Another portion of fan art has been added to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl site section of the same name.

Originally from Stalker-Game

Enter these cheats during game play using controller in second port:

Hold L1 and press UP, UP, UP, UP - Have All Weapons
HoldL1 and press R2, R2, R2 - Full Health
Hold L1 and press UP, UP - Refill Ammo to Max Capacity
Hold L1 and press UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN - Infinite Ammo Toggle
Hold L1 and press TRIANGLE, SQUARE, CIRCLE, X - Massive Money Gain
L1, L1, R1, L1, L1, L1, R1, R1 - All Clothes
Hold L1 and press UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, TRIANGLE, SQUARE, X, CIRCLE - All Hobo fighting moves
Hold L1 and press UP, LEFT, DOWN, DOWN, TRIANGLE, SQUARE, X, X - All gym grapple moves

Unlockable costumes

Once you complete the requirements for the clothing, they’re automatically thrown in your closet, in all your safehouses.

Final Cut (New Coventry) houses all of the punk-esque items in the game. Worn In (Bullworth Town) houses more beachy, sporty, and middle classy type clothing. Aquaberry in Bullworth Vale houses all the upper crust type clothing, although until Chapter 3 the only clothes you can get in there are the Aquaberry Sweater and Vest.

Black Ninja Outfit - Fill up your yearbook completely.

Black Skate Shoes - Travel at least 50.00km on foot.

BMX Champion - Complete one of the bike races.

Boxing Outfit - Beat either ‘Boxing Challenge’ or ‘Prep Challenge’ in Chapter 2.

Crash Helmet - Place 1st in the Kart Race at the Carnival

Dunce Hat - Go to the boys locker room in the gym and turn on all the showers.

Edna Mask - Destroy 19/19 Tombstones during Halloween.

Fast Food - Complete the Burger Joint errand found in Bullworth Vale.

Firefighter’s Helmet - Pull the Fire Alarm 20 times.

Gnome Costume - Smash all garden gnomes.

Gold Suit - Buy all clothing in the game.

Green Ninja Outfit - Hit stuff with projectiles (eggs, etc.) 1000 times.

Grotto Master - Collect all G&G cards.

Jimmy’s Skeleton Halloween costume - Beating the mission ‘The Candidate’ will open up the mission ‘Halloween’ which unlocks the costume.

Orderly Uniform - Complete ‘Finding Johnny Vincent’ in Chapter 5.

Pirate Hat - Beat up pirate on island near Beach House.

Prison Uniform - Beat all the detention mini games at least once.

Red Ninja Outfit - During Halloween (must be done during Halloween) at Bullworth Academy, complete the Big Prank task.

School Mascot - Beat ‘Nice Outfit’ in Chapter 4.

Tiny Swimsuit - At the Beach House location, find the Preppie with a blue mission on the beach and beat his swimming time.

Wrestling Uniform - Beat Gym 1.

Originally from ToTheGame

During gameplay, press ~ to enter the password input screen, and then enter the following passwords to unlock the corresponding cheats. Passwords are case-sensitive, and if you entered a password correctly, the cheat will take effect immediately.

Assign Trait to a General: give_trait (INSERT CHARACTER NAME HERE) (INSERT TRAIT NAME HERE) (INSERT LEVEL NUMBER HERE)
Automatically Win an Attack: auto_win attacker
Automatically Win a Defense: auto_win defender
Create Any Unit: create_unit (INSERT NAME OF UNIT YOU WANT TO CREATE) (INSERT UNIT ID HERE) (INSERT 1-5 HERE) (INSERT 1-9 FOR EXPERIENCE HERE) (INSERT 1-3 FOR ARMOR HERE) (INSERT 1-3 FOR WEAPON HERE)
Display Coordinates: show_cursorstat
Instant Build Cheat: process_cq (INSERT SETTLEMENT NAME HERE)
Money Cheat: add_money (INSERT MONEY AMOUNT HERE)
Move Again: character_reset
Reveal Entire Map: toggle_fow
Set the Population: add_population (INSERT SETTLEMENT NAME HERE) (INSERT POPULATION AMOUNT HERE)
Teleport Anywhere: move_character (INSERT LOCATION NAME HERE) (INSERT X,Y COORDINATES HERE)

Originally from GamePro

Ultimate Chain/Level up/Loot Spot:

In the Golmore Jungle-Rustling Chapel… Kill all the enemies in the area. Afterwards, Dark Skeletons will continuously appear. Your chain can get as high as you want it to, but make sure you are at least level 42 before attempting this because the skeletons are leel 38.

