There’s a preview of Motor Toon Grand Prix 2 on the DemoDemo PlayStation Vol. 16 disc. Normally it lets you play as one character in one mode on one course, but the demo limitations are superficial – there’s data for all of the characters, most of the modes, and an extra course on the disc.

I’ve made a patch that allows you to explore this pre-final build. It’s from more than 3 months before the final one, and differs in several ways – some of the characters even have different names.

Get the patch from GitHub and see my writeup about how it works on Substack!

The PlayStation 2 version of Batman Vengeance shipped with debug symbols that make it easy to search for hidden features.

I used the symbols to locate a long-unknown cheat code that activates an Easter egg on the Cinematics screen. It pops up a list of goofy names and pictures of the development staff. I don't think it's been seen since 2001!

Check out the details in the Substack post.

March 16's article is on Thunder Force V, the horizontal shooter from Technosoft. I found a cheat that lets you choose your starting stage that seems to have gone unnoticed since 1997.

In the Substack article, I describe how the code works and where it was hiding in the game data. It works for both the Saturn version and the PlayStation Perfect System reissue.