Centipede 3D Cheat mode
Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Using a text editor, edit the “centi.chr” file locacted in the “centipede/chars” directory. Locate the section marked “FIRSTINVENTORY=” and change all the 0 or 1 values to 999 for 999 shots of all special weapons.
Locate the section marked “HITPOINTS=” and change the 1 to a 0 for invincibility.
Cheat Codes
While playing the game, type one of the following codes and press [Enter] to activate the corresponding cheat function:
| Result | Cheat Code |
| Toggle God mode | wimp |
| Infinite lives | getalife |
| Level skip | goto |
| Create a nearby Centipede | pede |
| Automatic movement and firing until player assumes control | robot |
| Normal game speed | normal |
| Slightly slower game speed | slow |
| Slower game speed | sloww |
| Very slow game speed | slowww |
| Extremely slow game speed | slowwww |
| Return to Windows | dload |
| Display diagnostic codes on screen | diags |
| Screen modes | showz |
| Toggle flight mode | fly |
| Toggle collision boxes around objects | boxes |
| Toggle time codes | times |
| Clear caches | clearc |
| Generate report files | report |
| Purge message | purge |
| Unknown | spots |
| Unknown | dumpcoords |
| Unknown | happytrails |
Cheat Codes (command line)
Start the game using one of the following command line parameters to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Several of these codes will crash the retail version of the game.
| Result | Cheat Code |
| Play with 2 player split screen mouse/keyboard | -2 |
| Use Wingman Extreme for input | -w |
| Use GCI flight controller on COM2: for input | -g |
| Use GCI flight controller on COM1: for input | -g1 |
| Load the indicated .lvl file and records record.dat demo | -L [.lvl file] |
| Use VESA 640×480 for output device | -V |
| Null (benchmarking) GFX device | -B |
| Use DirectX5 for output device | -X |
| Record game to record.dat file | -r |
| Play the demo once | -p [demoname] |
| Enable space combat | -S |
| Enable space Boss encounter | -O |
| View keyboard bindings | -? |
| Use fast logs | -f |
| Run game indicated number of times faster. | -s [number] |
| Gather and dump frame rate statistics | -T |
| Only one sim per render | -1 |
| Do the checksums | -c |
| Set the default character | -C [character name] |
| No logs | -N |
| Set screen resolution (320×200, 320×240, etc.) | -M [mode] |
| Set pixel format to INDEXED8 or RGB565 | -P [mode] |
| Abort after 100 frames | -A |
| Force high color | -H |
.lvl file names:
- c0l3.lvl
- c0l5.lvl
- c0l6.lvl
- c0l7.lvl
- c0l8.lvl
- c0l9.lvl
- c1l0.lvl
- c1l1.lvl
- c1l2.lvl
- c1l3.lvl
- c1l4.lvl
- c1l5.lvl
- c2l0.lvl
- c2l1.lvl
- c2l2.lvl
- c2l3.lvl
- c2l4.lvl
- c2l5.lvl
- c3l0.lvl
- c3l1.lvl
- c3l2.lvl
- c3l3.lvl
- c3l4.lvl
- c3l5.lvl
- c4l0.lvl
- c4l1.lvl
- c4l2.lvl
- c4l3.lvl
- c4l4.lvl
- c4l5.lvl
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