Bo Bayles’ Hacks & Cheats

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

Under the Microscope: SoulCalibur

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

Under the Microscope: Savaki

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…

Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats

Expansion Hack: Metal Black

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

Extending The Demo: Dark Savior

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…