10 Cheat Codes That BROKE YOUR GAME 

I saw the GTA thumbnail and instantly remembered playing San Andreas with a permanent sandstorm, riots everywhere, everyone roaming with weapons, and cars flying off into the stratosphere

I wish devs would add cheat codes again. I’d take just Big Head Mode at this point. GTAV does it perfectly: if you cheat, you don’t get to save or unlock achievements. That simple change means you can indulge in all the chaos you like without ruining your game. Imagine today’s stunningly realistic graphics combined with ridiculous, wacky cheat codes that result in a beautifully uncanny mess.

I feel like cheat codes went away because game designers priorities changed. Games use to be designed to be as hard as possible and not be beaten, therefore cheat codes helped you progress. Current games are designed to be beaten and devs want you to see all their hard work, therefore games aren’t as challenging and don’t need cheat codes anymore. That’s my TED talk for the week, thank you for coming.

Love GTA 3 and the cheats in it. The "all pedestrians have weapons" and "pedestrians attack everyone" are some favourites

Riot mode even completely makes saving Mad Dog in San Andreas completely impossible as he will always walk off the ledge during the cutscene.

I remember getting an Action Replay in middle school and there was a cheat for Pokemon Diamond where you could pass through any wall or obstacle by holding B and running into it. I was near Snowpoint City when I decided to run through the treeline and started running around chaotically in the sea of densely-packed trees. Soon I realized I couldn’t remember which direction the town or roads were. I gave up, but not before instinctively saving my game. I had to restart my entire game because I literally got lost in the woods.

I’m surprised having a Game Shark and using it to put Sephiroth in your party in Final Fantasy VII wasn’t on this list.

Remember when these kinds of cheat codes were part of the game and not sold to you as DLC, or completely unintentional and ruin the games?

GTA codes post 3 were weird. You could save your game after using codes in 3, but in Vice City & San Andreas they corrupted your save file. At least on my PS2 versions they did.

Like this comment if you remember Game Shark 🎮 🦈

The game genie code for super mario bros where every jump made you float higher and higher

Riot mode in GTA 3 was so funny, especially if you combined it with every one is armed. XD Such a slaughter fest. XD

God I miss cheat codes

I used the riot code on GTA3 when my brother was playing, he was right by a safehouse, then he went to the bathroom, I put in the riot code. He came back and saved the game. He didnt first undertsnad why everyone was fighting, then he figured it out. I also put in the code where eberyone got a random weapon. He was in the middel of a mission when an old lady blew him up with a rocket 🤣

So you take a huge chance buying a used copy of DK64. That's just fantastic. Guess I have to look out for that now when I start collecting for N64.

In GTA San Andreas, the mission where you save Madd Dogg, using too much cheats, will cause him to fall and the mission fails automatically. I know this is true, because I seen it with my own eyes.

GTA 3 Riot mode was hilarious. But when you give them random weapons it's even better. GRANDMAS CARRYING BAZOOKAS!

Playing as Master Hand in Super Smash Bros Melee is messy not only because the controller port 3 trick is hard to do, but after that you need to find a stage that doesn't crash. And if you find one, not only can't you lose because you can't get knocked out (I haven't tried an HP game so I don't know about that), you also can't win because the game will crash before the win screen.

I accidentally saved riot mode on my gta 3 file way back then. My dad and I had to spend a while to get back to where we were. Oops 😅

"The relatively leisurely sport of soccer" - are you nuts? 😂

I loved activating riot mode in GTA and trying to do taxi runs. It's absolutely hilarious!

Maximum Overdrive was based on the Steven King Novela called Trucks. Myself, i thought the evil cars were more like the car in the movie Christine. Based on the book, Christine, written by Steven King.

Riot mode in GTA6 would be a fever dream omg

Painkiller, god mode + falling into lava = dying continuously until You restart the game, that's real hell right there...

Great video! Keep up the work

You forgot the pedestrians have guns cheat next to the riot cheat. Random rockets, fire, and bullets to ruin any thoughts of completing a task.

I remember activating the super sabre cheat in episode 3 game during the Anakin Dooku battle made both their lightsabers really long you could hit each other from across the room. I remember deactivating it because I didn't like it. I had no issues & it didn't break my game. Theres a cheat in the Star Trek tactical assault PSP game. It lets you change to any other ship in a level but it doesn't let you win using the other ship and and you can't deactivate it so you have to turn the game off and on.

I love you

Timesplitters 2 mentioned ! This made my day :D

That Maximum Overdrive shout out though. One of the weirder movies but memorable.

