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.
For the December 11 edition, The Weakest Link goes under the microscope.
Did you know that this 2001 PlayStation (and PlayStation 2) game has a cheat code that shows the answers to every quiz question? Neither did anybody else – until now.
I found a few other interesting things hiding out in this game show video game, including the full list of valid passwords. Check out the details in the post on Substack.
Rings of Saturn is covering Steam Heart's for Saturn in the post for December 9.
This NSFW shoot-em-up game has some heretofore-undocumented cheat codes:
Unlock all stages and extras
Disable enemies entirely
Turn on hit box display
Upgrade weapons
Details on how to use them and how they work are at Substack.
December 6th's edition is on Shrek: Extra Large for GameCube.
This port of the 2001 Xbox game Shrek didn't get much praise due to its technical downgrades. But I found something that this version has that the original doesn't: a hidden way to unlock all levels and the bonus cheat menu.
Details on how this works are in the article at Substack!
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.