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Iritscen: expanded lede with some history

2026-02-11T21:46:54Z

expanded lede with some history

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	~~Like most games,~~ Oni comes with a range of cheat codes. The most famous of ~~these~~ is "shapeshifter", featured in the [[Quotes/Credits\|end credits]], which allows playthroughs as other characters. This cheat is considered to be the biggest contribution to Oni's replayability in vanilla form (in other words, before installing mods with the [[Anniversary Edition]]).		Oni comes with a range of cheat codes. As with most games, the cheats were originally shortcuts to make the developers' lives easier, e.g. '''winlevel''' and '''loselevel''' to test a level script's win and lose conditions, but were left in for the player's entertainment. Oni's cheats were leaked by testers before the game even released, which led to confusion when players of the retail version could not get '''thedayismine''' to work; Developer Mode had been disabled for the shipping build (though engine modders [[History of Oni modding/The tale of Dev Mode\|eventually restored it]]).

			The most famous of Oni's cheats is '''shapeshifter''', featured in the [[Quotes/Credits\|end credits]], which allows playthroughs as other characters. This cheat is considered to be the biggest contribution to Oni's replayability in vanilla form (in other words, before installing mods with the [[Anniversary Edition]]).

	==PC==		==PC==

Iritscen: minor wording and layout tweaks

2025-11-18T22:55:26Z

minor wording and layout tweaks

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	Like most games, Oni comes with a range of cheat codes. The most famous of these is "shapeshifter", featured in the [[Quotes/Credits\|end credits]], which allows playthroughs as other characters. This cheat is considered to be the biggest contribution to ~~vanilla~~ Oni's replayability (in other words, before installing mods with the [[Anniversary Edition]]).		Like most games, Oni comes with a range of cheat codes. The most famous of these is "shapeshifter", featured in the [[Quotes/Credits\|end credits]], which allows playthroughs as other characters. This cheat is considered to be the biggest contribution to Oni's replayability in vanilla form (in other words, before installing mods with the [[Anniversary Edition]]).

	==PC==		==PC==
	When playing the Mac or Windows version of Oni, you are required to finish the game in order to unlock cheats, but the cheats can also be unlocked prematurely by editing [[persist.dat\|the save-game file]]. However, if you have the [[Daodan DLL]] installed in Windows, or are using an [[FERAL\|Intel Mac build]] of Oni, cheats will be unlocked even when the game has not been beaten. (Note that the Anniversary Edition automatically installs the Daodan DLL in Windows and the Intel build on Macs.)		When playing the vanilla Mac or Windows version of Oni, you are required to finish the game in order to unlock cheats, but the cheats can also be unlocked prematurely by editing [[persist.dat\|the save-game file]]. However, if you have the [[Daodan DLL]] installed in Windows, or are using an [[FERAL\|Intel Mac build]] of Oni, cheats will be unlocked even when the game has not been beaten. (Note that the Anniversary Edition automatically installs the Daodan DLL in Windows and the Intel build on Macs.)

	While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is [[Customizing/Binding\|bound]] to "pausescreen") and type one or more of the following (the confirmation message will appear if done correctly).		While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is [[Customizing/Binding\|bound]] to "pausescreen") and type one or more of the following (the confirmation message will appear if done correctly).
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	!chenille		!chenille
	!Daodan Power Enabled/Disabled		!Daodan Power Enabled/Disabled
	\|style="background:palegreen"\|Player gets permanent Daodan glow and [[~~boss shield~~]]		\|style="background:palegreen"\|Player gets permanent Daodan glow and boss shield/supershield (see [[#Overpower\|tip]])
	\|align=center\|NO\|\|style="background:palegreen"\|<tt>chr_super(0, 1); chr_super(0, 0);</tt> '''(2)'''<br><tt>chr_boss_shield(0);</tt>		\|align=center\|NO\|\|style="background:palegreen"\|<tt>chr_super(0, 1); chr_super(0, 0);</tt> '''(2)'''<br><tt>chr_boss_shield(0);</tt>
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	===Legend===		===Legend===
			====Effect column====
	{\|		{\|
	~~!colspan="2"\|Effect description~~
	\|-
	!style="background:palegreen"\|Green		!style="background:palegreen"\|Green
	\|cheat applies to any character that you <tt>chr_focus</tt> to (via scripting). When you <tt>chr_focus</tt> to another, the effect stays with the old one.		\|cheat applies to any character that you <tt>chr_focus</tt> to (via scripting). When you <tt>chr_focus</tt> to another, the effect stays with the old one.
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	\|cheat isn't player-character-specific		\|cheat isn't player-character-specific
	\|-		\|-
	~~!colspan~~=~~"2"\|~~Scripting equivalent		\|}
	\|-
			====Scripting equivalent column====
			{\|
	!style="background:darkgray"\|Gray		!style="background:darkgray"\|Gray
	\|no equivalent available		\|no equivalent available
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	\|no exact equivalent, extra work required		\|no exact equivalent, extra work required
	\|}		\|}

