This can potentially corrupt your game save (it often does).However, some game saves cannot be hacked easily, because the developers will sometimes put encryption in place to prevent gamers from modifying online stats and other global statistics. Today's Null Byte covers a simple, universal way that you can hack your game saves. This provides write access, and with write access we can edit the files and manipulate the data inside of them, potentially scoring ourselves a million Septims in Skyrim.

With achievements and trophies in existence, game developers have, for the most part, removed cheats from video games.īut cheats aren't entirely gone! Since computers and game consoles are so closely linked now, it's rather easy to connect the console's storage medium to a computer and gain access to its data. The days of entering left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, a, b to cheat your way through a video game are long gone.