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Title: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on November 10, 2008, 03:08:30
There are easter eggs like "s a r r" and "barels", but it seems that there is a recently discovered new class of codes that I call the REAL cheat codes, and what is probably what the server software refers to as "Cheats" as it works on some MP servers, but not others.

These cheat codes have 3 main differences from easter eggs:

1) The "`" key must be pressed at any point in the game to toggle the cheats. It must be pressed to turn them on every time you start the game.
2) Unlike easter eggs, which only result in graphical changes (usually fire), cheats actually affects the ship (sinking it, making it jump, etc)
3) Cheat codes work on ALL SHIPS!

Thus far, I know of 2:

"fly" - makes the ship jump in the air. If pressed during a jump, the ship will jump while in the air.
"sink" - causes the ship to sink as if under the "sink" trigger in the mission editor. pressing it more than once causes the "clouds" to dissapear, or even prevent the fhip from sinking if pressed early enough!

Attached are 2 pictures. The first is the result of using the "fly" code repeatedly, the second of the "sink" code at work.

As is, collisions can be easily averted and sinking can be prevented (or started) using these codes, but there HAS to be more!

Does anyone know of a list of these codes?
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 10, 2008, 10:12:03
Hmmm... Telling everyone about hidden codes seems to be cheating in itself, to me. Spoils the fun somehow.

Moved to small talk. I keep saying: the Ship SImulator 2008 section is ONLY for technical support questions about the demo version. Thanks.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: sadsid († 2016) on November 10, 2008, 13:28:24
To me why both with the game if you'r going to cheat to me
in the end you'r only cheating you'rself
                                                                 ;)
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: mvsmith on November 10, 2008, 14:11:49
Cheats—fly, sink, see, duck, lookup—and Easter Eggs—flames, candles, barrels, chemical, bonfire, torch, megamindy—are all given in the Captain’s Journal.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 10, 2008, 16:46:54
Hi Marty.

I always think that hunting through all of the documentation to see where the "gems" are hidden adds to the enjoyment. When someone tells me exactly what the gems are, they loose their "value" to me.

But RMS has blown some of that fun (for me), or would have done if I hadn't already don ethe hunting.

All a matter of taste, I suppose.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: mvsmith on November 10, 2008, 17:19:05
Hi Terry,
I agree that it makes the exercise pointless. However, VSTEP decided to publish them all in one place in the booklet included with Collector’s Edition.
Regards,
Marty
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Gloat on November 10, 2008, 17:27:35
thing is, its not fun for one who spends time trying to find out the cheats. It is annoying. Not fun...
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Canada on November 10, 2008, 17:51:37
My brother William asked if there was any cheats for SS08.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 10, 2008, 20:17:17
Well there will be a Bill for that.








(William, Bill, get it? No? Oh well, just me, then)
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on November 10, 2008, 22:33:48
Thanks, Mad_Fred!

Thing with these cheats is they are the answers to all of life's problems in ship sim!

Rammer did massive damage to you in MP? use the sink code to stay afloat!

Collision inevitable? use the fly code to jump over them!
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 10, 2008, 23:01:20
Is that the Mad Fred who hasn't posted anything in this thread?

Or was he wearing his magical cloak of invisibility again? We moderators hate it when he wears that and rides around the moderators coffee-house at high speed on his unicycle. Cups of coffee go flying around everywhere.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on November 11, 2008, 02:15:25
Is that the Mad Fred who hasn't posted anything in this thread?

Or was he wearing his magical cloak of invisibility again? We moderators hate it when he wears that and rides around the moderators coffee-house at high speed on his unicycle. Cups of coffee go flying around everywhere.
GAHH! WHENEVER I SEE MVSMITH'S ICON, I ALWAYS THINK OF MAD_FRED!
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Mad_Fred on November 11, 2008, 08:50:36
Hehe..Different Muppet.  ;D

Nope Terry, my cloak's at the drycleaners and my unicycle has a flat tire. So it wasn't me this time. And where's the fun in throwing cups of coffe around on foot and fully visible?
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 11, 2008, 09:02:42
Oh-oh!

