Original Fallout screensaver
Access the PipBoy and remain at that screen to see the old Fallout screensaver on the PipBoy screen.

Alternate desktop icon
Simply create a shortcut to the game on the Windows 95/98 desktop. Then, use the Settings/Control Panel/Display/Effects options to turn on "Large icons". The desktop icon for the game will turn into a new graphic.

Programmers' comments
Just hold [Shift] and click on the "Credits" button to hear various comments from the development team.

Hint book
After completing the game, go to New Reno. Find the man in the church and talk to him. He will say thanks for killing the Enclave and will give you a book called the "Fallout 2 Hint Book". Every time you read it, you will gain 10000 experience points. After the first time you read it, all of your skill will go up to 300%. You can read this book as many times as needed and it will never go away.

Hints & Tips

Unlimited money
Reach the "Broken Hills". Walk to the right until you come to the screen where the miners are waiting for you to clear the mine. Walk into the mine and then run straight to your right. Do not t worry about the rocks that block your path, they are there just to make you think it is the end of the road. If you walk near them, you can see that you can walk past them. There is a man in there who is not aware of the year. Wake him up, and when he has run out of the mine, walk up to the footlocker and grab the ore out of it. Walk out of the mine and back to the first screen. At the bottom of the screen just below the traders is the "Broken Hills Ore Refinery". Walk into the refinery and talk to the head ghoul. Sell the ore to him, and then sleep for 25 hours. After you wake up, talk to the ghoul again to get your ore back. He will ask if he can buy the ore because the city needs it and will offer you $1000 plus an extra 500. Take the $500 extra and then talk to the ghoul again. If done right, he will make the offer again. Take the money and then talk to him again for a second offer. Redo this to get as much money as you like. Make sure never to give it to him for free or settle for the $1000. If you do, the offer will not appear again. Note: This trick may not work if the game has been upgraded.

When your in San Francisco, go to the Red 88 gun store and steal all of the owners money. Now go to the item store across the street and steal all of his money. Then leave the city for a few day. Then, return and again steal the money that they have. This trick can be done as many times as you like.

When your in San Francisco, the shopkeepers have money in their inventory that you cannot normally steal. To steal it, trade your money for an equal amount of theirs. Then, use the Steal skill on them.

When your in the casinos in New Reno, if your Gambling skill is at 100, go to any gambling table and bid $15. Keep on clicking until you have the amount you want. You will double or triple your money most times, only losing the $15 once in a while. You can do this as long as you want to, though after time some of the patrons will start to make comments about being careful how much you do gamble.

Finish the game and read the Fallout 2 book so that your Gambling is at 300%. Go to the New Reno casinos and to the roulette table. Bet $100 and you will triple your money to $300. Keep on doing that until you have enough money. It will always work. You can always go to the slots and bet $5 to get $90 dollars back, but you can only do the slots three times per slot machine.

Just visit Joey, the thug who sells Jet in Den. Drop all your money on the ground beside him and attempt to buy Jet. He will tell you that if you do not have the money to return when you do. Answer "Wait, I'll buy it" and then exit out of the dialogue. Repeat this until you have all the Jet you would like. Then, steal the money that you should have given him he will have $500 for every jet bought. Then, pick up the money again that you dropped on the ground.

Note: This cheat involves changing a game file so mak e a backup copy of the file before going on. This trick is best done when you have plenty of money. Go to your hometown, and locate a box, vase, or other container. Place all your money in it. Now save your game and remember the number of slot number you saved it in. Resume playing, take the money out, and save again, this time in a different slot. Remember the number of this slot also. Quit the game, and go into the game folder. Enter the "data\savegame" folder. Open the folder whose name matches to the first save slot, and find the file "arvillage.dat". Copy this file, and then go back to the "data\savegame" folder. Go to the folder whose name matches to the second save. Select "Edit" then "Paste", and then select "Yes" to copy over the original. Resume playing and load the first game save. Open the chest and you will now have double the money. Take the money, save over your first slot, and try it again. Go to the second save slot, open it, and copy out the "arvillage.dat" file. Paste it into the first save slot, and select "Yes". You can do this as many times as you like.

Unlimited experience
Note: This trick will only work on games that have not been upgraded to v1.02 or above. Go to NCR and go right to the power plant and talk to the girl. She will ask you to talk a man out of blowing up the power plant. But when you talk to him allow him to blow it up. The girl will want you to fix the reactor. Now do it and she will give you a few manuals. You can keep on repairing the reactor and keep getting science and first aid books from her. Each time you fix the reactor, you will receive 3000 experience points.

This trick works well if you have a high Steal skill. When you steal something, you receive 10 experience points. When you steal two things, you receive 30, and 60 for 3 things, etc. Steal experience raises exponentially per item. Plant some money on someone, and then steal it back, one coin at a time. Assuming you do not get caught, you can easily get alot of experience points.

