N64 Cheat Codes were THE BEST | Punching Weight [SSFF] 

First off, thanks so much for FOUR YEARS! If you haven't scooped up a t-shirt or pin, we're having an SSFF merch fire sale so now's the time - www.stopskeletons.com/shop Secondly, did anyone spot the secret in the video yet? If you haven't, no cheating!!

So... in Rogue Squadron, if you type in “CHICKEN” on the passcode screen, then you will be instantly put into an AT-ST walker mission. When I was 5, I did not know how to spell chicken, and my older brother was not home. I asked my great grandma, a Polish immigrant, to write the word on a napkin for me. She then wrote “chicken” not only in cursive... but also in Polish. I did not play the mission that day.

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention that you can turn Banjo into a washing machine.

Wampa Stompa from Shadows of the Empire has always been my favourite just because of how difficult it is to enter. You have to hold EVERY button on the controller, and a direction on both the pad and the stick. It's physically impossible to input without either getting a third hand from a friend, or using your face.

Say it with me: "Yes, I cheated. And I'm okay with that."

Oh, it's so awesome to finally have a clear explanation on the origin of the SSFF name! I honestly thought it was because skeletons are a criminally common enemy in games and you guys were trying to make a pro-skeleton political statement.

Debug Mode in the Sonic games was always my favorite. Putting any item anywhere in a level made it a sort of mini Level Editor mod. And I loved making a million Super Sonic boxes, smashing them all at once, and crashing the game because of a likely memory overflow or something.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run had a lot of great cheats, but my personal favorite was a cheat that sent your car flying every time you honked the horn. Oh, and congrats for the 4 years!

"Esses the Esses From Effing"...oh you shouldn't have said that...

Congrats on 4 years! I've been here for at least 10!

I love the Turok2 stage select cheat, and use durinh multiplayer, that lets you and 3 friends to play single player maps with enemies and all, the game runs at 5fps, and is really a PunchingWeight haha

Hang on, Battle for Naboo has dev commentary? On an N64? How much space did they use up?

8:15 This is untrue, Grunty only deletes your save files for the more debuggycodes, like opening note doors or world entrances or removing obstacles.

My favorite is the cheat code in Sly 2 that gave you a gadget that was Tom from Toonami! He could distract enemies and he was really useful in the early game!

I love Big Head mode. Especially in Spyro 2 Also, in ReIgnited, they kept all the cheats in the original Spyro trilogy and even added some cheats. Thanks TFB.

NBA jam is the king of this. Big head, play as celebrities, ect... one of the main reasons I loved that game as a kid

You missed one of the kings of N64 cheats: Diddy Kong Racing, as well as Perfect Dark, though that was a lot like Goldeneye.

Congrats on the anniversary guys! Been watching since your HVGN days and have been satisfied with every video you've put out.

One of my favorite cheats? The awkward money cheat for Simcity on the SNES.

It's a more recent game, but The Stanley Parable had a few funny cheat codes (and a "serious room" where you got sent for using the server command to enable cheats, 'sv_cheats 1'.) Two of the silliest are, 'bark' causes every press of the "use" button to make a dog barking sound, and 'raphael' replaces all the narrator's audio with various intonations of "Stanley!"

Hidden Fact: The V-Wing (The Car) License plate says "KOELSCH", which is a type of beer, that's popular in Cologne, where Factor 5 originally was based.

"Not the kind that sells hot sauce" Bawahahahaha.

Derek, we need to talk about the notes you're missing on your original Banjo-Kazooie save.

Spyro 2 and 3 had great character modifiers, i loved turning spyro green and flat

Classic Sonic's Debug mode still blew me away. It was like magic to my young mind.

I loved the cheats in Turok evolution (Turok 4). The zoo level cheat was awesome, but my personal favorite was the “invisible” cheat that had a bug, where all the humanoid enemies in the level would just keep running into you, it was the funniest thing, especially in the cloud level where they would just straight up push you off the map. Those were the days man.

Congratulations on 4 years. I'm a newer fan but I love your stuff. You'll always have me as a fan.

I loved cheats that gave you scrapbooks of concept art. My favorite was Crash Team Racing. For me these kinds of cheat codes were like an inside look into how the game was developed over time. Also it served as a "Thank you for playing. Here's a treat!" for players.

