“Godsend” is a bit of an exaggeration, considering how many ways there are to get the same result without even going into emulation and stuff, but alright. It’s still a fun bit of history and behind the scenes info.
A lot people like playing on genuine hardware, and this enables skipping a ton of steps to making that possible. For those select people this really is a massive convenience if maybe not a godsend.
Argonaut Games’ cult classic survival horror FPS Alien Resurrection has been hiding a secret for 23 years: it contains a cheat code that lets you play backup disks on PS1 without having to mod the hardware at all.
What the article didn’t mention, and it says in the video, Alien: Resurrection was possibly going to be a multi cd game at one point and the dev was experimenting with the code to get that working.
Would it kill the author of the article to actually include the cheat code?
This homie covers it https://youtu.be/uRB7iUCX4KQ
