# game cheats **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 12, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361 "2003-06-12T16:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/1 "2003-06-12T16:30:20Z")
Am I allowed to ask if anyone has a good game cheat? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/2 "2003-06-12T16:38:01Z")
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/3 "2003-06-12T16:47:58Z")
If you’re talking about “work-arounds” built into the software, and I think you are, that’s fine. If you’re talking about codes for cracking copyrighted software to enable you to use a game which you do not legally own, then no. ---
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/4 "2003-06-12T16:50:01Z")
Thank you unclebeer, yeah i’m just meaning “word arounds”. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/5 "2003-06-12T17:06:05Z")
In single-player Diablo II, if you hit the enter key and type “players N” without the quotes, and N being a number from one to eight, the game’s toughness level will be set to the number N. This needs to be done from town, as soon as you enter the game (i.e., before you run out and find monsters). Once set, you need to start a new game to re-set it. The advantage to this is that you can get tons of magic items & experience (I usually hit level 25 in a 1-player game sometime in act IV; if I set it to 8 players, I hit level 25 in act II). The downside to this is that, if you set it to 8 players, some of the monsters are _really_ tough… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/6 "2003-06-12T19:43:07Z")
And presumably, unintentional bug exploits are also not allowed. For instance, when playing Diablo online, it’s possible to do things like duplicate items, or produce items which aren’t supposed to exist (I don’t know how to do this, and wouldn’t post it even if I knew, but I know they exist). This would also presumably be frowned upon by the Powers that Be. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/7 "2003-06-13T02:48:22Z")
Spam, spam, spam, humbug. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/8 "2003-06-13T03:07:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*And presumably, unintentional bug exploits are also not allowed. For instance, when playing Diablo online, it’s possible to do things like duplicate items, or produce items which aren’t supposed to exist (I don’t know how to do this, and wouldn’t post it even if I knew, but I know they exist). This would also presumably be frowned upon by the Powers that Be. \*\* I don’t see why, if it’s not actually illegal. Immoral, perhaps, but even that’s debatable. It’s sort of a grey area. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/9 "2003-06-13T03:29:58Z")
I think that in the case of online multiplayer games, doing something like that would violate the online license agreement. But in, for instance, console games, as long as you’re not reverse-engineering anything, I think you’re okay. It’s sort of the whole idea behind things like GameShark, if I understand it. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/10 "2003-06-13T12:09:43Z")
There’s all sorts of sites to find that kind of information and they’re only a websearch away, so wouldn’t that be more appropriate than asking us? your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/11 "2003-06-15T16:18:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start \*\* Is that a cheat or a sex move? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-cheats/181361/12 "2003-06-15T16:56:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stofsky \* > \*\*Is that a cheat or a sex move? \*\* Both.