Posted September 13, 2013
As with many shareware era games, cheat codes were designed in since they ostensibly encouraged exploration and increased the replay value. Found this listing of cheat codes on the 3D Realms site - here, the company which grew out of Apogee. So don't know if it's an exhaustive list, feel free to add further if found.
Enjoy!
To enable cheats, press the "Pause" key (you must be in pause mode to type in cheat codes), followed by "imabigcheat". You will hear a bell sound when cheats become enabled as well as see your score disappear. You cannot enter a high score if you cheat.
Cheat Code What it does
GENERAL CHEAT CODES
blast Full powerup of the current main weapon
plasma Selects plasma main weapon (blue wide fire)
pulse Selects pulse main weapon (red stream fire)
cash Mega credits, gives you 5,000 credits.
flames Ship becomes invincible for a short time.
nuke Full nukes; gives you up to 4 nukes
life Extra Life
warpto# Warp to any level in current episode where # is a level from 1 to 9
ENGINES
impulse Gives Standard Impulser
ioniser Gives Hydrogen Ioniser
megapulse Gives Megapulse 2000
gravdis Gives Gravdis 5
SATELLITES
ener Enertron
mine Mineslammer
dyna Dynamo 500
TOP SIDEARMS (These are zeroes, not letter O's)
t00 Removes Top Sidearm
t01 Credit Drone
t02 Plasma Bomb
t03 Evolter
t04 Matter Disrupter
t05 Rebounder
t06 A-Matt Boomerang
t07 Fragmentor BE800
t08 Bi Particle Cannon
t09 Flamer
t10 Ion Cannon
t11 Magnum 3000DX
t12 Dual Laser
t13 Torpedo Launcher
BOTTOM SIDEARMS (These are zeroes, not letter O's)
b00 Removes Bottom Sidearm
b01 Credit Drone
b02 Plasma Bomb
b03 Evolter
b04 Matter Disrupter
b05 Rebounder
b06 A-Matt Boomerang
b07 Fragmentor BE800
b08 Bi Particle Cannon
b09 Flamer
b10 Ion Cannon
b11 Magnum 3000DX
b12 Dual Laser
b13 Torpedo Launcher
Notes
"Customer Cheat" means it's the cheat given out with the registered version of the software.
"Debug Mode" means it's an unsupported cheat mode.
"Tech Parameter" means it's a code that does something, but really isn't a cheat, it's more or less there to help Apogee Customer Support.
"Misc Command Line Parameter" is the same type of thing as Tech Parameter.
Cheat keys are not officially supported by Apogee. If you use the debug keys, Apogee cannot provide any support, since this alters game performance to a state where our standard support comments and issues might not apply. In short, using cheat keys can cause the game to malfunction or crash. Use at your own risk!
Enjoy!
To enable cheats, press the "Pause" key (you must be in pause mode to type in cheat codes), followed by "imabigcheat". You will hear a bell sound when cheats become enabled as well as see your score disappear. You cannot enter a high score if you cheat.
Cheat Code What it does
GENERAL CHEAT CODES
blast Full powerup of the current main weapon
plasma Selects plasma main weapon (blue wide fire)
pulse Selects pulse main weapon (red stream fire)
cash Mega credits, gives you 5,000 credits.
flames Ship becomes invincible for a short time.
nuke Full nukes; gives you up to 4 nukes
life Extra Life
warpto# Warp to any level in current episode where # is a level from 1 to 9
ENGINES
impulse Gives Standard Impulser
ioniser Gives Hydrogen Ioniser
megapulse Gives Megapulse 2000
gravdis Gives Gravdis 5
SATELLITES
ener Enertron
mine Mineslammer
dyna Dynamo 500
TOP SIDEARMS (These are zeroes, not letter O's)
t00 Removes Top Sidearm
t01 Credit Drone
t02 Plasma Bomb
t03 Evolter
t04 Matter Disrupter
t05 Rebounder
t06 A-Matt Boomerang
t07 Fragmentor BE800
t08 Bi Particle Cannon
t09 Flamer
t10 Ion Cannon
t11 Magnum 3000DX
t12 Dual Laser
t13 Torpedo Launcher
BOTTOM SIDEARMS (These are zeroes, not letter O's)
b00 Removes Bottom Sidearm
b01 Credit Drone
b02 Plasma Bomb
b03 Evolter
b04 Matter Disrupter
b05 Rebounder
b06 A-Matt Boomerang
b07 Fragmentor BE800
b08 Bi Particle Cannon
b09 Flamer
b10 Ion Cannon
b11 Magnum 3000DX
b12 Dual Laser
b13 Torpedo Launcher
Notes
"Customer Cheat" means it's the cheat given out with the registered version of the software.
"Debug Mode" means it's an unsupported cheat mode.
"Tech Parameter" means it's a code that does something, but really isn't a cheat, it's more or less there to help Apogee Customer Support.
"Misc Command Line Parameter" is the same type of thing as Tech Parameter.
Cheat keys are not officially supported by Apogee. If you use the debug keys, Apogee cannot provide any support, since this alters game performance to a state where our standard support comments and issues might not apply. In short, using cheat keys can cause the game to malfunction or crash. Use at your own risk!