Two of my favorite cheats were Slow/Turbo Mode in Goldeneye. I remember testing it on certain levels, like on "Cradle". If you play on Slow mode (which takes FOREVER), you're greeted with Bond running slowly towards the helicopter and it takes off without him haha! Using Turbo makes Bond grab onto the chopper and he flies away.

The best cheat code ever was moon gravity in th Tony Hawk pro skater games

My favourite game ever for cheat codes is Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (along with all the other Lego games by Travellers Tales) because they handle the codes amazingly, there’s a huge section of the menu with like 50 “extras” which let you do tons of stupid stuff, switching your characters, making everyone wear those stupid glasses and moustache disguises, and there’s even some Star Wars-specific references like making Chewbacca carry C3PO like he does in Empire Strikes Back, or having the ships tow the Death Star instead of bombs. The extras are all unlocked by finding red power bricks hidden in levels and then buying the extra in the shops. Some of the extras are proper cheats too, for example there’s a hidden red brick in the last stage of Empire Strikes Back that unlocks Disarming Troopers, which replaces every Stormtrooper blaster with A CARROT, and makes them harmless except from melee attacks, which makes it easier to get true Jedi in some levels. It also affects the player, if you use the code and play as a stormtrooper, you don’t get a blaster either! It makes a few stages unbeatable in story mode since you need to reflect trooper lasers, but you can disable the extra at any time so it’s fine.

The Quack mode doesn’t remove animation frames, it disables Motion Interpolation, which smoothly animates between each keyframe. Quake I lacked this feature, although Quake II did have it.

I love how enthusiastic and positive you are throughout this entire video. It makes it very engaging and enjoyable to watch! Awesome video :)

My favourite, I can't remember the name of it, but it's from Ratchet & Clank 3. When you pressed the quick select button, instead of just pausing the game behind you, it would send the camera spinning around your character like in the Matrix or something.

One of my favorites was the Playstation version of Nascar '98. If you started a race and Paused, you could hold down all four shoulder buttons to unlock Paintball mode. When you held triangle you'd shoot paintballs out of the front of your car that would spin out anyone they hit. Combine that with realistic damage and the 24 car field pretty quickly turned into a 3-4 car race. Too much fun.

This is a little off topic, but it is n64 and video game related. I always loved the glitch in ocarina of time where it is raining in kakrioco village (bombed the spelling) where you walk in, but right before it starts to rain, you leave, and everything is in a green fog, when you walk into Lon Lon, it is blue. Funny story about this, when me and my brother were exploring green hyrule and blue Lon Lon, the fog was like an inch in front of your face if I am remembering correctly. And all of a sudden, the Luigi looking dude whole face was on the screen at it scared us both.

GTA games were good for cheats.

Make Ikari Warriors Playable: When you die, A B B A Unlease your inner dancing queen

My favorite was always 'Jub Jub' in the original Star Wars Battlefront, which 'shrunk' all the characters on the field. In effect they were just constantly crouching and moving at normal speed, but seeing Stormtroopers shuffling around was always funny.

My favourite weird cheat code name is "Hero Is A Giant Pair Of Trousers" (Dragon Quest IX )

Tony Hawk's Proskater 2: Disco-Mode. Skateing on rainbowramps :D

WampaStompa from Shadows of the Empire. Definitely my personal favorite.

I allways loved Twisted Metal 2 from their secret versus map cheats to actual secret techniques, or how about racing as a T-Rex in Need for Speed 2.

One of my favorite N64 cheats as a kid came from Rogue Squadron. In addition to the Naboo Starfighter and the car there were other unlockable ships. The Millennium Falcon (which normally the camera pans past in the hanger) was unlockable with a cheat. But the really cool thing was that if you put in another cheat after that one then you could unlock a super secret ship. You go to the hanger and head to the Millennium Falcon. Once you have it selected, you push up and the camera goes around and behind the Falcon to reveal a TIE Interceptor. Getting to fly that around was super cool to me, especially since the Naboo Starfighter code was already put in on our copy when we got it and I had no idea that there was a playable TIE Interceptor.

How about a punching weight episode on duke nukem 3D on sega genesis? I just learned about this a few minutes ago, and oh my gosh is so ridiculous you guys have to cover it xD

How about when Devs added content that was intended to be found, but only accessible via gameshark/action replay?

