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I miss cheats in modern(ish) videogames. Luckily, you can get some with emulation of older (cheatless, or hard-to-cheat-at) games. Eg. pokemon (gb/gbc/gba) wit

I miss cheats in modern(ish) videogames. Luckily, you can get some with emulation of older (cheatless, or hard-to-cheat-at) games. Eg. pokemon (gb/gbc/gba) with cheats is still a great game.. you can explore everything, infinite hp/pp, catch-all pokeballs, go everywhere, see everything, catch everything you need/want, fast power-ups and evolutions, without the constant grind of powering up your pokemon and running back to pokemon centers. Same with games like GTA (although, there is not a lot of grinding here)... you can still play through the whole story, do all the missions even when invincible, have a lot of fun, but without the "getting kiled" parts and restarting the same mission sequence 50 times. Somehow in modern times, cheating (to avoid the grind) has turned from inputing some random combination of commands to paying actual money for premium crystals or whatever, that give you a competitive edge against AI (and real-life) enemies, or in some game (clash of clans, etc.) to just make the obsurdly long wait times shorter. I get the monetization aspect, and developers getting paid aspect, but eg. Age of empires developers got paid too, and i can still type "coinage" in the chat window to get 1000 gold without paying extra money.

butz 4y ago
Cheats graduated into "assist features" (invincibility, reduced damage, etc.), which you can toggle in game options. Some recent games, like Psychonauts 2 and Control have them and does not penalize players for using them.
nvrspyx 4y ago
I like WeMod[0], which is a unified GUI for trainers. It supports a lot of games, handles a lot of the heavy lifting (e.g. starting the game in offline-only mode for multiplayer games), shows any extra steps that you might have to take for a specific game, and the developers are very quick at putting out trainers for new games and updating trainers for older games when needed. You can even see the queue of the games that they're working on supporting/updating. I also like the Xbox Gamebar widget for those games that are hard to alt-tab out of. 0: https://www.wemod.com/ https://www.wemod.com/
- aloisdg 4y ago
  Not open source though
  - Karunamon 4y ago
    Neither are most games. If you are opposed to non-free software on moral grounds, then the utility of a tool like this is pretty limited for you.
  - dvngnt_ 4y ago
    you can also use a memory editor
oneoff786 4y ago
I disagree with pretty much everything here. Cheating in single player games is super lame. It’s fun to be a god for a brief period but quickly it just makes the game really boring. Pokémon with infinite hp sounds awful and will massively compound any sense of a grind because now all fighting is pointless. Some games may be grindy but cheating for instant gratification is likely worse. I would also argue most games are not really that grindy. It’s actually… rare to see in any single player game. If anything most games put you at risk of becoming too powerful too fast. If there’s a grind it is usually for the last 1% of content. And very few games actually try to sell you power ups for single player content. That’s really not a common thing as some people claim. Multiplayer games are a different beast, but you definitely don’t want cheaters there either. Not wanting long progression curves for multiplayer games is a reasonable ask. Allowing cheaters is not.
- aloisdg 4y ago
  > it just makes the game really boring. Oh boy no. Maybe for you. Maybe for some. With a bit of empathy should be able to imagine that not everyone think like you do. What if someone wants to play pokemon for the exploration, lore and care taking of pokemon. For that person, fighting and leveling is a chore. Maybe someone does not have the actual time for the grind before each arena. > Pokémon with infinite hp sounds awful and will massively compound any sense of a grind because now all fighting is pointless What if the grind was not a goal or what if we actually doesnt want to fight at all. Pacific run exists. Let's me skip dat boss if I want to.
  - danielvaughn 4y ago
    Agreed. I spent dozens of hours playing GTA5 and literally never made any progress in the story. I had too much fun driving around like a crazy person, constantly using the cheat code to avoid dying.
  - oneoff786 4y ago
    If you want to play Pokémon and not do the Pokémon battles then you’re on a weird edge case where it’s debatable whether you’re actually playing the game at all. If that’s what you want, sure, go ahead. That’s actually still very different. Removing fighting from the game vs doing it but with infinite health. The former is at least self consistent I guess.
bitofhope 4y ago
I also occasionally enjoy cheating in video games, but it's rarely about the game itself at that point anymore. I've noticed it's not really about avoiding tedious or unpleasant parts of the game for me. I just think it's funny to have tutorial enemies yielding astronomical amounts of XP and gold or to have random Great People born in my cities every single turn. No kill like overkill. It's also educational. Creating overpowered joke Civ4 mods and reading disassemblies of NES games to adjust numbers in an emulator's debugger make for fun semi-practical programming puzzles. Honestly, I think I enjoy the process of cheating more than the result. Try it out sometime! Load up some old game in gdb and start messing with the numbers. It can be fun.
ketzo 4y ago
Well, the modern version of this is very granular difficulty sliders. In the name of accessibility, a lot of recent games allow you to customize the hell out of your gameplay experience — things like “how hard do enemies hit?”, “how easily can I find ammo?”, even “how hard is it to make jumps?”, and so on. Hades has a setting called God Mode, where every time you die, you just get straight up 1% stronger, stacking infinitely. Cheats in single player games aren’t dead - they’ve evolved!
mattnewton 4y ago
Play on PC! Plenty of excellent modding communities, or just the ability to drop into a dev console for a bit on most games there. My partner often does this to reduce parts of games she does not find enjoyable.
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throwaway894345 4y ago
Anyone remember the infinite masterball cheat (red and blue) that required surfing up and down the eastern side of Cinnabar Island and fighting the MissingNo. pokemon? Good times. Also, I would 100% buy a Nintendo Switch if they released a remastered version of red/blue/yellow (no additional pokemon ffs) especially with online multiplayer.
- rpearl 4y ago
  Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu is a remake of red/blue
  - throwaway894345 4y ago
    Oh really? Is there a catch?
    - thaumasiotes 4y ago
      You have to use the joycons. Multiplayer battles don't really work because all pokemon in Pikachu/Eevee have weirdly inflated stats due to the candy system imported from Pokemon Go. You can't battle wild pokemon; you can only catch them. This isn't restricted to the Let's Go series, but all modern Pokemon games (starting with X/Y) are absurdly easy in comparison to the originals; don't expect that you'll ever be in any danger of losing a battle. (Also, Pikachu/Eevee are not remakes of Red/Blue - they're remakes of Yellow. But that's a small difference.) If what you want is online multiplayer pokemon battles with just the first 151 pokemon eligible, I'd probably go for Sword/Shield and try to round up support on Smogon for your "only gen I pokemon" format. If you want to replay Yellow, then Let's Go is what you want.
      - throwaway894345 4y ago
        > Multiplayer battles don't really work because all pokemon in Pikachu/Eevee have weirdly inflated stats due to the candy system imported from Pokemon Go. You can't battle wild pokemon; you can only catch them. This isn't restricted to the Let's Go series, but all modern Pokemon games (starting with X/Y) are absurdly easy in comparison to the originals; don't expect that you'll ever be in any danger of losing a battle. Oh man, that’s tragic :’( I knew there had to be a catch. I genuinely don’t understand why they wouldn’t just remake the originals! Surely I’m not the only one in my generation with nostalgia and a professional salary to spend on video games.
the_only_law 4y ago
What really disappoints me is I'm seeing a lot of YouTubers and streamers advertise really hard challenge they do in games , and even often sometimes advertise them as 100% legit. Those interest, as some of these challenges are extremely difficult, and I'm curious to learn what stragties they used. Then usually I get mid way through the, the explains the issues that make the challenge hard, before immediately dumping a console command to instantly bypass them.
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butz 4y ago

