Press the following button combination to un lock one of the following cheats:

During game play on land:

Additional 100,000 gold - Press A, X, Y, B, Y, B, X, B, B.
God mode - Press A, Y, X, X, Y, Y, B, Y, X.
50 skill points - Press A, B, Y, X, Y, B, B, Y, B.
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Neutral reputation - Press A ,X, Y, X, Y, B, B, Y, B, a.

Easy money - Go to any of the loan sharks and ask for any amount of money. You can go to the box in his office and drop your money in it. Then, go up to him again and ask for more money. Continue to do this until you have the desired amount. Even though he says that he has ways of getting his money back, he never comes after you

Infinite Money [Commerce Skill 7] - Keep going in and out of any tavern until there is a viable officer candidate waiting to be hired. Tell them you don't think they are worth what they are asking, they will lower their price, then say they are still not worth their fee. Keep repeating this and eventually it will turn into a negative sum. This in turn will your increase your gold.

Stack captain scores - You can add more than one person, other than the Captain, onto your other three ships. All of their scores will stack with that ship's captain's score. There are two different ways to do this. The first method is at the Open Sea screen (where you can see all of your ships), get close to another one of your ships and a swap cargo icon will appear. Go into the swap cargo menu. There is an option to switch captains. Under this option, there is a screen that has four slots. One of them is the captain of that ship. Click on one of the other three slots, then assign passengers to each one. When you do this, they disappear from your passenger list. You will need to get more party members at the tavern if you want to fill up all your ships. Do not sell the ship with the other three crewmembers still on it. You will lose anyone that is still on board. The second method is to capture a ship and do it when you assign a captain to the captured ship.

Easy Ship Takeovers - Since you are at war with France, you are going to attack some French ships. But not any French ships, only those that are battling pirate ships, because any other time when you encounter French ships they attack you. But this time they will be your allies, against the pirates, so find a battle where you are totally out numbered by the pirates and quickly defeat them. Now after the battle the French ships will not attack you, they will sail on their way. Get in close to those French ships and fire your kibles at their sails, do it to each ship, but do not fire anything else or the ships will instantly attack you. Now with their sails destroyed they cannot manuver very well, when you begin your attack, you can pick them off or flee if you must. Next select the ship you want to take over, get in real close and fire the grape shot at point blank rage. You will kill off some of the crew, and will instantly board their ship for a take over. Now when you have your new ship the other french ships "if there are anymore" will attack you. But since you took out the sails, the battle will be easy, so sink them or run away to repair. You can do this with other nations, but once you do this you will be at war with them, which just adds to your problems early in the game.
Sent in by Lourdes/Matuasa21/Kieth_n25

If you get yourself into a bad position in a sea battle, and know you're going to be blasted with serious cannon fire, there is a way to avoid it. When you see the smoke from the guns, quickly Sail To a different part of the ship and you should completely avoid the blast.

Avoid officers and swordsmen  -  After killing rampages, swordsmen and officers will try to kill you. If you have a group of officers and other swordsmen coming after you, go to your ship. Get on your ship, then dock again. No one will be attacking you anymore.

Easy Experience Points  -  Enable the "God mode" code and go to a storm. Wait there, even if the map symbol appears. You can get 1,000 or more experience points if you wait there long. Do not have other ships with you, as they will sink.

Easy experience points #2  -  Enable the "Additional 100,000 gold" code a few times and the "Invincibility" code. Buy a new ship at the beginning of the game and complete all your objectives for Oxbay. Then, sail to Redmond. After you tell the governor about the attack on Oxbay, sail back there. Continue to attack the fort. Since you are invincible, you will not die. About every other time you attack the fort, you will gain a level. This works best with the Class 1 Battleship.

Easy experience points #3  -  A battleship is required for this trick. First, buy any goods in a store and go to the island where that product is contraband or illegal. Then, talk to the smuggler in the tavern, fast travel to port, get on your ship, and sail to location the smuggler told you to meet someone. After you sell the goods, six solders will appear. The officer will talk to you. After you talk to him, the troops will draw their swords and attack. Kill them all, then go to your ship. When at sea, there will be three frigates all named Dolphine. Sink them each for about 6,000 experience each.

Easy Hero reputation  -  Enable the "Additional 100,000 gold" code, then go to any church. Keep making donations until your reputation is at "Hero".

Easy Money #2  -  Go into other people's houses and steal their items. They have things such as potions, gems, rings, and other expensive items. You can also look in isolated barrels, pots, and other containers around the cities for more items. If you walk around in towns and into places like the areas behind houses, alleys, corners, and similar places you can find items that seem to have been dropped. Note: If you walk around at night, you can see little specks of light on the ground, and these can be those items.

Escape ships that try to stop you from smuggling  -  When you smuggle always make sure you have alot of knipples with you. First use the command menu to sail to the ship furthest from the beach. Next load the knipples and keep shooting. If possible try to make one ship bloke the others line of fire so you only have one on your tail. then put up all sails and shoot the knipples at the ships.

Knock 'N Run!  -  Go to a door in any part of the game and press Action. Your character will knock on the door, then you can run away.

Maximum battleship payload on all ships  -  Capture or purchase a Class 1 battleship. Go to the store and purchase cannon ammunition, sailcloth, planks, etc. up to the maximum payload capacity of 4500 lbs. Next, go to the shipyard. Highlight "Battleship", then buy any other ship desirde. Class 2 super fast frigates or corvettes with 24 lb. cannons are recommended. You will now notice that you still have your entire battleship cargo, even though the payload capacity of the frigates and corvettes is less than half of the battleship's payload capacity. Choose your original cargo wisely, as once you swap ships you cannot purchase any more cargo until you are under your new ship's maximum payload capacity.

Officers Pay You to Join Your Crew  -  You'll a commerce of at least three to do this. When you meet an officer in a tavern always ask "Isn't that to much for you?". Then whatever the answer say no and talk to them again. Repeat previous steps until they offer about -800 gold and you'll have lots of officers and you get the money.

Run Away Tip  -  If you run into a group of baddies you think you cannot beat then run away and go past the last point where the game loads and they won't follow you.