Many of us would have used cheat codes at some point in our lives while playing a PC game. I was just wondering how does that work?
Edit: Adding onto this, do trainers work the same way?
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The creators of video games set the rules of the game. It has become a tradition that many game designers build cheat codes into the game that alter the regular rules. These codes only exist because the programmers added them intentionally.
There are other kinds of cheats that people add to games by “hacking” into the game and changing the data in the computer memory resulting in different behaviors for the game. These cheats were not added by the game developers. A good example of this kind of cheating method is the “Game Genie” devices which were available for Nintendo and other video game consoles. The game genie cartridge allowed you to change data being communicated between the game cartridge and the game system, and the codes you entered were instructions to the game genie on what data to change. Useful codes were figured out and distributed by the makers of the game genie, or by enterprising gamers doing their own testing.
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