Those who saw Sonic Mania as the nostalgia-filled love letter to their childhoods might remember the days where Up Down Left Right or 19, 65, 09, 17 were keys to unlocking hidden secrets within the classic Sonic games. It appears that the 90s styled cheat codes have returned for Mania, as discovered by some players. If you start up a Mania Mode game, then enter Debug Mode, and hold Y/Square when selecting a no-save file, you can input the following in the Sound Test menu:

0 0 0 0 6 2 1 4 - Disables the Super theme music
9 0 0 1 - Gives Sonic the Drop Dash, Insta Shield, and Peel Out all at once
3 3 3 1 9 7 9 0 8 1 1 - Changes all freed animals into Squirrels
4 1 2 6 - Gives all Chaos Emeralds
1 9 9 2 1 1 2 4 - Gives you unlimited continues
2 0 1 8 0 6 2 3 - Forces gamemode into Encore Mode
2 0 1 7 0 8 1 5 - Lets you fly like Super Sonic in normal stages

All of these numbers reference certain special dates, as well. The unlimited continues code is the date of the EU release for Sonic 2, the Super Sonic Flight code is Mania's original release date, force Encore is Plus' release date, 4126 also gave you every emerald in Sonic 2, there's an over 9000 meme, and 1979 08 11 is Stealth's birthday.

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[Sonic Angel Knight]

Probably better to get a decent game a year or two later, than getting a broken mess the same year the anniversary is in (*cough* Sonic '06 *cough*).
Well, it doesn't look like the delay helped Sonic Forces in any way, though…
It's like they didn't know the 25th anniversary is coming and couldn't start the development earlier?

I am unable to comment on games I have not yet played. So I won't talk about "Sonic 06" or "Sonic forces"
But I do know that there has been plenty of games that was released in the year the anniversary takes place and was okay. People just seem too busy with other stuff at the time so it gets late popularity.

 

[supergamer368]

I love how cheat codes have returned, and I love how many of them reference an important date.

 

[redunka]

I am unable to comment on games I have not yet played. So I won't talk about "Sonic 06" or "Sonic forces"
But I do know that there has been plenty of games that was released in the year the anniversary takes place and was okay. People just seem too busy with other stuff at the time so it gets late popularity.

I actually haven't played Forces myself either, so I also can't really talk about how good/bad it is.
As for Sonic 06, if you won't have high expectations for it, it may even be somewhat enjoyable (the music alone totally worth it!)
People are tend to exaggerate problems, so it's always the best to get your own experience and opinion.

 

[Deleted User]

9 0 0 1 - Gives Sonic the Drop Dash, Insta Shield, and Peel Out all at once

Was looking for a way to do this ever since the 1.04 update broke Mania Mod Loader support. Thanks for the find!

 

[RedoLane]

The unlimited continues code is the date of the EU release for Sonic 2

that date was a NA release too

 

[DarthDub]

Is there a 14 Continues cheat that bugs out the Sound Driver and plays nothing but Oil Ocean with no sound effects until you hard reset the game?

 

[Vieela]

It's interesting to see cheat codes still on recent games like Sonic Mania. Nice!

 

[seren3]

9001
Excellent.

 

[TheMCNerd2017]

I actually discovered some of these cheats myself when playing random sounds in the sound test trying to find a combination that would unlock vaporwave mode(which was sadly scrapped because consoles can't slow down music for some reason).

 

[Jayro]

Not sure what 2 0 1 8 0 6 2 3, what happend on 23/6/2018 for Sonic?

I found this: https://nintendosoup.com/sonic-is-celebrating-his-birthday-on-june-23/

 

[MaxiBash]

Ohh yeah, I forgot and I never watched it.
I heard it was decent.

 

[DJPlace]

you can't do these with old save files.... ugh......