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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]].
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