Cody Hosford
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7nefsea :
"Cheat codes purely existed for dev testing purposes" GTA San Andreas all pedestrians are Elvis cheat...?
2026-01-14 12:56:23
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Death > Communism :
Maybe in the 80’s and 90’s it was necessary for development. But by the 2000’s and 2010’s it was definitely just for fun.
2026-01-14 08:46:24
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deputy dangle :
They dont exist because devs dont put them in anymore. yap less.
2026-01-14 07:18:08
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The Spider's Web :
Let's not forget the load bearing code of an image of a coconut in TF2.
2026-01-14 10:01:04
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Zander :
I have an image for this
2026-01-14 12:13:57
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Benkswag :
Cheat codes got turned into dlc
2026-01-14 08:59:10
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pavlovtherussian :
yes the initial games that had developer codes weren't meant for the player but with time they absolutely were added to games for the player in mind
2026-01-14 07:22:27
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Reno :
Hot take! idc if they're not necessary, cheat codes should still be in games
2026-01-15 06:42:44
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StaleCarpet :
not true. 2002 age of mythology had no reason to add a laser bear with the Canadian flag as a cape
2026-01-14 04:24:56
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Isaiah 🎮 :
Big head mode was absolutely NOT a dev tool ever
2026-01-14 08:32:44
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smanginc :
you’re forgetting the huge market for game guides and magazines that were full of this kind of information
2026-01-14 09:29:00
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Lust 🏳️⚧️ :
THE GOD DAMN COCONUT
2026-01-14 04:02:58
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PlayPod :
you're thinking of debug menus. cheat codes was definitely meant for players
2026-01-14 18:00:43
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Cooperkid_4 :
I can’t remember what exactly it is, but in TF2 there’s a jpeg that if they remove it the game becomes unplayable. Steam has continuously tried to remove it because no one can apparently figure out who put it in the game.
2026-01-14 00:43:37
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Stephanie fan :
Load bearing goku is new to me xD i remember someone having a jpg of a coconut that held everything together xD
2026-01-13 23:48:34
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Dreaming Shark :
No, cheat codes WERE made for fun for the players, at least some of the time. The Laser Bear and the Flying Purple Hippo in Age of Mythology, all the big head modes, the Indiana Jones point and click game where you could turn Indy into Guybrush Threepwood, and many others that were just the devs having fun.
2026-01-14 19:08:55
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Cobb5321 :
yeah, spyro the dragon big head mode was never meant for the player
2026-05-18 10:59:48
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Diablosaurus :
Twisted Metal 3 specifically had a cheat code menu.
2026-01-14 08:24:08
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Rodney Guerrero :
I miss cheat codes so much 😂 can only mod on pc now
2026-01-15 08:01:29
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notzachwd :
The load bearing coconut in TF2s code 😂😭
2026-01-15 02:25:39
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Me or something like that :
Even if it wasn't load bearing code, games benefited from having those codes in there. In the pre-internet era, talking about those codes on the playground with your friends was the original virality
2026-01-14 15:10:39
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Stormingblessed :
Disagree. So many cheat codes back in the day had 0 use for Dev use, they were added for fun. I could see that argument for some of them, but nah, that's not a hard rule.
2026-03-31 14:43:45
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Backhalf_Life :
The real reason is you can’t test code, then change it to ship because it invalidates your testing. Test what you build, ship what you test. Software Development 101 best practice.
2026-03-03 14:34:57
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marshall :
I've been building AAA games for around 12 years. First off, this is not entirely true. Maybe originally, but very early in games they were both tools *and* easter eggs. Also, "cheat codes" still exist as preset dev commands. They're functionally the same thing. And these days they're almost always automatically removed in public facing builds during the build creation process.
2026-01-15 07:37:54
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Инох :
Another reason for keeping them in the retail version of the game is to aid in testing. If you are testing a single player story game it would be a huge hassle to have to 100% the game to work on specific stuff like end game content.
2026-01-14 08:34:46
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