The Konami code, cheats for Sims, glitches for Skyrim, etc. How did these get found out by their gaming communities?
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Glitches/secrets are usually an “infinite monkeys with a type writer,” situation, where if you just have thousands of players, eventually one of them will do the exact series of events that teleport them through a wall or whatever. Sometimes it’s speed runners looking for a specific glitch using what they know about a game, or players using hints the developers gave them to find a hidden secret.
Cheat codes can be “infinite monkeys,” too, but back in the days were often released by the developers, since old-school cheats were usually there in the first place as a way to debug the game during development (the Konami Code type cheats). Modern cheats though are usually done through memory editing (hex codes and such) and are made by looking at the games binary and writing programs that can modify memory addresses in real time.
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