Bully Cheats

Bully is Rockstar Vancouver's 2006 school-life adventure, set at Bullworth Academy, a run-down boarding school in a small New England town. You play Jimmy Hopkins, a fifteen-year-old dropped at the school by his mother and new stepfather, who has to survive a year of cliques, prefects, classes and pranks. It shares Rockstar's open-world structure but trades guns and cars for slingshots, bikes, stink bombs and detention, which is a big part of why people still remember it fondly. This page covers the original PlayStation 2 release only. The later Scholarship Edition and Anniversary Edition releases on other systems do not use these inputs, so do not copy them across.

We list seven cheats, each in its own copy box. They come from a published PS2 cheat list and were matched button by button against a second independent reference on 11 November 2026. They have not been tested on original hardware for this update, so if one fails on your copy, tell us through the forum with your region and setup.

Bully's PS2 cheats are not entered on the controller you play with. Published references agree that you need a second controller plugged into port two, and the sequences are entered on that pad while the game is running and you are in normal play. This catches out almost everyone the first time. If you only own one DualShock 2, you can move it to port two for a moment, enter the code, then move it back, although that is fiddly. A cheap second pad makes the whole process far easier.

Most of the sequences also ask you to hold L1 on that second controller while pressing the rest. Keep L1 held down for the whole input rather than tapping it. If you let go part way, the game reads the presses as ordinary input and nothing happens.

Before you use any of these, save your real progress to one slot and keep it clean. Bully tracks a lot across the school year: classes passed, clothing collected, relationships with cliques and the progress of the main story. A code like all clothes changes what you own, and once you save over your main file you cannot easily undo it. The safest routine is to load your clean save, enter cheats for a session, and either do not save at all or save to a separate slot that you treat as a sandbox.

The full health code refills Jimmy's health bar. It is not invincibility, just a top-up, so it is most useful before a big fight with a clique or after a messy chase from prefects and police. The money code adds cash, which in Bully buys clothes, haircuts, items from shops and arcade games. Money matters less here than in GTA, but a little extra early on lets you buy a bike and some outfits without grinding odd jobs like paper rounds and lawn mowing.

If you are playing the story for the first time, consider not using the money cheat at all. Part of the charm of the first chapter is scraping together cash from small jobs, and the side activities are some of the best parts of the game.

Bully's weapons are things like the slingshot, firecrackers, stink bombs, marbles, eggs and the spud gun. The all weapons code gives you the set, and full ammo refills what you are carrying. A separate unlimited ammo code stops ammunition from running down. Together they turn Jimmy into a walking prank arsenal, which is great fun in the town but can make some missions trivial. Prefects and police still react to bad behaviour, so arming yourself to the teeth does not mean you can cause trouble without consequence.

The inputs for these three are close to each other, which means mistakes are easy. Full ammo is two presses of Up while holding L1. All weapons is four presses of Up. Unlimited ammo alternates Up and Down. Count carefully, and if you get the wrong effect, enter the one you actually wanted afterwards.

The all clothes code unlocks the full wardrobe. Clothing in Bully is cosmetic, but some outfits matter for how certain characters react, and collecting them is normally a long-term goal. Unlocking everything at once removes that goal, so it is best kept for a sandbox save. This sequence uses L1 and R1 taps rather than holding L1, so read the copy box rather than assuming the pattern of the others.

The gym grapple moves code unlocks the wrestling moves you would normally learn in gym class. It is a big shortcut, because gym is one of the classes you otherwise have to pass in a short minigame. If you enjoy the class minigames, leave this one alone; if you find gym frustrating, it gives you the moves straight away.

A few habits save a lot of frustration. Use the directional buttons rather than the analogue stick on the second pad, since the stick can register extra diagonals. Hold L1 firmly before starting and keep it held. Enter presses at a steady rhythm. Do it while Jimmy is standing still in a safe place rather than during a chase. If the second controller does not respond at all, check that it is pushed fully into port two and that the analogue light is not changing what the D-pad sends.

If you still get nothing, re-read the sequence from the copy box and count each press aloud. Almost every reported failure with Bully cheats comes from either using port one or missing a single press.

Bully rewards a straight playthrough. The school timetable gives the day a rhythm: morning and afternoon classes, free time, and a curfew that sends you to bed. Classes unlock skills and items, such as chemistry giving you prank items and English improving how you talk your way out of trouble. Earning those through play is satisfying, and the game is not especially hard, so many players find they do not need cheats for the story.

A good approach is to finish the story clean, then load a separate save with weapons and unlimited ammo for some chaos around town. That way you enjoy the slow build of the school year first, and get the slapstick sandbox afterwards.

Bully is split into chapters that roughly follow the school year, and each one focuses on a different group at Bullworth. Early on you deal with the bullies and the prefects while learning the layout of the campus. Later chapters move through the nerds, the preppies, the greasers and the jocks, and the town around the school opens up as you progress. Each clique has its own territory, outfits and attitude towards Jimmy, and the story is largely about earning or losing their respect.

That structure matters for cheats. Because new areas, shops and missions arrive chapter by chapter, using money or clothing codes in the first chapter gives you things you would not normally have for hours. That can be fun, but it also flattens the sense of progress that makes the later chapters satisfying. If you want a middle ground, wait until you reach a chapter that feels slow and use a health or ammo code only when a particular mission is frustrating you.

Side activities are also worth mentioning. Bike races, go-kart races, arcade games, paper rounds, lawn mowing and errands for students all reward you with money or items. Collectibles such as rubber bands, transistors and cards are hidden around the map. None of these need cheats, and many players consider them the heart of the game. Using the all weapons code does not change how these activities play, but unlimited ammo can make some errands trivially easy, so think about which parts you actually want to skip.

Finally, remember that curfew and the punishment system still apply when cheats are active. Being out late, fighting near prefects or causing trouble in town still raises your trouble meter, and getting caught still costs you. Cheats make Jimmy better equipped, not untouchable, which keeps the game playable even with codes turned on.

Do Bully cheats disable trophies or achievements? The original PS2 version has neither system, so there is nothing to disable. Later releases are different games for this purpose and are not covered here. Can cheats break a save? Weapons and health are low risk, but clothes and grapple unlocks change your progression, which is why we recommend a separate slot. Do the codes work on PS3 or PS4 versions? We have not checked those, and the PS4 PS2 Classics release may not support a second controller in the same way, so treat any claims about it as unconfirmed.

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