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During Oni's beta testing period, specifically in November 2000, a copy of the entire Mac version of the game [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=6634 was leaked], identified as "beta 4". Also leaked was a list of cheats. After Oni was released, fans were intrigued by the "[[Developer Mode]]" cheat "thedayismine", but found it did not work in their retail versions of Oni. Dev Mode did exist in beta 4, however it was assumed that the code for Dev Mode had been removed before the retail build was made. Later on, it would be discovered that the retail Mac (and Windows) Oni still had a partially-functional Dev Mode, 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. | During Oni's beta testing period, specifically in November 2000, a copy of the entire Mac version of the game [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=6634 was leaked], identified as "beta 4". Also leaked was a list of cheats. After Oni was released, fans were intrigued by the "[[Developer Mode]]" cheat "thedayismine", but found it did not work in their retail versions of Oni. Dev Mode did exist in beta 4, however it was assumed that the code for Dev Mode had been removed before the retail build was made. Later on, it would be discovered that the retail Mac (and Windows) Oni still had a partially-functional Dev Mode, 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. | ||
Additionally, this beta still had all the BSL functionality of the Windows version; it had previously been thought that about 40 functions and about 160 variables were stripped from the code used to build Oni for the Mac, since the Mac version was finalized a bit later than the Windows 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 port for Mac OS X (now "macOS"), and found them. Through hex editing, pointers to active BSL variables and functions that were not of much use were diverted to point to some of the hidden and more useful ones. Those changes effectively brought the Omni app to near-parity with the retail Windows version; those patches were documented [[ | Additionally, this beta still had all the BSL functionality of the Windows version; it had previously been thought that about 40 functions and about 160 variables were stripped from the code used to build Oni for the Mac, since the Mac version was finalized a bit later than the Windows 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 port for Mac OS X (now "macOS"), and found them. Through hex editing, pointers to active BSL variables and functions that were not of much use were diverted to point to some of the hidden and more useful ones. Those changes effectively brought the Omni app to near-parity with the retail Windows version; those patches were documented [[OMNI|here]]. Today, the [[FERAL|Intel build]] from Feral has restored virtually all the BSL functionality that is present in Windows Oni. | ||
==German Oni== | ==German Oni== | ||