while reminiscing about a time I played "Super mario 64" I remembered a part where you have to beat a big penguin in a race on a downward icy path, in order to get a star.

As far as the penguin is concerned, there is only one path. However for those who know, there is a section of the race where a wall is next to the track, the wall is completely solid except for one section of the wall, where you literally can go "through" the wall, which leads to a straight path to the finish line, guaranteeing the player a win. When the penguin finally crosses the finish line, he tells you that he knows you cheated. At that point you'd have to race him again and beat him legally if you wanted the star. When this happened I was genuinely shocked, and I never forgot that moment in gaming.

With this in mind I wondered, in which games and in what particular situation would the most interesting, ironic or even comedic, result be in response to a certain cheat?

Example: You're facing off with an enemy in his own castle, both of you are wielding swords. You decide to input a cheat that makes your sword larger, the enemy then calmly drops his own sword, and whistles. Immediately one of his servants run to him and hands him two (2) swords, both are larger than yours. Your enemy turns to you and says either "Now, where were we?" or, "Care to see what happens when you make your sword even bigger?"

Any other ideas?

I recall some old 4X space strategy game which would appear to function normally, but would eventually turn un-winable in later stages. However, I believe that had to do with bypassing the copy-protection rather than cheating as such. I don't remember the name, though...

I can't remember for certain, but I think it was in Ultima V, if you used a cheat code to enter a hidden dungeon in the Serpent's Spine (only accessible by cheating), Lord British would appear, accuse you of cheating and hand you your ass on a silver platter.

Can't come up with any scenarios at the moment. (Busy with homework due tomorrow)

Though I know Warcraft II granted you the noble rank of CHEATER! if you cheated in the campaign.

I've yet to fight The End, the game seems to know i'm cheating by dropping a shit load of Spetnaz soldiers in the area, but it doesn't call me an outright cheater.

In Animal Crossing when you reset an annoying Mole called Mr. Resetti comes out of the ground and and talks to you. I dunno if resetting the game is cheating however.

I can't believe I'm the first to say it... But Animal Crossing, when you restart the system.

Edit: Guy beat me to it, lolz.

Well, this isn't so much as cheat as a bug. I was playing I-WAR 2, and if you skipped a cutscene where an enemy fleet arrived, the enemy fleet disappeared without trace, instantly winning the battle for you. I was rather surprised to say the least.

E-mantheseeker:
while reminiscing about a time I played "Super mario 64" I remembered a part where you have to beat a big penguin in a race on a downward icy path, in order to get a star.

That's not really cheating. But if I remember that race correctly, it IS possible to skip a huge part of the race by dropping on a lower section, and that will not be detected.
However, if you're able to take that shortcut, you should have no problems with the actual race.

Super Mario 64, Koopa Race. Shoot yourself to the top using the cannon, he accuses you of cheating.

Most PC adventure games (Like, KotOR or Fallout 3) when you use a cheat and save the file says "Cheat used"

It's not very damaging on the gameplay element, but it's still kinda worthy of mentioning

Flour:

E-mantheseeker:
while reminiscing about a time I played "Super mario 64" I remembered a part where you have to beat a big penguin in a race on a downward icy path, in order to get a star.

That's not really cheating. But if I remember that race correctly, it IS possible to skip a huge part of the race by dropping on a lower section, and that will not be detected.
However, if you're able to take that shortcut, you should have no problems with the actual race.

I saw a video of that exact technique and all I wanted to happen was for the penguin to jump down right after you and land on top of you, and refuse to move.

All mario Kart games since 64. Doesn't matter how far ahead you are. The better you do the more crap comes after you allowing everyone else to catch up. Also kinda sucks that u never get good items while in 1st place. I consider them possibly my best games skill wise. Nobody i know personally can beat me head to head. But sometimes the Ai can be sooo dammn cheap.

Metal Gear Solid (PS1) Spoiler ahead... don't know how to make the block so hoping if you didn't want to read about this game you'll be aware to skip the next part.

