History Main / DebugRoom

** Same engine, same developers, same test cells: the developers' rooms in ''{{Fallout}} 3'' contain all items, a crapload of respawning mines, lots of locked safes and hackable computers, and a random guy with a gun. It's impossible to reach in normal gameplay; the only way to get in or out is via the console or plugins.

** Add as many items into your inventory as you want and make all of them infinite

* ''TheSims 2'': boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true, {{Fan Nickname}}d "boolprop" by people who don't know what "boolprop" means. It allows you, among other things, to kill Sims, make them pregnant with their own OppositeSexClone, or reveal their [[GayOption autonomous gender preference]].

* A secret cheat code in ''SimCity 2000'' gave the player access to the Debug menu, which included options for everything from millions of dollars of free money to new and terrible disasters.

* A really weird one in VideoGame/GoldenSun. It has all the main characters in the game standing in an empty void arranged into a grid, each one with a different function (giving items, sound effects, etc.) Naturally, they don't have their usual characterization, but respond in a stilted mechanically precise way. The effect's rather eerie, to say the least.

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* All of the 3D ''{{Zelda}}'' games have debug modes that can be enabled via cheat codes, but only ''Wind Waker'' has actual rooms. The most notable one is like a playground, and is best known for having a ''gigantic'' tower that dwarfs anything seen in the game and takes upwards of 15 minutes to climb.
** Actually, Ocarina of Time has a debug ''ROM'' full of debug rooms.

* A really weird one in GoldenSun. It has all the main characters in the game standing in an empty void arranged into a grid, each one with a different function (giving items, sound effects, etc.) Naturally, they don't have their usual characterization, but respond in a stilted mechanically precise way. The effect's rather eerie, to say the least.
* ''DevilMayCry 4'' contains a debug mode in the PC version which can directly accessed in certain international versions or by using a modified .exe file. The debug mode allows for numerous options, including invincibility, allowing Dante to be played on Nero's levels, infinite jumps, max mission rankings, one hit kills, etc.

* ''FinalFantasyVII'' had a debug room that let you fight against pyramid-like test enemies, max out Materia, and the like.

* ''TalesOfDestiny'' also had its own debug room, which was weird in the fact that it was more or less completely translated and legible on its own: the main reason to visit it isn't to screw around with your stats and whatnot, but to talk to Cless and watch him randomly make South Park quotes while pretending to be Cartman.

* The debug room in ''{{Ultima}} VII'', which contains a cache of plot-relevant items and teleports to plot-relevant locations in the game world, can be accessed by a player who uses a large number of crates to make a staircase, climb up onto the ceiling of a certain building in the starting town, and crawl down the chimney.

* WorldOfWarcraft vanilla had "GM Island" that was the default spawn point of every in game GM, to allow them to check if they're invisible before teleporting themselves to check on claims of botting or glitches. There's a boat and a shack. it exists in its own instance, and is now only accessable to the GMs (A player can only find their way there if they hack the game, or are sent there into a small prison cell which is rumored to be a "time out" corner).

* WorldOfWarcraft vanilla had "GM Island" that was the default spawn point of every in game GM, to allow them to check if they're invisible before teleporting themselves to check on claims of botting or glitches. There's a boat and a shack. It's off the coast of the eastern kingdoms.

A DebugRoom is a location, menu or mode with options the programmers would have used for testing the game. It's usually not supposed to be accessed by the player; as such, it will either require a complicated code/password or be inaccessible without the help of a GameShark or the like.

* ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' had a particularly awesome debug menu. Some of the features included changing your appearance to options normally not available, spawning any item you desire, accessing a huge test level, a more complete SoundTest, the ability to play as a wireframe, the sandbag, Giga Bowser, and Master or Crazy Hand. Be careful though, there is one feature on the debug menu that tests memory card features, which will allow you to ''wipe your memory card clean or delete Smash Bros. save data.'' Nonetheless, the debug mode made the game even more fun than it was already, especially in combination with other Action Replay codes (i.e. Super/Poison Mushrooms having stacking, permanent effects or always having bunny ears). To boot, you could use debug view modes, such as showing the names of currently playing character animation, showing character hitboxes (even going so far as to differentiate invincibility frames, attack hit ranges, grabbable objects, and the regular hitboxes with different colors, which looks awesome). Fun times were had indeed.

* The PC version of ''Sonic CD'' allowed you to access its debug mode by adding a single line of text to one of the game's data files.

* The ''Super StarWars'' SNES trilogy has a robust debug feature which offers, amongst other things, invulnerability, infinite [[SmartBomb thermal detonators]], stage select and the ability to choose who you want to play as (Up to and including all forms of Leia in Super Return of the Jedi).

* ''TheSims 2'': boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true. {{Fan Nickname}}d "boolprop" much to the hilarity of anyone who knows what "boolprop" means. It allows you, among other things, to kill Sims, make them pregnant with their own OppositeSexClone, or reveal their [[GayOption autonomous gender preference]].
** What's so funny about a boolean property?

* The DebugRoom in ''SuperMarioRPG'' can only be accessed by GameShark. It allows you to, among other things, add characters to your party, access locations without following the plot, and instantly max out your coins.

* all the Super StarWars Games for Super Nintendo have Debug Codes accessable by a code. all of them offer invincibility, stage skipping, while EmpireStrikesBack and ReturnOfTheJedi give you infinite Detonators, and Star Wars and Return of the Jedi allow you to select any character you want in any stage, including all three versions of Princess Leia.

* A few cartridges of ''[[SuperMarioBros Super Mario All-Stars]]'' left the factory with a debug mode intact. Pressing select in a game of ''Super Mario Bros 3'' in these carts allows you to cycle through all of the plumber's various forms at will. Press Y and select for the [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Goomba%27s_Shoe Kuribo's Shoe]], though it's usually just a [[GoodBadBugs jumble of pixels]]. [[{{Dockmarm}} This troper]] possesses one of these carts, and yes, it is just as big a GameBreaker as it sounds.