Gaining more money:

Stilshrine of Miriam. Once you have the Stone of Condemner and beat Zeromus, go back to the area where you fought him. There would be undeads that gives dark crystals, blood-darkened bones, etc. that are expensive loots. Gaining the monograph for undeads will give more loots to sell.

Easy beats for monsters:

Beating the Deathgaze
After seeing it through several airship riding, you could easily beat it by three ways.
1. Cast Reverse on him.
2. Cast Renew on him making his HP 1.
3. Cast any magick.
Because he’s invulnerable to physical attacks and he can cast Renew on himself, this is a good way to pummel him easily. Remember, you could steal a great shield on him.

Gilgamesh 2nd
The best way to avoid his pushover attacks is to cast Reverse and Decoy on one of your character. Keep away that character away from the others so when he uses his Final Blow it would not affect the other.

Fafnir
He can be easily beaten by hiding behind the stone. He won’t chase you there. Cast reflect and cast thundaga on yourself. Since most of his attacks would be Shock (a magick), it will just bounce off to him to add additional damage.

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It’s a masterpiece. An epic adventure – one of the greatest video games of all time. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of the most important and most popular games Nintendo’s ever produced, and the company knows it. Since its initial release in November 1998, Ocarina of Time has been revisited and ported more than once. It’s been made available in both grey and golden N64 cartridges, on a GameCube disc compilation with three other Zelda titles, and on another Cube release accompanying its remixed version, Master Quest. There have been a lot of ways to play Ocarina of Time over the years. Now, there’s another.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been praised so widely and so often because it’s a game that combined so many established “Nintendo” elements into one cohesive adventure, while at the same time innovating with all-new ideas that advanced 3D video games on an industry-wide scale. At its core, it’s a traditional Zelda game – and as such, it follows the structure laid down by previous installments in that series, particularly A Link to the Past. You play as Link, a humble, green-garbed young man who’s torn away from his peaceful existence in the Kokiri Forest and thrust into a journey much larger than he. You quest as a child, traveling across the land of Hyrule in search of three powerful artifacts. Then, all three collected, you can open the way to claiming the Master Sword – and that’s when the adventure truly begins.

Ocarina of Time is built on a foundation of time travel, as taking in hand the blade of evil’s bane sends your young Link seven years into the future, while replacing it in its pedestal sends you back into the past. Your quest spans both time periods in the Hyrulian kingdom, as you continue to find new dungeons to challenge, new items to wield and new characters to interact with on your way to the ultimate showdown with Ganon, the corrupt and powerful madman who’s taken over the throne and who holds Princess Zelda captive.

That structure is just one thing “Nintendo” about this title. Another is its look. Nintendo revolutionized 3D worlds in video games with Super Mario 64, creating a free-roaming, go-anywhere experience with a controllable camera system. Ocarina of Time expanded on those innovations, offering an even larger world and more impressive control for interacting with it. A chief addition was Z-Targeting, a gameplay mechanic that allows you to lock on to an enemy in combat and focus on fighting it, rather than fighting with the camera trying to keep it in view.

Played on the Wii through the Virtual Console, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is just as impressive and timeless a design as ever. As a download, it makes some sacrifices in content beyond what its physical media releases have offered. But, at the same time, it offers new positives to counterbalance those negatives.

One of the excised elements is rumble support. Nintendo 64 games played on the Virtual Console won’t shake the controller, which hasn’t been an issue so far – previously released titles Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 never had rumble to begin with anyway. Here, though, it means the Stone of Agony will no longer rock and roll. The Stone is one of the many collectible items in Ocarina of Time, and in previous versions of the game it served as a physical feedback hint system to let you know you were getting close to a secret. As the item isn’t a requirement for any part of the game and was kind of gimmicky even in 1998, its newfound impotence isn’t that big of an issue.

A new positive is the power of choice, as the VC OoT supports both the GameCube and Classic Controller. Either option works well, so it’s just a matter of personal preference. If you’ve played either of the Cube disc re-releases of the game, you may already be comfortable with your favorite wireless Wavebird, but the Classic Controller doesn’t disappoint once you get used to its feel in controlling the Hero of Time.
Orignally from IGN

It’s been a little while since we had a first-person shooter to look forward to and STALKER is certainly looking like the front runner for deserved attention in the first half of this year. After getting a chance to play a bit with an early build of the single player THQ and developer GSC Gameworld let some members of the press and other players into an early closed beta of the multiplayer portion.

