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Developer Mode is a bundle of features created by [[Bungie West]] to help them develop Oni -- a console, camera controls, and various debugging features -- that was associated with the cheat code '''thedayismine''' (see picture, right). This cheat code did not work upon Oni's release, and it was long believed that Developer Mode had been cut from retail versions of Oni; it had only been observed to work in the [[Mac beta]] that was leaked around the time of Oni's beta testing. However, this mode is actually present in ''all'' available versions of Oni (except PS2). It just needs to be unlocked, as the community learned [[History_of_Oni_modding/The_tale_of_Dev_Mode|back in 2006]].

 

In Windows, you can install the [[Daodan DLL]] to unlock Developer Mode. On the Mac, the Intel build has Dev Mode unlocked; it can be found [[AE:FERAL|HERE]].

You may want to read this if your Windows version of Oni is not covered by the above DLL (e.g. if you have an odd language version) or if your Mac is not running the Intel build.

:There are 22 cheat events in every version of Oni, indexed from 0 to 21 (or 0x00 to 0x15 in hexadecimal). See table on right.

:The order is the same in every version, so we can refer to the cheats by that ID, or by the cheat code used to activate the cheat event.

:When and if there is a match, the appropriate confirmation message is displayed for enablement or disablement (except for one-way cheats '''fatloot''', '''winlevel''', '''loselevel''' and '''munitionfrenzy''', which just have a recognition message), and the corresponding cheat event is launched when the Pause screen is closed.

;In full, each row of the cheat table consists of:

:a pointer to the cheat code string

:a pointer to the "enabled"/recognition message

:a pointer to the "disabled" message (if any)

:the internal ID of the cheat event to launch

There is an row for every cheat, and they appear by order of increasing ID. In most Oni builds, the developer mode cheat (ID 0x0B) is simply skipped over; '''reservoirdogs''' (0x0C) comes right after '''superammo''' (0x0A).

:In the Mac OS 9 builds, the pointers and the ID are 2-byte words (Big Endian); regular rows take up 8 bytes; if a cheat has no "disabled" message, weird stuff happens to the third pointer and to the ID, and the row takes up 10 bytes... the ID can be found in what would be the first byte of the ID field instead of the second, and the remaining 3 bytes are garbage. An additional garbage byte is added between consecutive one-way cheats (0x06 and 0x07).

where the ## are joker characters (hex wildcards). Once you've found that data (make sure it occurs only once in the file), replace the '''14''' with a '''0B'''.

Developer mode will now be enabled/disabled every time you type '''killmequick''' at the pause screen : you'll get "Ultra Mode Enabled" and "Ultra Mode Disabled" as confirmation messages.

Let's say cheats are enabled and Developer Mode has been made available ''via'' the '''thedayismine''' cheatcode (or simply '''x''' with Daodan DLL installed).