8 Video Game Mysteries Developers Had To Solve

In April 2021, almost five years after Homefront: The Revolution came and went amid a flurry of aggressively mid reviews, one of the game's developers, Matt Phillips, revealed out of nowhere on Twitter that one of the game's arcade machines contained a fully playable, native 4K version of TimeSplitters 2.

Though it was already known that players could access two levels from the legendary multiplayer FPS in the game, that the full game was included was news to everyone. The catch, though?

The unlock code needed to access the full game had been lost by Phillips, seemingly ensuring that the glorious 4K TimeSplitters 2 would be "lost to time," as Phillips himself put it.

For four days fans worked themselves up into a frenzy, irate that a 4K version of one of the greatest FPS games of all time was helplessly locked away inside, well, the decidedly not-legendary Homefront: The Revolution.

But as players wracked their brains figuring out a way to liberate the game, Xbox software engineer Spencer Perreault made the save, dropping the unlock code on Twitter much to everybody's delight.

It was a happy ending for everyone - players got ultra high-def TimeSplitters 2, and Homefront: The Revolution was culturally relevant again for a hot minute.