Saturn game hacker & reverse engineer extraordinaire, Bo Bayles, digs up long lost treasures that lay hidden away within the code of nearly every Saturn game! You can read more about his journey & findings in detail on his blog, RINGS OF SATURN at https://32bits.substack.com/.
Here we are honored to feature Bo’s ‘UNDER THE MICROSOPE’ series, where you can join him on his quest to uncovering every last Sega Saturn game secret in existence!
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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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It’s Christmas NiGHTS season once again! In this edition, I’m describing a new patch / hack that I’ve made that alters the Sonic Into Dreams present for Christmas NiGHTS Into…
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In this edition: The SoulCalibur Tokubetsu Taikenban demo disc restricts you to playing two characters in one mode, but I’ve made a patch to remove these limitations. The disc is…
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,…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Approximately 20% of my mental capacity was dedicated to finding, using, and thinking about cheat codes when I was a kid. I first submitted a code to SegaSages.com when I…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’ve got debug menu hacks for three Saturn RPGs: Riglordsaga 2 Shiroki Majo: Mouhitotsu no Eiyuu Densetsu Magic Knight Rayearth These menus let you alter game parameters…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, I find some long-unknown passwords for Alien Trilogy, and one of them is surprisingly rude. Here’s the comprehensive list of passwords with new ones highlighted: I also…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Blazing Heroes (a.k.a. Mystaria, a.k.a. Riglord Saga) has a hidden set of debug and cheat menus. They allow you to be invincible, warp to anywhere in the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’ve got some new cheat codes for Hardcore 4×4, the off-road truck racing game: One code enables debug mode with a bunch of different functions. Some others…
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In this edition I’ve got details about some new cheat codes for Saturn games: Doom: technical information about the transparent walls code. Revolution X: a new cheat options screen. Earthworm…
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In this edition: There are a couple of demos of Goiken Muyou: Anarchy in the Nippon, the goofy 3D fighting game designed by Virtua Fighter enthusiasts. The demos have superficial…
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In this edition: I’ve made a patch to enable a hidden debug menu in Golden Axe: The Duel. It lets you play as the final boss, display hit boxes, adjust…
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Xing Entertainment did a series of ports of old arcade titles for the Saturn and PlayStation under the Arcade Gears banner. One of the titles was Gun Frontier, a Taito…
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In this edition: Savaki, the mixed martial arts fighting game, has some previously undocumented button codes to unlock extra characters and debug features. In addition, there’s a a more-or-less full…
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The Saturn version of Metal Black is a port of the 1991 Taito arcade game. In its story, Earth is suffering under an uneasy truce with a hostile alien force….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Dungeon Master Nexus was a Japanese Saturn exclusive, but through the magic of fan translation patches, you can play it in English. This patch sparked some renewed interest in the…
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The ominous parallels I started looking at Dark Savior in response to a reader question: Is there a sixth parallel? In case you don’t know, Dark Savior is a Saturn RPG with an unusual…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
On July 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker & reverse engineer, Bo Bayles, released a special game patch in celebration of the 28th Anniversary of NiGHTS into Dreams… In this reimaged…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
On June 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker extraordinaire, Bo Bayles, announced the latest in his series of game patches that seek to restore hidden/unused assets & functionality to Saturn games….