A friend of mine worked on the netflix debugging tools for a majority of their players (tvs, blu-ray players, consoles, etc) and there are a number of remote combinations like that inside the players to bring up all sorts of goodies.
I'd love a combination to keep Netflix signed in on my Samsung TV. It's something like a 50/50 chance every time I load it that I have to sign in again.
Agreed, I was thinking "... and your TV will jump up, flip, and deliver a crushing hammer blow to its opponent!"
Related anecdote, I was trying to explain covert channels to a new engineer as a means of sending a message through something which wasn't really designed to send messages (my goto example was using screen dimming to send code data) but they immediately came back with "Oh like the secret moved on Street Fighter!" Yes, it made me feel old.
I'm also disappointed that cheat codes don't seem to make it into release builds any more. (Or do they? I haven't seriously played anything modern for a while now - I'd love to be proved wrong.)
Was Sega not very big in the US in that era? Most of the old gaming references I see online are NES-based (or at least Nintendo), but the first cheat code I learned was Up, Down, Left, Right, A+Start.
I suppose with a limited controller, you need a way to get to less used functions (such as logout) without accidentally triggering it. It's not that annoying of a sequence, compared to something you don't want regularly popping up.
I have unfortunately had to use this before seeing this post on a Samsung TV.
I honestly didn't believe the documentation at first. I remember Googling it again and then found someone's post that said, 'No really. That is how you do it."
“‘I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,’ he told me. ‘It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud.’ No longer would users have to fiddle with complex remotes for DVD players and cable channels. ‘It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.’” - Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s biography.