The beta version of STALKER that we’re playing includes two maps and three different modes of play. The three modes are deathmtch, team deathmatch, and artifact hunt, which acts a lot like steal the beacon where an artifact spawns somewhere on the map and then must be transported back to the home base for a score. These modes can be played on either map. STALKER is a “realistic” shooter and carries that type of play into multiplayer. You’re not going to be able to take too many shots before calling it quits and taking too much damage will cause you to walk slowly and become a prime target for vultures.

Aside from the obvious gameplay changes from single to team-based play, the modes offer a slight difference in the way players outfit themselves for combat.

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Note: This procedure involves editing a game file;
create a backup copy of the file before proceeding.

Use a text editor to edit the “autoexec_a1.cfg” file in the
“\heroes of might and magic v\profiles” directory. Add the following
line to the end of the file:

setvar dev_console_password = schwinge-des-todes

Press [~] during game play to display the console window.
Type one of the following case-sensitive codes at the console
window to activate the corresponding cheat function.

add_skill - takes skill-id or name as parameter, you can find list of
all 150 skills/perks/abilities names and their ids in
data\data.pak\scripts\advmap-startup.lua
HoMM 5 pak files are pkzip archives and as such you can access
that lua scipt file using winrar/winzip etc.
So, for example: add_skill Necromancy
add_skill 19 (give perk pathfinding)
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Enabling console and basic cheats:
To do so for all game profiles go to /gamedirectory/profiles/autoexec.cfg

Put this as last line
setvar dev_console_password = schwinge-des-todes

Then you can use some cheats ingame. Press tilde key [`] to bring down console.
If it doesn’t work for you because you don’t have the key on your keyboard,
can’t find it because of foreign layout, whatever, you can always edit
input.cfg in your user profile directory:

//debug keys
bind show_console ‘`’

Edit this to something suitable for you then.

Cheat cods that must be entered in the console:

add_skill - takes skill-id or name as parameter, you can find list of
all 150 skills/perks/abilities names and their ids in
data\data.pak\scripts\advmap-startup.lua
HoMM 5 pak files are pkzip archives and as such you can access
that lua scipt file using winrar/winzip etc.
So, for example: add_skill Necromancy
add_skill 19 (give perk pathfinding)

You can add skills over limit it seems. E.g. more than 6 skills etc.
Though you won’t see them in ui, but will get benefits.

add_army town nTownID, bUpgrade - Will fill all hero army slots with 10
creatures of town id specified.
Second param is 0 or 1 which controls
whether creatures are from upgraded
dwellings or not.

Town ids: HEAVEN = 0 PRESERVE = 1 ACADEMY = 2
DUNGEON = 3 NECRO = 4 INFERNO = 5

Example: add_army 5, 0
(will fill all hero army slots with 10 basic inferno creatures)

add_army 4, 1
(will fill hero army slots with 10 upgraded Necro creatures)

add_all_spells - Gives all spells to currently selected hero.
Bypasses all skills reqs, for usage also.

set_hero_luck_morale nLuck nMorale - Sets luck and morale base values
for current hero.
For example: set_hero_luck_morale 5 3

show_player_money playernumber - Outputs resource quantities of specified
player into console. So you can spy on ai.
Example: show_player_money 2

show_hero_mp - Shows detailed movement point stats for currently
selected hero - exact quantity, stats for currently
plotted path(how many points it’ll take).

add_exp quantity - Adds quantity xp to currently selected hero.
Example: add_exp 5000

clear_money - Sets all your resources to 0

add_gold quantity - Sets current gold to quantity and zeroes out
other resources.

add_money quantity - Sets all resources except gold to quantity and
sets gold to quantity*1000. So add_money 100
gives 100 of everything and 100000 gold.

Battle hack:
People who think that ATB icons are moving too slow, can use next thing:
Add to your profiles/autoexec.cfg the following lines:
setvar ATBAction_AddRemove_Time = 0.2
setvar ATBAction_FadeOut_Time = 0.2
setvar ATBAction_Move_Time = 0.2
setvar ATBBar_ScrollSpeed = 0.2