Ykkrosh
Mortal
posted 01 October 2006 11:32 AM
EDT (US)
10 / 15
It's likely that they don't store the actual cheat codes anywhere - they might store something like the CRC32 checksums of the codes, so the game can tell if you've entered a cheat (by calculating the checksum of your input and comparing it to a list) but you can never find the cheats by looking in the game's code or data files. That wouldn't stop you adding your own if you could work out how it was implemented, but I agree it's likely they're in the .exe (because the engine is designed so that loads of game-specific data is compiled into the .exe) which would make it very hard to find and to alter.