Unreal Tournament 2004 Cheats

In your system folder is the user.ini file. Just open it with Notepad or something similar. You'll notice that most of commands are set out like this.
[Factor]
Text and Variables of that factor

There is always a gap between the commands. Make a new gap in the command lines and paste this in there.

[GUI2K4.UT2k4MainPage]
TotalUnlockedCharacters=Malcolm;ClanLord;Xan

Then you'll have all the secret characters to pick on the character select screen. This is good to use if you accidentally ruin your user.ini file and it gets reset.

To unlock the secret Xan loading screen, go into you User.ini file in your System folder. Then do a Ctrl+F search to find backgrounds. You should see four lines with the same words except that two lines have the same number, 2. Change the lower one so it reads 1, 2, 3, 4, and not 1, 2, 2, 4.

For people with the European version of UT2004, push the TAB key to open up the console when playing. The codes are the same as for the American version.