Star Wars Jedi Knight 2:Jedi Outcast had an invincibility cheat, but if you used it early in the game, you just softlocked because a certain encounter requires you to lose to progress the game, but the game can't progress because the trigger for it requires you to lose all health to continue l, which you can't due to the cheat being active and you can't turn it off. There is a level select cheat, but that will leave you using a default loadout for a bonus mission instead of all the gear you collected throughout the game.

I rencetly(yesterday) tried the time splitters franchise for the first time and I'm so mad I myself I didn't play them sooner, they really are worthy successors to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.i specially love the sfx used, they're definitely the same from all those rare games of n64 (including jet force gemini)

Sims 4, some of us create tales but which just can't be made without a pre-setup, which often requires cheats anyways for the setup but after that we can always cheat our started funds back to what they were or less even. So, not always an advantage as we use it to also start with NO FUNDS which can often only be done via the cheats anyways.

I absolutely ruined my first experience with a PS2 Prince of Persia game, I think it was The Two Thrones, with a GameShark and the invincibility cheat. I beat it in a couple hours and haven't played it since. I absolutely didn't repeat that mistake with the next one I tried...

That last code for gta3 was amazing!

Shoutout to the classic “invincibility in the spike pit”

I remember playing Dark Cloud 1 with the max health and hydration cheat. Unfortunately when you got the item that increased those aspects the game wouldn't let you throw them away so they just clogged my limited inventory and i couldn't hold anything

Of course theres cheats for pokemon, the lv100 nidoking thing. Also, theres a legitimate way for a pikachu to learn surf in the first pokemon stadium. I've done that & evolved it afterwards so my raichu Hawaii can beat fire, rock & ground types.

Okay, so I used a game shark on final fantasy x to give my characters max HP. There's a glitch that is set regardless, but Kimari, if I'm remembering right, (the beast guy) eventually combats his bullies. I used the cheat early on so I was steam rolling through the game until then. The bullies strength and hp algorithm are based on beast dudes hp and stats. Combined over ONE MILLION HP. No joke. I set a battle strategy, put the game on auto play, and let him fight for 4 days before the battle was won. 😅

Man pedestrian war and evil cars is suck a fun combo in Saints Row 2.

Please do another set of cheats that broke the game 🙏

jesus psy i love you lol the star wars commentary really started my dirty mind off 😂😂😂😂

Basically Riot Mode in GTA turns the NPC's into Street Gangs from Cyberpunk 2077, at least now we know how Street Gangs in Cyberpunk 2077 came about, just input the cheat code into the programing, and unlike GTA, it can't be undone

For the Sims money cheats I would actually use them to build up the world by adding more Sims to whichever area I plan on playing in. For example I decided to put Life is Strange characters into the game and decided the Vortex Club needed a Mansion. Since this group of characters wasn't going to be the one I actually play as I just used the money to buy it and if need be rearrange so they can all have a room. Once everything is set then I will switch to the real group and play as if I didn't just use cheats. Basically its like setting up Universe mode in classic and then switching to Superstar mode

"While their choice of attire isnt particularly intimidating" I'm sorry... have you READ the geneva conventions? Do you know how many entries on that list are there SPECIFICALLY because of Canada?

Twice i tried the no damage Game Genie code for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES just so I could beat the game. And both time I fell in a fire pit and got stuck because I could neither jump out of it or die so I could continue with another turtle.

I've tested the codes from ps2 on all 3 main 3d era games (3,Vice City&San Andreas) on the Definitive Edition versions and for the most part all seem to work. Tho they also have the same save breaking results. The Mad Dog mission happens to be the most noticable.

That is interesting since I still have a Game Shark and Donkey Kong.

Modern feminists are totally cool with the bears cheat code. When surveyed, they all say they prefer facing the bears over normal Age of Mythology gameplay.

How about games that seems to "cheats on you", because the company or devs made them harder because of video rental stores or regional differences? Legend of Legaia in the US was edit for rentals and retails you have to grind longer for exp.

Back in the GBA days, i had an Action Replay and the patience to play Pokemon FireRed. There were cheats so that any Pokemon in the wild would be a Pokemon of your choice, like each Pokemon had its own code. For reasons obvious to Pokemon players, i tried this out. But nothing is scarier to a kid than the Eldrich horror that is the ????? Pokemon that appears when the code decides not to work. Literally black and white circles with a question mark in it. And not like the Unknown. Like the devs actually made a placeholder sprite for this circumstance.

