Fired Up (PlayStation Portable)

Fired Up is a vehicular combat game in which a bunch of resistance fighters decide that the most sensible response to a military occupation is to get into lightly-armed vehicles and make absolutely everything explode.

A spinoff of the PS2 game Hardware: Online Arena, the game's greatest strength is in its multiplayer, because apparently vehicular violence against an invading army on your own wasn't enough and your friends needed to be involved too.

Undocumented Cheat#

An undocumented cheat can be activated by setting the player's name to one of the following:

QQQQQQQQ
HHHHHHHHH

Doing so enables god mode and infinite ammunition, and unlocks the entire story.

The check is based on the sum of the ASCII values of the characters in the player's name. If the sum is equal to 648, the cheat is enabled. Both names above satisfy this condition:

uppercase 'Q' (81) × 8 = 648
uppercase 'H' (72) × 9 = 648

As a result, other player names whose character values total 648 may also activate the cheat.¹

Memory allocation report functionality#

A function at 0x88CCFFC outputs a report with the following syntax:

------ Report [...]
Resources Used
%d bytes (%dk) (%3.1f%%)
%d blocks (%3.1f%%)

Resources Free
Largest free block %d (%dk)
Most blocks searched %d
Average blocks searched : %3.3f

The allocator upstream also retains guard-block corruption/error diagnostics such as:

Error : overwritten terminal guard block
Attempted to free from uninitialised memory pool
Attempted global free with no allocator defined!

Leftover Developer Filesystem Paths#

These are interesting development leftovers:

d:/projects/HardwareBF/code/psp/Game/FrontEnd/FUStoryLevelGadget.cpp
d:/projects/HardwareBF/code/psp/Game/FrontEnd/HWFrontend.cpp
d:/projects/HardwareBF/code/psp/Game/kernel.cpp
../../Editors/scriptincludes/DScriptSysFn.h

Build String#

There is a build string that is returnable by a function at 0x088FFDD4:

Time of build 11:55:36 May 26 2005

References#