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Maybe nowadays it is... but I guarantee you the devs very much used this code for "backups"
Alien Resurrection came out in 2000. We had known about hot swapping PSX disks and other softmods for years by that point. So yeah, this would have been a fun quirk even when it happened. Still fun, though.
A lot of people never got the swap trick message it seems. Especially the quad-swap that worked on later consoles.
It was my main method, but I’ve talked to a surprising number of people who told me it didn’t exist/work
Watching the video this cheat code method seems more complex
The quad swap trick worked... but was a fucking nightmare. If you got the timing off by just a second, the game would either not boot...boot and crash...or have no sound....and there were four opportunities to fuck this up. Source: my own experience
To have a flawless swap trick that stops the drive was much much better
For as much as I engaged with the PSX I was an early adopter (I'm talking keep it upside down because overheating early), so swaps were trivial.
Maybe this is the reason why the guy bothered with it as late as 2000, get some later models on equal ground there. Although by that time it was also trivial to get some hard mods, also.
Fair enough
I had good luck with quad swap but I’d easily believe the ease of operation depended on exact version of the console etc
I doubt it, it's much easier to mod the console. Or just use a boot disc (or whatever those were called, I had the chip mod, so I don't remember, but my friend used to have the disc which he had to insert before playing a pirated game).