Where’s the Select, Start?
It’s not part of the actual code, technically. Select just switches to 2 player mode on the contra title screen, and start starts the game. If you played single player, ypu wouldn’t press select at all.
And in gradius i think you enter it on the pause screen iirc, so start would resume the game there.
Woah look at Mr Popular over here who had friends to be player 2
And in celebration of the cheat code’s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative webpage on the official site for its Project Zircon. The largely user-built world of this Web3 game platform is still under development, but is expected to include the Konami Code somehow as it grows.
Blockchain, NFT, “play to earn”… nope.
Konami’s only redeeming factor today is that they occasionally find people who give some fuck about their IPs and let them handle those.
Like what?
Are these web3 things still alive? Unlike Instagram or other things I didn’t catch up to, it seemed like it has no real traction at all.
I pointed it out because the article is nostalgia bait for this “Project Zircon”.
RIP Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who programmed this code and has been gone from us 5 years ago.
My first exposure to cheat codes, I think.
And man did you need it in Contra
For me I think it was A B A C A B B (Mortal Kombat 1 blood code on Sega Genesis)
Played through the NES Contra unaware of any cheat codes. Felt like got cheated behind my back, after I learned about the code. :D
It worked on way more games than just Contra. It was the Konami Code.
I remember knowing about this Konami code and always wanted try it out in random games. The first time I tried it in Parodius (SNES) was hilarious.
Also still mad the code didn’t make it into Metal Gear Solid.
up down left right select start b
Iddqd
idspispopd
A B Right A C A Down A B Right A was cool too on Genesis
[START] + 30
