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janrinok [soylentnews.org] writes:

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Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story [engadget.com]:

The first-person shooter Doom has so many ports on so many different consoles and computers that modders have had to find new places to port the game like autonomous lawnmowers [engadget.com], digestive bacteria [engadget.com] and even in Doom II [engadget.com] itself.

One port that’s not nearly as popular or playable as the others is the Sega Saturn port that came out nearly four years after the game’s release. Gamespot’s Jeff Gerstmann [gamespot.com] called the Sega Saturn Doom port just about everything you can call a bad game without straying over the the boundaries of good taste: “completely worthless,” “drab,” “jerky,” “to be avoided at all costs.”

Bo, a self-described reverse engineer of Sega Saturn games, gave the Sega Saturn port of Doom another chance and he discovered a cheat code in the game that’s been laying dormant for more than a decade. He posted the secret cheat code he found on X [x.com].

Here's a cheat code for the Saturn version of DOOM that I think has gone unnoticed since 1997. Pause the game and press:
X, Right, B, Y, X, Right, B, Y

The walls will become semi-transparent. See the before/after pictures below! pic.twitter.com/iLRDwEr46M [t.co]

— Bo (Low Context Burning Rangers) (@memory_fallen) September 10, 2024 [twitter.com]

The button combination X, Right, B, Y, X, Right, B, Y gives you the ability to see through the walls of the Mars substation and even Hell. It’s too bad the game doesn’t have a cheat code that lets you see a better version of Doom.

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