			===Tips to gamers===
			====Overpower====
			'''[[chenille]]''' gives you the visual effect of Daodan overpower and a defensive shield, but your combat moves don't deal extra damage. To achieve Daodan overpower mode and stay in it forever, use '''elderrune''' and then use a hypo at full health. Overpower drains at the rate of 1 hit point per second, which is exactly compensated by '''elderrune'''. You're essentially frozen in ''real'' overpower as long as you don't get hurt. You must get down to normal health to take another hypo.

	===Tips to scripters===		===Tips to scripters===
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	*'''minime''' and '''behemoth''' are not detectable		*'''minime''' and '''behemoth''' are not detectable
	*Other cheats like '''fatloot''', '''chenille''', '''munitionfrenzy''' and '''moonshadow''' can only be made useless, not detected.		*Other cheats like '''fatloot''', '''chenille''', '''munitionfrenzy''' and '''moonshadow''' can only be made useless, not detected.

	~~===Tips to gamers===~~
	~~====Overpower====~~
	*'''chenille''' gives you the visual effect of Daodan overpower, but your combat moves don't deal extra damage.
	*To ''really'' stay in Daodan overpower forever, use '''elderrune''', then use a hypo at full health.
	*Overpower drains at the rate of 1 hitpoint per second, which is exactly compensated by '''elderrune'''.
	*You're then virtually frozen in ''real'' overpower, as long as you don't get hurt. You must get down to normal health to take another hypo.

	==PlayStation 2==		==PlayStation 2==
	The PS2 version of the game does not need to be beaten in order to unlock cheats. To enter a cheat, start playing the game, press the SELECT button and highlight the HELP button. Then press one of the following button sequences (you'll hear a sound if you did it correctly). You'll notice that the first 6 inputs are always the same "master code" of L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢.		The PS2 version of the game does not need to be beaten in order to unlock cheats. To enter a cheat, start playing the game, press the SELECT button and highlight the HELP button. Then press one of the following button sequences (you'll hear a sound if you did it correctly). You'll notice that the first 6 inputs are always the same "master code" of L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢.

	Compared to the PC cheat code table above with its 22 cheats, there are only 11 cheat codes below. Missing are carousel, canttouchthis, chenille, elderrune, glassworld, killmequick, loselevel, munitionfrenzy, reservoirdogs, roughjustice and thedayismine. That last absence means no Developer Mode (though it's not like you could use the developer console anyway). However, some Dev Mode features such as camera controls are actually available if you have the means to patch the game. See [[Oni (PlayStation 2)#Patches]] for more info on that as well as a no-movies patch.		Compared to the PC cheat code table above with its 22 cheats, there are only 11 cheat codes below. Missing are carousel, canttouchthis, chenille, elderrune, glassworld, killmequick, loselevel, munitionfrenzy, reservoirdogs, roughjustice and thedayismine. That last absence means no Developer Mode (though it's not like you could use the developer console anyway). However, some Dev Mode features such as camera controls are actually available if you have the means to patch the game. See [[Oni (PlayStation 2)#Patches]] for more info on that as well as a skip-movies patch.

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Iritscen: picked new colors for cheat table that don't make me feel like I'm going blind; some table markup corrections and improvements

2025-02-21T00:15:56Z

picked new colors for cheat table that don't make me feel like I'm going blind; some table markup corrections and improvements

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Iritscen: linked to Shields article for "boss shield"

2024-02-29T18:51:02Z

linked to Shields article for "boss shield"

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	!chenille!!Daodan Power Enabled/Disabled		!chenille!!Daodan Power Enabled/Disabled
	\|style="background:lime"\|Player gets permanent Daodan glow and boss shield		\|style="background:lime"\|Player gets permanent Daodan glow and [[boss shield]]
	\|NO\|\|style="background:lime"\|<tt>chr_super(0, 1); chr_super(0, 0);</tt> '''(2)'''<br><tt>chr_boss_shield(0);</tt>		\|NO\|\|style="background:lime"\|<tt>chr_super(0, 1); chr_super(0, 0);</tt> '''(2)'''<br><tt>chr_boss_shield(0);</tt>
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Iritscen: /* PlayStation 2 */ wording

2022-11-20T03:23:32Z

PlayStation 2: wording

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	The PS2 version of the game does not need to be beaten in order to unlock cheats. To enter a cheat, start playing the game, press the SELECT button and highlight the HELP button. Then press one of the following button sequences (you'll hear a sound if you did it correctly). You'll notice that the first 6 inputs are always the same "master code" of L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢.		The PS2 version of the game does not need to be beaten in order to unlock cheats. To enter a cheat, start playing the game, press the SELECT button and highlight the HELP button. Then press one of the following button sequences (you'll hear a sound if you did it correctly). You'll notice that the first 6 inputs are always the same "master code" of L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢.

