The Ridiculous World of PS1 Cheats - Caddicarus

Overview

Caddicarus delivers a fast, chaotic recap of The Ridiculous World of PS1 Cheats, covering cheat codes for 230 PS1 games. The central idea is that PS1-era developers hid everything—from actually helpful shortcuts to completely nonsensical “super cheats.”

The video contrasts retro cheat culture (which felt like free power: unlock characters, money, modes, and even break games instantly) with modern gaming’s monetization of similar advantages through microtransactions.

Main plot / structure

• Intro: Caddicarus jokes that in “the good old days,” games shipped with secret codes that let you unlock everything instantly—no microtransactions, just button inputs and chaos.
• Cheat categories: He groups the cheats into several types:
  1. “Actually useful” cheats (especially for multiplayer): unlock all characters, tracks, and game modes quickly.
  2. “Leggy” cheats: small boosts like extra lives, money bursts, or minor advantages.
  3. “Super cheats”: god modes and “one-click everything” codes—often too broken to be fun.
  4. “Unhelpful cheats / non-cheats”: typos, fake codes, conditional “only unlock after absurd steps,” or instructions that basically say “play the game normally.”
  5. “Neat/pointless-but-funny” extras: skins, voice clips, visual changes, and weird mini-modes.

Highlights & standout bits

• Multiplayer-friendly unlock everything: He praises codes that instantly unlock fighters/characters, racing tracks, and sports options so friends can jump into matches without grinding.
• Big Head / Big Body gag runs: He repeatedly spotlights “big head” cheats across multiple sports games, including variants like giant feet/hands, treating the resulting player absurdity as a running joke.
• Theme Park: “unlimited cash” chaos: He uses cheat money to construct a bizarre park themed around burger vans, rides, and a single wooden outhouse—followed by animal mascots locked behind a fence nobody can reach.
• Everybody’s Golf 2 character mashups: He unlocks ridiculous playable characters such as Sir Dan and Gex the Gecko, framing it as the perfect reason to cheat.
• Thrasher Skate & Destroy “finish without playing”: A cheeky cheat grants unlimited points, letting him “complete the game without playing it” and never touch it again.
• ExpressVPN sponsorship interlude: A deliberately awkward parody ad break riffing on VPN basics.
• Leggy cheats that still require effort: He shows that some small boosts (extra lives, invincibility tweaks, reduced difficulty for specific regions) still take work.
• Super cheats that break fun: He argues that “unlock everything instantly” can be anti-reward—finishing so fast you never feel you earned anything.
• Unhelpful / fake / conditional cheats: His funniest frustrations target:
  • cheats that don’t work,
  • codes that require absurd steps after completion,
  • and “cheats” that are misleading guides or basically just “beat the game normally.”

Extreme reactions & recurring jokes

• Frequent sexual innuendo wordplay and hyperbolic exaggerations (including recurring “leggy”/“neat” phrasing).
• He mocks the cheat-book as “a Bible on a poster” when references are hard to read or physically impractical.
• He repeatedly complains about misprints, region/version mismatches, and cheats that only function under impossible conditions.

Notable comedic demonstrations

• Cheat discs (old console hacking): He compares button-code cheat books to actual cheat discs that inject code into the console/game system, including a joke example about granting absurd credits instantly (then riffing that modern equivalents cost real money).
• Gex voice / running gag: He leans into the ridiculous UK dub/voice clip energy and “rambling mode” style effects.
• Silent Hill hidden options: He mocks the idea of modifying core gameplay settings (like blood color) and camera/aiming via shoulder-button holding.
• Cool Boarders 2 “pervy outfits” controversy: He demonstrates skimpy snowboard/character costume swaps, presenting it as both absurd and outrageous.
• Medal of Honor language/immersion hacks: He shows cheats like “American movie mode” (forcing English) and joke codes that spawn/replace characters with absurd names.
• 007 Bond finale freeze trick: In the final stretch, he demonstrates a “freeze all objects” cheat that forces everything—including Bond’s aiming/body behavior—to follow his gravity axis, turning stealth gameplay into a disorienting physics circus.

Conclusion / message

The ending reflects on how cheat culture changed:

• Early PS1/retro days: secrets shipped with games.
• Later: the internet made cheats easy to find while publishers attempted to remove or limit them.
• Cheat books faded, but the video frames the whole experience as a celebration of retro game weirdness—sometimes useful, often pointless, and frequently wildly broken.

Appearing personalities

• Caddicarus (Calum D) — narrator/performer
• ExpressVPN sponsor character(s) — voice/branding within the ad segment