Mods can be an option but some are harder than others to use. I do find that a lot of mainstream games have a pretty good range of difficulties these days (including story mode etc), but definitely not all games.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
49 points (96.2% liked)
Games
17596 readers
1547 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Game Conqueror on Linux, Cheat Engine on Windows, and save states on Virtualbox and emulators.
Mods and trainers.
Yeah, I use remodeling for some single player games. It's basically cheats for everything
Mods sometimes another person's save if playing the final ending requires bunch of collecting I don't want to do like Arkham Knight.
on single player stuff I use cheat engine to skip the grind any time it's impacting the fun.
I rarely play only online or multi player because no pause is not compatible with kids
Plus one to cheat engine, I don't have time to grind materials
I used Cheat Engine on my last playthrough of Borderlands 3 cause no way was I gonna go through that entire slog of leveling up again.
I just wanted to blast some bad guys.
Maybe I should try that. It looks like such a nice series of games but I don't have time for the grind. I just want to nuke everything and then go to bed.
They are fun and I will say that it's kinda worth it to play normally at least once, but the games tend to drag a bit sometimes.
I had already played 3 before so I didn't feel too bad about doing a cheat run.
A lot of newer games have "story mode" or other accessibility options for an easy playthrough.
But yeah I really miss cheat codes, especially the wackier ones.
I miss them too. I would never use a game genie these days, but one of the coolest things I did was with Super Mario Bros. I accidentally put an X instead of a Z at the end of a code that was supposed to make Mario always stay big, but it ended up making Mario always stay small, even with mushrooms or fireballs. My sister and I were elated!
Porntipsgizzardo!
Honestly, I mostly just play a lot of old games that still support consoles, cheat codes, or mods.
I still use cheat-o-matic to this day. When it doesn't work I try the similar options on cheat engine
I haven't gamed on Windows in a while, but when I did CheatEngine and WeMod were my goto.
CheatEngine has really good utility outside of cheats in particular. For a time you could unlock the camera on a lot of games to get some really good (or really broken) screenshots. Though for cheating in particular, I think it's still pretty easy to find a CheatTable for most games.
WeMod is shit now. It used to be free but now they demand you pay them if you play for more than 2 hours.
Wtf, since when?
Couple years now. Old accounts got grandfathered in but if you never made a full account or started using WeMod recently there's a 2 hour timer that when it expires turns off all the cheats and demands you pay the fee.
Gotta be real, WeMod looks sus af.
I mean, I dug around the one-page site looking for a price for a while, read every line on there, looking for the price I could tell it has, only to find nothing, so I searched it. $7.99 a month, totally hidden. Not looking good.
I use trainers from chest happens mainly. Only because I have a lifetime membership because I bought it decades before they did prescriptions, other then that I use cheat engine.
Or mods that alter the game to make it more accessible and enjoyable
Cheat codes are just low tech micro transactions because they would have a 1-900 number to call for them.
Nah, just bring a pen and paper to the news stand and copy down cheats from "Tips and Tricks" magazine by hand.
Did people actually call those numbers? We couldn't afford that shit.