Cheats

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As with most games, Oni comes with its own range of cheats. When playing the Macintosh or PC version you are supposed to unlock them by finishing the game. However, Windows/Mac cheats can be unlocked by hacking persist.dat manually or using Oni Savegame Editor

Below you will find all available cheats for the game.

Macintosh/Windows

While playing a game, press F1 (or whatever is bound to pausescreen) and type one (or more) of the following:

(case sensitive, a textual confirmation will appear if done correctly):

Input sequence	Confirmation message	Effect description	Persists on level load	Scripting equivalent
shapeshifter	Change Characters Enabled/Disabled	While playing, pressing F8 or SHIFT+F8 changes your "skin"	YES
liveforever	Invincibility Enabled/Disabled	Konoko takes no melee, weapon or falling damage	NO	invincible= 1; / invincible= 0; (1)
touchofdeath	Omnipotence Enabled/Disabled	Konoko kills enemies with any combat move	NO	omnipotent= 1; omnipotent= 0;
canttouchthis	Unstoppable Enabled/Disabled	Konoko can't be stunned, thrown, knocked down or blown up	NO	unstoppable= 1; / unstoppable= 0; (1)
fatloot	Fat Loot Received	Player's quantity of ammo and hypos is set to max		give_powerup (1)
glassworld	Glass Furniture Enabled/Disabled	Makes most objects breakable with gunfire or shockwaves	YES	p3_furniture_breakable= 1; p3_furniture_breakable= 0;
winlevel	Instantly Win Level	Level is won upon exit of the pause screen		win (2)
loselevel	Instantly Lose Level	Level is lost upon exit of the pause screen		lose (2)
bighead	Big Head Enabled/Disabled	Everybody's head is 4 times its normal size	NO	chr_big_head= 1; / chr_big_head= 0; chr_big_head_amount= 4;
minime	Mini Mode Enabled/Disabled	Player's size is 0.25 times normal	NO	chr_mini_me= 1; / chr_mini_me= 0; chr_mini_me_amount= 0.25;
superammo	Super Ammo Mode Enabled/Disabled	Player's guns are always full with ammo	NO
thedayismine	Developer Mode Enabled/Disabled	Developer Mode (bound in beta<5, re-bindable elsewhere)	YES
reservoirdogs	Last Man Standing Enabled/Disabled	AI fight amongst themselves	YES
roughjustice	Gatling Guns Enabled/Disabled	Player's guns fire X times faster	YES
chenille	Daodan Power Enabled/Disabled	Player gets permanent Daodan glow and boss shield	NO	chr_super(0, 1); chr_super(0, 0); (2) chr_boss_shield(0);
behemoth	Godzilla Mode Enabled/Disabled	Player is (roughly) double-sized	NO	chr_mini_me= 1; / chr_mini_me= 0; chr_mini_me_amount= 2;
elderrune	Regeneration Enabled/Disabled	Konoko regenerates at the rate of 1 HP/sec	YES
moonshadow	Phase Cloak Enabled/Disabled	Player gets a permanent Phase Cloak	NO	give_powerup(invis, -1); give_powerup(invis, 1); (3)
munitionfrenzy	Weapons Locker Created	All weapons appear at the player's feet for 15 secs
fistsoflegend	Fists Of Legend Enabled/Disabled	Konoko's combat moves knock enemies back	NO
killmequick	Ultra Mode Enabled/Disabled	AI don't pause between combos (a little tougher)	YES	chr_ultra_mode (4)
carousel	Slow Motion Enabled/Disabled	Permanent slow motion	NO	slowmo (5)

Color code

Effect description
Lime	cheat applies to any character you chr_focus to (via scripting). When you chr_focus to another, the effect stays with the old one.
Fuchsia	cheat applies to Konoko even if you chr_focus to another character
White	cheat isn't player-character-specific
Scripting equivalent
Black	no equivalent available
White	exact equivalent and that's it
Fuchsia	script only works for Konoko, use chr_focus and cheats for other characters
Lime	script given works for Konoko, but other characters (whether you chr_focus to them or not) can be done too
Yellow	no exact equivalent, extra work required

