Archive - Rings of Saturn

Under the microscope: Medal of Honor: Underground (PlayStation)

Mounting a meet-in-the-middle attack against a PlayStation game's passcode obfuscation system

16 hrs ago

Expansion hack: Impact Racing

Featuring a debug mode that can tweak car parameters, track attributes, and more

Feb 16

Under the microscope: Kinetica (PlayStation 2)

A brute force attack against a PlayStation 2 game's cheat code system

Feb 13

Under the microscope: Small Soldiers (PlayStation)

Reverse-engineering the passcode system for a PlayStation game

Feb 11

Under the microscope: Sound Qube (Saturn)

Your time is over, Rubik

Feb 9

Under the microscope: Aero Elite: Combat Academy (PlayStation 2)

When you have to disconnect your controller to enter a cheat code

Feb 6

Under the microscope: Syphon Filter 3 (PlayStation)

Using Ghidra to correct the record on a 24 year old PlayStation game

Feb 4

Under the microscope: Hyper Duel & Blast Wind (Saturn)

Horizont-Al and Verti-Cal

Feb 2

January 2026

Under the microscope: FireBlade (Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube)

Reverse engineering three versions of a 2002 helicopter game

Jan 30

Under the microscope: Roadsters (Dreamcast, PlayStation)

Three platforms, three sets of secrets

Jan 28

Sonic R: The R&R mod

The ROM hack that takes the racing out of Sonic R (1997)

Jan 26

Under the microscope: Road Rash 3D & Road Rash Jailbreak (PlayStation)

Using the PlayStation's BIOS functions to find cheat codes that the magazines missed

Jan 23

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