Game cheats

2001 09 12

By Jon Mavor

Additional comments and editing by Stephen Clarke-Willson, 2001 12 12; 2002 01 30

Note that these combinations need to be done reasonably quickly (the next button in the sequence needs to be hit within a second). Actually, you have to go faster than that, because the second starts as soon as the move is detected, so moving both sticks to the center starts the one second countdown, NOT when the sticks return from the center.

Bring up menu - this includes change level, play movie and game state (power level).

Push the left stick and right stick towards and away from each other,

hit a, hit b,

click the right stick button,

click the left stick button

Benefits: Allows access to the entire game, because you can change to any level, set your Axion powers to any level, and allows you to see all the movies, thus revealing all of the story.

Problems: Allows access to entire game! So player can buy game, jump around, and return game, without really experiencing the game.

Notes: The levels have internal names which are not documented anywhere. There is no consistent structure to where you end up in a level, although all landing spots are believed to be safe.

Three menus come up with this cheat:

Change Level…

Play Movie…

Game State…

Scroll up and down with the dpad, and then press start to bring up submenus or activate an item. Press back to back out of the menus.

WARNING: Once you select a movie, it will loop forever! Danger!

Here are the details on each menu item:

Change Level … brings up a list of levels. The levels have internal names. Here is a list that maps the internal name to something gamers might recognize:

A1 – The great tree

A3 – Water collectors

A5 – Air Tubes

A6 – Laser Beams / Air Guardian

Airship – Balthazar Fight

Airship Docking – internal movie – loops endlessly

Airship Docking Water – internal movie – loops endlessly

Airship Trans – internal movie – loops endlessly

D1 – Death Realm Elevators

D2 – Death Realm Conveyor Belts

Diskreplace air - internal movie – loops endlessly

Diskreplace earth - internal movie – loops endlessly

Diskreplace fire - internal movie – loops endlessly

Diskreplace life - internal movie – loops endlessly

Diskreplace water - internal movie – loops endlessly

E2 – Earth Hub

E5 – Desert Mines / Earth Guardian

E6 – Base of the tree / Song Crystal / Mirrors

E7 – Drill Keys

F1 – Flame Generator

F2 – Volcano

F3 – Lava falls / Electrical Forest

F4 – Fire Maze and Plateau

F6 – Fire Guardian’s Stronghold

Life – Life Realm

Town – Town of Perathia

W1 – Water Hub (first area of game)

W2 – Fire Ring and Lake

W3 – Ice Berg Fields

W4 – Stormy Sea

Wirlpoolfixed – internal movie – loops endlessly

Play Movie … you will have to reset your Xbox after playing a movie; these are Bink movies

Game State … let’s you change your elemental power levels – press start after selecting a menu item to cycle through them.

(Hint: game too hard? Set all of your elemental powers to 3 and then you can concentrate on solving just the puzzles.)

- Cheats full powers and health - restores you to full energy for your powers and full health

Hold the dpad left, move the right stick in a half circle started on the right moving up and ending on the left.  Release the dpad, hit a, hit x

Benefits: Player can restore his health and elemental power.

Problems: None, really. Just makes the game easier.

- Combat god mode - can't get hit by critters.  This is a toggle.  Also, there is no indication you are in god mode.

Hit x,

hit black,

hit white,

hit right and left triggers together,

hit the stick buttons together.

Benefits: Allows you to cruise by tough battles and survive some falls. Can sometimes help people who use the save anywhere cheat in a place where lots of monsters spawn (see that cheat below).

Problems: If you fall into a place where you are expected to die, you’ll be trapped, for instance, at the bottom of a deep pit.

- Debug camera - basically this activates the debug camera and you get out of it by hitting the back button on the controller

Hit the right trigger,

dpad down,

dpad up,

dpad down,

dpad up,

right stick button,

left stick button

Benefits: Let’s you fly around a level while it is frozen; you can use this just to enjoy the scenery or to look for gems and obsidians you couldn’t find.

Problems: you can fly out of the level and see backstage stuff, or find untextured stuff not normally visible in gameplay.

Notes: It’s fun, it runs 60 fps almost all the time, all the particles and what-not are frozen and fun to fly around, you can examine our high-poly critters and see that they really are high-poly.

- Gem mode - in gem mode you can get earth, air, fire, water, and obsidian gems by hitting the 4pack and black.  Any other button pops you out of gem mode.

dpad right, dpad left,

hit a,

hit b,

hit a,

hit b,

dpad right, dpad left

Benefits: You can increase your elemental power storage and get all the obsidians through a cheat. Make the game easier, but doesn’t really break the game like the first cheat does, which opens up the whole game.

Problems: It is possible you might create more gems than anyone has ever created before and crash the game. I think this was tested but not too extensively.

- Big head mode - Azurik gets an inflated ego

Right stick button,

right trigger,

dpad down, dpad up,

hit a

Benefits: Traditional “big head” mode in many console games. Doesn’t break anything we know of.

- Debug Lighting –

Hit a,

right stick button,

hit b,

right sticking button,

left stick button

Benefits: Turns on debug lighting, which makes dark caverns easier to see. Helpful on dark TVs or for people who can’t remember to use their fire power to see into dark areas.

Problems: Less dramatic lighting, although some people prefer the simplified lighting.

Notes: I think this is a toggle.

- Afro cheat -

Pad down,

pad right,

hit black and white together,

right stick button,

left stick button,

left and right sticks towards each other,

tap b,

tap y

Benefits: Azurik gets an Afro.

Problems: None.

- Arbitrary save game –

White,

dpad up, dpad down,

a, b,

click right stick

Benefits: Save more often to reduce backtracking.

Problems: Many. You can easily save in an unsafe manner.

Don’t save:

q On a moving platform – restore and the platform is somewhere else and you fall to your death

q In the middle of a boss battle (esp the Fire Boss) where you get stuck in a platform with no way out because the Fire Boss isn’t there to fight

q Near too many enemies which respawn when you restore and kill you. Sometimes the God Mode cheat will help you recover from this.

q Near a moving platform that comes around and whacks you unexpectedly, perhaps knocking you to your death

q While doing the cheat, you will swing your Axion and move forward slightly; you might swing and move forward and fall off a platform and then save, thus ruining your save game

q While falling to your death – very bad – you’ll just keep dying when you restore

q While near dangerous objects like in the middle of some electric forest trees or other environmentally dangerous features.

q Near a low overhang – you might respawn in an object. The fix is to jump and hit a lot until you manage to escape.

q Above something that can kill you like lava.

q Any location that changes game state during play. For example: on platforms that were once encased in ice (air realm), forcefield walkways that are non existent unless you throw a switch (life realm), rocks that crumble to into lava (fire realm), platforms that crumble into thin air (tree/air realm), etc.

Do:

q Always back up your game to a memory card in a safe location in case something bad like this happens.

q Always save in some dark corner that is on solid, non-changing ground away from creatures. I've followed this and had no probs.

Notes: This was the first cheat released, but not to the web. It was to an individual who went and blabbed it out. Sigh. If you screw up and save in an unsafe spot, try using the level cheat to teleport somewhere good.

Time just flies –

Hit black,

left stick button,

right stick button,

A, B,

dpad up,

right stick button.

Benefits: Day / Night cycle goes very fast, so if you’re bored in the Stormy Sea waiting for things to change, you can turn this on.

Problems: Day / Night cycle keeps going fast until you turn it off, so if you turn it on and try to make all the jumps in the Stormy Sea, day and/or night will probably cycle before you make all the jumps.