• schema@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 hours

      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.

    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19 hours

      Woah look at Mr Popular over here who had friends to be player 2

  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1 day

    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.

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
      1 day

      Konami’s only redeeming factor today is that they occasionally find people who give some fuck about their IPs and let them handle those.

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
          5 hours

          Castlevania DLC in Dead Cells, and if it’s anything like it, the new actual Castlevania game that is coming soon from the same developers. And it’s a new Castlevania game that is not a freaking pachinko machine. It’s been more than ten years since the last one… And that last one was also developed externally, by Mercury Steam.

          Konami signed on a lot of crossovers lately (there’s some random Contra ones too). Probably the only things of value bearing their name since forever.

          • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5 hours

            They also made a deal with Vampire Survivors of all things. And of course poncle went all in on it. That DLC is bigger than the base game and it’s such a love letter to the series that I’m not ashamed to say I shed a tear at the ending credits.

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1 day

      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.

  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    My first exposure to cheat codes, I think.

    And man did you need it in Contra

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1 day

      For me I think it was A B A C A B B (Mortal Kombat 1 blood code on Sega Genesis)

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 day

      Played through the NES Contra unaware of any cheat codes. Felt like got cheated behind my back, after I learned about the code. :D

  • Pyrixas@piefed.socialEnglish
    23 hours

    RIP Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who programmed this code and has been gone from us 5 years ago.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

    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.