I have mercenaries 1 on xbox. I cant put cheats on it. Is it just because im playing on a XBOX 360?
yeah you can, you just have to work around the 360 controllers buttons. The games still use the same controls as the original controller but there just mapped out differently on the 360 controller. You just need to find what buttons on the 360 controller do the same functions as the original controller. here is an example, your white button from the original controller would be Left Bumper and the black button would be Right Bumper. I hope this makes some sense. I played Mercs and Crimson Skies on my 360 and the cheats worked fine, you just need to work around the 360 controllers layout since some of the buttons aren’t the same as the original controller. But most of Mercs 1 cheats are up, down, right left, you need to be in the faction part of the PDA to input them, when you do you hear a click. Now the 360’s D-Pad isn’t the greatest, so it is possible that when you push left or right the dpad might go up or down a bit depending on where you push them making the game think you inserted the wrong combination, this has happened to me a few times since the D-Pad tends to work like a 3rd analog stick since you can move the whole thing around.

yeah you can, you just have to work around the 360 controllers buttons. The games still use the same controls as the original controller but there just mapped out differently on the 360 controller. You just need to find what buttons on the 360 controller do the same functions as the original controller. here is an example, your white button from the original controller would be Left Bumper and the black button would be Right Bumper. I hope this makes some sense. I played Mercs and Crimson Skies on my 360 and the cheats worked fine, you just need to work around the 360 controllers layout since some of the buttons aren’t the same as the original controller. But most of Mercs 1 cheats are up, down, right left, you need to be in the faction part of the PDA to input them, when you do you hear a click. Now the 360’s D-Pad isn’t the greatest, so it is possible that when you push left or right the dpad might go up or down a bit depending on where you push them making the game think you inserted the wrong combination, this has happened to me a few times since the D-Pad tends to work like a 3rd analog stick since you can move the whole thing around.
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