Brutkey

abadidea
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

rare game lore: Sonic 3D Blast for Genesis only passed console verification by dressing up the crash handler – which you absolutely will hit – as a level select screen, pretending the player accidentally entered a cheat code. #gamedev #retrogaming


Gay Violet
@violet@fedi.lesbianforest.club

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange 🌠🌠 The most reliable way to get there in the original release is by physically jiggling the cartridge, which we did a bunch as a kid.

abadidea
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@violet@fedi.lesbianforest.club yes, this had the rather interesting side effect of training thousands of children to find the most bluntly violent way to reliably reproduce a crash...