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==Beta 4== | ==Beta 4== | ||
The application's version number is 1.0, as opposed to retail Mac Oni's v1.1, and its creation date is 11/14/00, which corresponds to the period of time that Oni was in beta testing. | [[Image:Mac beta 4 Oni Get Info window.png|thumb|The application's version number is 1.0, as opposed to [[:Image:Classic Mac Oni Get Info window.jpg|retail Mac Oni]]'s v1.1, and its creation date is 11/14/00, which corresponds to the period of time that Oni was in beta testing. Also see [[History of Mac Oni]].]] | ||
During beta testing, Oni's complete list of cheats was leaked. Some fans awaiting the game were intrigued by the "[[Developer Mode]]" cheat "thedayismine", but found it did not work in their retail versions of Oni. This code does work in beta 4, however. Later on, it would be discovered that the retail Mac (and PC) Oni still had Dev Mode in them, but the cheat that enabled it would need to be unlocked by [[History of Oni modding#Engine patching|engine patching]]; beta 4 is the only version of Oni observed to have Dev Mode freely accessible. | |||
Also, this beta still had all the BSL functionality of the PC version; it had previously been thought that about 40 functions and about 160 variables were stripped from Oni for the Mac, since the Mac version was finalized a bit later than the PC version. Having seen from beta 4 that these functions and variables were once present in the Mac binary, the community set about searching for them in the current Mac app at the time, Omni Group's OS X port, and found them. Through hex editing, pointers to active variables and functions that were not of much use were diverted to point to some of the hidden and more useful BSL abilities. Those changes brought the Omni app into effective near-parity with the retail PC version; the changes made were documented [[AE:OMNI|here]]. Today, the [[AE:FERAL|Intel build]] from Feral has restored virtually all the BSL that is present in Windows Oni. | Also, this beta still had all the BSL functionality of the PC version; it had previously been thought that about 40 functions and about 160 variables were stripped from Oni for the Mac, since the Mac version was finalized a bit later than the PC version. Having seen from beta 4 that these functions and variables were once present in the Mac binary, the community set about searching for them in the current Mac app at the time, Omni Group's OS X port, and found them. Through hex editing, pointers to active variables and functions that were not of much use were diverted to point to some of the hidden and more useful BSL abilities. Those changes brought the Omni app into effective near-parity with the retail PC version; the changes made were documented [[AE:OMNI|here]]. Today, the [[AE:FERAL|Intel build]] from Feral has restored virtually all the BSL that is present in Windows Oni. | ||