15:30 Hudson Soft did that for the Sega Saturn as well, it had a special Hudson Button on it.

Oh man this just gave me a flood of nostalgia. I remember unlocking the Naboo Starfighter on Rogue Squadron months before episode 1 came out and my 12 year old self was just ECSTATIC seeing a ship from the upcoming Star Wars movie when no other details about the movie was out yet besides the trailer. I felt like I had insider information.

Shouts to that lie about pushing the truck to find mew.

4 years for SSFF and hopefully many more to come. Keep it up Derek, Grace, and of course Launchpad.

Something fascinating was uncovered by Rare developers within the past year or so: Stop N' Swop was planned not just for Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but Donkey Kong 64 as well! In fact, they were planning on introducing it to all of their games going forward. However, Nintendo noticed at some point in development that Donkey Kong 64 was scanning the critical pieces of memory as soon as the game started up, which was not allowed in their book. They sent Rare a notice telling them that they could not do this, and so Stop N' Swop was scrapped from that point on. This revelation comes from the Twitter account of longtime Rare developer Paul Machacek.

Loved the Conker's BFD Cheat screen where you'd get yelled expletives at for using some cheats.

I miss my monthly edition of Tips & Tricks. Good Times.

I did wonder where that name came from. Thanks! 💀

for me, my best memory of cheats, was the fusion of cheats and achievements found in ratchet and clank 3, I had a lot of fun as a child trying to figure out what the achievements were (I didn't have the internet back then, so it could take days to figure out some of the obscure ones), and then feeling super rewarded every time I did one, because it would help unlock a new cheat.

15:29 when I saw that controller earlier today. I wondered if you could put exclusive content in a game that you could only unlock with that turbo switch controller. To get to know they actually did that(, and on the same day,) is breathtaking.

cheating starts now....that's what projared said a year ago

I miss when cheat code's we're still a thing Like Dk mode. At-least lego is keeping it alive.

Here’s something neat about the goldeneye codes. When you do the button codes it pops up what the code activated was in the corner. This also occurs when using a gameshark. Therefore that means the game shark is actually accessing the button combination in memory !

One of my favorite games for cheats was the 2000 'Spider-Man' game. Not only did it have the usual big heads, big feet, and unlimited webbing, but there was a Pulsating Head cheat where Spidey's head would slowly grow and shrink rhythmically.

nowdays "cheats" are locked behind paywalls (just as everything else) pretty much as mobile games do

To be fair I think micro transactions / always online killed cheats far more than achievements.

I was friends with the guy who used an Action replay to hack the original GE 007 cheat codes (and his alias at the time was none other than 'Doctor Doak', and he lived in Edinburgh, Scotland). It was only because he found them, and then published the full list online, did Nintendo make them official. I'm glad that you got that bit of history right when it came to those cheat codes. :)

As an old Rareware fanboy, I loved that Banjo and Diddy Kong Racing had codes as part of the main game. Racing in DKR with all balloons set to maximum turbo (ROCKETFUEL + FREEFORALL) is hilarious. And uncontrollable. Also, CHEATSUPERBANJO in Banjo-Tooie just makes it so much better to replay.

No mention of .Wampa..Stompa? SHAME!

is projared gonna be in this?

Still love it that when you spam left mouse button on a critter in Warcraft 3 and it's expansion The Frozen Throne, it explodes, smashing the ground, scattering blood and leaving an atomic mushroom like cloud for a few seconds on the field. Totally useless since it can't damage anyone. But a great sight you get and it's a cheat that I still use regularly whenever I play WC3 :)

Man, I wish you had included the “dual wield two different weapons” code for Goodeneye. I freakin loves that one. Granted, it is basically as much of a glitch as it is a code. It was basically a specifically button order that - when pressed fast enough - would let you use two different weapons at the same time(if they were adjacent in the cycle). Still, I thought it was so cool.

You should ask ProJared for his opinion on cheating!

Some of my favorite cheats came from me experimenting with a game genie on the SNES. I was playing secret of Mana and tried to change the item you get from the chest in the first village. It turns out that the chest can trigger all kinds of unexpected cutscenes and events. One game genie code made the end-game fight against thanks start when you open that chest. Kinda hard to fight thantos when you're level 1 while inside the small room of a house basement. But my favorite code was the one that SHOT YOU INTO THE OCEAN!

