Official, developer-provided cheat codes for Polyphony Digital’s seminalGran Turismo 4on the PlayStation 2 console have finally been discovered. Though the newerGran Turismo 7was favorably reviewed,Gran Turismo 4is often held up as a golden standard for the franchise, and these cheats may get people to start it back up again. Initially launched in 2004, the game represented the pinnacle of racing technology at the time. Though it’s never officially made its way to different platforms, it still enjoyed global fame and recognition, with some fans playing it even today, almost two decades following its release.
It may seem strange that players wouldn’t discover cheats for a major, mainline entry in a franchise as popular asGran Turismo, but that’s precisely what seems to have happened withGT4. Though some may have suspected that the game would have cheats of some sort, figuring out what they were doesn’t seem to have been feasible up until now.
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According to Twitter user Nenkai, who specializes inGran Turismoresearch, modding, and reverse-engineering,GT4has had cheats all along, it’s just that nobody could have figured out them out. Withalmost 100 million copies ofGran Turismosoldover the years, it goes without saying that the franchise enjoys a massive following, and many of those players may now jump back intoGT4to try Nenkai’s newly discovered cheat codes. The only caveat, however, is thatGran Turismo 4cheats are only accessible on save games older than 365 in-game days.
Specifically, Nenkai has explained that players can input very specific key combinations to do a variety of things, from adding more credits to their account all the way to getting a Gold rating on a given event. Since these codes will only work once the player has a fairly long-lived save, however, it’s possible this is part of the reason whyGT4’s cheats went undiscovered for such a long time.
In fact, it’s curious to note thatGT4may be the last mainlineGran Turismogame with a classic cheat code implementation. ThenextGran Turismogame is already in development, but Polyphony Digital pivoted the franchise towards a more interconnected, account-based progression system with microtransactions, which would be handily invalidated if players could simply cheat their way to richness.
Whatever the case may be, Nenkai’s newly discovered cheat codes may be particularly thrilling to PC players. Even thoughGran Turismo 7isn’t coming to PCanytime soon, almost any modern PC will be able to emulateGT4including the featured cheats, giving PC-bound fans of the franchise a reason to jump back into it.
