Hot key's for cheats!

youthanasia138 · Post by **youthanasia138** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:59 am

I wish there were hot key's for the cheat options so I wouldn't have to stop playing and open the cheat menu every time I need to enable or disable a cheat. Is there an option for this? or am I just not looking hard enough?

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:15 am

There is no option for this.

A problem would be knowing which codes to enable/disable with such a hotkey - some codes can freeze a game if you activate them at the wrong time, so a 'enable/disable all' toggle is asking for trouble.
Several codes can also conflict with each other.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:17 am

I think he wants to be able to assign keys to each and every individual cheat code, not all or none.

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:21 am

Call me when they make >200-key keyboards then.

youthanasia138 · Post by **youthanasia138** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:27 pm

enable all is fine with me. I want to be able to assign it to my gamepad so I don't have to stop gameplay to toggle the cheats.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:46 pm

grinvader wrote:There is no option for this.

A problem would be knowing which codes to enable/disable with such a hotkey - some codes can freeze a game if you activate them at the wrong time, so a 'enable/disable all' toggle is asking for trouble.
Several codes can also conflict with each other.

The best way I've found is to have individual toggles not bound to specific keys (that's just crazy), and then have a global "enable cheat code system" toggle that can be bound to any key.

Eg say you have:
[ on ] infinite lives
[ off ] infinite health
Toggling the global one would either turn it all off, or turn on only infinite lives; but never the (potentially dangerous) infinite health.

Used that to play through Dracula X, damn lazy "search for cheat codes" function results in shit-quality $7exxxx cheat codes that always lock up games between levels.

Toggle system off right after killing boss, back on at next level start. Bleh.

youthanasia138 · Post by **youthanasia138** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:51 am

byuu wrote:
grinvader wrote:There is no option for this.

A problem would be knowing which codes to enable/disable with such a hotkey - some codes can freeze a game if you activate them at the wrong time, so a 'enable/disable all' toggle is asking for trouble.
Several codes can also conflict with each other.
The best way I've found is to have individual toggles not bound to specific keys (that's just crazy), and then have a global "enable cheat code system" toggle that can be bound to any key.

Eg say you have:
[ on ] infinite lives
[ off ] infinite health
Toggling the global one would either turn it all off, or turn on only infinite lives; but never the (potentially dangerous) infinite health.

Used that to play through Dracula X, damn lazy "search for cheat codes" function results in shit-quality $7exxxx cheat codes that always lock up games between levels.

Toggle system off right after killing boss, back on at next level start. Bleh.

.... I wish I understood more of what you are trying to get across here.
Can you elaborate more?

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:55 am

actualy for 'hotkeys' purpose like that, i simply use artmoney.
but then again, artmoney doesn't accept gamepad or stuff.

youthanasia138 · Post by **youthanasia138** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:53 pm

I'll give this "artmoney" a try...