The Quasi-Official List of Demo Hidden Parts, Keys, and Tricks
Revision 13 - Apr 24 1997 - by PhoenixHornet
Available at http://www.rpi.edu/vossa/secret.txt
About any demo/intro with a *?* next to it.. if you know how to get to
the part mentioned, email me at vossa@rpi.edu and I will update the list!
Be sure to send any interactive keys, parameters, or other demo tricks
as well!
Anything with a *new* next to it has been added or changed since the
last revision. The first version was called v1.00 instead of
revision 1.
Thanks to those who have contributed to the list especially Rod/Mandula
their names are given in parentheses after their given entries.
Secret Parts
The Accident by Axidental ASM 94
Type accident l to replace the first main tune with a hidden S3M
made by LakEEE who coded and made gfx for much of the demo. Its quite
good compared to the rest of the music in the demo.
Air by Xes Abd.96
Hold down the scroll lock key when it says measuring average
temperature for a hidden part. - Rod
All in the Name of Bum by Mr.Bios Wired96
Move the cursor after the last textline and press ENTER to
see the hidden part. - Rod
Assembler Instinct by Gollum Party 3
Type 1924 when the Gollum 1993 line is in the middle of the screen.
We cant tell you exactly what happens, because I couldnt get to this
part and the contributors monitor messed up. - Rod
Supposedly there are two more secret parts.
Babytro by Nostalgia 1995
Use the -karaoke parameter to see a secret part. Its a message
to Aap/Acme who promised to deliver something but didnt. - JALNostalgia
Cardiac by Infiny Party 3
Type cardiac 187 to enter the secret part! It is some extra gfx,
with a musicdisk player from which you can select any of the songs
included in the demo.
Encore by TPOLM Party 5
Type encore ninja! for a few lines of text, and encore metrilaku
for the hidden part. - Zsazs
not too hidden, since they can be found by encore -?
Epic by Zuul Design 1994
Typing epic desing note the ng in design will go to the secret
part of this demo.
Explicit by Hornet final version *?*
also see the interactive keys section
Fruitcake by Deus ASM95
Hold down the Left Shift key at start to make it say theres no secret
part, hold down the Right Shift key at start to show a hidden fruit. - Rod
Grey by Abaddon Party 4
There are some hidden lines in the end scroller. Set your CPU date to
12/28/94 and time to 16:00. - Rod
Greetro by SiN
Press F12 during the demo for the secret part. - ZdenSiN
Hidden Talents by Acme 1996
The key-combo for the secret game is JF. For some reason its
pretty addicting.
Images by Epical ASM 94
Type Data Fnx! to get the hidden part. It is case sensitive! When
you exit the hidden part, your machine will NOT get stuck. Sometimes
the demo just forgets to go into text mode. - FeenixEpical
Imphobia 11 by Imphobia 1995
Press F5 for a XMas-chiptune. F6 does the same thing as F4, AFAIK.
Journey by Keen Like Frogs 1994
Type JOURNEY /HIDDEN all caps to go to the hidden part.
Lisa by Eclipse GASP 95
Type LISA ESIL for a hidden screen. - RemdyArkham
Mutha by Astroidea Cache 96 autumn
Set all your keyboard leds to enter the secret part at the end. - Rod
NAID Report by Hornet 1995
Type naidrpt /baygle or naidrpt /esel dejavu and go to the color
pix to see the secret text and hear the secret tune Snowmans 20MC 2
entry!. Hey Trixter, this one was almost TOO easy. :
No Means No by Distortion
Type nomeans c for the hidden scroller.
Pink And Silly by Deus 1995
Hold down the Left Shift key during the loadup to go to the secret part.
Pressure by Kloon Saturne 96
Press W during the startup screen.
Second Reality by Future Crew ASM 93
Type second u to go to the hidden part, which is a starfield that gets
really filled up. This is probably the best known of the hidden parts.
Sehabla Routines by Jamm Juhla 2 95
Press u during the intro to launch the secret part. - Rod
Show by Majic 12 Hammering 94
You can get to the hidden part by downloading SHOWSECR.ZIP or
SECRET12.ZIP available on ftp.cdrom.com and probably other places.
The picture is from the title screen of their 1993 Wish demo.