So who was doing it just now? Are we haunted?
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Mad_Fred on November 11, 2008, 09:14:41
Yup.. but the coffee-house spirits never showed themselves much when I was doing it.. good opportunity for them now, I guess.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 11, 2008, 09:24:18
Well don't just stand there. Give me a hand to clean the place up, before Luc comes back. He'll do his crust at this mess, otherwise.

Thanks.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Mad_Fred on November 11, 2008, 09:47:55
Whoops, sorry.. 

* grabs a mop and bucket *
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 11, 2008, 09:50:40
Thanks.

By the way, isn't it a nice day out there now? Compared to yesterday.... I'm going for a stroll by the harbour, camera in hand once we've cleaned up in here.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Mad_Fred on November 11, 2008, 09:55:50
Some people have all the fun!  ;D

It's actually pretty grey and wet on this side of Holland.  :)

Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Person264 on November 11, 2008, 17:16:08
Nice bit of off topic banter there
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 11, 2008, 17:55:44
The topic was log since exhausted. Like all, the things being discussed tend to drift. But Fred and I were talking about cheating (he cheats with his cloak).
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Person264 on November 11, 2008, 19:57:24
I'm not complaining, please continue, I was finding it quite interesting reading what sorts of things you [supposedly] get up to.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 11, 2008, 20:09:14
What, you can see our posts? Oh dear. I thought Fred's cloak of invisibilty would reach over our conversations. Oh dear.

I'll use my super-dooper warp powered intrinsic hiding device now. Can you read the following?

This should fade away and
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Person264 on November 11, 2008, 22:28:37
What, you can see our posts? Oh dear. I thought Fred's cloak of invisibilty would reach over our conversations. Oh dear.

I'll use my super-dooper warp powered intrinsic hiding device now. Can you read the following?

This should fade away and
It disappeared! Wow, I wish I had one of those warp powered intrinsic hiding devices, could come in handy somehow...
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 11, 2008, 22:58:12
It's OK Fred, they can't hear us.

Now, where were we? Oh yes. About Person 264... Yes, that's right. He's completely...

Hang on. The batteries have run out. Let me just swap them.

There. Now about Person 264
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on November 12, 2008, 01:14:16
I agree! Person264 IS
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Person264 on November 12, 2008, 18:37:43
is what, is what! by the way I can't get the cheat codes to work, pressing ` doesnt seem to do anything
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: mvsmith on November 12, 2008, 18:51:07
Hi P264,
The character to enter cheat codes is ~ (the tilde), according to Captain’s Journal.
I have not tested it, as I find the use of cheats morally and ethically reprehensible.
Regards,
Marty
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Person264 on November 12, 2008, 19:04:53
Hi mvsmith,
              Thanks for telling me, I assume you press shift to get it (on my keyboard it is above the hash#~). I press it in game and then type fly but it doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe the duck's head is too heavy and it doesn't sink because of the rubber band. I typed in lookup but all it did was pause the game. Off to try again now. Sorry if you don't approve, but I find it quite interesting, what with my simple mind n all
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 13, 2008, 00:00:51
Yes, if you have a UK layout keboard, shift # should give you ~.

Of course, the best cheat codes to enter these (must type the entire sequence exactly for it to work): ~, H, q, q, w,  e
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: mvsmith on November 13, 2008, 00:26:23
On my keyboard it is the top (shifted) character on the key above the Tab key—the leftmost key on the top row, left of the 1/! Key.

I have just confirmed that ~sink and ~fly both work on Titanic in free-roam. Sinking takes a long time.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on November 14, 2008, 04:57:31
On my keyboard it is the top (shifted) character on the key above the Tab key—the leftmost key on the top row, left of the 1/! Key.

I have just confirmed that ~sink and ~fly both work on Titanic in free-roam. Sinking takes a long time.
But it can be spotted early if you are in port-starboard view looking closely at the rudder!
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Person264 on November 14, 2008, 19:03:32
That's a shame, it doesn't seem to work on my computer, ~fly has absolutely no effect at all along with the others
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: TerryRussell on November 14, 2008, 19:26:47
I'm not near my PC at the moment (It's in the UK, I'm in Hollan, so I can't quite reach from here), but try using the
¬
key instead. (Shift and the key on the top left of the keyboard, next to the 1 key).

