RE4 hacked, hidden features unlocked

by James Ransom-Wiley { Apr 21st 2006 at 11:57AM }

A pair of hackers is claiming to have unlocked Resident Evil 4's debug mode. While the duo is unwilling to disclose their method at this time — for fear it would have "possible negative effects" — they've posted a pretty convincing video showing off some of the hidden features, including thermal mission, stealth camouflage and bullet time. It's worth noting that the hackers are using a version of RE4 they're calling, "Resident Evil 4 Trial Edition (GCN)."

Tags: Biohazard 4, Biohazard4, Capcom, debug, Resident Evil 4, ResidentEvil4

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dman @ Apr 21st 2006 12:03PM

Umm, awesome!

AnimalTaglits @ Apr 21st 2006 12:04PM

What negative affects could be possible? I would understand if this was some sort of online multiplayer type game -- but it isn't.

Mike @ Apr 21st 2006 12:07PM

some cool and very interesting stuff!

bearattack79 @ Apr 21st 2006 12:08PM

The hack is "up up, down down, left right, left right"....

Sloopydrew @ Apr 21st 2006 12:13PM

Hopefully they'll let us know how it's done. I've been looking for an excuse to play that game through for a 4th time.

Aaron @ Apr 21st 2006 12:13PM

wicked

Aaron @ Apr 21st 2006 12:14PM

4th? I'm on my 10th round ahah, and I still have an excuse for sure.

TK00 @ Apr 21st 2006 12:14PM

>"What negative affects could be possible?"

Maybe they figured a new, easy way to hack the GC and they're afraid of getting sued.

DG @ Apr 21st 2006 12:21PM

I'd like a hack to pick up more shotgun ammo.

I'm not very good at video games.

Sloopydrew @ Apr 21st 2006 12:22PM

Is anyone else unable to get the video to work? Usually Youtube vids work fine on my comp, but this one hangs on "loading" and never gets any further.

Kvasir @ Apr 21st 2006 12:27PM

I hate to be the guy who says this but "this is old". Probably about a year or so, I remember doing this before the full version of the game even came out. Pretty much you have to use the PSO ep I & II exploit to stream a modified version of the RE4 Trial ISO to your cube.

There is an ini-ish file in the image that you have to change one of the values to access it. Once you do this, there are a ton of things you can mess around with. It's been a while, but I clearly remember being able to modify the shotgun to shoot something like 100 rounds a second.

preciousRoy @ Apr 21st 2006 12:54PM

If I had to guess, the "Negative effects" are as follows.

1. It's apparently a 'Beta Build' of the game, if you read the article, the menu shows an 'E3' mode. How did they get ahold of a beta build of the game to begin with?
2. Finding what's in there probably required some RAM debugging and farting with the game code itself. Possibly editing files and re-burning the game. In the article they mention the folder structure of the game and that the 'ST0' folder contents are missing so some features don't work. Reverse engineering any licensed software in this manner usually violates the EULA, and yes it is different than running a gameshark.

So given those two possibilities, I figure they don't want to release the method and get the community as a whole in trouble for having a copy of the beta and reverse engeneering it.

Some Random Poster @ Apr 21st 2006 12:55PM

What? No hot coffee feature? Lame!

Ben @ Apr 21st 2006 1:25PM

#12
When was the last time you had to agree to a EULA that came with a console video game, excluding online games?

Babylonian @ Apr 21st 2006 2:05PM

"They've posted a pretty convincing video showing off some of the hidden features, including thermal mission, stealth camouflage and bullet time."

'Thermal mission'? Are you guys even trying to spell shit right anymore? D:

But seriously, this site is a good read. Very interesting discoveries.

Justin Day @ Apr 21st 2006 5:37PM

Rock on.

Looks like a good time.

Tom Cruise @ Apr 21st 2006 6:41PM

I have the trial edition...

fmsoftware @ Apr 21st 2006 7:06PM

Oops someone forgot to comment out #define DEBUG

Urm0m @ Apr 21st 2006 7:51PM

The thermal vision was already in the game... it's available with one of the rifle scopes

preciousRoy @ Apr 21st 2006 9:34PM

#14: The first time you play DOA3 it shows you the EULA that includes not disassembling or reverse engineering the game or game data. It appears their isn't a printed EULA on the Resident Evil 4 manuals anywhere, but as licensed software it may be implied.