Sphere by Mortal Compact cache96 autumn
Press space at the end when the mortal compact logo appears for
some hidden spheres. - Rod
Things Change by Proxima 1996
Hold down the Left Shift key to see the secret part. - Rod
Toddlers Terror by Spirit
Press the Ctrl key for the hidden fractal when the scroller ends and
some effects are coming up. - Rod
Vesisade by Chaos Abd. 95
Hold down the 1 key while the pic of the girl disappears for some
extra text with the warped cube. - Rod
Warp by Legend Design ASM 94
Typing warp -esel will take you to what looks like the end scroller,
but talks about what Legend Design really thought about Assembly 94,
and some other things.
also see the interactive keys section
Wavy by Eclipse
Type WAVY EL for a secret part. - RemdyArkham
Wired 95 Report by Eclipse 1995
Click on the Pi in the lower right corner and type eclipse to see a
bonus picture. - David Liebermann
Wired 96 Report by Imphobia/Legend Design 1996 *new* *?*
supposedly more than one hidden part
Yahoo XMas Demo 94 by Yahoo Team 1994
Press the s key for snowballs. Its pretty obvious because its written
in the text. - Rod
Interactive Keys
Claudia by Deathstar Mekka/Sym 97 *new*
Press Q to toggle anti-aliasing, and A to save the screen to disk
in raw format.
Contrast final version by Oxygene Saturne 96
Hold down the space bar for a CPU-usage meter. - ViperSerenity
Dentro by Ultraforce 1992
Pressing Control, RightShift, F9, Gray Plus, then 0 will show a
picture of the coders. It works in the section with the scroll.
Dreams by Kosmic Party 6 *new*
With the -secret parameter, you can fly around in the space kangaroo
part. Use the mouse to steer, and A/Z to go forward/backward.
Elements by Xography ASM 93
Press K S together during the vectorball part to activate debug mode.
Then press F1-F10 1-0 to change objects and +/- to change distance.
Explicit by Hornet NAID 96
Hold down Ctrl for debug info, and press Grey +/- to change the music
pattern.
Flight by Kosmic NAID 95
During the first voxel-landscape:
Arrows - Move W - Increase altitude S - Decrease altitude
During the vector spaceship approaching the earth:
Arrows - Move camera PgUp/PgDn - Raise/lower camera
CTRL while the above keys will rotate the ship around each axis
If you tap a key during the second voxel part with spaceship you can use
the following keys:
Arrows - Move UP - Thrust ship forward
W - Increase altitude DOWN - Thrust ship backward
S - Decrease altitude CTRL and UP - Zoom into ship
+ - increase movement speed CTRL and DOWN - Zoom away from ship
- - decrease movement speed PgUp/PgDn - Raise/lower camera
R - Rotate camera around the ship
F - Rotate camera in opposite direction
During the seagull credit sequence:
F1/F2/F3 - Low/Medium/High ground detail
HeartQuake by Iguana ASM 94
During the Comanche-landscape part:
Arrow keys gray - fly around A - restart
PgUp/PgDn gray - change altitude D - toggle low/high detail
Also, the Space bar skips each part.
Inside by CNCD TG 96
Press S to save the screen to a TGA file.
NewIntro by Majic 12 1993
Press the Up Arrow key during the airplane part to play a game.
No by Nooon Party 4
The Einstein-rotating-plane part can be controlled with the Q/W/E/R/T/Y/
A/S/D/F keys. - DiskhawkFJ
Warp by Legend Design ASM 94
Try the following key combinations during the bugfixed version:
LDLEDS - keyboard LEDs LDSKIP - skip to next section
LDQUIT - back to DOS LDFORMAT - didnt want to risk this one :
And type AN during the Nephertiti part for a surprise effect!
Why by Adrar Design CAF 95
Another interactive landscape - press F12 during the voxel, then
Left/Right - change direction PgUp/PgDn - change altitude
- David Liebermann
X14 by Orange Juhla 2 95
Hold down the space bar for a CPU-usage meter.
Command Line Parameters
Dyspepsia by Blank 1994
Here are some parameters to try: /speed, /blank, /fishfax, /fun, /v*bis,
/esc - Rod
Emergency by The Surrounders NAID 96
info - read the credits part
nosurround - disable surround sound
nosound - disable music
nointeg - skip integrity check
volmax - max. log volume ?
volsurr - max. surround volume
part - start demo at part , where
1 - beginning 2 - title screen 3 - spaceship pic 4 - landscape 5 - flag
Facts of Life by Witan Party 2
LIke with Unreal, you can run facts p to get to a specific
part of the demo. I think p5 is the house-techno part.
Final Boom by Spirit Bizarre 95
loop - loops the intro
realnames - shows credits with real names
shownotes - shows notes obvious?
slowCPUpolys - each torus 100 polys
morepolys - each torus 270 polys same as normal?
complexpolys - each torus 625 polys
spiritpolys - each torus 729 polys
Images by Epical ASM 94
DATA SPACE all caps starts the demo at the Space part.