I have a lot of favorite cheat codes, but one that kind of stands out to me and really encouraged players to look around...was Sony hiding entire demos in their Interactive Sampler Packs that came with the PS1, and the entire URNOTE campaign that rewarded players for recording commercials, folding magazine pages, and even decrypting what their mysterious messages were.

When we ended up getting gauntlet dark legacy for the ps2, we would always use the code "Purple" as your name so you could always fire your special attack. Along with that code's god like ability your special attacks would render you invulnerable to attacks while the animation played, your shots moved through all walls meaning so it could also unveil secrets and practically kill any enemies in a matter of 1-8 presses depending on the enemy. It just kinda branded you a cheater by making it your name, but I love that little cheat! I only learned recently of the skin codes you could get, but they're pretty neat.

In Rush 2 Extreme Racing USA, my favorite was the tire size cheat. loved driving the big SUV with 10" wheels 🤣

My favorite cheat was BCDF for Zombies Ate My Neighbors, because it starts you on The Day Of The Tentacle Bonus Level, which has some goodies. Then you go to the first level, and then go back if you have bazooka ammo left over from your first run of DOTT.

Relatively new to the channel but I'm already a big fan. Punching Weight is one of my favorite series on RU-vid. Congrats on the 4 years as SSFF, and keep it up.

My favorite dumb cheat is in San Francisco Rush to drive the flaming wreck that your car turns into when it explodes. The way the game physics work, driving the flaming wreck makes the column of flames blow back directly into the camera so you can't see anything but a mess of red and orange. To be able to see what you're doing, you have to switch to the first-person view, which keeps you from seeing your car at all!

Disco in Warcraft 2 is pretty hilarious. It plays a remix of a song from the first game with lots of unit lines and bits of narration from cinematics. Radio free zerg from Starcraft has a similar effect.

Ohhhh. So while I never played Mario Tennis or Mario Golf on the 64, I did (and still do) play Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on the Gamecube like an addict, and it has those same password tournaments. I remember when I first found the code for one online called the "Hyrule Tournament" and thought it might unlock a Zelda themed secret course, and was super let down when it was, well what it was. Glad to finally know all these years later what they were used for at least! Also it's kinda weird how it seemed like Camelot dropped the Mario Tennis ones after only a couple months but kept inputting them into their games for years to come, although that probably was intentional and they were just used for promotion I guess.

My favorite game for cheats was (and still is) World's Scariest Police Chases for the PS1. Slomo jumps, different infinite weapons, Hippie mode, Fish mode, Halloween mode... I could go on but I'd rather watch the inevitable SSFF upload when you get a chance to cover it. Seriously, you'll have a blast.

In retrospect I loved the foreshadowing of the "unlock all cheats" code in Turok 2. If I remember correctly it was "bewareoblivionsathand" and in the next game the main antagonist was indeed oblivion. Obviously they already had their plans for the sequel...

The PS2 GTA games had some great cheats. I used to activate the cheats for aggressive pedestrians and the one that game all pedestrians weapons. Then I’d run around the city to see how long I could survive. It was great fun :)

Fun fact: a Goldeneye speedrunner modified the game's scripts to add an in-game timer on-screen gameshark code. Really cool stuff, I tried it myself.

I can say this the last modern titles that I have ever played that had builtin unlockable cheats was Uncharted 1 and 2 on PS3. It's amazing that battle for Naboo had commentary for every level and the devs were able fit all that on a N64 cartridge. Also very interesting cheats.

Thank you for all the content. I’m fairly new to your channel but have watched almost every video already and you reignited my interest in horror games! Keep it up!!

Need for Speed 2 on PS had some great cheats 'BusMe', 'CarMe', 'TrexMe', which allowed you to drive as that specific 'vehicle'. It was pretty damn fun for local multiplayer to have bus vs semi races. Fun and slow....

