A new cheat code for the Sega Saturn version of Doom has been discovered, 27 years after the game’s original release in 1997. This newly found cheat allows players to make walls in the game semi-transparent, offering a unique gameplay feature that was previously unknown.

  • @jordanlund
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    365 months ago

    Particularly interesting in that the Saturn had known problems with transparencies.

    • Davel23
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      175 months ago

      I’m not sure I would call it “problems”, but doing transparencies on the Saturn required leveraging VDP2 and most developers just didn’t bother.

      • @jordanlund
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        125 months ago

        Yup. Sega had it figured out and enabled Fishbowl Head in Virtua Fighter Kids, but it was out of the reach of 3rd party developers.

        • @[email protected]
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          135 months ago

          Is that transparency? Looks like the same dithering/alternating empty pixels that all Saturn ports are plagued with.

          • mozingo
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            165 months ago

            Yea, that’s specifically not transparency. Megaman X 4 had actual transparencies, which you can see here with the glass tube, next to a spotlight using the dithering method.

          • @jordanlund
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            -15 months ago

            Oh, but it’s what passes for transparency on the Saturn. :)