Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 Cheat Codes Ps1

[Elenor Waas]

Thereare a lot of unanswered questions about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. During an interview for the new documentary film Pretending I'm a Superman, Inverse posed two big questions to series producer Ralph D'Amato, who worked on the Tony Hawk games from their inception until the 2006 game Tony Hawk's Project 8:

As it turns out, the dip in popularity of vertical ramp ("vert") skating led to Macdonald's absence, as his specialty was vert. However, an abandoned "vert duos" feature, which the developers of Tony Hawk never figured out to work, would have featured Macdonald, a renowned skater who (in addition to his own accomplishments) is known for his partnership with Tony Hawk.

"The room for vert skaters was small," D'Amato says. "As the series progressed, [there was] the fall of vert skating. It focused on street skating. There weren't places for vert skaters, which is what Andy is."

Skateboarding is split between two styles: Street skating and vertical ramp ("vert") skating. Most of the Pro Skater series revolved around street skating, despite Hawk's own style being vert. Both Hawk and Macdonald are renowned for their synchronous vert skating. (If Tony Hawk is the sport's Michael Jordan, Andy Macdonald is Scottie Pippen.) So it's strange a pro skater of Macdonald's caliber was never in the games.

But something D'Amato says the Pro Skater team tried to work out was a "vert duos" feature, in which players could skate co-cooperatively on a vert ramp. As D'Amato recalls, the feature didn't get far in development, so it's unknown how it would have looked and played.

"We kicked around at one point some type of doubles," D'Amato says. "If we were able to ever pull off doubles where two people skate vert, Andy, because he was Tony's partner, was a shoo-in. But it had to do with vert slowing down and street skating taking off. The bigger stars coming out were street skaters."

For clarification, we ask D'Amato if vert duos would have been a separate spin-off game, maybe in the vein of Tekken Tag Tournament, but D'Amato says that wasn't the case. It would have been a feature within the core game, but it never happened.

Ludvig Gur, director of the documentary Pretending I'm a Superman that chronicles the rise and fall of the Pro Skater franchise, is a living encyclopedia of the games. He says there were moments in the series that had vert duo skating, though they were simple missions ("goals," in the game's unique parlance) rather than a stand-alone feature.

"You did [duos] in Tony Hawk 4, with Steve Caballero," Gur remembers. He also remembers the final mission of the 2006 game Tony Hawk's Project 8 involving vert duos. "I think the reason that didn't work out is because, by that time, the physics in the game became less realistic. By that time you could skate up a vert and do the 900."

There are a lot of gems fans remember about theTony Hawk games. Area 51, invaded by anime fans last summer, was a secret level in the original game. And because of Neversoft's then-agreement with Marvel, Spider-Man was a secret skater in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, with Wolverine and Iron Man joining in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and Tony Hawk's Underground, respectively.

For a long time, fans speculated one of the women was Tony Hawk's second wife, Erin Lee, who was married to Hawk at the time of the game's release. But D'Amato says it's not. D'Amato also confirms he was not involved with these secrets; these cheat codes were in the Nintendo 64 ports of the game, which was over overseen by Edge of Reality, a separate studio than Neversoft. Still, D'Amato is aware of the photos, and has an answer to the 20-plus year mystery. Sort of.

"We didn't do that. That was the N64 version," D'Amato tells Inverse. "I was told [they were] one of the lead designers or CEO's wife or girlfriend. I know there was a thing going around that was Tony's wife but that wasn't the case. That was someone at Edge of Reality's wife or fiance, as a nod for whatever help he could get through. I can only guess someone else on the team was like, 'I'm going to do it too.' That's all I know."

Original "Pro Skater" developer Neversoft stayed consistent through its run of making the games, offering up some of the most critically approved titles for major systems. These were the only sports games I would actually touch during the PlayStation 1 and 2 era growing up because I had more fun chaining flip tricks together and grinding a helicopter blade as Spider-Man than catching a digital football. That, and it was fun arguing with friends over which cheat codes to use as we passed the controller around during career mode.

Not only did it tighten up the controls from the first iteration, but it also gave you the chance to create a skater or skate park of your own design, and even added some mild role-play-game elements by letting you build your skater's stats.

One of the most fun aspects of older games was discovering all the cheat codes included to change up how you played. The old Tony Hawk games had awesome cheats to mess around with, and the new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 +2 has kept the tradition alive, but these cheats require more than just a code to activate.

The Tony Hawk games have never been the most realistic of sports games. Ever since the original you've been able to soar higher, grind for longer, and crash harder than any human ever could, but with cheats you can take those last remaining shreds of realism and toss them out the window for pure fantasy fun. While there are a couple cheats you can mess around with right off the bat in the new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake, there are more you can unlock through the game itself, plus the assists that are basically cheats themselves. Here's how to unlock them all and what they do.

All the cheats you can unlock in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 can be activated through the Game Mods menu, which is also where you can access the assists. Unfortunately none of the cheats from the original PlayStation 1 versions of these games unlock anything in the PS4 remake, which is rather disappointing considering how much respect was paid to those originals, although many do return as assists.

This fun little cheat allows you to change the size of your skater to make them a shrunken down version, or a massive giant. To unlock this cheat you will need to beat the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 Tour.

While the name is a little misleading, if you're a fan of visual filters, this cheat is for you. You'll be able to cycle through four different filters to change up how the game looks, such as black and white, old-timey, inverted color, and green boy. While you probably wouldn't want to play for very long with some of them, they're still fun to try out. You can unlock all of these filters by completing the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Tour.

Once again this cheat requires you to beat the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Tour. Doing exactly as the name says, this cheat will double all the base scores for any trick, so if a move is normally worth 300 points it would become worth 600. Not very exciting compared to the others, but fun to have if you want to see just how high you can build your score.

This last cheat, once again, asks that you complete the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Tour to unlock. Activating this cheat lets you tune your skater's stats up to 'expert' or 'super stats' levels. Expert attempts to make the game more realistic, while super allows you to go crazy with fully buffed stats.

There are five assists you can toggle on and off right off the bat when starting up the game, although you can't use them during certain portions of the game, and they disable you from posting scores to leaderboards while active.

Perfect rail balance, perfect manual balance, and perfect lip balance all remove the balancing mini-game from grinds, manuals, and lip tricks respectively, essentially allowing you to perform these moves forever. Always special keeps your special meter full at all times, and no bails means you'll never fall and fail a trick.

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