	Compared to the PC cheat code table above with its 22 cheats, ~~you'll note that~~ there are only 11 cheat codes below. Missing are carousel, canttouchthis, chenille, elderrune, glassworld, killmequick, loselevel, munitionfrenzy, reservoirdogs, roughjustice and thedayismine. That last absence means no Developer Mode, but how would you use the developer console anyway? ~~That being said~~, some Dev Mode features such as camera controls are actually available if you have the means to patch the game. See [[Oni (PlayStation 2)#Patches]] for more info on that as well as a no-movies patch.		Compared to the PC cheat code table above with its 22 cheats, there are only 11 cheat codes below. Missing are carousel, canttouchthis, chenille, elderrune, glassworld, killmequick, loselevel, munitionfrenzy, reservoirdogs, roughjustice and thedayismine. That last absence means no Developer Mode, but how would you use the developer console anyway? However, some Dev Mode features such as camera controls are actually available if you have the means to patch the game. See [[Oni (PlayStation 2)#Patches]] for more info on that as well as a no-movies patch.

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Iritscen: /* PlayStation 2 */ listed the missing cheats in this version; moved the mention of patches up from the bottom where it's easily missed and added some info about Dev Mode on PS2

2022-08-26T02:27:40Z

PlayStation 2: listed the missing cheats in this version; moved the mention of patches up from the bottom where it's easily missed and added some info about Dev Mode on PS2

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	==PlayStation 2==		==PlayStation 2==
	The PS2 version of the game does not need to be beaten in order to unlock cheats. ~~While~~ playing the game, press the SELECT button and highlight the HELP button. Then ~~enter~~ one of the following (you'll hear a sound if you did it correctly). ~~Note~~ that the first 6 inputs are always the same "master code" of L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢.		The PS2 version of the game does not need to be beaten in order to unlock cheats. To enter a cheat, start playing the game, press the SELECT button and highlight the HELP button. Then press one of the following button sequences (you'll hear a sound if you did it correctly). You'll notice that the first 6 inputs are always the same "master code" of L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢.

			Compared to the PC cheat code table above with its 22 cheats, you'll note that there are only 11 cheat codes below. Missing are carousel, canttouchthis, chenille, elderrune, glassworld, killmequick, loselevel, munitionfrenzy, reservoirdogs, roughjustice and thedayismine. That last absence means no Developer Mode, but how would you use the developer console anyway? That being said, some Dev Mode features such as camera controls are actually available if you have the means to patch the game. See [[Oni (PlayStation 2)#Patches]] for more info on that as well as a no-movies patch.

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	\|Instant Level Completion\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L3, R3, L2, L1\|\|winlevel		\|Instant Level Completion\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L3, R3, L2, L1\|\|winlevel
	\|}		\|}

	~~Patches can also be made to the PS2 version if you're playing it in PCSX2; see [[Oni (PlayStation 2)]].~~

	[[Category:Oni Support]][[Category:Modding tutorials]]		[[Category:Oni Support]][[Category:Modding tutorials]]

Iritscen: /* PlayStation 2 */ replacing fictitious cheat (button sequence was a duplicate of fistsoflegend) with actual cheat that was missing; these are all 11 cheats, per my RE work

2022-07-04T03:03:31Z

PlayStation 2: replacing fictitious cheat (button sequence was a duplicate of fistsoflegend) with actual cheat that was missing; these are all 11 cheats, per my RE work

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	!Effect!!Input Sequence!!PC Equivalent		!Effect!!Input Sequence!!PC Equivalent
	\|- align=center		\|- align=center
	\|Change The Character\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L2, L2, L2, L2...<br>(~~Hit the~~ L2 ~~button until you've selected a character~~)\|\|shapeshifter		\|Change The Character\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L2, L2, L2, L2...<br>(continue hitting L2 to cycle characters)\|\|shapeshifter
	\|- align=center		\|- align=center
	\|One Shot One Kill\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L3, R3, ◯, ▢\|\|touchofdeath		\|One Shot One Kill\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L3, R3, ◯, ▢\|\|touchofdeath
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	\|Huge Konoko\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, R3, ▢, ◯, L3\|\|behemoth		\|Huge Konoko\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, R3, ▢, ◯, L3\|\|behemoth
	\|- align=center		\|- align=center
	\|~~Hard Mode~~\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, R3, L3, ◯, ▢\|\|~~killmequick~~		\|Maximum Ammo/Hypos\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, ◯, ◯, ◯, R3\|\|fatloot
	\|- align=center		\|- align=center
	\|Instant Level Completion\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L3, R3, L2, L1\|\|winlevel		\|Instant Level Completion\|\|L2, L1, L2, ▢, ◯, ▢, L3, R3, L2, L1\|\|winlevel

