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Does increasing Game Speed count as using cheats in Factorio?
Yes. Using console commands or mods
will permanently disable achievements on that save.
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Is it possible to duplicate an item in Stardew Valley?
There is, yes, though it may depend on what device you're playing the game on. The 'Stardew Valley Item ID Glitch' allows you to spawn items that you can then sell to generate resources you want. You ...
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Can you get punished for cheating on a single player game on steam?
Games on Steam should tell you on their store page if VAC is enabled. CSGO for example shows this:
If you don't see this, then you likely won't get VAC banned. Looking at Heat Signature, it does ...
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Is the Konami code for Unikong inaccurate?
The Konami Code
As stated on the Wikipedia page for the Konami Code the code is:
↑-↑-↓-↓-←-→-←-→-B-A.
Start is appended to the end of the code in the game Contra.
However, the "Konami Code"...
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Easy way to get the 'They're Not Dolls...' and '...They're Action Figures' achievements
Open a text editor such as notepad.exe, paste the following lines and save it as bobbleheads.txt in .\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4.
In the game, open the console and enter bat bobbleheads.
All ...
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Is there anything in the two unused "hand spaces" in Super Mario 3's world 8?
According to NoDice, the level editor that comes with Southbird's SMB3 disassembly, no, these tiles don't have anything linked to them:
Tiles highlighted in yellow have links to levels. As you can ...
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How did people discover the Konami Code?
This was translated in a hurry so please forgive any grammatical errors.
From the wikipedia entry:
It was first discovered in the Famicon version of "Gradius", where it was a 'full-powerup' command ...
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How do people discover cheat codes in games?
There is an interesting post on Reddit about this question. You can read and imagine many theroies on this topic, but I think the answer is really simple :
The developers leak them and they spread. ...
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How do you reset the training counter with the console?
Well, The answers - including the accepted one, are technically correct, but for the wrong reasons. It's true - you cannot reset the counter; but, you can change how many times you can train per level....
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How to "cheat" at stealing in Final Fantasy IX?
As for "Other options" The Demon's Mail can be purchased in Daguerreo from the Weaponsmith's Shop on Disc 3.
If you're still wanting to go down the steal route, you could go with Zidane's 'Bandit' ...
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Can I get dunked on again?
You're better off just downloading one
While it's theoretically possible to edit a save file (which is apparently actually split over 4 different files), it would require someone to do a lot of ...
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I can't find the name of a mysterious analysis tool
This is a debug version of the game that was accidentally made public. There's very little information due to it's (illegal?) nature but you can find it floating around. There's a wiki for it: http://...
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Is it possible to generate a leveled character in borderlands 2?
Gibbed will help edit a character.
One way I got my wife's character to my level was to copy my save, then use Gibbed to change the character class. With a short amount of play, she got her character ...
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Does StarCraft 2 have cheat codes?
Some are exclusive to WoL or HoTS, but in general almost all of them work in both and the only bad thing is that they are not compatible with achievements (i.e. most of them will disable achievements ...
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How do people discover cheat codes in games?
Most cheat codes weren't discovered by the players per say. In the early days of gaming, the biggest source of cheat codes were actually from the gaming magazines as a way of enticing people to buy ...
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Pokemon Emerald - Rayquaza flew away before Kyogre and Groudon
There aren't really any cheats that will help you progress; but your description of where you are stuck in the story is just vague enough that I suspect you have missed something and may need retrace ...
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Does using the Console in Don't Starve leave a mark?
There's no cheater flag or anything like that. Console commands are active by default, suggesting it is up to you. The base game is single player so it's not like you're harming other players, there's ...
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What are the secret codes for LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4?
These are all the cheat codes:
AUC8EH – Carrot Wands
H27KGC – Character Studs
HA79V8 – Character Token Detector
T7PVVN – Christmas
4DMK2R – Disguise
J9U6Z9 – Extra Hearts
ZEX7MV – Fall Rescue
Z9BFAD –...
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Why are cheaters called 'modders' in GTA: Online?
Cheaters, modders and hackers are all likely the same people. The people you see cheating using mods are often not likely the ones making the mods, so to answer your question: modders (as in those who ...
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How do I cheat to remove an enemy (weretortoise) from my save file?
It's not going to be easy.
As you may know, Dwarf Fortress has no cheating system built in other than what can be done through modding/hacking.
You are probably going to need DFHack. DFHack edits ...
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Pokémon Gold and Silver: What are the chances of a clone being shiny?
According to Bulbapedia:
In Generation II, Shininess is determined by the IVs of a Pokémon. If a Pokémon's Speed, Defense, and Special IVs are all 10, and its Attack IV is 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or ...
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Is there a (cheaty) way to cross oceans?
As far as I know, no "download-and-run" scripts for crossing oceans or teleporting large distances exist (yet). However, it is possible to simulate one using DFHack and a few build-in tools.
You will ...
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Can you get punished for cheating on a single player game on steam?
There are some games that "punish" the player if they cheat (look at Stanley's Parable), but if it's a singleplayer game there is no reason for contacting the server to check if your files are legit ...
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Does increasing Game Speed count as using cheats in Factorio?
As stated in another answer, mods or console commands will disable Steam achievements. Although there's an alternative you could give a try.
You can most likely use a software like Cheat Engine, ...
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How can I cheat an item into my inventory?
There are several ways to cheat an item into your game.
The easiest way is to use a character editor and add the item you want into your inventory. There's a bunch of them out there, just do a ...
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Why are cheaters called 'modders' in GTA: Online?
They are given the term modders because they are modifying the game.
Technically anything rockstar develops or any other company in the software development industry infact, the developers themselves ...
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How can I edit memory values for Pokemon Yellow to get infinite money with Cheat Engine?
You will not be able to use those via Cheat Engine, because as ardaozkal points out, those are memory addresses for a gameshark. Because you are using an emulator, the memory addresses Cheat Engine ...
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Why won't my health go down after cheat mod disabled?
You need to load from a save prior to when you had the cheat installed.
Console mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 are often somewhat hacky, as they lack the options and script extension options that ...
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Is Porofessor a cheat in League Of Legends? [Jungle Timers reveal enemy jg location in non-vision?]
Yes, it's cheating
From this page on third party applications:
We don’t like applications that provide measurable player advantage. We’d like to set fair expectations by calling out some features ...
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modding dwarf fortress adventure dwarves
Find the file "creature_standard.txt" in the DF directory, and then look inside it for the Creature:Dwarf section. Now edit all of the racial stats for dwarves to something like the following:
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