neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agoWhat obsolete knowledge do you know by heart, and would like to share?message-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down11
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minus-squaretoiletobserver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up38·6 days agodoom cheat codes: IDDQD, god mode IDKFA, ammo IDSPISPOPD, no clip i think
minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6 days agoSPISPOPD stands for ‘Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris’. Back in the usenet days I remember someone making a crappy freeware game with that title. That’s right, a cheat code in a game inspired the creation of another game.
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoThe cheat code was inspired by a Usenet meme, could be the game was also inspired by the meme
minus-squareHasherm0n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 days agoYou could use the IDKFA code in MechWarrior 2 as well. If you did, it would immediately eject you from the mech and display a message something along the lines of “this isn’t doom you idiot”.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-25 days agoSame in Heretic - IDKFA takes all your weapons and ammo, IDDQD kills you. And I think both codes do a similar thing in Earthworm Jim.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-26 days ago obsolete knowledge doom cheat codes The second article on games@lemmy.world is about Doom (running on PDFs)
minus-squareTippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI don’t ever remember using the last one, but I’m sure I knew a code for no clip.
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoThey changed it to idclip in doom2
minus-squareTippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoI’m sure I remember using it in the first game, but it was a long time ago 👴🏻
doom cheat codes:
IDDQD, god mode
IDKFA, ammo
IDSPISPOPD, no clip i think
SPISPOPD stands for ‘Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris’.
Back in the usenet days I remember someone making a crappy freeware game with that title.
That’s right, a cheat code in a game inspired the creation of another game.
The cheat code was inspired by a Usenet meme, could be the game was also inspired by the meme
You could use the IDKFA code in MechWarrior 2 as well.
If you did, it would immediately eject you from the mech and display a message something along the lines of “this isn’t doom you idiot”.
Same in Heretic - IDKFA takes all your weapons and ammo, IDDQD kills you.
And I think both codes do a similar thing in Earthworm Jim.
The second article on games@lemmy.world is about Doom (running on PDFs)
I don’t ever remember using the last one, but I’m sure I knew a code for no clip.
They changed it to idclip in doom2
I’m sure I remember using it in the first game, but it was a long time ago 👴🏻