I promise this will be a quick article, its about three in the morning, and while I have the great show The Inbetweenerson in the background – I felt I should write about how much I miss cheat codes.
Best Roms For Retropie
Fun fact James Buckley who plays Jay in The Inbetweeners has his own You Tube channel dedicated to vidya games. Go ahead and check out Completed it Mate.
As a preface cheats only work through libretro/retroarch so take note of the emulators you are using. You first need to open the RGUI. There are two ways of accessing the RGUI: In the RetroPie menu of EmulationStation select Retroarch.
I’m not a very good gamer – I’m really not. I suck at most games I play, in fact in both Skyrim andFallout 3 I can’t get very far at all without enable the console and typing me some tgm or player.additem. The fact that those options are there however means the world to me, and is the main reason why I hate both of those games on consoles.
Back in the day though most games all had cheat codes. Remember the Konami code?
Amazingly there is a wikipedia page dedicated to the Konami code, how fucking cool is that?
Or perhaps the Mortal Kombat cheats for Game Gear and Sega Genesis or the Mega-Drive if you lived every where else besides America. (2,1,2, down, up and A,B,A,C,A,B,B,A). Sadly the Super Nintendo version I owned did not have such codes (something I’m still bitter about 20 some years later….I need a life or therapy), all thanks to Nintendo’s censorship at the time….putting this on the list for a future post.
In the game, you need to wait until the N-Spade card game - which appears with every 80,000 points you earn - spawns and moves to the spot of a fortress on the overworld map. If you go there now and play it, the fortress will as if you had beaten it afterwards, being collapsed and unplayable. In Retropie, I see an option to add cheats. I've tried adding Game Genie codes and activating them, but they don't work. I've researched online, and I see articles about having to rewrite configuration files, etc. To get the cheats to work.
Regardless I loved that cheats added a whole new aspect to the game. Some bosses you just could not defeat. I would never have beat the game Contra without the use of the Konami code, and hardware like the Game Genie, Pro Action Replay (which I did not own), and GameShark (which I also owned), where even better. Not only were these great at adding cheat codes to various games, they were essentially ROM hacking in its infancy.
Sega Game Genie Cheats
Some games like NBA Jam had cheat codes that allowed you to play as various hidden characters, remember those days? When you could put a cheat code in to play as then president Bill Clinton and First Lady Hilary Clinton without having to beat the game on each difficulty, and earn that trophy?
Fuck it, I do.
Though I almost never play modern games, a big part of that is the lack of cheat codes and fun I would have. As I said above I am not very good at video games, and for games like Skyrim and Fallout I enjoy rocking God Mode and exploring every aspect of the world they created without have to save every three seconds, and reload my games.
Retropie Game Genie Cheats Games
So please random developers (or at least you awesome Indie developers) start re-adding cheat codes to your games.
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