The internet lies: cheat code edition

Since it was made by the same dev, I wonder if the PC version also has the same codes.

 

Shutokou Battle '97: Tsuchiya Keiichi & Bandou Masaaki: there's a cheat code for the PlayStation to get 10 million (minus 1) points. The equivalent code wasn't known for Saturn, but I found it!

• At the title screen, press A 9 times and C 7times.
• Press Start and enter Scenario mode.
• Don’t load an existing save; just choose Exit at the Backup RAM screen.

Select BANDOH to see your points. This also unlocks the car color change effect (press X at the car select screen) and the "Type VW" car (press Z at the car select screen).

Details here.

 

Mayhaps we should disassemble the game, decode the numbers, I suspect it's a simple format. You put in 9005, and got back out 1405, so the 05 is significant to the level unlocked/completed state in some way.

I'd take a gander myself, but I'm knees deep in something vastly more complicated, it seems like it'd be a simple format, so I'm sure there are plenty of people here who could perhaps decode it in a day via IDA or whatever, it would help simplify the code list, providing rules instead of a list maybe?

 

Sakura Taisen on Saturn:

• At the Sega logo, enter: L, R, Up, Down, Left, Right, A, C, B, Start (a confirmation sound will be heard)
  
• At the title screen, enter: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, L, R, L, R (a confirmation sound will be heard)

Sakura Taisen 2 on Saturn:

• At the "Thou shalt not die" screen, enter: L, R, Right, Left, Up, X, B, Z (a confirmation sound will be heard)
  
• At the title screen, enter: L, R, Down, Up, Right, Left, A, C, X (a confirmation sound will be heard)
  
• Also at the title screen, enter: L, A, B, C, Down, X, Y, Z, Up, R (a confirmation sound will be heard)

Sakura Taisen on Dreamcast:

• At the title screen, enter: Up, A, A, A, Right, Left, Down, Down, Down, Down, A, A, A (a confirmation sound will be heard)
  
• Hold L+R

Sakura Taisen 2 on Dreamcast:

• At the Sega logo, enter: A, B, Up, Down, Right, Left, Up, Down, Right, Left, B, A (a confirmation sound will be heard)
  
• At the title screen, enter: Left, Up, Right, A, B, Y, X, Down, Y, Y, Y, Y (a confirmation sound will be heard)
  
• Press Start on the controller in port B

All of these get you some sort of debug menu. The Dreamcast ones are quite extensive and useful.

• Saturn details
• Dreamcast details

 

Segagaga on Dreamcast has some hidden debug features:

• Plug a controller into port C
• Enter the following sequence at the title screen: Left, X, Up, Y, Right, B, Down, A, Right, B, Up, Y, Right, B, Down, X
• Hold X and then press R to bring up the menu

Details here.

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Rayman 2 on Dreamcast has an additional code that can be entered by player 2. The three of them are:

• Up, X, Y, Down, Y, X, Left, Right: Change the VMU icon
• Down, A, Down, B, A, Y, X, X: Randomize textures (yes, the game wants the second X at the end, but is pretty generous about button presses)
• Left, A, Y, A, Y, X, B, Down: Unknown???

The unknown one I can't figure out, so any ideas are appreciated! Here's what I know:

• Entering it before a VMU has been selected sets a timer that counts down from 10
• The timer starts counting down once a VMU has been selected
• Entering it and then not selecting a VMU at all causes the timer to never begin counting down.

 

I'm 75% sure that there isn't a code to unlock the cable option in the NTSC-U version (still verifying). But there are two special names that I think are unreported.

!!LOOK?? gives you a special free camera mode. Pause and then press X+Y to activate it.

?RADICON does... something? I don't know, but maybe somebody here will know! It doesn't seem to do anything with the VMU. If there's an effect on the radar, I can't tell what it is. The game seems to look at the affected flag when changing camera angles?

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Edit: Now I'm 99% sure there's no way to activate the cable option in the NTSC-U version. The screen is translated, though.

 

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles has codes listed for PS2 on the various cheat sites, but not for Dreamcast.

