In Total Annihilation, press Enter for the message box, and then
type in the cheat codes. Except for RADAR,LIGHT,SING, and other
useless ones, they only work in multiplayer (if allowed) and in
skirmish games. Here they are:
+AIMFROMPRIMARY -
+AIMFROMSECONDARY -
+AIMFROMTERTIARY -
+ANTIALIAS -
+ASSERT -
+ASSIGN -
+ATM - Gives you 1000 metal and energy.
+BECARRIED -
+BIGBROTHER -
+BURNALL -
+BURNONE -
+CDPLAY - Same as +CDSTART. (bit quicker)
+CDSTART - Starts CD Music.
+CDSTOP - Stops CD Music.
+CLOCK - Shows game clock.
+CONTOUR # - Displays a 3D contour, # = 1-15.
+CONTROL # - Lets you control a different skirmish AI, # = 0-3.
+DEBUGBREAK -
+DPRINT -
+DITHER - Dithering instead of line of sight.
+DOUBLESHOT - All weapons do twice the damage.
+DR -
+DROP -
+EDGE -
+FEATURE -
+FILM -
+FILMSPEED -
+FSHADOW -
+GIVE -
+HALFSHOT - All weapons do half the damage.
+IFACE -
+INCLUDE -
+ILOSE - Causes you to lose.
+IWIN - Causes you to win.
+KILL - Kills every unit. (including yours)
+LIGHT 1000 - Darker structures. No number makes them black.
+LINE%D -
+LOS - Same as +NOWISEE. (quicker)
+LOSTYPE -
+MEM -
+MEMDUMP -
+MOVE -
+MUSICMODE -
+NETSTATS -
+NOENERGY - Drops your energy to 0.
+NOMETAL - Drops your metal to 0.
+NOSHAKE - Stops explosion screen shakes.
+NOTOKTOBUILD -
+NOWISEE - Full map and disables line of sight.
+NUMLINES -
+NUMTABLES -
+OKTOBUILD -
+PROFILE -
+QUERYNANOPIECE -
+QUERYPRIMARY -
+QUERYSECONDARY -
+QUERYTERTIARY -
+RADAR - 100% radar coverage.
+RCACHE -
+RELOAD -
+SCROLLSPEED -
+SCREENCHAT -
+SEALEVEL -
+SEARCH -
+SELBOXES -
+SELECTABLE -
+SHADOW - Toggles object shadowing.
+SHOT -
+SING - This command makes units "sing" when given orders.
+SOUND3D - Toggles 3D sound
+SWEETSPOT -
+SWITCHALT - Allows you to switch between squads with # keys.
+TABLE%D -
+TABLEINFO -
+TREEDEATH -
+TSHADOW -
+VIEW # - Lets you see the metal + energy a player has, # = 0-3.
+ZBUFFER -
Below is the first Campaign cheat code:
Click on Total Annihilation's Single Player icon. When the Single
Player Game page appears type DRDEATH (it is not case sensitive).
This will cause a Cavedog Entertainment bone to appear between the
Load Game and Previous Menu icons on the screen. Clicking on the
bone will take players to a special Play Any Game screen where they
can play any Total Annihilation mission, even if they have not
earned their way to that level yet.
Editing:
Use the Write_HPI file to extract the totala1.hpi files. This tells
you the files use. But I don't know how to get it to work.
Edit TDF files to edit the weapons, smudge, etc.
Edit the FBI files to edit units.
Edit the GUI files to edit the cursor, buttons, etc.
Edit the BOS files to edit ingame explosions.
Open the PCX (pictures) files to edit the icon pics.
Open the WAV (sound) files to edit the sounds.
3DO - unknown
COB - unknown
FNT - unknown
GAF - unknown
To edit the new unit = Flakker, extract the file and change file
that was extracted to the name 'AFlakker.ufo' to 'AFlakker.hpi'.
Then use write_HPI on it. Then after the files are extracted change
the name back to 'AFlakker.ufo'. I don't know how to get my edited
files to work.
RGRDS
Roland
Here is a cheat and some hints for Total Annihilation. By Geoffrey
Giesemann
Cheat:
If you are defeated in battle you may still move on to the next
battle. The next battle should be selectable in the battles menu.
Just click and start.
Hints:
The last battles of the game are relatively easy if you are Arm.
Just build tons of mines, tons of
collectors/reactors/geo-powerplants, add about 3 of every type of
unit construction building. Set them all on en masse and move the
'new unit location' to somewhere else (it gets crowded). Attack the
doomsday weapons with merls. Merls can fire outside D.day range and
the weapon does not need to be visible. Because you can see all
wreckages you can attack with some Merls and an advanced radar. You
also hit the 200 max unit limit.
Your units also get stuck around the battlefield because of
wreckages. This is really crippling in narrow sections. Have a few
construction aircraft hovering around to help out in the clean up.