{"id":113010,"date":"2020-05-16T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/perfect_dark_was_supposed_to_have_push_button_cheats_but_they_accidentally_got_deleted"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:00:00","slug":"perfect-dark-was-supposed-to-have-push-button-cheats-but-they-accidentally-got-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/16\/perfect-dark-was-supposed-to-have-push-button-cheats-but-they-accidentally-got-deleted\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Dark Was Supposed To Have Push Button Cheats, But They Accidentally Got Deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/269b6debd1d67\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/269b6debd1d67\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Perfect Dark\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/269b6debd1d67\/perfect-dark.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/269b6debd1d67\/perfect-dark.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Perfect Dark\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Nintendo Life<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re old enough to remember the N64 classic <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/goldeneye_007\">GoldenEye 007<\/a><\/strong>, you might also recall that the game featured a bunch of push button cheat codes which could be entered to change the game and unlock all of the weapons. You might also be one of the many people who were upset that its spiritual sequel, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/perfect_dark\">Perfect Dark<\/a><\/strong>, lacked this feature.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out there&#8217;s a good reason for that omission. We&#8217;ve been speaking to former Rare staff Beau Chesluk to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/feature_perfect_dark_turns_20_-_the_definitive_story_behind_the_n64_hit_that_outclassed_james_bond\">celebrate the game&#8217;s 20th birthday<\/a>, and he has confirmed that there was a cheat menu in the game, but he accidentally deleted it.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>Now\u2019s a good time to apologise. During the time when we had to crush it down from 8MB to 4MB, we were going through code looking for stuff to delete and I found this file from GoldenEye where someone had put in all the button cheats. And I thought, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s no button cheats, this must be old.\u2019 So I deleted it. Sorry. I\u2019m very sorry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll forgive you, Beau. Time is a great healer, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Nintendo Life If you&#8217;re old enough to remember the N64 classic GoldenEye 007, you might also recall that the game featured a bunch of push button cheat codes which could be entered to change the game and unlock all of the weapons. You might also be one of the many people who were upset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}