Cheats graduated into "assist features" (invincibility, reduced damage, etc.), which you can toggle in game options. Some recent games, like Psychonauts 2 and Control have them and does not penalize players for using them.

nvrspyx 4y ago

I like WeMod[0], which is a unified GUI for trainers. It supports a lot of games, handles a lot of the heavy lifting (e.g. starting the game in offline-only mode for multiplayer games), shows any extra steps that you might have to take for a specific game, and the developers are very quick at putting out trainers for new games and updating trainers for older games when needed. You can even see the queue of the games that they're working on supporting/updating. I also like the Xbox Gamebar widget for those games that are hard to alt-tab out of. 0: https://www.wemod.com/ https://www.wemod.com/

aloisdg 4y ago
Not open source though
- Karunamon 4y ago
  Neither are most games. If you are opposed to non-free software on moral grounds, then the utility of a tool like this is pretty limited for you.
- dvngnt_ 4y ago
  you can also use a memory editor

oneoff786 4y ago

I disagree with pretty much everything here. Cheating in single player games is super lame. It’s fun to be a god for a brief period but quickly it just makes the game really boring. Pokémon with infinite hp sounds awful and will massively compound any sense of a grind because now all fighting is pointless. Some games may be grindy but cheating for instant gratification is likely worse. I would also argue most games are not really that grindy. It’s actually… rare to see in any single player game. If anything most games put you at risk of becoming too powerful too fast. If there’s a grind it is usually for the last 1% of content. And very few games actually try to sell you power ups for single player content. That’s really not a common thing as some people claim. Multiplayer games are a different beast, but you definitely don’t want cheaters there either. Not wanting long progression curves for multiplayer games is a reasonable ask. Allowing cheaters is not.

