Originally posted by honeybee
Cheats are probably shortcuts built by programmers into their code to facilitate easier testing of certain features. As such they are part of the code, and you are committing absolutely no crime in using cheats.

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If you make a cheat for a game you need to alter the EXE file or the resource files for the game. As I said for most shelf games there is legal issues about altering the code or resources for a game. So again, thats not legal...