How to unlock all the achievements

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I used to play Mass Effect (1) in the past, and gotten nearly all achievements – which was nice for my second playthrough, since unlike many other video game achievements, those actually give you something. Now I want to play the game again, but I since got a new PC and I have a feeling it won’t remember what I had. I don’t have the data from the old PC anymore, so essentially I’m asking for a way to cheat.

Is there a way to unlock some, or all, of those achievements? I’m playing it on the PC.

If it makes any difference, the last time I played was without Steam, but now I’m going to play with it.

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Is there a way to unlock some, or all, of those achievements? I'm playing it on the PC.

If it makes any difference, the last time I played was without Steam, but now I'm going to play with it.

Oak · Accepted Answer

Found a solution here. In summary:

Enable the console
Go to My DocumentsBiowareMass EffectConfig
Open the BIOInput.ini file with a text editor
Under the [Engine.Console], add the ConsoleKey=Tilde line
Unlock achievements
Start the game
Open the in-game console by hitting the ` key
Type unlockachievement n where n is a number between 1 and 47. They will unlock the achievement with that number. The site I linked has a full mapping between the number and the achievement, but I just went through and enabled them all.

Mario · Answer

Go to <my documents>BioWare and you should find a sub folder called Mass Effect (and others in case you've played the other games).

Just copy that folder to the same position on your new PC/hard drive and you should keep your progress as-is. In case you're playing over Origin, Origin might do the actual copying for you over the cloud (not sure it's supported for Mass Effect).

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