RARE accidentally deleted a cheat menu from Perfect Dark

Did you know that Perfect Dark was going to include a cheat menu? RARE had included such a menu in GoldenEye 007, which many players put to good use. That's why so many were disappointed to see that the same option wasn't included in Perfect Dark. What on earth happened, and why was the feature missing? Turns out it all boils down to a simple mistake.

In an interview with Nintendo Life, former RARE dev Beau Chesluk explains that he's the one responsible for the missing feature. It was indeed part of the game, but Beau ended up deleting it by accident before the title was published.

Now’s a good time to apologise. During the time when we had to crush it down from 8MB to 4MB, we were going through code looking for stuff to delete and I found this file from GoldenEye where someone had put in all the button cheats. And I thought, ‘Oh, there’s no button cheats, this must be old.’ So I deleted it. Sorry. I’m very sorry.