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 different games and report my findings.
Last week I published a patch that enabled debug mode in a prerelease demo build of Tales of Destiny. This week I'm doing the same things for two more games in the Tales of series.
Get the patches from GitHub:
And check out the writeup on Substack.
Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers is notable for being one the few games to support the Saturn link cable - you can play against your friends, if you dare.
I found a handy debug mode cheat for this game that went undocumented for 30 years. I also found that there's a prerelease "auto demo" that secretly contains the entire game.
Get the details on the cheat code and a patch to play the demo version in the Substack article!
Cheat sites list a handful of codes for Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat (1996, PlayStation). Each one involves moving the cursor to a particular place and entering a button sequence.
I reverse engineered how these codes work and found several that escaped notice. They grant extra gold, unlock the missions, enable one-hit kills, and more.
Details on how the game uses the cursor coordinates and checks for cheat input are in the Substack post.