Unlocking hard mode in PoR and OoE

[Max]

is there a way to unlock hard mode right from the beginning without using another person's completed save?

[Revengicide]

Not that I'm aware of.

If you're psychotic enough:
An alternate method is to use speedrun routes in PoR to unlock Hard by only beating Astartes, Dracula/Death and True Dracula. The zips are extremely precise though, and being off by a pixel will crash the game outright.

If you want to extend that to unlocking Richter mode, Stella, Dullahan (Skill cube), Dagon (Frog Morph), and Richter also need to be defeated to trigger the "good" ending.

[Max]

Originally posted by Revengicide:

Not that I'm aware of.

If you're psychotic enough:
An alternate method is to use speedrun routes in PoR to unlock Hard by only beating Astartes, Dracula/Death and True Dracula. The zips are extremely precise though, and being off by a pixel will crash the game outright.

If you want to extend that to unlocking Richter mode, Stella, Dullahan (Skill cube), Dagon (Frog Morph), and Richter also need to be defeated to trigger the "good" ending.

oh well. I was hoping that this collection would have had some hidden option or added name entry codes to unlock the extra modes like luck mode in SOTN. I hate having to slog through the games in normal mode once to unlock the extra modes.