Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators - Sega Saturn - Making of Movie, Hidden Table & Credits [1080p60]
12Our second video on Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators covers some of the hidden extras included with the game. This video starts with the hidden making of move, which is a short video to music that shows some 3D renders and the camera crew filming the actors from the intro. Amusing you can tell it's a 90's video as you can spot one person with a cigarette in their mouth in one scene. There's also a knights helmet costume designed for the Knight of the Roses table, which isn't seen in game's intro.
Unlocking the making of movie is a bit of a mystery, as it's supposed to appear in replacement of the intro, if the game is played at a set date and time via the Saturn's internal clock. Most cheats websites suggest 8:00am to 11:00am but this is totally wrong, in short all the sites have copied one another and not double checked their information, which is par of the course for them. Someone else suggested 6:00am on a Sunday and various other times. Now it might be the movies doesn't play in the PAL version, but if you happen to know the correct time and date you need to set your Saturn too please comment below. However you can also access the movie in-game via one of the debug cheats which does work as listed on a number of sites. This is what we did to view and capture it before editing it into the front of the video.
Setting your clock to various dates also changes the title screen for Last Gladiators, for the the holly reef we set the date to 25th of December, but January the 1st is also supposed to work.
Finally we show the hidden credit table and the credit roll that occurs after it. Victors Last Gladiators is the hidden table and it can only be accessed via a cheat code from what we can tell, some suggestion it was supposed to appear after you cleared all four tables, but as there is no tour mode you can't do this. You get about three minutes on the table before the credits starts. However the physics for the table are totally wrong in some parts and you can see invisible bumpers and other issues with the table. If you pay attention to the credit banners one shows the Joker artwork from Super Pinball on the SNES.
Venus Shell Debug mode to access making movie:
Press Up, Up, Down, Down Left, Right, Left, Right, X, B, Z, R Trigger, Start at the title screen. A Japanese debug menu will appear. Highlight the "CPK" window, highlight the "Mount" option and press A Button. A list of items will appear. Highlight an item, press A Button, highlight the "Play" option, and press A Button again. Play the "CDDA" items to hear the digital audio tracks and the "CPK" items to view the FMV sequences to watch the making movie, scroll down about 80 files till you see one named making.CPK. Note that selecting certain options using this mode will lock up the Saturn, so be careful what you select, also you will have to reset your Saturn to exit this mode.
Playable Secret machine Victor, and ending credits appear.
On the title screen while "Press Start" is flashing, X, Y, Z, X, Y, Z, C, B, A, Up, Up, Start.
(Note: once the credits have finished press start to go back to the title screen and main menu as soon as possible, the game will crash during the attract play of the gladiator table otherwise. A bug introduced when using the cheat code for some reason.)
Cheats tested and confirmed working on the PAL release some codes appears to be different for the Japanese version.
For more cheats for Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators visit the following sites:
https://segaretro.org/Digital_Pinball:_Last_Gladiators
https://web.archive.org/web/20150405062333/http://www.gamewinners.com/SAT/LastGladiatorPinball.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20040515134953/http://cheats.ign.com/ob2/068/000/000211.html
http://www.mitchy-world.jp/game/ss/urawaza/te.htm
http://urawaza.in/ss/digitalpinball.htm
Also known as: デジタルピンボール ラストグラディエーターズ (Japanese title) Digital Pinball (Europe) Last Gladiators : Digital Pinball (North America)
Release: 1995
Developer: KAZe ( カゼ・ネット )
Publisher: KAZe (Japan) Sega (Europe) Time Warner Interactive (North America)
Format: Sega Saturn (SS) / セガサターン
Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators is not available on any other format.
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All footage in this video is captured directly from the Sega Saturn console, via an Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro using a RGB Scart to HDMI upscaler.