Cheats
The Ricochet games have several cheats/commands that can be activated by typing them in-game. Using some of the gameplay cheats may flag the saved game as cheated and won't qualify for statistics.
All games Edit
These cheats/commands work in all Ricochet games.
Command | Description |
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showfps | Toggle FPS |
cheatzach | Toggle crazy points display, when enabled, the score will appear to be multiplied by 57 but does not affect statistics |
cheatreverse | Toggle reversed controls |
debugleft | Force the first ball to go left |
debugright | Force the first ball to go right |
killmenow | On Xtreme: Instantly removes the first ball from the screen, if there are no other balls left, it will cause 'out of bounds penalty'
On Lost Worlds and Infinity: Instantly moves the first ball to the bottom-center of the screen, if the ball is facing down and there are no other balls left, it will cause 'out of bounds penalty' |
Function key | Description |
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F1 | Open Controls Options |
F10 | Save screenshot as TGA |
Ricochet Xtreme Edit
These cheats/commands only work on Ricochet Xtreme.
Command | Description |
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Gameplay cheats | |
cheatnext | Skip current level |
Powerup cheats | |
cheatsplit | 8 Way Ball Split |
cheatfire | Turns the first ball into a Fire Ball |
cheatrail | Turns the first ball into a Rail Ball |
cheatsmall | Turns the first ball into a Small Ball |
cheatgun | Gives the Laser Blaster Gun powerup |
cheatmiss | Gives the Meg-O-Blaster Gun powerup |
cheatcatch | Gives the Ball Catcher powerup |
cheatgrow | Gives the Shield Expander powerup |
cheatexpand | Gives the Shield Expander powerup |
cheatshrink | Gives the Shield Shrinker powerup |
Miscellaneous | |
flipad | Cycles through the next ad at the bottom-right |
showbackground | Toggle the background setting from Animated Background to Still Background Image to No Background Image |
showmph | Toggle ball speed display |
Function key | Description |
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F5 | Toggle the background setting from Animated Background to Still Background Image to No Background Image |
Ricochet Lost Worlds Edit
These cheats/commands only work on Ricochet Lost Worlds.
Command | Description |
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Gameplay cheats | |
debugskip | Skip current level |
Player stat cheats | |
debugunlockall | Unlock all checkpoints in current level set |
debugunlocklast | Unlock the last checkpoint in current level set (Recharged only) |
debuggetrings | Get all but 2 levels' rings on current level set (Recharged only) |
Miscellaneous | |
flipad | Cycles through the next ad at the top-right |
showmph | Supposed to activate ball speed display, but nothing seems to happen, probably a leftover from Xtreme |
Game internals debugging | |
dirtyrect | Enable dirty/direct [sic] rect display, press F3 to show (Recharged only) |
Function key | Description |
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F3 | Display dirty rect if the dirtyrect cheat is enabled (Recharged only)
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F5 | Toggle the background setting from Animated Background to Still Background Image to No Background Image, this key is disabled starting from Build 30 |
These cheats are listed in on the PowerUp's properties file, but the game doesn't seem to recognize them so they are probably disabled/removed:
- acid
- convert
- laserball
- bombball
- catch
- gun
- mul3
- mul8
- safty
- small
- sting
Ricochet Lost Worlds and Infinity Edit
Function key | Description |
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F6 | Open in level editor if playing, or test play level |
F7 | Open in level editor if playing, or test play level with markers |
F9 | Update level thumbnail |
F11 | Save screenshot as JPEG |
Ricochet Infinity Edit
These cheats/commands only work on Ricochet Infinity.
Command | Description |
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Gameplay cheats | |
debugfinishlevel | Finish current level by destroying all bricks |
slowmotion | Enable slow motion, hold down left Shift+Alt to slow the game, also hold left Ctrl to slow even more |
debugspawnspaceship | Spawn an invader |
Powerup cheats | |
debug3way | Gives the 3 Way Ball Split powerup |
debug8way | Gives the 8 Way Ball Split powerup |
debugacid | Gives the Acid Ball powerup |
debugcatch | Gives the Ball Catcher powerup |
debugballgen | Gives the Ball Generator Ball powerup |
debugbloss | Gives the Blossom powerup |
debugemp | Gives the EMP Bomb powerup |
debugextra | Gives the Extra Ion Sphere powerup |
debugfast | Gives the Fast powerup |
debugfire | Gives the Fire Ball powerup |
debugfreeze | Gives the Freeze powerup |
debuginline | Gives the Inline 3 Way Ball Split powerup |
debuglaser | Gives the Laser Ball powerup |
debuggun | Gives the Laser Blaster Gun powerup |
debuglight | Gives the Lightning Ball powerup |
debugbiggun | Gives the Meg-O-Blaster Gun powerup |
debugnormball | Gives the Normal Ball powerup |
debugnormship | Gives the Normal Ship powerup |
debugnuke | Gives the Nuclear Beam powerup |
debugprobe | Gives the Probe powerup |
debugrail | Gives the Rail Ball powerup |
debugsafe | Gives the Safety Bumper powerup |
debugexpand | Gives the Shield Expander powerup |
debugshrink | Gives the Shield Shrinker powerup |
debughelper | Gives the Ship Helper powerup |
debugspecialty | Gives the Ship Specialty powerup |
debugsight | Gives the Sight powerup |
debugballslow | Gives the Slow powerup |
debugsmall | Gives the Small Ball powerup |
debugsting | Gives the Stinger Missiles powerup |
Player stat cheats | |
debugunlockall | Performs both debugunlockplanets and debugmaxrank
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debugunlockplanets | Unlock and mark both Quests as complete except rings |
debugmaxrank | Set total rings count to 1,100 if it's below that amount, unlocking most player ships and balls |
debugunlockset / lxylxy | Unlock and mark all levels on current level set as complete except rings |
debugunlocklast | Unlock all levels on current level set, and mark all except last as complete, does not collect rings |
debugeveryring | Mark all rings on current level set as complete, does not count towards total rings count |
debuggetrings | Similar to debugeveryring , but does not mark rings on the first 2 levels as complete
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debugminrank | Reset total rings count to 0 |
debugresetachievements | Reset all achievements |
Useful for level editors | |
debugon | Enable level debugger, useful to figure out why a level isn't ending due to a stray leftover brick |
debugoff | Disable level debugger |
bricklayername | Toggle display of brick layer names |
xybaxyba[up arrow] | Immediately load all assets, on an unmodified game this will work fine, this can be useful for modders to validate their mods |
Game internals debugging | |
blitx | Toggle scaling, may cause bricks/balls to disappear |
cachedscal | Toggle realtime/cached scaling |
debugfont | Toggle font debugging, requires Data/Resources/Fonts/Editor.FONT.TXT font to be present or the game would crash
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dirtyrect | Enable dirty/direct [sic] rect display, press F3 to show |
pmon | Display statistics, also speeds up game |
xxyyxx | Supposed to toggle safe zone display, but nothing? |
Function key | Description |
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F3 | Display dirty rect if the dirtyrect cheat is enabled
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