Fallout: New Vegas
Cheat Codes/Hints
Snow Globes
The Globe Trotter Trophy requires you to collect seven Snow Globes in New Vegas. Here are the locations of all seven.
Goodsprings
Goodsprings Cemetery / Near the water tower is a patch of upturned soil by a small, rectangular grave marker. The Snow Globe is sitting in front of the marker.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam / Search the visitor center for a terminal near two curved desks. The Snow Globe can be found on a desk here.
Mormon Fort
Old Mormon Fort / Julie Farkas has an office inside a tower at the fort. The Snow Globe is on top of a bookcase here.
Mt. Charleston Snow Globe
Jacobstown / In the lodge, search the entrance and reception area. This Snow Globe is sitting on a curved desk by some terminals.
Nellis AFB
Nellis Air Force Base / Pete's makeshift museum holds this Snow Globe. It's on a table in the corner under a mural.
Test Site
Lucky 38 Casino / Head to the cocktail lounge and look for the cash register. It's across from the entrance. The Snow Globe is behind the register.
The Strip
Vault 21 / After you access Sarah's locked bedroom, grab this Snow Globe off of the table between the two beds.
Star Wars reference
Go to the town of Nipton. Walk to the right of the town hall's front entrance to find a burned out building, with a pair of burned corpses in front. The view resembles the scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker finds the bodies of his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen.
Stealing
When you want to steal something and it is in the owner's direct line of sight, use the Grab function and drag it around a corner. Use sneak to make sure that you are now hidden from their view. You can now steal the object without fear of retaliation. You will still lose karma but they will not try to kill you.
Switching ammunition
When you have more than one type of ammunition for a gun (for example, 9mm or 9mm hollow point), press Up and your character will switch ammo types for that weapon.
Thump-Thump location
Thump-Thump is found in the location where all the ants are found, underneath the solar panels when you help the Boomers. It is a grenade launcher.
Trophies
Complete the following tasks to unlock PlayStation 3 trophy rewards.
- Ain't That a Kick in the Head (Bronze)
- Completed Ain't That a Kick in the Head.
- Completed All or Nothing.
- Completed Arizona Killer.
- Cause 10,000 damage with Energy Weapons.
- Come Fly With Me (Bronze)
- Completed Come Fly With Me.
- Desert Survivalist (Bronze)
- Heal 10,000 points of damage with food.
- Play 10 hands of Blackjack.
- For the Republic (Silver)
- Completed For the Republic.
- Discover all snow globes.
- Play the game from start to finish in Hardcore Mode.
- Know When to Fold Them (Bronze)
- Cause 10,000 damage with Guns.
- Play 10 spins of Roulette.
- Cause 10,000 damage with Explosives.
- Master of the Mojave (Silver)
- New Vegas Samurai (Bronze)
- Cause 10,000 damage with Melee Weapons.
- No Gods, No Masters (Bronze)
- Completed No Gods, No Masters.
- No Tumbler Fumbler (Bronze)
- Ol' Buddy Ol' Pal (Bronze)
- Old-Tyme Brawler (Bronze)
- Cause 10,000 damage with Unarmed weapons.
- One Armed Bandit (Bronze)
- Outstanding Orator (Bronze)
- Make 50 Speech challenges.
- Platinum Trophy (Platinum)
- Collect all other 50 Trophies for this Trophy.
- Render Unto Caeser (Silver)
- Completed Render Unto Caeser.
- Return to Sender (Bronze)
- Completed Return to Sender.
- Ring-a-Ding-Ding (Silver)
- Completed Ring-a-Ding-Ding.
- Stim-ply Amazing (Bronze)
- Heal 10,000 points of damage with Stimpaks.
- That Lucky Old Sun (Bronze)
- Completed That Lucky Old Sun.
- The Courier Who Broke the Bank (Silver)
- Get banned from all the Strip's casinos.
- The House Always Wins (Silver)
- Completed The House Always Wins.
- The Legend of the Star (Bronze)
- Completed The Legend of the Star.
- The Whole Gang's here (Silver)
- They Went That-a Way (Silver)
- Completed They Went That-a Way.
