I thought it was a good episode. A little drawn out in some spots, but decent.
Laughed so hard I cried at the big reveal. How on earth was this obscure for so long???
I don't remember this in the E.T. game.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!
This game was so obscure I thought he made it up at first, I like to think I'm pretty aware of video game history too. December 2002 Playstation 1 tie in based on a 1982 movie, what were they thinking?
>>728917047I read the cheat code was unknown until someone decompiled the game a few months ago.
>>728916815American games need to revive their unabashed chauvinism. I want to see a boomer shooter call Maduro a pussy faggot.
>>728918267>FUCK OFF MADURO YOU FUCKING COMMIE
>>728916815>>728918267>the wokeness of the 2000s>"so cooooool"
>>728917929Between this and Alien Resurrection, which had an extremely obscure cheat code that let you play copied discs, I wonder what else on PS1 has crazy secrets waiting to be discovered.What would prompt someone to even decompile a game like this though?
>>728920247>t. bin laden
>>728920335for teh lulz
>>728916815>>728917398qrd?
>>728917047It was risky but it paid off. Best episode in awhile and all the eggs were put into this one basket. Bin Laden needs to fuck off.
>>728920335>The "Super Special Code" in the PlayStation 1 game Alien Resurrection is a complex sequence of inputs that enables the game to function as a boot disc for playing burned or backup games. This feature, discovered over 23 years after the game's release, was likely a development leftover for testing multi-disc functionality.Holy shit, what the fuck. Really, I wonder how many more of such secrets will be found out in the coming years. That code could be very useful... If anyone knew about it at the time the game was released.
>>728916815Can't wait until someone finds an E-rated game that straight up says nigger.
>>728922051New AVGN brought up that a PS1 ET game has an easter egg where "Fuck off Bin Laden" shows up in the credits if you enter a cheat code.
>>728920335For the love of the game. Solutions to many development problems are found in old, bad or "shovelware" titles. There's value in understanding how they are made.
>>728918267We can't even show male/female as options in creator creation screens anymore, even in Japanese games. What makes you think that's feasible?
It would be incredible if "FUCK OFF BIN LADEN" became a slur to use against Muslims. And it was thanks to an AVGN video.
>>728922260I loved how developers of that time were able to insert a piece of themselves in the games they were making. Some messages were even encoded into RAM data. The Cutting Room Floor wiki has a massive amount of info about games of that time and all the hidden stuff/unused content.
>>728917047Same. E.T. smiling at the camera with flowers in his hands made was the icing on the cake.
>>728917047>How on earth was this obscure for so long???Someone actually had to give a shit about a bargain bin game and crack it open to discover hidden cheats, that's how. Some of your favorite but obscure games may still have shit no one's found in them because there wasn't someone autistic enough to check or knowledgeable enough to figure out how.
>>728923315https://tcrf.net/The_Lion_King_(Game_Boy)#Unused_Text
>>728923315I remember there was a hidden message in a Disney game where the game would display "Boy Lover" if you entered a cheat code but I cannot find it in TCRF anymore.
>>728917047Because you only get your information from ecelebs
>>728920335>I wonder what else on PS1 has crazy secrets waiting to be discoveredKid me was dicking around in Ape Escape 1 when I got a game over in the first level. When I restarted the game I was in this small enclosed basketball court-like arena surrounded by fences and audience seats with only a few basic enemies and no monkeys, then I got a game over like a retard and never saw this level again. To this day I still don't know what the FUCK that was about, I've never seen anyone talking about anything like it and it's so incredibly vivid of a memory that I refuse to believe I fabricated it.
>>728924001Wrong, I get it from forumsIn any case I'd expect someone who worked on the game to reveal something this epic, not for anyone to decompile some shitty shovelware title to find it
>>728924001If only /v/ played video games so there was any information here and not just ads for AAA games and people calling each other retards.
>>728923743That sounds like something a follower of Moloch would find important...
>>728924029Sounds like you managed to boot into a developer room.
>>728922310I'm just surprised if there's anyone that actually loves it.Even AVGN made it pretty clear the focus of the review was that insane secret, and he probably wouldn't have given it a proper review otherwise.Still, if there's actual PS1 development insight that could be gleaned from a low budget licensed game, I'd be surprised.
>>728917398>December 2002 Playstation 1 tie in based on a 1982 movieBased on the CHARACTER from a 1982 movie. It has nothing to do with the film.ET is on alien planets collecting plants, he never goes near Earth nor Elliot.People forget the PS1 had like 3000 shovelware games. Total fucking nonsense based on some licensed property that nobody wanted.
>>728924843There was a lot of pretty bad Tiny Toon games on the PS1, and it was after the broadcast run of the cartoon had finished so unless it was pushing VHS/DVD sales, it probably didn't achieve much.
>>728924608I meant "for the love of the game" as in, "for the sake of becoming better at development", not necessarily whether they love this ET game. Just a minor clarification, carry on.
>>728922592Some Muslims are bros, but I agree that both Jihadists and Moloch adorers can get nuked.
>>728925196Oh, the actual practice of programming, software engineering, etc.Naturally, if you're developing an emulator, you're looking at every commercial release not just the popular ones. You need to make your emulator as accurate as possible, and visible edge cases in some crappy game still contributes to solving invisible edge cases across lots of other games.
>>728924949Some fly-by-night game dev (in this case, Warthog games) buys the license which is cheaper at the time because the show stopped being profitable in 1996. They slap together some low effort bullshit on top of an existing engine and get it on store shelves hoping some kid sees a familiar character on the box and buys it.Low internet saturation in those days meant the average consumer was ignorant about what was a good game or a bad game. They just went to a brick and mortar store and picked something.
>>728925340Iranians are built different, they're not like typical Muslims. My parents lived in Iran until the Islamic revolution and most of the Muslims there were bros to my dad. Iran is also becoming a lot more secular nowadays.
