attainable or extremely difficult to attain through legitimate means by a non-cheating player. In some games, mode can have the same effect because of these games, in an effort to make all commented-on scenarios accessible to the player, render a player invulnerable to damage while in commentary mode.Barriers to game completion. The version of does not allow the player to finish the game if any cheat codes were used; instead, after a cheating player defeats the game's penultimate level, the game simulates a program exit to and displays a mock ('C:').

Some PC games and most games do not record player achievements if they are attained while cheat mode is activated. Main article:Cheating exists in many. While there have always been cheat codes and other ways to make single-player games easier, developers often attempt to prevent it in multiplayer games. With the release of the first popular internet multiplayer games, cheating took on new dimensions. Previously it was rather easy to see if the other players cheated, as most games were played on local networks or consoles. The changed that by increasing the popularity of multiplayer games, giving the players relative anonymity, and giving people an avenue to communicate cheats.Examples of cheats in first-person shooter games include the, which assists the player in aiming at the target, giving the user an unfair advantage, the, which allows a player to see through solid or opaque objects or manipulate or remove textures, and, with which the information of other players is displayed. Retro Gamer Magazine issue 48 – Interview with Matthew Smith.

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