Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game

In this edition: I examined the password system for the 1997 game The Lost World: Jurassic Park in Ghidra, the reverse engineering tool. This allowed me to replicate it in Python and uncover some previously-unknown cheat codes. They enable a stage select screen, an invincibility mode, and two photo galleries. I also found hundreds of thousands of valid passwords (with duplicate effects) for then PlayStation version. Read on for the details! Here’s a video showing some of the new stuff: Intro According to EGM 93, Dreamworks Interactive was very invested in making this adaptation of the Jurassic Park sequel successful, and spent lots of time and resources on its graphics and animation. Their team focused on the PlayStation game and farmed out the Saturn port to Sega and Appaloosa Interactive. Both the PlayStation and Saturn versions have you input 12 character “DNA sequences” as passwords. The character choices match the controller buttons for the console you’re playing: Square, X ... Read full article.