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6/30/2025, 1:44:05 AM
>>11832108
With the thousands of games in existence of course there are, especially if you also consider dummied out/unused data and not just stuff you are meant to access. I was reading an article a few days ago about how the way to trigger an Easter Egg to display pictures of the dev team in an old Mac was just discovered. People knew about the image from having dumped the ROM and gone through it years ago, but they had no idea how to actually trigger it until recently. And that's from something as popular as an Apple product, there are thousands of far lesser known obscure games that nobody has bothered going through.
There are Red Herrings out there too. I remember when using an image viewer on Atomic Bomberman, there was an image that was a photo of one of the devs with a message on how to activate a code to use his head on the characters, as well as a sprite sheet for said head. However, the code is not possible to input (It mentions pressing what appear to be SNES buttons on "your controller"... the game was exclusively released on PC) and no site appears to have ever mentioned how to activate it, it's likely fake put in there as a prank for people who would use the graphics viewer to try to uncover secrets in the game.
>>11832112
Having access to a dump of the game data does not mean you have the source code, that requires decompilation. That also does not mean you will know how to do everything (See Apple example above) unless you spend a long time finely going through the code. And of course, this requires someone to have actually cared to go through the code of whatever game is in question.
With the thousands of games in existence of course there are, especially if you also consider dummied out/unused data and not just stuff you are meant to access. I was reading an article a few days ago about how the way to trigger an Easter Egg to display pictures of the dev team in an old Mac was just discovered. People knew about the image from having dumped the ROM and gone through it years ago, but they had no idea how to actually trigger it until recently. And that's from something as popular as an Apple product, there are thousands of far lesser known obscure games that nobody has bothered going through.
There are Red Herrings out there too. I remember when using an image viewer on Atomic Bomberman, there was an image that was a photo of one of the devs with a message on how to activate a code to use his head on the characters, as well as a sprite sheet for said head. However, the code is not possible to input (It mentions pressing what appear to be SNES buttons on "your controller"... the game was exclusively released on PC) and no site appears to have ever mentioned how to activate it, it's likely fake put in there as a prank for people who would use the graphics viewer to try to uncover secrets in the game.
>>11832112
Having access to a dump of the game data does not mean you have the source code, that requires decompilation. That also does not mean you will know how to do everything (See Apple example above) unless you spend a long time finely going through the code. And of course, this requires someone to have actually cared to go through the code of whatever game is in question.
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