Posted May 18, 2014
TheJoe: They're not, there wasn't a copy protection test for the original versions of BASS.
The security manual is a sad remnant of what the game could have been. Every character listed in it was meant to feature in the game in some way (I believe a strong number of them were just random NPCs with flavour dialogue). Most of them were cut because the development of the game suffered a few budget issues and the technology wasn't quite up to it.
The reason why I thought they might be that was because I've seen other games from the period use methods like this (such as, "What was the name of the character on Page X and what is his main characteristic?") The security manual is a sad remnant of what the game could have been. Every character listed in it was meant to feature in the game in some way (I believe a strong number of them were just random NPCs with flavour dialogue). Most of them were cut because the development of the game suffered a few budget issues and the technology wasn't quite up to it.
Too bad the game ended up shorter though.