Developer menu access (all versions)

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Total Distortion has a Dev screen that is accessible just by holding Ctrl before hitting "**Ready**", but this is an oversight on the English copy. There's meant to be a password screen blocking you from accessing it, which was fixed in the german version (and likely other versions though the lack of preservation makes this hard to confirm).

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I had been given access to a decompiled version of the game (thank you Armadylo for helping me out ❤~) and managed to find the script for the required password, there's two of them:

"**qazxswedc**" "**megasparky**"

BUT it has to be preceded by the 2nd and 3rd letter of the CURRENT weekday.

ex. thursday = "**hu**" | friday = "**ri**"

"**rimegasparky**" would be valid only today (f**ri**day), tomorrow you'd need to do "**atmegasparky**" (s**at**urday)

What's curious is that if you hold Ctrl and click on either "Load Game" or "End Game" on the pause menu, it DOES bring up the password popup even in the english copy.

It took **28 years** to crack the code to a dev screen that was already unlocked by accident (I had revealed this in October on a [Tumblr post](https://www.tumblr.com/vadapega/731604680049901568/total-distortion-has-a-dev-screen-that-is?source=share) but it's best to have it here as it is handy).