The 1995 PlayStation game Space Griffon VF-9 has been holding secret cheat codes for 30 years. I found them hiding out in the game data, but couldn't determine how to use them. Fortunately, I found an enthusiast for this game who was able to figure it out!

Details on the cheats and reverse engineering are in the article at Substack.

For November 20th's edition, I'm examining Need For Speed: High Stakes and Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed for PlayStation.

Both of these games have unreported cheat codes that I had to break out the reverse engineering tools to find. High Stakes goes to some lengths to obscure a goofy developer Easter egg.  Porsche Unleashed has some interesting leftovers from development that are hiding behind some button sequences.

Details on the codes and how I figured them out are in the post!

November 18th's article is on Atlantis: The Lost Tales for Saturn and PlayStation.

This Myst-like adventure game has an unreported cheat code: if you enter a special string on the name entry screen, you can change your starting scene. This lets you jump into the game at any point.

The Substack article describes how to do the trick on both console versions of the game, and goes into detail about how the cheat works on a technical level.