Emulator discovered in Nintendo64 game Goldeneye

[Hard core Rikki]

A fully functional emulator for the ZX Spectrum console was recently discovered, hidden inside the code of Nintendo64 game Goldeneye (released in 1997). A dozen games from RARE are included as well.

GoldenEye Spectrum Emulation Unlocked

Little benownst to the world all this time, GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. By feeding it a proper Spectrum monitor program and calling menu 25 to load a snapshot, any Spectrum 48x program can be run.

The emulator started life as a side project to see if Spectrum emulation was possible on N64 and was hooked into GE, the current game in development. It was supposed to be removed before release but was only made inaccessible and inoperable. All the registers, dependancies, and script required to run the emulator still reside in retail GoldenEye carts.

The original list of games were previous Rare titles, then known as Ultimate Play the Game.

...

Full story and instructions on TheRWP

__________________

deviantART | Blog | VBA-M | GeneralEmu | XTemu | FMVTool2 | @ES | Shendo new

NGemu toolbar http://ngemu.ourtoolbar.com

[@ruantec]

I can't believe such news get ignored in this forums.... things have changed a lot here and is just sad....

Anyways thank you for the news and information Rikki

__________________

Current development tools:

Visual C++.net, Visual C#.net
Visual VB.net, Visual Webdeveloper.net
Bloodshed Dev C++, Borland C++
Visual Basic 6

[Strike105X]

lol now this is quite the surprise and to think its only been discovered now after all this time.

__________________

DeviantArt|AnimeList|PC Config

[n_w95482]

Originally Posted by Strike105X

lol now this is quite the surprise and to think its only been discovered now after all this time.

Indeed. It makes me wonder what else is out there in other games, waiting to be found . Hats off to the people that made the discovery.

__________________
Later.

[tykel]

I still remember seeing screenshots of the Citadel level in N64 magazine.
Amazing there are still secrets in that cartridge.

__________________

tchip16 (chip16 assembler) Js16 (browser chip16 emulator)
mash16 (chip16 emulator) img16 (chip16 sprite converter)
______________________________________

Desktop: i5 750 @ 3.6 Ghz, 4GB ram, GTX 570 OC | Windows 7 Pro 64
Laptop: (Thinkpad) i5 430M, 4GB ram, Intel IGP | Arch Linux, Windows 7 Pro 64

[Khameleon]

That is pretty kool

__________________
Khameleon WINS.....
FLAWLESS VICTORY
FATALITY

[SBP]

one has to admit/like devs that don't easily share all their Easter eggs to early! it sure adds to the value of a game. I think more companies/devs should employ such challenges and not give away so easily. fun time!

__________________
Desktop: Intel i7 930 (2.8Ghz stock) | ASUS P6x58D-E | 6x2GB OCZ DDR3-1600 | Sapphire HD5870 Eyefinity 6 2gb GDDR5 | Win 7 x64 Ultimate
Laptop: ASUS G50 vt-x5 | 9800gt Win 7 x64 Ultimate

[cyclonmaster]

Wow! what a discovery. Hidden for a long time ago.

__________________

:::Gadget Dream:::Dropbox:::

Win XP SP3 | Monitor BenQ FP 91G+|Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz | GA-P55-USB3L - GIGABYTE | Albatron 6600GT 128MB PCI-E | Corsairs 2GB DDR3

Laptop Lenovo z460 : Win XP SP3 | Intel Core i5-460M(2.8GHz) | NVidia G310M CUDA DDR3 1GB | 2GB DDR3 Memory | 500GB HDD SATA | 14.1 WXGA LED Display

Please Answer This Survey. Thank You.

[michaelbas]

Awesome! but Could nintendo or Rare get sued for this?

[Xblade]

Originally Posted by @ruantec

I can't believe such news get ignored in this forums.... things have changed a lot here and is just sad....

Anyways thank you for the news and information Rikki

I read it and didn't comment o_o.

__________________

[Homicide]

What other secrets lie inside the plastic sandwich?

__________________

forum error; object 'getsig'={null}