After the game is finished and you have 130% in Science, get to the vault in Vault City. Go to the computer on the first level in front of the doctors' "office". Now use the Science skill on it and the game should give you the option of scanning the medical files or something else. Scan the files, then do it again. It should give you some information on the medical research that was done in Vault City. Scan the files a few more times and it will give you information on armor implants. Keep on scanning the files and the computer will get "upset" and say things like "There is nothing left" and "Why are you doing this?." After a few more times it should say "Fine! The big secret is on the main computer on the third level!". Reach it and reformat you Pip Boy. Then, go to your Pip Boy and read the message that the design crew leaves you. It should tell you to go to the computer on the upper left of level three. Access the computer to receive  20,000 experience points. Keep on accessing the computer to receive that amount every time.

Unlimited money and experience
Note: This trick can only be used on games that have not been upfraded to v1.02 or above. A high Steal attribute and being dark will help with this. After you have found Vault 15 and have killed Dorian and his people in the vault, check his computer and make a holodisk of a spy at the NCR. Now go to the NCR and go to the presidents office. When there, talk to the ordinary looking man in the outside office and tell him the spy information. He will say something and walk away. Go to the main room and talk to the man in the tuxedo. Tell him about the spy named F, then show him the holodisk. He will then give you $4000 and you will receive 4000 experience points. Now here is the trick and it will help to have a high steal. Stand beside him and steal the holodisk back. Then, tell him about the spy and show him the disk once again. You will receive the money and experience again. Redo this until reaching the level you want. Note: Save often.

Stimpacks and antidote
Give Mayron as many ingredients for the stimpacks and antidote as required, and he will create them.

More starting items
Go to the starting temple with a reputable character. Then place any item you want to start with in the pots and chests. Now start a new game, go inside the temple, and save the game in any slot but not the one you moved the items from. Quit the game. Go to the directory where you saved the game. Move the Artemple.sav to the slot you saved the new game to and move the pre-existing game somewhere. Restart the game and start a new game. Now go to the pots where you placed the items and they should be there.

You can also get the power armor early in the game by going south along the coast to San Francisco. You may have to save a lot, as enemies are too high level to take on at this time.

Extra items
Reach either shop in San Francisco. Buy whatever you like, but pay for it with cash. Then, walk up behind the shop owner. You can steal your money back, plus his.

When you reach the Den, kill Tubby and Flick and grab all their items. You should get plenty of Jet, Mentats, and other drugs as well as plenty of guns.

When you get to the Den or anywhere else that has a graveyard, get a shovel and dig up the graves for rocks, beer, and ammunition. The only downside is that your karma will say "Grave Digger" and it may go down.

Beating Frank Horrigan
Just use a gauss pistol or rifle and target his weapon arm. Then after you cripple it, he will not be able to shoot you with his dual plasma gun. He will then melee you, and will do only about 10 damage per hit. Next hit him in the groin to bring him down so you can do more damage by hitting him in the eyes.

Kill the president and take the presidential pass. Once you have done everything else and you are at the end Boss, talk the squad into joining your team. This may or may not work depending on how many people you already have and your charisma. Use the Sneak skill and hug the wall along the bottom of the screen and make your way left until you get to the computer. One of the options is to make the guns shoot at your enemies. Walk up to him and start to fight. Each drone gun will shoot at him, plus the squad you convinced.

Easy skill points and levels
Note: This cheat can only be done on games that have not been updated to v1.02 or above. Get a level and wait for the screen with the perks to be shown. Now highlight the perk and click "Done" on the perk screen. Then click "Cancel" on the main screen. Click back to the character screen and the perk screen will appear once again. Redo these step to get unlimited levels and 99 skill points.

Note: This cheat can only be done on games that have not been updated to v1.02 or above. Get a untagged skill up to about 125%- to 50%. Then, level up and obtain the Perk tag. Now tag the skill that you raised and it should go up to 250%- to 00%. This is really useful when your using the pulse rifle and aiming at Horrigan's eyes.

Getting more items in the Den
Start a new game with a female character with a name of  Buffy. Get past the Temple Of Trials and go to the Den. Talk to Rebecca. She will say that she recognizes you and give you a few items.

Skinning geckos
In order to learn how to skin geckos, save Smilely the trapper in the toxic caves. Then, go to Klamoth and talk to Smilely at Buckners.

Getting rid of child thieves
While your in the Den, there are various children that will steal from your character. To stop this without losing karma, you need to have dynamite or plastic. Set a time on the explosive for ten seconds. Then, use your steal skill to plant the explosive on the child. Walk away and the explosive will go off, killing the child without costing any karma or receiving the perk child killer. Just make sure not to set the timer for too long or the child will run to Tubby and give it to him. Then you will have to stand in Tubb's doorway in order to stop the child from entering.

Getting rid of child thieves in the Den
Just wait until the children in the Den steal from you, then attack them using no weapons. One hit should send them running, and you will not have to kill any of them. After that, go back to the areas where the children usually wait. They will run away from you.

Get in the Vault in Vault City
The guards will not let you into the Vault unless you are a citizen. If you do not want to take the time to obtain the citizenship papers, go into combat mode then walk in. This will not cause your karma to go down.

Robe
When you are traveling across the world map you occasionally come across a green circle that has only a bridge and a person blocking your way. If you kill him instead of answering his questions, you can receive 7500 experience points and his robes which is good armor until you obtain the powered. If you answer his questions wrong, he will hit you for 2000 plus damage.