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Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin

73 pointsby bbayleslast Wednesday at 2:19 PM17 commentsview on HN

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_deflast Wednesday at 9:48 PM

> CD check gets rid of the This program can only be run from the original CD! nag screen.

A built-in no-cd patch, neat :-)

Jzushlast Wednesday at 4:03 PM

That’s super cool! I loved the original Ecco on the genesis. Beat it several times. I miss when games had real cheats/debug modes. It’s part of the reason I hot in to programming and development in the first place. I feel like kids these days don’t get this experience anymore.

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BobbyTables2today at 3:08 AM

I’d love to know how the author found this!

I mean, who reverse engineers the “About” dialog on an application!?!? That’s the last place I would have ever looked!

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firefaxtoday at 4:10 AM

Now imagine it's not an easter egg, it's zero day.