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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 (www.gamesradar.com)

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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When Playstation reads a disc, it looks for a special sequence on the disc that tells the Playstation “hey, this is a Playstation game. You should load it.”

That sequence is proprietary and isn’t on burned copies of games. This is anti-piracy protection, and makes sense from a monetary standpoint.

When you put Alien: Resurrection in the console, which has that sequence, the Playstation is told that “hey, this is a real Playstation game. You should load it.” The game loads, then you can put in the cheat, which tells the game to stop loading from the disc momentarily while another disc is loaded (think “please insert disc 2 from final fantasy”). At this point, you can pop in your burned copy of the game, then press a button to continue loading from disc, at which point the game tells the system “hey, this new guy is with me. Let him through”, and the Playstation loads the new game from the disc.

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It’s called Predictor, so it’s probably predicting the birth gender of the baby and not a pregnancy test.

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Inverted is how I always play. If you imagine a camera on a mount, you have to push the tilt bar up in order to tilt the camera angle down.

Anyway, it just works better for me inverted, but I respect my non-inverted brethren and sistren.

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You can’t be chivalrous without being a chauvinist

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They’re probably training their AI-powered level generation

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You can also watch either movie if you’re stupid and alone. I should know because I did it.

Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record (apnews.com)

Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont submitted the legislation, named the Inclusive Democracy Act, on Tuesday which would guarantee the right to vote in federal elections for all citizens regardless of their criminal record....

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Being forced to pay taxes while not having the right to vote is taxation without representation - the exact thing we created America over.

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The guy rotated his hips to ask the streaming booth to his left if they have the movie, thus his feet were still aimed at the booth in the first panel.

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To put in perspective how shallow a 0.15% change is, a dimple on a golf ball is roughly 4 times deeper than that (0.60% of a difference in depth).

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This seditionist asshat shouldn’t even be allowed to be in politics anymore. The more we allow people to try to overturn elections, the more impossible it will be to stay a democracy.

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Doesn’t surprise me that she’s a deluded narcissist.

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In Las Vegas, we have a local chain called SkinnyFats that has two menus, a “healthy” menu and a “happy” menu

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Thank you!

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Isn’t preventing people from performing civic duties the opposite of freedom.

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Do… do you know how much money the US has given to Ukraine for this effort? A continuous conflict is untenable. The U.S. gov would want the opposite of what you’re thinking

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I also noticed Mazda wasn’t on there. Doesn’t even come up in a search. Does that mean they’re more respectful of privacy?

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I’m a principal dev (the step higher than senior in my company) and I’m under 40. I think it mostly depends on luck and being in the right place at the right time.

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This chart bothers me because the y-axis is all over the place in terms of range. Sometimes it’s $15k range, sometimes it’s $30k, sometimes it’s $50k. Really skews the data.

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The terrible content moderation policies and adblock bans will ruin it long before shorts.

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Starfield is fun to me 🤷‍♂️

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They did. They’re also the reason why it took Uber and Lyft ages to break into the Vegas market.

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After years of failing to define what “woke” means and why they hate it, they’ve decided to pivot to blaming Obama on Hillary running in 2016.

Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers (www.politico.com)

A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office...

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My guess is that a deal was struck before the flip was flopped.

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Is there a way to copy the posted link to an article straight from the feed in Liftoff? When I hit “copy link” it copies the link to the post on lemmy. I do not want this.

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