Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Strikers 1945 (Saturn and PlayStation) and Sengoku Blade (Saturn), which are both shooting games from Psikyo. In wrote previously about patches for the Saturn versions…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Gunbird, the vertical shooter from Psikyo. I found four new cheat codes for it: The Test mode menu. NoDeath mode, which makes you invincible. Skip…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Zen Nihon Pro Wres Featuring Virtua is was produced by Sega and Scarab. As the name suggests, it’s a Japanese pro wrestling game that features two Virtua Fighter characters. The…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition we’re analyzing Asuka 120% Limited Burning Fest. for Saturn. This game, like the rest of the ones in the Asuka 120% series, didn’t get released outside of…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The trial disc for Fighting Vipers secretly has a full build of the game behind its demo restrictions. That build is from 1996-07-24, right in between the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I reverse engineered the password system The Lost World: Jurassic Park, revealing some long-unknown cheat codes. The new codes enable a stage select screen, an invincibility mode,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Keio Flying Squadron 2 has a cool debug mode: it has a stage select menu, hitbox display, a higher jump, and more. The code to enable it…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In honor of the 30th anniversary of its original release, I took a look at Astal. Here’s what I came up with: An alternate title screen A more complete level…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Madden NFL 97: I found a cool free camera mode that’s enabled by a special player name. And alternate method of unlocking the bonus teams….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, I’ve got some new cheat codes for Grid Runner (a.k.a. Grid Run). Enter them at the Restore Game > Enter Password screen: Read on for details! Intro…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The 3DO game Shock Wave was ported to the PlayStation in 1995 and to the Saturn in 1996. On those systems it was released as Shockwave Assault. GameFAQs lists some…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
There are a lot of 2D fighting games on the Saturn. Battle Monsters is… certainly one of them. Look, it’s no Street Fighter. It’s no Primal Rage. Surely somebody likes…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I found some previously unknown cheat codes for the Saturn game G Vector, the 3D shooter. They give you extra modes, invincibility, a new character, and more!…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga has a hidden cheat menu that grants infinite items, the ability to skip levels, and more. Action Replay codes to enable…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I found a previously unreported cheat code for Highway 2000, the Genki racing game for Saturn. It unlocks an unlimited “free” time mode. I also found a…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Before they joined Sega in 1999, Visual Concepts produced two sports games for Saturn. Those two games, NHL 97 and NBA Action 98, both have unreported Easter…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Saturn enthusiast Shadowmask has just published a new translation patch for Mobile Suit Gundam, the 1995 Saturn game from CRI and Bandai. Check it out! Shadowmask’s work prompted me to…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
NiGHTS Into Dreams has strange little Easter egg at the end of its Splash Garden level. Sometimes if you defeat the boss, Puffy, a door opens and something falls out…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Power Stone for Dreamcast has a hidden debug menu that lets you test various functions, alter game parameters, and view/edit character animations. Power Stone 2, also for…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
BattleSport is a combination sports / vehicular combat game from Cyclone Studios. It was published for the 3DO in 1996, and ported to the Saturn and PlayStation in 1997. There…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The earliest references to cheat codes for Hang-On GP1 that I found were in the 1996-02 issue of Computer and Videos Games Magazine. They knew about two of them: Codes…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Golf games — kind of a snooze, right? I always thought so, and maybe I still do… But the Saturn has a handful of them, and I wondered if any…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
2025 is the year in which Segagaga, Sega’s video game company simulation RPG on the Dreamcast, takes place. It’s 2025 now, so I decided to check out what’s hiding on…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In a previous edition I wrote up how to access debug menus in a few Saturn RPGs. Let’s do it again! Here are three more games with hidden debug features:…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In a previous edition I uncovered debug mode cheat codes for Sakura Wars and Sakura Wars 2 on Saturn. Both games were reissued for the Dreamcast with various upgrades. Do…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The Dream On: Volume 7 demo disc has a “rolling demo” of Metropolis Street Racer that’s not normally playable. I made a patch that lets you take…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Making Ejihon Detective Agency playable as a standalone Saturn game The Game-Ware “digital magazine” discs The obscure Super Prologue 21 sampler disc Get the standalone Ejihon patch…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
American and European Saturn owners didn’t get to play Genki’s Tokyo Highway Battle — it only came out for the PlayStation in those regions. A Saturn version was published in…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: A magazine demo disc has a non-playable demo of Burning Rangers …which is based on prerelease build of the entire game …that we can make playable This…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: New cheat codes for Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal. There’s a cheat menu that gives you invincibility, unlimited weapons, the ability to skip levels,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
After looking at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 in an previous edition of Rings of Saturn, I decided to check out Neversoft’s other titles. I chose Skeleton Warriors, the skeleton-themed…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In Taito’s Elevator Action arcade games, you play as special agents trying to prevent terrorists from blowing up stuff. In order to do that, you have to shoot a lot…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I found some cheat codes for Off-World Interceptor Extreme that have stayed hidden for 29 years. The codes also work on the the original 3DO version, Off-World…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future has some previously unrecognized cheat features that activate based on what you name your save file. Using Ghidra and Python,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The House of the Dead Taikenban normally lets you play part of the first chapter. But we can patch the demo to let us play more of…