TimeSplitters 2 Codes Found For Homefront: The Revolution

I’ve always been a bit of a fan of the first Homefront game, as it does something all these first-person (or third-person) shooters don’t often do: They put America on the backfoot. It was a middle-of-the-road game with an unbelievable story, but it was interesting. Though it had nothing to merit a sequel. In 2016 Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios released Homefront: The Revolution, a game that was downright broken, boring, and didn’t need to happen. However, it does have an upside. After a few hours of play, you can play an arcade cabinet with two levels of the PS2 classic, TimeSplitters 2.

Last week we reported that Matt Phillips, former senior programmer at Dambuster Studios, along with the team working on the game hid the entirety of TimeSplitters 2 in Homefront: The Revolution, in 4K (for PC, and I assume One X and PS4 Pro). Like all good things, there was a catch. The code to unlock the full version of the PS2 classic was lost to time, and a friend leaking it to only get a Discord ban… That was until two days after we reported on it and this was all out there.

You mean this code?
LT+Up, LT+Up, Down, LT+Right, RT+Left, RT+B, LT+Y, LT+Y, RT+X, LT+A

— Spencer Perreault (@SpencerTheDean) April 8, 2021

You see, it is always about the friends you keep. This time that friend that Phillips handed the codes to is Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, Spencer Perreault, who revealed the codes needed to unlock the full game. Though the story doesn’t stop there. A day later Dark Souls data-miner Lance McDonald followed this up with a story of reverse-engineering the codes on PS4, only to find out after playing “one of the worst games I’ve ever played” someone else beat him to it; thus unlocking TimeSplitters 2 for everyone.

I’ve got a feeling several people are now swearing severely at the fact they sold their copy to GameStop/Cash Converters/CeX for £3/$5 three years ago. That or you have already run off to dig out the box from under a mountain of rubbish before getting to this paragraph in the first place. Personally, I am off to re-download TimeSplitters 2 alongside a few hours of one of the blandest gaming experiences of my life, bye now!