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    Who finds all the cheat codes for games?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by orion95, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. orion95

    orion95 Notebook Consultant

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    We all see cheat codes for different games on a plethora of websites, but who finds them in the first place?
     
    orion95, Oct 20, 2007
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    Often, they are provided by the game developers themselves.
     
    Syntax Error, Oct 20, 2007
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  3. Scavar

    Scavar Notebook Evangelist

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    It depends, a lot of the time it really is jsut developers releasing them, or at least a member from the team.


    Other times it's just things that people found out while playing, or beta testers, all kinds of stuff. There are some crazy people, and some smart people out there.
     
    Scavar, Oct 20, 2007
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  4. dimonay

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    Yeah, it'd be too time-consuming to try to figure out different button combinations to get a cheat that you don't yet know what it does.
     
    dimonay, Oct 20, 2007
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    Not only button combos but any number of character combinations aka cheat codes.
     
    orion95, Oct 20, 2007
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    Yes, i was speaking of everything. From console commands, to button combos, to chat commands, to whatever.

    Then you have like trainers and stuff, which are always from people "hacking" the game.
     
    Scavar, Oct 20, 2007
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    ............geeks............
     
    Macpod, Oct 20, 2007
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    XxLblinkxX, Oct 20, 2007
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    people with too much time on their hands
     
    hockeyhoser23, Oct 21, 2007
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    For game consoles.. %99 of the cheats are supplied by the makers themselves since button combos can be pretty infinite. Also the data button combinations are stored are allways different.

    PCs on the other hand, cheats are often words inputed via the keyboard. These words are USUALLY discoverable in plain text form when editing the files using tools like hex editors. Back in the hay day, I would throw executable files (like Doom.exe) into notepad to reveal line commands the game excepted.
     
    jeffmd, Oct 23, 2007
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