The Tetracorp project seeks to uncover the mysteries of classic video games and to preserve their legacy by documenting their existence. The project’s activities include disassembling games.
An overview of some of the most interesting findings appears below.
- K240 (Amiga, 1994) has the most in-depth investigation into its
numerous undocumented game mechanics, including:
- An undocumented feature gives you 100 credits per day per colony, and 2 credits per day per colonist.
- Exact hit points and damage values have been discovered for all Terran and alien buildings, ships, and nearly all ship hardpoints.
- Exact mechanics have been discovered for random events, most buildings, social unrest, and resource deficiency.
- You can skip the intro by holding the left mouse button.
- Building discovered to be incorrectly documented in the manual include the Powerplant (generates no power without Asteros) and Repair Facility (only repairs ships in hangar, never repairs large ships).
- Dungeons of Avalon (Amiga, 1992) has an interesting release history involving two simultaneous official and bootleg English versions. Complete maps have been extracted for both games. DoA1 has been proven to be unwinnable, but the game win screen is functional, and can be triggered with a memory editor. Unused content has been found, including Gnom Bones of the NPC Hanibal (class: Murderer), while the NPCs Clint and Beard are found to have the classes Pirate and Bard, respectively. An early alpha version of the game is analyzed for differences. New, more accurate translations have been made of the original German text.
- Tokimeki Memorial (PSX, 1994) accidentally left a file containing debug data in the original release.
- In Match Patch (Amiga, 1990), two cheats have been discovered: holding left before pressing Fire at the title screen skips to level 10, while holding right reduces the threshold for gaining a new life from 20,000 points to 10,000.
Some information has also been collected at the various sub-projects regarding analysis methods.
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