Developer Mode

Developer mode enables various features intended to be used by developers of the game, most notably various cheats. This mode cannot be entered by means of a graphical user interface.

SuperTux 0.3

To enable developer mode, start the game with the --developer option.

To do this on macOS, control-click on the SuperTux.app bundle and select 'Open Contents'. Then open the MacOS folder. Open a new terminal window, drag the SuperTux binary from the MacOS folder in that terminal window and type --developer. Hit enter to start SuperTux.

On Linux or UNIX-like systems, run supertux2 --developer in a terminal.

Windows users can create a shortcut to the SuperTux exe and append --developer in the Target option of the shortcut's properties. Alternatively you can run this from the command prompt.

The option can be made permanent with:

(developer #t)

in the SuperTux Configuration File.

Cheats

A cheat menu will become accessible by pressing F1. This menu is available on both the worldmap and the main game.

The Console can be used for additional cheating.

SuperTux 0.1

In the SuperTux 0.1 releases, this mode is called Debug Mode. Follow the process as described above, but instead of the --developer option you need to use the --debug-mode option. Also note that the binary is usually called supertux for these releases, and not supertux2. Therefore, on Linux you would for example actually run supertux --debug-mode.

Cheats

For these cheats to work you have to be in debug mode.

Do not type these in, you just press the appropriate key, eg the Tab key.

Key	Cheat
end	gain 50 coins
tab	become bigtux
delete	become firetux
l	take away a life
insert	become invincible (stars) [on some keyboards this is the HELP key]
tab	become smalltux