- Veni, Vidi, Vici (Bronze)
- Completed Veni, Vidi, Vici.
- Walker of the Mojave (Bronze)
- You Run Barter Town (Bronze)
- Sell 10,000 caps worth of goods.
- You'll Know It When It Happens (Bronze)
- Completed You'll Know It When It Happens.
Unlimited caps
In Guardian Peak you will meet an NCR soldier who is wounded. Through some Speech checks, you can get him to give you his gun for escorting him out of the cave that he is in. When you get to the entrance of the cave with him in tow, he will speak and you can continually ask for his rifle, which he will give you along with ammunition. Note: This is best done after earning the perk that allows for over encumbered fast travel.
Note: This requires the unpatched version of the game. Begin going through the storyline, once you get to Prim and complete the quest there, leave for awhile and return. You will be able to gamble. In order to gamble you must purchase chips. Go to the cashier at the Vikki & Vance Casino. Purchase as many chips as possible with any of the three types of money (Caps, NCR, and Legionaries). Once you have the chips, save the game normally (not by auto-save). Note: Each chip is worth one cap, so you can trade all the chips back for a full refund if needed. Once your game is saved, talk to the cashier again and select the fourth option (something similar to "Cash in my chips"). She will ask what form of payment you want. Pick any option desired, then quickly exit the conversation. This should have given you as much of the form of money you requested that equals to chips. Caps are 1 chip to 1 cap. NCR are 8 chips to $20 and 40 chips to $100, and Legionaries are 4 chips to one Denarius, 20 chips for a Dalhali, and 100 chips for a Aureus. Once you have exited the conversation, check your inventory. You should have the money and the chips still in your possession. Talk to the cashier and repeat the trick. If you want to get higher amounts at a time, do the trick with caps a few times, then buy 1,000 chips for 1,000 caps about five or six times.
After completing the Sexbot quest, go to the atomic wrangler and talk to Fisto. Choose the "Maybe later" response to get 10 caps. You can continue to do this as many times as desired. With enough time and patience you can accumulate a large amount of caps.
Go to any salesman and press Select. Wait one hour to force an auto save. Go the "Memory" option in the system menu, then select "Hard Drive" and find the auto save file. Copy it to a memory card. Go to your memory card and copy it back to the hard drive. Load the game and start. You should be at the salesman. Do not buy or sell anything yet. Wait one hour to force another auto save. Quit and start the game again. Sell or buy anything. Wait one hour, quit, and start over. The salesman's inventory and money will have reset. Repeat the process as many times as desired.
Unlimited experience
Note: This requires at least a 35 Medicine skill. Once your character gains access to the main strip, find Victor outside the Lucky 38 casino. He will tell you that Mr. House wants to meet you. Follow him inside and go up the elevator. Speak with Mr. House (the giant television face that looks like Howard Hughes). Find the dialogue choice pertaining to needing to ask him a few questions. Then, ask "Who exactly are you, Mr. House?", then select "You appear to be a computer, not a man". After that, select the Medicine skill check response, "The lifespan you're claiming is impossible, except for ghouls and super mutants." After that, you will be awarded 35 experience points (or 39 experience points if you have the Swift Learner perk). You can repeat this as many times as desired.
This trick yields unlimited experience, Stimpacks and doctor's bags. Get access to Helios One Power Station and have the quest "That Lucky Old Sun". When you have the option to choose how to reroute the power, select to do full region (emergency output level). Go out and re-aim the solar array panels, then return to Ignacio. Tell him you overpowered the station. He will reward you with 350 experience points, three Stimpacks, and two doctor's bags. The option will remain in place allowing you to do this repeatedly as many times as desired.
Upon meeting Mr. House the first time, in "The House Always Wins, I" mission, he will ask you to get his chip. If you have 50 Barter when he tells you the deal is 1,000 caps, refuse it. Keep refusing his offers after bartering until he tells you to come back. After you talk to him again, select the following choices: "Tell me your terms again?", then the Barter 50 choice "The chip is worth far more than that", then "Still not interested", and repeat.