As the original Crash Bandicoot game (for the Sony PlayStation) was released in 1996, it’s now been around for 30 years! The franchise has seen many entries since that first one, but the original game remains hugely influential and popular to this day.
We’ve compiled a list of cheats you can use in order to customise your experience with Crash Bandicoot, which may be a lot more challenging than you remember it being! These are GameShark codes, which can be used on several PS1 emulators; the one we’ve used is DuckStation for Windows (though it’s also available for mobile platforms).
This is the same advice that we’d give for any cheats: remember to always save your game before enabling one, and for the best, most stable results, turn off all other cheats when applying and using a new one. As there are so many different combinations of codes possible, we can’t guarantee they’ll all work together as intended. In fact, we often have trouble ourselves when multiple cheats are used simultaneously, so it’s worth turning off as many as you can to use the latest one you want.
If you get stuck or the added cheats do crash or otherwise break your game, you can always go back to your save point. It’s important to remember to turn each added cheat off before saving again too, so that the chances of crashing or otherwise breaking your game by adding a new code are reduced.
99 Lives
Sure, you might have 99 problems, but losing all your lives ain’t one. Not when you have this cheat enabled, which resets your lives to 99 whenever you go back to the game’s level map:
- 800618EC 6300
99 Wumpa Fruit
To have 99 Wumpa Fruit on any stage, use the code for the stage you’re on. Each code gives you 99 Wumpa Fruit on a specific stage:
- N. Sanity Beach: 8009E534 6300
- Jungle Rollers: 8009E598 6300
- Papu Papu: 8009E0CC 6300
- Rolling Stones: 8009E60C 6300
- Hog Wild: 8009E648 6300
- Native Fortress: 8009E7CC 6300
- Up The Creek: 8009E69C 6300
- Ripp Roo: 8009E0DC 6300
- Road To Nowhere: 8009E61C 6300
- Boulder Dash: 8009E804 6300
- Sunset Vista: 8009E814 6300
- Koala Kong: 8009E194 6300
- Heavy Machinery: 8009E824 6300
- Generator Room: 8009E548 6300
- Toxic Waste: 8009E4C8 6300
- Pinstripe: 8009E18C 6300
- The High Road: 8009E5BC 6300
- Slippery Climb: 8009E5EC 6300
- Lights Out: 8009E504 6300
- Fumbling In The Dark: 8009E5A8 6300
- Jaws Of Darkness: 8009E774 6300
- Castle Machinery: 8009E888 6300
- Nitrus Brio: 8009E19C 6300
- The Lab: 8009E528 6300
- The Great Hall: 8009E364 6300
- Dr. Neo Cortex: 8009E0F4 6300
Always Have Two Masks At Stage Start
Each mask you have protects you from one hit; using this code will give you the maximum 2 masks whenever you start a new stage from the map:
- 800618F0 0200
Double Speed
To play Crash Bandicoot at double speed (bearing in mind that this speeds up not only Crash, but all obstacles and enemies too), use this code:
- 80034520 FFFF
Level Select
This code immediately unlocks access to all levels in Crash Bandicoot:
- 80061948 0020
Note on Other Crash Bandicoot Cheats
There are old school, button pressing cheats available for Crash Bandicoot, but we’ve not been able to test them properly using our emulator. They’re very elaborate, and in many cases offer cheats which are covered by the above codes anyway! So we haven’t included these. We’ve also seen that codes for other cheat devices do exist, but have been unable to fully verify them using DuckStation. Therefore, we haven’t included these either; we’d much rather we give you fully tested, fully verified codes that we know are working as intended.
