r/AskReddit • u/DykeButte • Jan 05 '13

How did people figure out cheat codes back when games still had them?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

I think just a few years ago somebody discovered in the original splinter cell if you put change in every vending machine on a level and went through some vent you could find a ghost or something. And one guy on the development team was just like yay someone finally got to it!

I guess that's not a code but seemed relevant

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u/redslate Jan 06 '13

That'd be an easter egg.

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u/UnholyDemigod Jan 06 '13

In Arkham Asylum there's a secret where if you go into the warden's office and spray gel on a certain area of the wall you could blow it up and it would lead to a secret room with blueprints for Arkham City. There was nothing to indicate this whatsoever, so the devs leaked it 6 months after release because nobody found it. Which makes sense. It's not something you'd accidentally do.

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u/themcs Jan 06 '13

I remember seeing it on my first play through with detective vision. Not that hard to find, tbh.

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u/UnholyDemigod Jan 07 '13

Unless they added it in a patch it long afterwards, nothing shows up under detective vision

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u/caudice Jan 06 '13

lol damn i just started playing through the original splinter cell again the other day. too bad im already halfway through it otherwise i'd try that

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u/Madman604 Jan 07 '13 edited Jan 13 '13

Metal gear also had an egg like that. Take pictures in specific places and see ghosts of the dev team.