Ninja: Shadow of Darkness

Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
Developer: Core Design Publisher: Eidos Interactive Platform: PlayStation Released in US: September 30, 1998 Released in EU: September 1, 1998 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text.

Oh dear, I do believe I have the vapors. This page contains content that is not safe for work or other locations with the potential for personal embarrassment. Such as: Swear words hidden in the developer text.

To do: Lots of cheats, including one to see the developers' e-mail addresses ("email addresses enabled")

From the creators of Tomb Raider bringing you a 3-D action entry featuring a Ryu Hayabusa-esque protagonist.

Developer Message

Hidden inside SLUS_004.35 at 0x23754:

are you magical ?

Quick'n'Dirty Video / Game booter (C) 1998 Derek Leigh-Gilchrist


del@nlights.demon.co.uk
... or del@core-design.com

The e-mail addresses can be found again in NINJA.EXE at 0x5AAB8:

Ninja, Coded by Del,Dan and Martin
Email: del@nlights.demon.co.uk or del@core-design.com

Cheat Messages

Buried deep in the game's ISO:

Unlimited Lives Flag (LONGWORD) is at $%08x, try poking this address with 1 for unlimited lives

Smartbombs Flag (LONGWORD) is at $%08x, try poking this address with 9 for 9 smartbombs...

Smokebombs Flag (LONGWORD) is at $%08x, try poking this address with 9 for 9 smokebombs...

Violent mode Flag (LONGWORD) is at $%08x, try poking this address with 1 for lots of BLOOD!...

LevelSkip Flag (LONGWORD) is at $%08x, try poking this address with 1 for a level select cheatmode!...

I've just enabled 'INFINITE LIVES','VIOLENT MODE' and 'LEVEL SELECT' enjoy, oh, and enjoy the ninja dude ;)

(Source: Decension)

Developer Texts

Scattered all throughout the ISO:

WARNING!!! FMV file '%s' not found
time out in decoding 

getting card status
Loading game mate......
returning to titlepage...
re-checking memcard

FUCK! the data on the memcard is fucked up!
erm, shouldn`t get here :)
BAD IDENT IN SAVEGAME (%08x)

MEMCARD
MYSTERY GIVEN=%d
We shouldn`t ever get here...
Preparing savegame struct...
Restoring data from savegame struct.

Unable to restore savegame data... checksum failed
Restoring data from savegame struct...
restored hiscore %d, (%s)
restored energy=%08x
restored lives=%08x
restored score=%08x
restored cash=%08x
restored smokes=%08x
restored smarts=%08x
restored power=%08x
restored level=%08x
restored weapon=%08x
Restored data from savegame struct ok...
testing checksun...

KEWL! checksum correct
YUK! checksum failed
DELS LEVEL CHEAT ON 

BADDY NOT FOUND
Could Not Insert Bonus ( No Anim Ref )
No Room For Bonus Insert !

WARNING NO MORE LINKS AVAILABLE FOR ROUTE BOX
GET RID OF SOME HMAP OR SPLIT BOX INTO TWO...

LINK-STACK OVERFLOW ERROR
LINK-STACK CORRUPTION ERROR

%s.bin
%s.rel

WARNING!! module function %d not supported as yet, ** SEE DEL **...

Mem Allocated So Far : %d Bytes (upto $%08x)