• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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