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After 23 years, developer reveals he snuck a cheat code past Sony that turns a cult-classic horror game into a godsend for retro enthusiasts (www.gamesradar.com)

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Article about a recent revelation by the Youtube Channel Modern Vintage Gaming: The game "Alien Resurrection" by Argonaut contains a code which allows to run burned CD copies of Playstation 1 games.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

How exactly can a code on a game affect the system itself?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

i don’t really know, but an educated guess is that it has to do with how old the console is, and how micro optimized/hacky things had to be at the time. for example, morrowind would reboot your xbox during loading screens. there was probably quite a lot more control given to developers in the olden days, whereas now things are more sandboxed. but i would be happy to be corrected on anything i’ve said here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

“There’s been great tricks that [Xbox] taught us,” Howard said. “My favorite one in Morrowind is, if you’re running low on memory, you can reboot the original Xbox and the user can’t tell. You can throw, like, a screen up. When Morrowind loads sometimes, you get a very long load. That’s us rebooting the Xbox. That was like a hail Mary.”

That's interesting but that's still in that one game. This thing sounds like it allows you to play burned roms forever afterwards, which means it really affects the system itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It’s essentially the same as using a boot cd before using a copied game, which also was a thing then.

https://consolecopyworld.com/psx/psx_utils_bootcd.shtml

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