History Main / NoFairCheating

** Also, even if you manage to go back to before the character died, the game will remember the RNG result from the first time, and your character will die again, and there is nothing you can do about it. This is incredibly frustrating if the enemy scores a critical hit and your character missed killing them first by a two percent chance and they were the last enemy and it took you twenty minutes to get that far and that was the only save-state you had made and the whole point of even doing that stage was to level the dead character up.

* May not be intentional, but ''{{StarCraft}}'''s quick-build (operation cwal), map reveal (black shee pwall) and resource cheats (show me the money) works for the computer as well. Additionally, the invincibility cheat (power overwhelming) does not actually make you invincible, it just reduces enemy damage to zero, meaning that two opposing computers can duke it out forever. Most players choose to just use the instant win cheat (there is no cow level), which carries no drawbacks.

* Barbatos of the Tales series. If you so much as use items in his presence, he performs a high damaging, nigh-unblockable attack on whoever receives the effects of the item(or if it affects him or all parties, whoever USED the item.) In another game, he punishes autoleveling by appearing before you in battle and wiping your entire party if you don't run away. Hell, even playing on Simple mode sometimes garners enough wrath from him that he ''oneshots you with any attack.''

* In the PC version of EarthwormJim, the audio cue for entering a cheat code correctly is Jim yelling "Cheater!"

** I'm 100% certain that this was completely unintentional, most likely the result of some kind of clash with the battery save system. (Look at at the YouTube videos; this was NOT an Earn Your Fun big macho manly man-man gut-wrenching hyper mega hardcore game by any stretch of the imagination. If any SNES game warranted this treatment, it would've been Contra 3.) There ''are'' a few unofficial codes that will not trigger this glitch. Emulators won't remove the glitch, but they can make the game easier via reduced speed, save states, and rewind, which is plenty enough. And once you've unlocked the Special Circuit on cartridge or emulator, you can use as many codes as you want without fear.

* Attempting to cheat the (realtime) daily lottery in ''[[PaperMario Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]'' by setting the Gamecube's internal clock ahead will result in the Bob-Omb who runs the lottery calling you a cheater and forces you to buy another ticket. At 500 coins

* Attempting to cheat the (realtime) daily lottery in ''[[PaperMario Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]'' by setting the Gamecube's internal clock ahead will result in the Bob-Omb who runs the lottery calling you a cheater and forces you to buy another ticket.

** Using any Gameshark code in ''DonkeyKong64'' will cause DK to spasm uncontrollably throughout the game. Even in the opening, where he accidentally knocks Lanky offscreen. Also your cartridge will be permanently damaged if you save.

* Using a gameshark to cheat during the final battle in GodOfWar is either pointless or a hindrance, because due to the unique mechanics of the fight, getting infinite life will make the fight unwinnable, and any other benefit to be gained from cheating can't apply to that particular fight.

* Typing in a cheat for ''{{3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride}}'' will open a message saying that you won't be able to get into the high scores for that game.

* In [[ImpossibleCreatures Impossible Creatures]], whenever a player uses a cheat, you hear a message saying, "Somebody's cheatin'!" and an icon appears on the left side of the screen for all players to see that says, "Player X has cheated".

* In ''YumeNikki'''s useless minigame NASU you can activate a cheat using a variation of [[ClassicCheatCode the Konami Code]] which replaces the playing character's head with an eggplant and makes 100 points eggplants appear more often. However, it also prevents you from saving your score...

-->-- '''Revolver Ocelot''', ''MetalGear Solid'' (before the torture sequence)[[supersecretspoiler:. [[SchmuckBait He's bluffing.]] ]]