Aaah, the Sims money cheats... I never really cared for the intended gameplay mechanics. Keeping track of whether over a dozen characters need to poop or take a shower was never my jam. I DID however love the ever evolving building/decorating mechanics (creating all my childhood homes was a hobby as a kid, as was designing the mansion I would TOTALLY one day live in IRL). Doing that cost a LOT of Simoleons tho... Enter the money cheats! Haha I spent HOURS playing with the building aspect of The Sims, so if anything, it MADE my game 🤑

Timesplitters 1 is surely a precursor to these online multiplayer games

Oh, infinite health? I remember how in Kingdom hearts, if you have infinite health from a game shark, the code could occasionally give an enemy the intinite health. I was never really sure if it was random, or if it had specific places where it happened. When it happens with a random skeleton mummy heartless in Halloween town, it's no big deal unless it needs to die in order to trigger a cutscene. When it happens with the final boss though, ooooh weeeee. That's what's called consequences for your actions.

I remember the good ol' days when I played Age of Mythology and using the cheat code to summon the invincible Canadian bears and the flying purple hippos.

If enabled cheats in gta san Andreas and vice city they corrupted your save game on ps2

I tried the fan blades at full power, sticking your finger through, and not getting hit, and I lost 5 fingers, but I was able to do it.

The remastered of AOM should have a Xbox achievements called O Canada.

There won’t be riot mode in GTA 6, just Florida mode

3:40 so there ISN'T such a thing!? 🙀 🤣

The same can be said for literally any halfway decent movie. Maybe you should try watching a bit more than just these nine films.

I'm not playing Sims to experience tedious real life - going to work and earning money. I do that daily. I just want money to build a ridiculously big house filled with the most expensive stuff. And then I can stop playing for a month or so.

Got my Surfing Pikachu from Pokemon Stadium.

More bears and ufos

I miss the days of cheat codes especially the ones the let you go nuts and still have fun

No Zelda Link's Awakening skipping parts by pressing select before transitioning to a new place.

I have done a one time boost money cheat on the Sims. I am, game jesus.

Also, in the old Pokémon, if you leveled up your Pokémon above lvl 100, which I did with the missingno-rare candy duplicate, it will corrupt and delete your save of you leave one above 100. But, if you lvl one up in a battle, they'll go back to 100.

IDK i got so good at SanAndreas when it came out I could beat it with Riot mode on start to finish

In the US riot mode is called realism mode.

GTA san andreas is the perfect example with the armor cheat, you use the health cheat and get tons of cash, which kind of ruins the building your empire aspect of the game, so i never use cheats in SA just so i dont get a motherload! :')

Can't believe you covered Age of Mythology instead of Age of Empires' "how do i turn this on"

Surfing Pikacu wasn't that hard to get, you had either event...or just use your pikachu in Stadium

I had to start a new game in San Andreas on ps3 because I had the pedestrian's have weapons and riot mode cheats activated. I got to the Catalina and Carl tanker mission and everytime I would get the tanker to the tanker shop Catalina would end shooting the owner of the shop and I would fail the mission LMAO.

Can't get over the first HURDLE without jumping? was that intentional?

I thought there was one you can enter for mega man to not die, but if you enter it on endless mode you can’t due so you can’t record your score.

Sixteen rhymes with Christine

I want a timesplitters trilogy remaster

San Andreas Riot mode was apart of the syory

the O Canada cheat is like the How do you turn this on cheat in Age of empires 2 where you spawn a car is medieval times 😂

Pedestrian riot you can't turn off that cheat gta

The Mario 3 cheat is a result of being able to create your own cheats including weird and bad effects.

You can always hear the pain in a British person's voice whenever they say the word 'soccer'

Chapters would be cool.

Hey Psy, thanks for voicing another list! You’re hilarious, don’t forget to keep being awesome! >.

I miss cheat codes. Nowadays you would probably have to purchase the cheat code

I’m sorry but Sims is a house/ city builder. For me at least.

0:21 wtf is this

idk how many i ruined a save doing that damn gta cheat!!!!! lol

Oh yeah... Ohcanada bears ♥️

Can I get a Money X cheat irl please?

wtf was that soccer lightning strike in the intro?

OMG Evil Cars, Spinning heads and the Alien abduction on FIFA. Whoever made them cheats will forever be legendary. I haven’t stopped laughing. 😅😅

British man saying soccer.. thats a first

I had a mod for the sims once that let me turn my characters turn to prostitution.

Psy, I love your presentation...I feel like I need "NOT LIKE THAT!" as my phone's notifications sound 😂😂

State of emergency

Revenge of the Sith was a hard game?

It's impossible not to cheat in the sims lol

Oh Canada!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