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Now I just have the SEGA screen sound in my head. I remember opening Sonic, and then... SAAAAAAYGAAAAAH
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GameHut on YouTube. Former game dev for Genesis and some other consoles. Check him out.
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mcalis2586yThey're called burn tests (letting the application run for a week w/o crashing). I think Xbox certification still requires a burn test, though not a week.
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Random fact #0
Back in the days of SEGA Saturn, SEGA was really picky in terms of the game stability. All the games that we're about to be released had to pass a series of tests, like for instance they had to run for almost a week without any crash non stop on a real hardware, or withstand cartridge tilting. If it failed, SEGA wouldn't license it and developer had to fix the bugs and re-send it again.
To fool SEGA testers, game devs we're adding exception screens with the fake "hidden content". Like in Sonic 3D Blast, it presented a screen in the image below and then the level select screen.
So yeah, it's not a bug - it's a feature
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