KFMTV 2 Nightvision by Kosmic 1996 *new*
showjmx - shows a picture of the coder
lights - flashes the keyboard lights during the demo
playgame - play the hidden game mouse required
Legend by Impact Studios Party 3
Run legend -cpu to display a CPU usage meter throughout the demo.
The higher the grey level, the less power the CPU is using.
NAID 96 Slideshow by Hornet 1996
Type naidrp96 -8086 to activate the extra low res : video modes.
Other Tricks
If you have the EGG 2 music disk by Kosmic and Airframe by Prime try this
one. Go into EGG and *start playing* one of the songs. Press ESC after a
few patterns, quit and then go and run Airframe. Lo and behold, Airframe
is now running at twice the speed you are used to. Ditto for Cyboman II.
- MaverickSerenity, taken from DemoNews 88, April 30, 1995
If I recall correctly I tried this and it didnt work.. maybe Mav just
has a funny-acting GUS : -Phx
Avena Kinetik by Distortion 1995
Theres a 3ds ascii file at the end of the exefile, which you
can modify to change the object in the demo. I dont know
whether it is the secret part or not but its silly. - Rod
Cyboman 2 by Complex Party 4
If you run Cyboman 3 by Plant, then run this intro, the shading in
Cyboman 2 will go from gouraud to flat. - TrixterHornet
Dyslexia by Threesome NAID96 *new*
Run Dyslexia on the following days and the wormhole graphic will change:
10/31 - Halloween
12/25 - Christmas
12/14 - Ms. Saigons birthday
1/21 - Kneebiters birthday
3/12 - Mobydisks birthday
4/7 - Tronsters birthday
- KneebiterThreesome
Heartquake by Iguana - if you rename HEARTQ.004 to some .EXE
except HEARTQ and run it, you wil be able to fly around in the landscape
part forever see keys above. Also, the Iguanas Disco guy doesnt
dance no music?. This EXE ends at the morphing part, so hitting space
bar during that will crash the demo. - KneebiterThreesome
Stars by Nooon - if you have a dual-monitor system Hercules+VGA, the
Hercules display will show a Nibbles-type game which you can play.
- Cool-Hands
Xtal by Complex - You can remove the 50Hz mode by writing byte C3 into
offset 10C50E in the XTAL.EXE, but that pretty much spoils the demo.
- JMagicComplex
Revision 13 - Apr 24 1997 - by PhoenixHornet
Available at http://www.rpi.edu/vossa/secret.txt
About any demo/intro with a *?* next to it.. if you know how to get to
the part mentioned, email me at vossa@rpi.edu and I will update the list!
Be sure to send any interactive keys, parameters, or other demo tricks
as well!
Anything with a *new* next to it has been added or changed since the
last revision. The first version was called v1.00 instead of
revision 1.
Thanks to those who have contributed to the list especially Rod/Mandula
their names are given in parentheses after their given entries.
Secret Parts
The Accident by Axidental ASM 94
Type accident l to replace the first main tune with a hidden S3M
made by LakEEE who coded and made gfx for much of the demo. Its quite
good compared to the rest of the music in the demo.
Air by Xes Abd.96
Hold down the scroll lock key when it says measuring average
temperature for a hidden part. - Rod
All in the Name of Bum by Mr.Bios Wired96
Move the cursor after the last textline and press ENTER to
see the hidden part. - Rod
Assembler Instinct by Gollum Party 3
Type 1924 when the Gollum 1993 line is in the middle of the screen.
We cant tell you exactly what happens, because I couldnt get to this
part and the contributors monitor messed up. - Rod
Supposedly there are two more secret parts.
Babytro by Nostalgia 1995
Use the -karaoke parameter to see a secret part. Its a message
to Aap/Acme who promised to deliver something but didnt. - JALNostalgia
Cardiac by Infiny Party 3
Type cardiac 187 to enter the secret part! It is some extra gfx,
with a musicdisk player from which you can select any of the songs
included in the demo.
Encore by TPOLM Party 5
Type encore ninja! for a few lines of text, and encore metrilaku
for the hidden part. - Zsazs
not too hidden, since they can be found by encore -?
Epic by Zuul Design 1994
Typing epic desing note the ng in design will go to the secret
part of this demo.
Explicit by Hornet final version *?*
also see the interactive keys section
Fruitcake by Deus ASM95
Hold down the Left Shift key at start to make it say theres no secret
part, hold down the Right Shift key at start to show a hidden fruit. - Rod
Grey by Abaddon Party 4
There are some hidden lines in the end scroller. Set your CPU date to
12/28/94 and time to 16:00. - Rod
Greetro by SiN
Press F12 during the demo for the secret part. - ZdenSiN
Hidden Talents by Acme 1996
The key-combo for the secret game is JF. For some reason its
pretty addicting.
