gaming Do you use cheats?

[H222G981]

Well....do you cheat on your video games? 

 

I understand that some people are religiously against using cheats and don't know the purpose of it. I do it for fun and not because I don't have skill. I have skill. I just think cheating is a non biased choice. 

 

I do cheat. I normally always have. First it was Game Shark and Code Breaker on most of the RPG's I played on the Playstation 2.

 

On the PS3. I use the Game Genie Save Editor.

 

The Game Genie  is for modding and cheating on your games. It was revived by the company Hyperkin. Its a program that is installed on your computer by a USB you buy. It gives you max Health, max levels, ammo, and stats on RPG's like Final Fantasy 13 and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD. It is an excellent cheat tool to have. However you need a computer or PC to upload the program. 

 

It is much like the Game Shark or Code Breaker, accept it doesn't used forced hacks. Any game you're playing, the cheats are saved on to the USB flash drive. If it exists in the game, than it can unlock what is in your save file. Also the program is online access only. You can't access offline what so ever, which is the only downside. To get new codes you have to get them off of the Game Genie website. It is only for the PS3 and there is one in production for the PS4 already. It should be released in 4 - 6 years from now since it will take time for them to make some codes for it.

 

 

It does work and yes I have one. It is one of the many modding devices to hack your save files and cheat on the PS3 console.

 

Also, it can be bought at Best Buy and Amazon.com for 29.95 plus shipping.

 

The program and access key comes in a USB flash drive, which is used to install GG on your PC; and copy your save files to that flash drive to load up to the program. Once installed to your computer, you can use any flash drive. The GG flash drive has 1 gig of memory on it.

 

I would recommend it to anyone. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 15, 2015 by Jupiter

[Matt Bellamy]

Cheating for yourself is fine.

Just so long as it does not affect other people. Like in a vs game or an online game. This I cannot condone at all.

I tend to try not to cheat the first time I run through a game, but later runs I might throw a cheat or two on. Some for fun, other because of frustration or just to make it easier.

Especialy when I jump back into old snes/ps1 RPG's and just want to play for the story. Max lvl, infinite hp, max money, no random battles... etc.

As for the PS3 cheating... I would NOT recommend it AT ALL.

A ton of games you might cheat with, have onlien playability. IF you get reported for cheating, many bad things can happen:

- Ban from the game servers
- Ban on your current account from Sony
- Sony making your console ONLY play offline. Even with other accounts.

They can, and WILL do any of the 3. You may OWN the system, but you LICENSE software, and are subject to their rules.

For example... I see Borderlands 2 listed in that cheat list. If you bring your cheated character online, they can ban hammer you, and you have no one to blame but yourself.

 

This is also why Rockstar are banning GTA5 accounts because of cheats used online. You are free to use any mods or cheats so long as you stay offline. But as soon as you cheat online: BANNED.

It's why everybody should actually READ the agreements they accept when they sign in on their consoles.

[Cannibal]

When trying complete the game or while playing multyplayer - no. But when I want to have fun, run tests or just mess around with engine - yes (e.g. +++ some timer in Carmageddon 2).

 

Aside of cheats there is such thing as scripts, like in Half Life 1, where you can bind multiple actions to one button. I use one (multiple jump key pressing by just holding the spacebar) for bunnyhop, but this thing is officially allowed, at least on those servers where I'm playing :cat_evil: But there are people who think that scripts are no good, there is that HEAVY scripted Half life 1 speedrun and some people calling it cheatrun because of this.

[*Jess♥]

actually, I might cheat on older games. some of the gameplay on old games really SUCKS. games like xenogears or tales of destiny or final fantasy 6 or similar, they have random battles and levelling system that is pretty primitive and monotonous and not very engaging. I don't like to play those games with the random battles, mainly because I have so many new games that are better presented and more fun to play. I will only play them to experience the story so I must try and remove the random battles if possible.

I also liked to try and game genie my old mario games to get a moon jump because it was funny. but we only did that for half an hour because it got boring.

[durendal]

Thinking about it now, I don't think I've ever cheated on a console game.  I remember playing Metal Gear Solid on Hard on my first run.  Didn't cheat on it but persevered with it, repeated specific scenarios countless time, but in the end, I managed to finish it without cheating. 

 

Now for online games, would you consider botting as cheating.  The only time that I've done this is with Ragnarok Online.  It literally took me years before I reached level 99 manually, so I booted for my other characters.  Granted, I never botted my main account, I bot only on my side accounts to get items and money.  Besides, 90% of the players are botting on the server I played so guess it doesn't matter.