Iritscen: /* PlayStation 2 */ wording; we don't currently know of any "cheats" that can be unlocked via patching, so I'm not sure why I wrote that

2022-05-05T01:48:19Z

PlayStation 2: wording; we don't currently know of any "cheats" that can be unlocked via patching, so I'm not sure why I wrote that

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	~~Additional cheats~~ can be ~~unlocked with hex-patching~~; see [[Oni (PlayStation 2)]].		Patches can also be made to the PS2 version if you're playing it in PCSX2; see [[Oni (PlayStation 2)]].

	[[Category:Oni Support]][[Category:Modding tutorials]]		[[Category:Oni Support]][[Category:Modding tutorials]]

Iritscen: expanding on the halfhearted lede

2021-05-18T15:10:19Z

expanding on the halfhearted lede

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	Like most games, Oni comes with a range of cheat codes.		Like most games, Oni comes with a range of cheat codes. The most famous of these is "shapeshifter", featured in the [[Quotes/Credits\|end credits]], which allows playthroughs as other characters. This cheat is considered to be the biggest contribution to vanilla Oni's replayability (in other words, before installing mods with the [[Anniversary Edition]]).

	==PC==		==PC==
	When playing the Mac or Windows version of Oni, you are required to finish the game in order to unlock cheats, but the cheats can also be unlocked prematurely by editing [[persist.dat\|the save-game file]]. However, if you have the [[Daodan DLL]] installed in Windows, or are using an [[FERAL\|Intel Mac build]] of Oni, cheats will be unlocked even when the game has not been beaten (the ~~[[AE]]~~ automatically installs the Daodan DLL in Windows and the Intel build on Macs).		When playing the Mac or Windows version of Oni, you are required to finish the game in order to unlock cheats, but the cheats can also be unlocked prematurely by editing [[persist.dat\|the save-game file]]. However, if you have the [[Daodan DLL]] installed in Windows, or are using an [[FERAL\|Intel Mac build]] of Oni, cheats will be unlocked even when the game has not been beaten. (Note that the Anniversary Edition automatically installs the Daodan DLL in Windows and the Intel build on Macs.)

	While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is [[Customizing/Binding\|bound]] to "pausescreen") and type one or more of the following (the confirmation message will appear if done correctly).		While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is [[Customizing/Binding\|bound]] to "pausescreen") and type one or more of the following (the confirmation message will appear if done correctly).

Iritscen: link fixes

2021-05-18T15:03:37Z

link fixes

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	==PC==		==PC==
	When playing the Mac or Windows version of Oni, you are required to finish the game in order to unlock cheats, but the cheats can also be unlocked prematurely by editing [[persist.dat\|the save-game file]]. However, if you have the [[Daodan DLL]] installed in Windows, or are using an [[~~AE:~~FERAL\|Intel Mac build]] of Oni, cheats will be unlocked even when the game has not been beaten (the [[AE]] automatically installs the Daodan DLL in Windows and the Intel build on Macs).		When playing the Mac or Windows version of Oni, you are required to finish the game in order to unlock cheats, but the cheats can also be unlocked prematurely by editing [[persist.dat\|the save-game file]]. However, if you have the [[Daodan DLL]] installed in Windows, or are using an [[FERAL\|Intel Mac build]] of Oni, cheats will be unlocked even when the game has not been beaten (the [[AE]] automatically installs the Daodan DLL in Windows and the Intel build on Macs).

	While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is [[Customizing/Binding\|bound]] to "pausescreen") and type one or more of the following (the confirmation message will appear if done correctly).		While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is [[Customizing/Binding\|bound]] to "pausescreen") and type one or more of the following (the confirmation message will appear if done correctly).

	Note that there are also '''additional cheats''' added by the Daodan DLL (see [[Daodan DLL#Added cheat codes\|here]]) and the Intel Mac build of Oni (see [[~~AE:~~FERAL#Behavior\|here]]).		Note that there are also '''additional cheats''' added by the Daodan DLL (see [[Daodan DLL#Added cheat codes\|here]]) and the Intel Mac build of Oni (see [[FERAL#Behavior\|here]]).
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