Images by Epical ASM 94
Type Data Fnx! to get the hidden part. It is case sensitive! When
you exit the hidden part, your machine will NOT get stuck. Sometimes
the demo just forgets to go into text mode. - FeenixEpical
Imphobia 11 by Imphobia 1995
Press F5 for a XMas-chiptune. F6 does the same thing as F4, AFAIK.
Journey by Keen Like Frogs 1994
Type JOURNEY /HIDDEN all caps to go to the hidden part.
Lisa by Eclipse GASP 95
Type LISA ESIL for a hidden screen. - RemdyArkham
Mutha by Astroidea Cache 96 autumn
Set all your keyboard leds to enter the secret part at the end. - Rod
NAID Report by Hornet 1995
Type naidrpt /baygle or naidrpt /esel dejavu and go to the color
pix to see the secret text and hear the secret tune Snowmans 20MC 2
entry!. Hey Trixter, this one was almost TOO easy. :
No Means No by Distortion
Type nomeans c for the hidden scroller.
Pink And Silly by Deus 1995
Hold down the Left Shift key during the loadup to go to the secret part.
Pressure by Kloon Saturne 96
Press W during the startup screen.
Second Reality by Future Crew ASM 93
Type second u to go to the hidden part, which is a starfield that gets
really filled up. This is probably the best known of the hidden parts.
Sehabla Routines by Jamm Juhla 2 95
Press u during the intro to launch the secret part. - Rod
Show by Majic 12 Hammering 94
You can get to the hidden part by downloading SHOWSECR.ZIP or
SECRET12.ZIP available on ftp.cdrom.com and probably other places.
The picture is from the title screen of their 1993 Wish demo.
Sphere by Mortal Compact cache96 autumn
Press space at the end when the mortal compact logo appears for
some hidden spheres. - Rod
Things Change by Proxima 1996
Hold down the Left Shift key to see the secret part. - Rod
Toddlers Terror by Spirit
Press the Ctrl key for the hidden fractal when the scroller ends and
some effects are coming up. - Rod
Vesisade by Chaos Abd. 95
Hold down the 1 key while the pic of the girl disappears for some
extra text with the warped cube. - Rod
Warp by Legend Design ASM 94
Typing warp -esel will take you to what looks like the end scroller,
but talks about what Legend Design really thought about Assembly 94,
and some other things.
also see the interactive keys section
Wavy by Eclipse
Type WAVY EL for a secret part. - RemdyArkham
Wired 95 Report by Eclipse 1995
Click on the Pi in the lower right corner and type eclipse to see a
bonus picture. - David Liebermann
Wired 96 Report by Imphobia/Legend Design 1996 *new* *?*
supposedly more than one hidden part
Yahoo XMas Demo 94 by Yahoo Team 1994
Press the s key for snowballs. Its pretty obvious because its written
in the text. - Rod
Interactive Keys
Claudia by Deathstar Mekka/Sym 97 *new*
Press Q to toggle anti-aliasing, and A to save the screen to disk
in raw format.
Contrast final version by Oxygene Saturne 96
Hold down the space bar for a CPU-usage meter. - ViperSerenity
Dentro by Ultraforce 1992
Pressing Control, RightShift, F9, Gray Plus, then 0 will show a
picture of the coders. It works in the section with the scroll.
Dreams by Kosmic Party 6 *new*
With the -secret parameter, you can fly around in the space kangaroo
part. Use the mouse to steer, and A/Z to go forward/backward.
Elements by Xography ASM 93
Press K S together during the vectorball part to activate debug mode.
Then press F1-F10 1-0 to change objects and +/- to change distance.
Explicit by Hornet NAID 96
Hold down Ctrl for debug info, and press Grey +/- to change the music
pattern.
Flight by Kosmic NAID 95
During the first voxel-landscape:
Arrows - Move W - Increase altitude S - Decrease altitude
During the vector spaceship approaching the earth:
Arrows - Move camera PgUp/PgDn - Raise/lower camera
CTRL while the above keys will rotate the ship around each axis
If you tap a key during the second voxel part with spaceship you can use
the following keys:
Arrows - Move UP - Thrust ship forward
W - Increase altitude DOWN - Thrust ship backward
S - Decrease altitude CTRL and UP - Zoom into ship
+ - increase movement speed CTRL and DOWN - Zoom away from ship
- - decrease movement speed PgUp/PgDn - Raise/lower camera
R - Rotate camera around the ship
F - Rotate camera in opposite direction
During the seagull credit sequence:
F1/F2/F3 - Low/Medium/High ground detail
HeartQuake by Iguana ASM 94
During the Comanche-landscape part:
Arrow keys gray - fly around A - restart
PgUp/PgDn gray - change altitude D - toggle low/high detail
Also, the Space bar skips each part.