Tips to scripters

Scripting equivalents

(1)	Use the chr_invincible and chr_unstoppable modifiers for generic characters.
(2)	The generic chr_super modifier is the only way. Only a few characters (Konoko, Muro) have Daodan glow particles. As for the boss shield, chr_boss_shield can only give it to a character (no way to take it away)
(1)	You can use either of the generic give_powerup and chr_givepowerup modifiers.

• give_powerup usage :
  • first two arguments are powerup type and amount (optional)
  • The third argument is the character's ID (0 by default)
• chr_givepowerup usage :
  • first argument is the character's name or script ID (compulsory)
• problem with reproducing the fatloot effect :
  • fatloot fills up hypos, ammos and cells to a maximum of 6
  • generally, you don't know how many of those the player already has
• solution (if you really want to mimic fatloot exactly) :
  • take away all the player's powerups, the only way to do this being to clear the inventory, e.g. chr_inv_reset(0)
  • then use e.g. chr_givepowerup(0, hypo, 6) etc.

(2)	The engine does not actually call win or lose here.

• So you can not gain 2 custom cheats by redefining win and lose.

(3)	You can use either of the generic give_powerup and chr_givepowerup modifiers (see above).

• moonshadow is the same as taking the Phase Cloak away then doing e.g. chr_givepowerup(0, invis, -1).
• problem with reproducing the moonshadow effect :
  • generally, you don't know how much Phase Cloak the character already has
• solution (if you really want to mimic moonshadow exactly) :
  • drain the player's Phase Cloak with the built-in begin_cutscene(); end_cutscene(); (only affects the player)
  • or somehow make sure the character has no phase cloak
  • then use e.g. chr_givepowerup(0, invis, -1)

(4)	You must use the generic chr_ultra_mode modifier on every character you want to be "ultra".

• it doesn't seem to have any visible effect though, so don't bother :)

(5)	You can use the slowmo command, or play with draw_every_frame and draw_every_frame_multiple.

• The scripted slowmo doesn't have a permanent effect : slowmo(300) gives you 300 frames (5 seconds) of slowmo.
• Extra work is required to make it last (implemented in Oni Menu, no wiki page yet).

Cheat watching

• liveforever, canttouchthis and touchofdeath can be detected at runtime by custom scripts.
• One can then ignore the cheat or trigger a custom event (kill or hurt the cheater, etc, etc).
• glassworld and bighead are directly detectable too
• shapeshifter is indirectly detectable by anim watching
• minime and behemoth are not detectable
• 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 past normal health to take another hypo.

Shapeshifting

• You may not know it, but SHIFT+F8 lets you cycle the shapeshifter characters backwards. Yes, you really can go the other way.
• I'm sorry if you cycled like mad to get to previous characters through all those years. So did I. I only found out about this today.

geyser 00:56, 15 Nov 2005 (CET)

PlayStation 2

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):

Effect	Input Sequence
Change The Character	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L2, L2, L2, L2... (Hit the L2 button until you've selected a character)
One Shot One Kill	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L3, R3, CIRCLE, SQUARE
Unlimited Health	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, R3, L3, R3, CIRCLE
Extra Powerful Punches And Kicks	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, R3, L3, CIRCLE, SQUARE
Small Characters	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L3, R3, SQUARE, CIRCLE
Unlimited Phase Cloak	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L1, R3, L2, L3
Big Head Mode	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, START, SQUARE, CIRCLE, START
Unlimited ammo	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L2, L2, L1, L3
Huge Characters	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, R3, SQUARE, CIRCLE, L3
Hard Mode	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, R3, L3, CIRCLE, SQUARE
Instant Level Completion	L2, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L3, R3, L2, L1