If you sub in the corresponding face buttons, all of these work:

• Infinite Lives: A, X, Y, A, B
• Sights: B, B, A, Y, X
• Snipe: X, B, A, Y, B
• Mega Shots: B, Y, Y, X, A
• Rapid Firing: X, Y, A, Y, B
• Bounces: B, X, B, Y, A

You have to enter them somewhat slowly and assertively.

 

Three codes for Actua Golf:

• Press L+R at the title screen. The Rankings screen will switch to showing the names of Gremlin staff.
• Press X+Y+Z at the title screen to show the production credits.
• Select to the "Pro Tour" mode and press X+Y+Z to skip to the last tournament

Details here!

 

More from the cheat code mines...

Guilty Gear X for Dreamcast: Up, Up, Down, Left, Start at the title screen unlocks Testament. Down, Right, Right, Up, Start unlocks both Testmaent and Dizzy. The latter is well known, but the former I found hiding out on one of the Japanese cheat archives.

Hang On GP for Saturn: I pulled these out of the game code (details here):

• Enter these codes during the auto demo that plays after the title screen times out:
  • Unlock the special bike: X, A, X, Z, C, A, C, Y, B, Down
  • Unlock Endurance mode: Up, Down, Right, Left, X+Y+Z
  • Unlock mirrored courses: X, A, X, B, Z, C, Up, Down
  • Mark all races complete: X, B, Z, A, Y, C, Up, Down, Up, Down
• Enter these codes at the mode select screen:
  • Unlock all tracks: Open the Options screen and then exit it. On Mode Select screen enter R, R, L, R, R.
  • Unlimited time in Time Trial mode: Highlight Time Trial and enter Right, Left, Up, Down, Z.
  • Unlock 10 bikes (NTSC-J only): Open the Options screen and then exit it. On Mode Select screen enter Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, B.

 

Recent results...

• Outtrigger for Dreamcast: unlock everything and invincibility
• BattleSport for Saturn: A bunch of codes that are shared with the 3DO version

For Aerowings 2, I found that the ?RADICON! name mentioned above does have an effect. You have to turn on the "Round" camera view in settings, and then you get an alternate viewpoint. This was in some Japanese magazines, it seems.

 

Just in time for the end of football season, I found a way to enter codes into NFL 2K1, NFL 2K2, and NCAA College Football 2K2: Go to Options > Weather and then hold D-pad left + Analog right + A. After that, a special CODES item will appear on the Options screen.

From there you can enter codes a la NFL 2K:


The effects are mostly the same, but DEBUG and MINIME are added to the later ones.

 

Slave Zero for Dreamcast: some of the cheats you'll find online are bogus, but these work:

• With controller 2, L+R+X creates lines of ammunition for you to pick up.
• Also with controller 2, L+R+A toggles "AI firing," i.e. whether you can be targetd
• Also with controller 2, L+R+B toggles "God mode," i.e. invincibility

 

Good to see you still plugging away at this @Bo102010 ! Particularly enjoyed the Tony Hawk & Ecco brute forcing stuff, I guess the newer the game, the easier it is to just use some off the shelf algorithm to make life difficult for cheat hunters.

A few suggestions because why not. SimCity 2000 on the Saturn, PSX version has loads of codes whereas Saturn apparently only has the slot machine. Or does it? Also how about the wonderfully obscure Civ 1 (Japan only). It's technically a port of the classic PC game, except overhauled to be isometric like Civ 2 with unique graphics and sounds. Civ 1 PC has a debug mode that reveals the map and lets you change what the AI is up to, maybe the Saturn version does too?

 

Re: SimCity 2000, good suggestion. A quick trawl through the game code for 1 million in hex produces no results — I figured the code that gives you $1,000,000 would be the easiest to trace down. The PSX version's effect is readily locate-able with this method. So my guess is that the Saturn version doesn't have the cheat codes.

 

Dang, looking back at this thread, my record for suggesting games for investigation is pretty bad :-P

 

Some cheat codes for Mobile Suit Gundam on Saturn are described here!

I checked the other Gundam games and didn't come up with anything similar, alas.