ICO - Hidden levels

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Published on August 8, 2024 1:58:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY2ang2LmPw

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In July 2012 a user named 'einstein95' got hold of a demo version of ICO (SCED-50811) that had a debug menu enabled by pressing SELECT. From this discovery it was possible to add the debug menu to all versions of ICO using patch files or 'pnach' using the PCSX2 emulator.

In this video I'm using the retail NTSC version of ICO using the deug menu to showcase two levels that were never possible to see before. I spent many hours looking through memory addresses in order to find one that disabled the black screen.

The two levels 50: 04b4d4emo and 51: 05b4demo are the same as the levels we see in game (18: st046 (Symmetry_L) and 27: st05b (Symmetry_R)) but there are differences as you will see.

Hope you like it and please leave a comment to let me know your thoughts about this ; )