When your in the torture room on the table Revoler Ocelot tells you not to try to use auto fire on a controller or he'll know and later when your fighting Pyscho Mantis you have to switch controller ports from 1 to 2 to get an egde on him after you beat him he knows you do it as well.

Final Fantasy VII Spoiler ahead...

When your on the Rocket in space you get a chance to get the Gaint Blue Materia that's in a container but Cid doesn't reminder the code but remembers clues at random if you've pieced them together or found out by other means that the code is... "Circle Sqaure X X" then he replies (Cid: You've done this before havn't you?)

I know of a few others but they don't come to mind at the moment

GTA, it stops you from completing the game 100%, not funny at all but damn annoying if your slightly OCD.

Lucane:
later when your fighting Pyscho Mantis you have to switch controller ports from 1 to 2 to get an egde on him after you beat him he knows you do it as well.

That's the only way of beating him, so technically not a cheat. :P

Well responses like re-arming would cause it to not be a cheat.

For me, as I consider strategy guide usage a form of cheating (and I still use strategy guides myself, but using a guide or entering an invincibility code leaves the same taste in my mouth) An ironic response would be completing the level through following the instructions only to have the boss say: "No, I'm not doing that today."

Da_Schwartz:
All mario Kart games since 64. Doesn't matter how far ahead you are. The better you do the more crap comes after you allowing everyone else to catch up. Also kinda sucks that u never get good items while in 1st place. I consider them possibly my best games skill wise. Nobody i know personally can beat me head to head. But sometimes the Ai can be sooo dammn cheap.

This is more a case of the computer cheating you for no reason, but i do remember that it infuriated me whenever Toad (and it was always Toad) would get like 50 speed boosts and cross the finish line... a millisecond before I did

I could've understood if this happened because I cheated to make my "Kart" faster, but I don't think this was the game's fault. I think Toad was just being a dick.

scatmanfan:
Super Mario 64, Koopa Race. Shoot yourself to the top using the cannon, he accuses you of cheating.

However, if you use the teleportation trick with the alcoves in the mountain, he doesn't seem to care.

In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for the 360, if you cheat, you can never get any more achievements for the game, even if you delete that save.

- J

ColdStorage:
I've yet to fight The End, the game seems to know i'm cheating by dropping a shit load of Spetnaz soldiers in the area, but it doesn't call me an outright cheater.

The End died in your game. It is a scripted event if you load a save a week after you start the battle with the End. You are going to have to either change the date on your PS2 or kill the Spetnaz.

Lucane:
Metal Gear Solid (PS1) Spoiler ahead... don't know how to make the block so hoping if you didn't want to read about this game you'll be aware to skip the next part.

When your in the torture room on the table Revoler Ocelot tells you not to try to use auto fire on a controller or he'll know and later when your fighting Pyscho Mantis you have to switch controller ports from 1 to 2 to get an egde on him after you beat him he knows you do it as well.

You are required to switch controller ports no matter what you do at that point. I thought Psycho Mantis came before the torture sequence.

Da_Schwartz:
All mario Kart games since 64. Doesn't matter how far ahead you are. The better you do the more crap comes after you allowing everyone else to catch up. Also kinda sucks that u never get good items while in 1st place. I consider them possibly my best games skill wise. Nobody i know personally can beat me head to head. But sometimes the Ai can be sooo dammn cheap.

It's called a rubber band effect. The farther they get away from you, the faster they move. Burnout used a similar effect.

OT: Grand Theft Auto would not let you get 100% completion if you used cheats.

Heroes III and IV do that at the ranking when you finish campaigns or scenarios if you cheat.

doxcology:
In Animal Crossing when you reset an annoying Mole called Mr. Resetti comes out of the ground and and talks to you. I dunno if resetting the game is cheating however.

That's exactly what came to my mind.

I think I may have had that same thing happen to me on Super Mario 64. Or maybe my brother just told me about it. I think he got farther in the game than I did. I was little, so it's understandable.

In Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the past. If You'll recall stealing an Item from the ol' town shoppe, and trying to re-enter.

If you don't remember, The clerk calls you a thief, kills you and brands you with the name "THIEF" for the rest of the game. Then again, if you wanna speed up the game and get the bow before even going to the first dungeon and saving yourself 980 rupees, It's not a bad idea.

Bah, I used to cheat on Grand Theft Auto..

With the -number X...

new_age_reject:
GTA, it stops you from completing the game 100%, not funny at all but damn annoying if your slightly OCD.

Lucane:
later when your fighting Pyscho Mantis you have to switch controller ports from 1 to 2 to get an egde on him after you beat him he knows you do it as well.

That's the only way of beating him, so technically not a cheat. :P

incorrect, you can actually beat him without changing ports, the game knows if your low on ammo so it spawns boxs whenever you need them, it takes about 50 minutes to beat him though. Trick is to shoot wildly, if you take aim he'll dodge all bullets, shoot wildly around him and he'll dodge into a stray bullet.

In Blizzards Star Craft there a cheat to make all kkyour little characters invincible but in order to beat the terran (human) campain you have to sacrifice a medical chick, so you can't beat the game unless you dissable the cheat.

Also in Psyconauts when you put in a cheat the game yells YOU CHEATED at you. ^.^

In GoldenEye if you had cheats turned on you could only do levels you had already completed but there was a way to turn cheats on during a level by holding L or R and pressing directions on the C and D pad so you could complete levels you couldn't before. that's how i got the 007 agent thing where you can mess with the enemy abilities.

I never did this, but in MGS: The Twin Snakes, during the scene when Ocelot is torturing Snake, you have to do a little minigame to keep Snake's health up, basically keep pushing A to make sure he doesn't run out. At one point Ocelot turns to the camera and says,
"Don't bother using quick-fire either. If you do I'll know."
I never really figured out how quick-fire worked. Still kinda scared me though.

ColdStorage:
I've yet to fight The End, the game seems to know i'm cheating by dropping a shit load of Spetnaz soldiers in the area, but it doesn't call me an outright cheater.

That happens if you snipe The End while he's in the wheelchair.

Baldur's Gate 2 and some modules NWN do this a bit - if your level is higher than it ought to be, the monsters scale up BIG TIME. I discovered this to my detriment on several occasions. In BG2, it's beholders. In NWN, it's BLACK DRAGONS. Plural.

L4Y Duke:

ColdStorage:
I've yet to fight The End, the game seems to know i'm cheating by dropping a shit load of Spetnaz soldiers in the area, but it doesn't call me an outright cheater.

That happens if you snipe The End while he's in the wheelchair.

yep, still not fighted him though, I hear it's a fun fight so i'm saving it till i'm good enough on hard mode to fight him.

PirateKing:
I never did this, but in MGS: The Twin Snakes, during the scene when Ocelot is torturing Snake, you have to do a little minigame to keep Snake's health up, basically keep pushing A to make sure he doesn't run out. At one point Ocelot turns to the camera and says,
"Don't bother using quick-fire either. If you do I'll know."
I never really figured out how quick-fire worked. Still kinda scared me though.

He doesn't know if you do anyway, I say go for it.

When I got an achievement in spore for cheating. I felt like I cheated or something.

zhoomout:

Haru_Elric:
In Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the past. If You'll recall stealing an Item from the ol' town shoppe, and trying to re-enter.

If you don't remember, The clerk calls you a thief, kills you and brands you with the name "THIEF" for the rest of the game. Then again, if you wanna speed up the game and get the bow before even going to the first dungeon and saving yourself 980 rupees, It's not a bad idea.

Sorry, I ment to say "Link's Awakening". My bad
Yeah, that happens in Links Awakening too. That was the first place I'd seen it. I actually found the cheat by accident as I didn't actually think I'd be able to walk out of the shop. I was actually running away from the chickens when I went back into the shop. It actually seemed kinda surreal at the time.