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If you're following me on X / Twitter (@memory_fallen) for my posts about reverse engineering retro games, check out RINGS OF SATURN, my Substack blog. Each week I take apart a different game and report my findings.
October 24th's article is on Nectaris: Military Madness for PlayStation.
This military strategy game has a hidden cheat code that enables a debug mode... and two strange cartoon companion characters. The code involves spelling out a transliteration of the name "Rudolph the black cat" using both controllers — it was a cool thing to puzzle out.
Details on the code and how it works are in the full article.
October 22nd's article is on Garfield: Saving Arlene and Garfield: Lasagna World Tour for PlayStation 2.
Both of these games have a cheat code that lets you skip through their levels. I don't think these codes have been documented before, so I'm doing it now.
Check out the Substack article for more on the codes and the reverse engineering process I used to find them.
October 20th's article covers three Saturn games:
Herc's Adventures
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Wangan Trial Love
All three of these games have heretofore-unreported cheat codes for accessing the credits / staff roll. The one for Herc's Adventures is actually a special mini-level that features Star Wars characters!
Details are in the post.
There are lots more reverse engineering articles in the archive. What games should I be looking at? Tell me, and I might add them to my list.
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