Dead Space Cheats & Codes

Using an an Xbox 360 controller, enter the following codes for the desired effect. You’ll have to map the buttons yourself if you don’t use the Xbox 360 pad. Most of these cheats can only be used once, with the exception of the refills.

• X,X,Y,Y,Y - Refill you Oxygen
• X,Y,Y,X,Y - Refill your Stasis and Kinesis energy
• YXYXXYXXYXXY - 5 Extra Nodes
• X(3), Y, X. - 1,000 credits
• Y, X(3), Y. - 2 Nodes
• X(3), Y(2). - 2,000 credits
• X(3), Y, X, Y. - 5,000 credits

To unlock the back story log entries, complete the game once through in its entirety on the normal difficulty setting.

To unlock Impossible Mode, beat the game once through in its entirety on any difficulty setting.

To unlock the Level Six Suit Schematic, complete the game once through in its entirety on the normal difficulty setting.

To unlock ten Power Nodes and 50,000 credits, complete the game for the first time once through in its entirety on any difficulty setting.

Purchase the Contact Gun as soon as you can and its ammo will start appearing around the ship. If you can resist using it, just sell all of the ammo you collect for scores of credits -- 1,000 per unit!

Conserving ammunition is vital as you get deeper into the ship. The old exploit from Resident Evil 4 works with the weapons here too. When you are out of ammo and have a Bench and several Power Nodes, you can refill the ammunition in the weapon to its new maximum by upgrading to a capacity node in that weapon.

In Chapter 6, after fighting the final creature that spills the gas out, there is a dim, flashing sign just before the anti-grav area. This is a codex for some of the letters and all of the numbers in the alien language.