The December 4 edition of Rings of Saturn covers Planet Joker, the 1997 shoot-em-up for Saturn.

There aren't any cheat codes available for this game online – there are none listed on English sites or Japanese sites. I decided to take a look to see if any could be found.

Good news: some could be found! I located an invincibility code and a mission select code in the game data.

Check out the full details in the Substack post.

For December 2nd's article, I'm correcting the record on Michelin Rally Masters for PlayStation.

Every cheat site has a bogus code listed for this game. There's a password that's been floating around the Internet for more than two decades that purports to "unlock everything," but it doesn't actually work. What gives?

I reverse engineered this game's passcode system and found the real code – plus many more equivalent ones. Get the details on Substack.

For November 29th's edition, I'm examining Urban Chaos for Dreamcast.

There are cheat codes for the PlayStation version of this game, but not the Dreamcast version. What gives?

I took a look and found evidence of some previously-unreported cheat codes. Little did I know, no reverse engineering was actually needed – this game's developer posted its source to GitHub several years ago!

Details on how the cheats work are in the Substack article.