{"id":10464,"date":"2024-02-21T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T03:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10464"},"modified":"2024-01-19T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T03:19:18","slug":"play-backup-disks-on-an-unmodified-ps1-using-previously-unknown-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10464","title":{"rendered":"Play backup disks on an unmodified PS1 using previously unknown hack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ModernVintageGamer\"><br>Modern Vintage Gamer<\/a> reveals a secret that would have blown the minds of anyone in the 90&#8217;s. The lack-luster game Alien Resurrection on the Sony PlayStation PS1 has a secret cheat code that enables you to play backup discs without any additional mod chip or soft mod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely not a simple or fast hack (requiring a lot of button mashing and menu manipulation), but it&#8217;s still pretty incredible. It&#8217;s caused copies of the game to go from $5 a copy to $100+ on eBay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS1&#8217;s have been hacked, modded, and emulated for a long time now so it&#8217;s not enabling something that wasn&#8217;t possible before; but it&#8217;s a wonderful bit of history and trivia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRB7iUCX4KQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/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\/\">https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/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\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Vintage Gamer reveals a secret that would have blown the minds of anyone in the 90&#8217;s. The lack-luster game Alien Resurrection on the Sony PlayStation PS1 has a secret cheat code that enables you to play backup discs without any additional mod chip or soft mod. It&#8217;s definitely not a simple or fast hack (requiring a lot of button mashing and menu manipulation), but it&#8217;s still pretty incredible. It&#8217;s caused copies of the game to go from $5 a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10464\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2IM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}