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Cheats are a big traditions of gaming, whether it's to get through that [[Nintendo Hard]] part (or game), skip particularly bad sections of an otherwise great game, to screw around after you've finished a game... Or to ruin other people's fun. There are three main types of cheating in games (although the last is more about the act than the method).
# Internal Cheating: The 'cheat' was specifically programmed into the game by its designers. There are several
# External Cheating: Cheating using devices external to the game itself, such as "[[Button Mashing|Turbo]]" controllers or ROM hacking devices (e.g. [[Game Genie]] or [[Game Shark]]). Easily the most varied form of cheating, as the most extreme types actually alter the behavior of the game code itself, not only allowing things like invincibility, but also allowing for things like turning [[Good Bad Bugs|already bizarre bugs]] [[Up to Eleven]], accessing [[Dummied Out|dummied]] content, or giving the main character change of costume... [[Fan Service|Or lose some of it]].
# Multiplayer Cheating: Cheating while playing games with other people, goes into both of the above types, as it involves both internal (design oversights and tweaking settings to do such things as see through walls) and external (programs to alter the game to give an advantage). The most (in)famous are Wallhacks (ability to see or move through walls), Aimbots (automatically get a perfect aim at an opponent's [[Boom! Headshot!|most vulnerable areas]]) and Speedhacks (move MUCH faster than is normally allowed), and, of course, in games where players are in physical proximity there are people who will steal joypads, subtly alter game settings, look at other's screens or outright get physical. It goes without saying that if you do these things with even a [[Moral Event Horizon|hint]] of seriousness, [[Complete Monster|you]] deserve [[Serious Business|everything you get]] in return.▼
▲# Multiplayer Cheating: Cheating while playing games with other people, goes into both of the above types, as it involves both internal (design oversights and tweaking settings to do such things as see through walls) and external (programs to alter the game to give an advantage). The most (in)famous are Wallhacks (ability to see or move through walls), Aimbots (automatically get a perfect aim at an opponent's [[Boom Headshot|most vulnerable areas]]) and Speedhacks (move MUCH faster than is normally allowed), and, of course, in games where players are in physical proximity there are people who will steal joypads, subtly alter game settings, look at other's screens or outright get physical. It goes without saying that if you do these things with even a [[Moral Event Horizon|hint]] of seriousness, [[Complete Monster|you]] deserve [[Serious Business|everything you get]] in return.
As a more grey part of internal forms of this, there is also glitch exploitation. Sometimes this can change a game a lot but still make it playable for veterans, which makes it a form of [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] if it is mercilessly used on casual players, or it's an outright [[Game Breaker]], where it earns the same effect as cheating against opponents who don't use it themselves.
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