Could Video Game Codes Be Born Due To An Oversight By The Programmer(s)

Greetings Members,

I've been playing video games for a long time,and I was curious about something.Who is it that is responsible for creating codes?I understand gamers are responsible for spreading the codes around,via the Internet and gaming mags,etc.But some of these codes and tricks are so elaborate,I doubt that some dude is sitting around on his day off playing some game and just happens to stumble upon a code that consists of 20 numbers mixed with 10 letters.

So it seems obvious that nobody but the programmer(s) could possibly know this.I do wonder however,and because of my limited know how about the actual mechanics of a how a computer game runs in this respect,could it be that do to an error in the program that someone could in effect create a code accidentally by pressing a sequence of buttons that actually works because of an oversight by the programmer(s)?I guess the word "Glitch" means the same as "Oversight" I think.

God Bless,
MR.KAZ

All button combination codes had to be put in intentionally by the developers. Most of these codes are either 1. released by the developers somewhere through a press release or the Internet, or 2. are discovered via hacking the game itself and examining the contents of the game's inner beings.

If you're talking Action Replay codes, that's a totally different story. Those codes are used to influence the "stream" of information that comes from the cartridge (or CD) to the console; that's why things like GameSharks come between, say, an N64 cartridge and the N64 itself; and why you have to use the Action Replay /before/ the game gets put it on a PS2, for instance. These are also created by hackers using special utilities that aid them. It's not blindly entering combinations of letters and numbers over and over again to see what happens.

Like Kirby said, all Codes are placed in the game code by programmers. There's nothing mystical or fancy about it.

They even stick things in their by secret in their free time, if they want. Codes and stuff aren't always thought out by the producers, but independently placed in by the developers to make it more interesting, which in the end gives you some of the random cheats and Easter Eggs you find. (Amen for Paintball mode... making a violent shoot'em up into something more pretty!!)

Don't forget Easter Eggs like the one in Psychonauts, the picture of the one programmer and his fiance.

It could probably arise by chance, but then that would be considered a glitch if it was completely ignored by a team of programmers, unless they have classic ugly crowded messy code, which would be too complex to follow along and debug.

However a very small chance that a 6 button mashed code could bring invincibility as an oversight by programmers.

Yeah, you are talking about glitches/bugs (which can be just as, if not more, beneficial than actual codes).