After 23 years, developer reveals he snuck a cheat code past Sony that turns a cult-classic horror game into a godsend for retro enthusiasts
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Article about a recent revelation by the Youtube Channel Modern Vintage Gaming: The game "Alien Resurrection" by Argonaut contains a code which allows to run burned CD copies of Playstation 1 games.
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Huh, I have this game and a unmodded PS1 lying around. I be sure to try this after the holidays.
Good luck getting a copy if you don't already have one, scalpers have already raided everywhere.
Edit: apparently the Christmas drinking has affected my reading comprehension
Still a warning for anyone else thinking the same
Holy fuck, I had no idea. I just checked the prices online and they are absolutely insane. Why is it so expensive? I got the game and the console for like 20 Euros about 10 years ago. It's not in great condition though.
Edit: Oh, it's just so expensive because of this video? That's pretty crazy.
Because scalpers expected this to be in demand after the news broke and set their bots to buy every cheap copy by unknowing private sellers in order to create a oligopoly and heavily gauge pricing
But isn't the whole point to play a burned copy of the game?
This seems like scalping concert tickets to a concert that allows you to copy tickets in the printer.
No, the point is to use a legit copy of this game to run burned copies of other games.
Which is silly for scalpers to try to profit off of this. You may get some short-term profits, but there are plenty of ways to circumvent copy protection on PS1 that are much cheaper and easier to work with than this.
It's also seemingly just an experiment that a dev decided to sneak into the game, so there's no guarantee that the loaded game will actually play reliably.
I'll wait for the hype to cool off and some real data about performance to exist before I consider buying it.
Oh yeah, this is a bubble, but fwiw, there should be minimal compatibility issues possible from my understanding as this is essentially the change disk mechanism we see in several games, but without the check that the correct disk has been inserted. Of course there'll be edge cases (and I'm gonna imagine there might be some late stage additional copy protection in some games that doesn't rely on the boot up checks), but on hardware as simple as the playstation it's going to be pretty much: if you're running the executable, you're running the game as if it's passed the checks
No, the legit copy of the game allows you to play pirated copies of other games. It bypasses the piracy check in the console and allows you to swap discs to a pirated copy of whatever other game you want.
Loads emulator and laughs.
While I agree, there are entire communities built around retro consoles. But that also means legit copies of retro games can be difficult to come by.
Sure, but at these prices, it's less expensive to get a modded PS1.
The price is only high because the scalpers set the price that high. Whether they can find a seller is another question.
This like when a penny stock suddenly jumps up because one idiot bought it at a high price when supply was low.
Reminds me of cube ninja at the beginning of the 3DS homebrew.