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Back when wr used parallel IDE, most motherboards only had two IDE connections. Each connection could support two devices, a master and a slave. If you had a hard drive and a CD-ROM, it was best to put them on separate channels. This is because only one device could talk at a time, and the slower CD-ROM would block the faster hard drive from operating. If you had to put them on the same channel, then the hard drive should be the master so it gets priority.

Then there's scsi. My family wasn't rich enough to have scsi shit when I was growing up, but I do know a few things. On paper, it's very simple; give each device a unique ID on the bus, and then attach terminator blocks at each end. I'm also aware that, in practice, this description is a cruel joke.

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hold L2+R1 and press X square R2 L1 circle x square square square

unlocks all levels in the ps1 game Bugz bunny: lost in time

281-330-8004 hit Mike Jones up on the low cos Mike Jones is bout to BLOW!

Don't remember if any other titles used it, but BARACUDA on Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis/Mega Drive for level select.

Not sure if it works for the other versions or on any of the collection games it's included in, though.

L1 R2 R1 R2 left down right up left down right up

left-jump-left-1P-left-fire_bubble-left-1P

C9 means RET

RRTANGENTABACUS

I know it primarily as a cheat code in Star Wars pod racer on N64, but I've seen it in other games too, and even referenced in different non-gaming contexts. I still don't really know what it means.

When I was a kid I remembered it as "RR-Tan-Genta-Bacus". It wasn't until decades later I realised it is real words "tangent", "abacus".

The idqdd for the game ChexQuest (which ran on that engine) was "charlesjacobi". I assume this was a dev's name.

UUDDLRLRBA

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