A special birthday mode, with cows, monkeys and other animals, may be
enabled by setting the system date to make one of the following programmer
birthdays: March 12, May 16, August 28, or October 2. This mode may also
be enabled by activating all the switches at the bottom of the episode
selection screen and darkening the button.
Cheat mode:
Pause game play and enter one of the following codes to activate the
corresponding cheat function.
Effect Code
Full armor, shields, energy, weapons,
plasma bombs and ammo nsopta
Toggle ultra-shields until end of level. nsbagwan
Full energy nse
Toggle maneuvering jets nsbjipp
Illuminate surfaces nsoptl
Toggle rapid shield regeneration nsblaster
Toggle rapid energy regeneration nshorsley
Faster weapons firing nsdiebesterds
Valid code that has no effect nsopts
Toggle air friction nsfricoff
Death skill level nsdeath
Hover at minimum throttle nshalt
Debug mode nsdebug
Command line parameters:
Start the game with the one of the following command line parameters to
activate the corresponding cheat function.
Effect Command line parameter
Debug mode -debug
Disable sounds -nosound
Load external resource file -file
Level select -warp
Skill level select -skill
Record a demo -record
Play a recorded demo -play
Network mode cheats:
Start the game with the -boom command line parameter
to initiate a network game. Use one of the following additional command
line parameters to activate the corresponding network cheat.
Effect Command line parameter
Faster weapons firing -cheater
Dogfight mode -dogfight
Cooperative mode -cooperative
Capture the flag mode -capture
Disable enemies -noenemies
Power-ups respawned -respawn
Assign a player name -name
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