I love the Rush 64 cheats 1 of them unlocked the Alcatraz track and if you used the stop timer cheat and played 2 player practice you could play an endless game of tag. Plus using the cheats in Rush made it a lot easier to collect all the keys in the race courses, which you needed to unlock 2 more cars. I also liked the WAMPASTOMPA code from Star Wars Shadows of the Empire

I only found out a few months ago about a cheat for an N64 game I've had almost as long as I've had an N64. In Pokemon Puzzle League, there is a series of buttons to unlock playing against Mewtwo in multiplayer mode, where the first player is Ash and the second player is Mewtwo. If I recall correctly, this one also had the added bonus of being a "best of 1" match compared to the normal "best 2 out of 3" matches in multiplayer. Unfortunately it cannot be saved and the button combo must be pressed every time when desired to be played. I played this game a ton as a kid and I didn't even know Mewtwo's level in the single player mode. So to see it in multiplayer was amazing!

I'm surprised you didn't mention the infamous WAMPA STOMPA cheat for Star Wars Shadows of the Empire, where you could play as an AT-ST or as a Wampa! It required some ridiculously hard inputs to trigger, though, I remember I had to hold down buttons with both hands and rotate the joystick with my chin

Congrats on 4 yrs! I still got my signed hvgn volume 1 dvd on my shelf as a reminder of how far yall have come. Also, shovel knight is definitely a worthy cheat code contender as well, that game went bonkers with the cheats!

Every time I booted up Diddy Kong Racing, I made sure to enter blabbermouth (replaced horrn sounds with character voices) and jointventure, which enabled a 2 player adventure. By far the best way to beat those freaking coin races.

My favourite cheat of all time? "there is no cow level" Okay, we're talking PC games (Starcraft, specifically) but the cheat's double meaning of allowing you to skip a level while debunking the 2 year old meme that Diablo had a secret cow level was awesome.

Happy anniversary! I'm really surprised with all the Star Wars game content you didn't have anything from Star Wars Episode 1 Racer. It honestly surprised me how decent of a game it was even today. Probably one of my favorite cheat codes from it is the Dual Mode where if you put in "RRDUAL" for the player name with a bunch of obtuse inputs while entering it, THEN plugging in a second controller into the 3rd port, you could play with 2 controllers (one controller for each engine of the pod racer). Its nothing that would give you any sort of advantage, but it was super cool that they'd make that level of immersive game play option back in the day.

The "rainbow" cheat in Top Gear Rally was more likely a depth buffer test. Pixels being rendered father from the camera would have a different color from ones closer.

My favorite cheat code has to be the What if Modes from the two N64/PSX Neversoft Spider-Man games, turning the game into a festival of hidden easter eggs and inside jokes. I also love Onimusha Dawn of Dreams hiding off a secret Versus mode which was completely broken and let you control bosses of the game even... with additional cheat codes for unlocking street fighter costumes and joke weapons, how cool is that?

In Symphony of the Night you can actually input different names for your save file to alter Alucard's starting stats in various ways. There's also a way to play through the entirety of Symphony as Richter :D (but I think there you have to have already beaten the game with the good ending, first)

You know this video about cheats is going to be good when there's immediately a Billy Mitchell joke

Bomberman 64 had a very hard to do cheat that would give you another 4 arenas in multiplayer mode, and they were really good. Unfortunately you had to enter the cheat every time you turned off the system, it didn't save it or anything.

Congrats on 4 years! I've been a fan since the HVGN days, and I look forward to many more! My favorite cheats were probably Goldeneye unlockables (DK, paintball, golden gun, etc). If we're talking classic, you-have-to-know-the-secret cheats, then it's definitely " Wampa Stompa" on Shadows of the Empire (let's you play as different enemy characters, including a snow trooper, wampa, and even an AT-ST)

A lesser-known game called Rocket: Robot on Wheels had some great cheats. That's a N64 with an honest-to-goodness physics engine! A lot of the cheats let you mess with the physics, giving you things like low gravity. The main character is a robot with a tractor beam he can use to grab stuff, and one cheat let you grab almost any object in the game. As you can imagine, that one could get pretty bah-roken at times. And if you used the low gravity and high jump cheats together, in certain areas, you could straight up jump out of the level and fall into the void.

Some of my favorite cheats were from Humongous Entertainment's line of children's point-and-click adventure games. The devs loved to sneak in wildly inappropriate hidden content, only accessible through obtuse button combinations or by inputting a string of text into the game's internal files. There's something delightfully anarchic about seeing these bright, child-friendly characters doing horribly crude things :p