ZX Spectrum Emulator found in Goldeneye64 source code!

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

http://kotaku.com/5897828/long-lost-emulation-easter-egg-discovered-in-goldeneye

That's pretty amazing stuff.

So cool knowing that an emulator was actually stealthily locked away in an inaccessible fashion on such a classic game!

Would have been neat if it were accessible via some computer terminal in the game. We've wound up seeing similar things like that in other/future titles like Maniac Mansion Day of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion) and Call of Duty Black Ops (Zork).

[TonyTheTiger]

http://www.figure.fm/cgm/ecommerce/figure/images/large/35f03d7e2ac9433ac008f4341a510278.jpg

That's pretty awesome. I always love it when nonsensical things are found in games years after release. It gives an odd Indiana Jones style credibility to the myths and legends of the hobby.

[Gunstar Hero]

You mentioned zork in Call Of Duty: Black Ops... How do you access this game?

[markusman64ds]

You mentioned zork in Call Of Duty: Black Ops... How do you access this game?

I remember in the main menu of the game, you are in a chair. I think you press L2 and R2 repeatedly to get out. When out, find the computer, and type in ZORK. I think that's how it works.

[Shulamana]

I thought this was an elaborate troll and that the "patch" to unlock this was probably large enough to have a Spectrum emulator within it.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I thought this was an elaborate troll and that the "patch" to unlock this was probably large enough to have a Spectrum emulator within it.

I don't know, is it?

The original post doesn't have any "reveal" on it being a gag.

http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48139

If it is a gag, it's two days early!

[treismac]

Regardless if it is an Easter Egg or an April Fool's Prank, this is all kinds of cool. :D

Although with the need for the patch, it does make the discovery more suspect while also dampening its coolness.

[madman77]

250k is a huge patch for what the person claims to have changed in the code. The link to download it didn't work so I was unable to download it and look at it, nor do I have the ROM handy to see if the Speccy ROM files are already included in there. I'll have to take a look this weekend, but I wouldn't doubt if this is true. The Speccy was huge in the UK and Rare did write games for it.

[Greg2600]

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/911/

The rom hacking link is still active. My thing is that operating the hack is too much of a pain. You need a controller in #3 just to activate it. I don't know, I mean regardless if Rare left the code in or not, it's still quite an interesting hack to "find."

PS: I always miss these things that Kotuku finds for months, because I refuse to go to that website. It's a complete mess of a site, probably the worst web layout/design I've seen since frames were invented.