aloisdg 4y ago
> it just makes the game really boring. Oh boy no. Maybe for you. Maybe for some. With a bit of empathy should be able to imagine that not everyone think like you do. What if someone wants to play pokemon for the exploration, lore and care taking of pokemon. For that person, fighting and leveling is a chore. Maybe someone does not have the actual time for the grind before each arena. > Pokémon with infinite hp sounds awful and will massively compound any sense of a grind because now all fighting is pointless What if the grind was not a goal or what if we actually doesnt want to fight at all. Pacific run exists. Let's me skip dat boss if I want to.
- danielvaughn 4y ago
  Agreed. I spent dozens of hours playing GTA5 and literally never made any progress in the story. I had too much fun driving around like a crazy person, constantly using the cheat code to avoid dying.
- oneoff786 4y ago
  If you want to play Pokémon and not do the Pokémon battles then you’re on a weird edge case where it’s debatable whether you’re actually playing the game at all. If that’s what you want, sure, go ahead. That’s actually still very different. Removing fighting from the game vs doing it but with infinite health. The former is at least self consistent I guess.

bitofhope 4y ago

I also occasionally enjoy cheating in video games, but it's rarely about the game itself at that point anymore. I've noticed it's not really about avoiding tedious or unpleasant parts of the game for me. I just think it's funny to have tutorial enemies yielding astronomical amounts of XP and gold or to have random Great People born in my cities every single turn. No kill like overkill. It's also educational. Creating overpowered joke Civ4 mods and reading disassemblies of NES games to adjust numbers in an emulator's debugger make for fun semi-practical programming puzzles. Honestly, I think I enjoy the process of cheating more than the result. Try it out sometime! Load up some old game in gdb and start messing with the numbers. It can be fun.

ketzo 4y ago

Well, the modern version of this is very granular difficulty sliders. In the name of accessibility, a lot of recent games allow you to customize the hell out of your gameplay experience — things like “how hard do enemies hit?”, “how easily can I find ammo?”, even “how hard is it to make jumps?”, and so on. Hades has a setting called God Mode, where every time you die, you just get straight up 1% stronger, stacking infinitely. Cheats in single player games aren’t dead - they’ve evolved!

mattnewton 4y ago

Play on PC! Plenty of excellent modding communities, or just the ability to drop into a dev console for a bit on most games there. My partner often does this to reduce parts of games she does not find enjoyable.

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throwaway894345 4y ago

Anyone remember the infinite masterball cheat (red and blue) that required surfing up and down the eastern side of Cinnabar Island and fighting the MissingNo. pokemon? Good times. Also, I would 100% buy a Nintendo Switch if they released a remastered version of red/blue/yellow (no additional pokemon ffs) especially with online multiplayer.

rpearl 4y ago
Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu is a remake of red/blue
- throwaway894345 4y ago
  Oh really? Is there a catch?
  - thaumasiotes 4y ago
    You have to use the joycons. Multiplayer battles don't really work because all pokemon in Pikachu/Eevee have weirdly inflated stats due to the candy system imported from Pokemon Go. You can't battle wild pokemon; you can only catch them. This isn't restricted to the Let's Go series, but all modern Pokemon games (starting with X/Y) are absurdly easy in comparison to the originals; don't expect that you'll ever be in any danger of losing a battle. (Also, Pikachu/Eevee are not remakes of Red/Blue - they're remakes of Yellow. But that's a small difference.) If what you want is online multiplayer pokemon battles with just the first 151 pokemon eligible, I'd probably go for Sword/Shield and try to round up support on Smogon for your "only gen I pokemon" format. If you want to replay Yellow, then Let's Go is what you want.
    - throwaway894345 4y ago
      > Multiplayer battles don't really work because all pokemon in Pikachu/Eevee have weirdly inflated stats due to the candy system imported from Pokemon Go. You can't battle wild pokemon; you can only catch them. This isn't restricted to the Let's Go series, but all modern Pokemon games (starting with X/Y) are absurdly easy in comparison to the originals; don't expect that you'll ever be in any danger of losing a battle. Oh man, that’s tragic :’( I knew there had to be a catch. I genuinely don’t understand why they wouldn’t just remake the originals! Surely I’m not the only one in my generation with nostalgia and a professional salary to spend on video games.

the_only_law 4y ago

What really disappoints me is I'm seeing a lot of YouTubers and streamers advertise really hard challenge they do in games , and even often sometimes advertise them as 100% legit. Those interest, as some of these challenges are extremely difficult, and I'm curious to learn what stragties they used. Then usually I get mid way through the, the explains the issues that make the challenge hard, before immediately dumping a console command to instantly bypass them.

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