Quake 3: Arena
(Last updated March 28, 2001)
Successfully complete the game on any difficulty setting to unlock a maze mini-game on the VMU. Successfully complete the maze-mini game to unlock a cheat on the cheat menu. To access the cheat menu, pause the game and choose the "Settings" selection, then scroll down past the "Internet" selection and choose the "Cheats" selection. Depending on what difficulty the game was completed on will depend on what cheat was unlocked. Complete the game on different difficulty settings to unlock different cheats.
Note: The following code require a Dreamcast keyboard. Start an offline multi-player match with human players, then press ~ to display the console screen at the map, time, and frag selection screen. Type ";map dc_map[01-24]" to begin the match at the indicated level.
Enter multi-player mode, select player one for your controller, and make the rest of the players CPU-controlled. Select "Capture the Flag" as your game. Set up your player's name so that the word "ass" appears along with any other word. For example, dumb ass, big ass, etc. In Capture The Flag, the CPU leader when giving you commands will call you by another form of the word. For example, dumb heinie, dumb bum, dumb bottom, etc. This will not affect the outcome of the game.
Note: The following codes require a Dreamcast keyboard. While playing a game, press ~ to display the console screen. Type ";raster 1" to unlock all commands. Then, enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Type "\" followed by a letter to list all commands that begin with that letter.
| Result | Code |
| God mode | \god |
| Walk through walls | \noclip |
| Enemies will not attack | \notarget |
| Enable all start menu cheats | \cl_cheats 31 |
Note: The following codes require a Dreamcast keyboard. While playing a game, press ~ to display the console screen. Then, enter one of the following commands to activate the corresponding result:
| Result | Code |
| Enable third person view | /cg_thirdperson 1 |
| Disable third person view | /cg_thirdperson 0 |
| Clear console line | /clear |
| Display console commnands | /help |
| Display player list | /who |
| Send message to all players | /say |
| Send message to indicated player | /say[1-4] |
| Send message to player that is attacking you | /tell_attacker |
| Send message to player that is targeted | /tell_target |
| Send message to your team in team modes | /say_team |
-Some codes from: hiroyuiwc100c@cheatcc.com, unholybutt12@sega.net, and smokey_50501@yahoo.com
| Infinite Time | B8A630DD 000003E7 |
| Infinite Machinegun Ammo | 4FAA16B1 00000063 |
| Infinite Shotgun Ammo | 9FB8038F 00000063 |
| Infinite Rocket Launcher Ammo | D8588AA7 00000063 |
| Infinite Plasma Gun Ammo | A61358E9 00000063 |
| Max Accuracy | 2FD77131 000000C8 |
| Max Impressive | 59A76523 000000C8 |
| Max Excellent | AF6343E5 000000C8 |
| Max Gauntlet | EF270AE0 000000C8 |
| Max Frags | 411A0DBD 000000C8 |
| Max Perfect | 76E5C176 000000C8 |