So ¬fly might do it.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on November 15, 2008, 01:50:30
I said `because I have a US keyboard. Try not using shift when pressing the ~ key.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: LucAtC on November 15, 2008, 02:40:17
Hello,
Doesn't "Alt+126" not work to get the tilde, replacing the ~ key ? I think the keyboard should send the correct key.
Regards,
Luc
Title: how do u activate cheat codes and stuff
Post by: ooganblat on November 23, 2008, 06:05:49
i cant get to the cheat menu
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Agent|Austin on November 23, 2008, 08:44:26
i cant get to the cheat menu

There isn't a cheat menu, you just type it.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: matt5674 on January 09, 2009, 02:58:59
is the process like this for american keyboards:
step one: hit the ~ button for menu with the shift
step two; enter the code you want
final step: hit enter to submit and enjoy

is that right?
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: mvsmith on January 09, 2009, 03:14:42
To arm the cheat codes, press the ~ key while you are in the Main Menu. That is the shifted ` key to the left of the 1 key on a US keyboard.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: matt5674 on January 09, 2009, 03:17:58
before playing a mission or free roaming
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: RMS Gigantic on January 18, 2009, 05:41:42
Ì found you can hit ~ at any time at all.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: matt5674 on January 19, 2009, 23:15:21
if anyone saw the codes panel can you get a picture of it with your handheld camera to let us see it?
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: firestar12 on January 20, 2009, 00:34:07
I have two questions. WHat is the Captains Journal and i cant seem to be able to make this work. Help?
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: mvsmith on January 20, 2009, 00:56:17
The Captain’s Journal is the booklet included with the Collector’s Edition DVD.

http://www.shipsim.com/ShipSimForum/index.php/topic,11338.msg148970.html#msg148970 (http://www.shipsim.com/ShipSimForum/index.php/topic,11338.msg148970.html#msg148970)

For Easter eggs, you just type the words. Some characters may have meaning in the GUI, type the character a second time to stop whatever action it has started.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: firestar12 on January 20, 2009, 01:03:37
The Captain’s Journal is the booklet included with the Collector’s Edition DVD.
Could I have a procedure on what to do? like Step 1...
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Second Mate on April 04, 2009, 23:15:23
i can't get it to work, help !
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: capn_cal on April 05, 2009, 01:11:09
two questions 1)what are the easter eggs 2)what are they used for and how do i do them
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: firestar12 on April 05, 2009, 01:21:54
two questions 1)what are the easter eggs 2)what are they used for and how do i do them
Why don't you search the forum. Lots of good info.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: capn_cal on April 05, 2009, 14:30:03
can somebody give me a link (if possible) to the captain's journal please
 :-[ :-[ :-\ :-\ :thumbs:
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Shipaddict on April 05, 2009, 14:33:59
Quote from: mvsmith
The Captain’s Journal is the booklet included with the Collector’s Edition DVD.

That should explain it. :)
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: capn_cal on April 05, 2009, 14:36:44
well i don't have it sooooooo ??? but hanks anyway
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Shipaddict on April 05, 2009, 16:58:16
If you really want it buy it, if you don't want to have to buy it just to get the journal then you'll have to just put up with it I suppose. :)
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: matt5674 on May 27, 2009, 01:06:00
I discovered a new cheat code. The pics explain it:
Before:
(http://i43.tinypic.com/103ic5d.jpg)
After entering code:
(http://i44.tinypic.com/34yo284.jpg)
Hit the ~ key and enter "ocean"(minus the quotes) and the ocean will vanish or reappear.(as explained in the pics.)
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: Capt. Matt on May 27, 2009, 01:26:09
 :o
Wher...whe...where did all of the water go looks more like a glitch to me  :doh:
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: matt5674 on May 27, 2009, 02:13:23
It Ain't a glitch. Try the code yourself,
~ > Ocean
It worked for me.
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: capn_cal on May 27, 2009, 03:01:48
i don't get whats the difference
Title: Re: What are all the REAL cheat codes?
Post by: matt5674 on May 27, 2009, 03:39:45
Look Closely at this pic of the bottom pic:
(http://i40.tinypic.com/358vqeb.jpg)
The picture right here show the anchor end is visible of both RJ4 and Pioneer. The Lower Hull of the Sherpa is visible. All are circled.