I tested it but it's working correctly.
What cheats?
When making a new game, I'm selecting no to debug mode, no to intro and no to customize start team.
when I spawn, I have the blue chest with the cheat item, and when I go to learned abilities it have some abilities that seems to be debug like test animation etc. also when I open menu and setting, then cheats, then its set as cheats on by default.
When I ran first time it also said Debug mode with yellow text but after restarting the game it disappeared so I duno :l