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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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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 134 points 9 months ago (3 children)

To be clear, when a developer submits a finished game for publication, it's supposed to reveal all of its cheat codes, but this particular one was never disclosed for the simple reason that Sony would've undoubtedly kicked it back to development for removal. Apparently, Piper isn't too worried about letting his secret out into the wild more than two decades later.

There's a bunch of debug/dev features hidden in production software that I stay quiet with from companies i worked for. Revealing them would probably make me unemployable. Or worse, slapped with a lawsuit.

So I'm glad this guy was probably retiring or switching careers.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 47 points 9 months ago

We have lots of software that "just works" at my job, that do things the "approved" methods can't achieve. Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do so you don't wind up wasting a lot of time later.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Reveal them. I'll give you one Christmas cookie.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Reveal them anonymously.