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A developer who worked on Microsoft’s original 2001 Xbox console, who wishes to remain anonymous, informed
Kotaku of a hidden “Easter egg” in the Xbox Dashboard that’s remained undiscovered for nearly 20 years. They told us how to trigger the secret, which displays a previously unknown credits screen. Sure enough, it works.
“I didn’t really expect it to be found, not unless the source code leaked or somebody reverse-engineered the Dashboard,” said the source. “Its trigger was the same as the ‘main’ Easter egg so I knew it was possible. I figured somebody would have to leak it for it to be known.”
And there s another still hidden, creator teases. Updated on 21 May 2021
A neat little Easter egg for the original Xbox has been revealed via Kotaku, two decades after Microsoft s console first launched.
The hidden secret is a small, static credits screen dedicated to Xbox staff members which worked on the console s now legendary green interface. (It s a design Microsoft recently honoured with a throwback theme on Xbox Series X/S.)
Kotaku was recently contacted by an anonymous Xbox developer who worked on the console way back when - and who had decided enough time had passed that no one was going to find the secret by accident.
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