Inside by CNCD TG 96
Press S to save the screen to a TGA file.
NewIntro by Majic 12 1993
Press the Up Arrow key during the airplane part to play a game.
No by Nooon Party 4
The Einstein-rotating-plane part can be controlled with the Q/W/E/R/T/Y/
A/S/D/F keys. - DiskhawkFJ
Warp by Legend Design ASM 94
Try the following key combinations during the bugfixed version:
LDLEDS - keyboard LEDs LDSKIP - skip to next section
LDQUIT - back to DOS LDFORMAT - didnt want to risk this one :
And type AN during the Nephertiti part for a surprise effect!
Why by Adrar Design CAF 95
Another interactive landscape - press F12 during the voxel, then
Left/Right - change direction PgUp/PgDn - change altitude
- David Liebermann
X14 by Orange Juhla 2 95
Hold down the space bar for a CPU-usage meter.
Command Line Parameters
Dyspepsia by Blank 1994
Here are some parameters to try: /speed, /blank, /fishfax, /fun, /v*bis,
/esc - Rod
Emergency by The Surrounders NAID 96
info - read the credits part
nosurround - disable surround sound
nosound - disable music
nointeg - skip integrity check
volmax - max. log volume ?
volsurr - max. surround volume
part - start demo at part , where
1 - beginning 2 - title screen 3 - spaceship pic 4 - landscape 5 - flag
Facts of Life by Witan Party 2
LIke with Unreal, you can run facts p to get to a specific
part of the demo. I think p5 is the house-techno part.
Final Boom by Spirit Bizarre 95
loop - loops the intro
realnames - shows credits with real names
shownotes - shows notes obvious?
slowCPUpolys - each torus 100 polys
morepolys - each torus 270 polys same as normal?
complexpolys - each torus 625 polys
spiritpolys - each torus 729 polys
Images by Epical ASM 94
DATA SPACE all caps starts the demo at the Space part.
KFMTV 2 Nightvision by Kosmic 1996 *new*
showjmx - shows a picture of the coder
lights - flashes the keyboard lights during the demo
playgame - play the hidden game mouse required
Legend by Impact Studios Party 3
Run legend -cpu to display a CPU usage meter throughout the demo.
The higher the grey level, the less power the CPU is using.
NAID 96 Slideshow by Hornet 1996
Type naidrp96 -8086 to activate the extra low res : video modes.
Other Tricks
If you have the EGG 2 music disk by Kosmic and Airframe by Prime try this
one. Go into EGG and *start playing* one of the songs. Press ESC after a
few patterns, quit and then go and run Airframe. Lo and behold, Airframe
is now running at twice the speed you are used to. Ditto for Cyboman II.
- MaverickSerenity, taken from DemoNews 88, April 30, 1995
If I recall correctly I tried this and it didnt work.. maybe Mav just
has a funny-acting GUS : -Phx
Avena Kinetik by Distortion 1995
Theres a 3ds ascii file at the end of the exefile, which you
can modify to change the object in the demo. I dont know
whether it is the secret part or not but its silly. - Rod
Cyboman 2 by Complex Party 4
If you run Cyboman 3 by Plant, then run this intro, the shading in
Cyboman 2 will go from gouraud to flat. - TrixterHornet
Dyslexia by Threesome NAID96 *new*
Run Dyslexia on the following days and the wormhole graphic will change:
10/31 - Halloween
12/25 - Christmas
12/14 - Ms. Saigons birthday
1/21 - Kneebiters birthday
3/12 - Mobydisks birthday
4/7 - Tronsters birthday
- KneebiterThreesome
Heartquake by Iguana - if you rename HEARTQ.004 to some .EXE
except HEARTQ and run it, you wil be able to fly around in the landscape
part forever see keys above. Also, the Iguanas Disco guy doesnt
dance no music?. This EXE ends at the morphing part, so hitting space
bar during that will crash the demo. - KneebiterThreesome
Stars by Nooon - if you have a dual-monitor system Hercules+VGA, the
Hercules display will show a Nibbles-type game which you can play.
- Cool-Hands
Xtal by Complex - You can remove the 50Hz mode by writing byte C3 into
offset 10C50E in the XTAL.EXE, but that pretty much spoils the demo.
- JMagicComplex
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