• BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I started getting upset in the 360/ps3 generation when they got rid of cheat codes. Who the hell cares if I’m cheating in a single player game? I’m not using it to beat somebody in a competition. Just disable achievements and leader boards and let me play the game I bought

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      5 months ago

      Well, for cheat codes that’s just a consequence of having more complicated software to make games. The olden days they needed to use button sequences to debug some things. After a certain point there wasn’t any reason for devs to do that anymore.

      But I agree, it’s a bummer.

      I remember ps3 being the first time I bought a game only to have an piece of paper with a download code in it. THAT was upsetting.

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        5 months ago

        I feel old. It wasnt just dev mode, Many games legit just had codes you could enter in a menu to unlock special features/modes/weapons temporarily. Hell in pokemon Gen 3 through Gen 5(?) That was how you unlocked the mystery gift menu. “Everybody happy wireless/WIFI connection”.

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          5 months ago

          I know what they are lol I grew up with an NES. The codes came about so devs could quickly do things in game.

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            5 months ago

            That’s how it started, but then they sometimes grew to their own level of features too.

            I don’t believe that Age of Empires II needed shooting convertibles for debugging.

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            5 months ago

            Hah! Get baited, now I feel younger /s

            I miss fun stuff like showing off cheatcodes to friends in couch games. And couch games in general. And friends. ☹️

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              5 months ago

              Good times, definitely.
              “I used the Konami code while wearing an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time” haha