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.
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.
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.
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.
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I just used this code yesterday in Ori and the Blind Forest to get the rainbow trail for the dash!
A B Right A C A Down A B Right A was cool too on Genesis
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
idkfa
[START] + 30
Now with lyrics!
Blockchain, NFT, “play to earn”… nope.
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”.
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?
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.
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.
My first exposure to cheat codes, I think.
And man did you need it in Contra
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.
For me I think it was A B A C A B B (Mortal Kombat 1 blood code on Sega Genesis)
RIP Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who programmed this code and has been gone from us 5 years ago.
over 6 years ago. Died right before Covid hit.
Where’s the Select, Start?
Woah look at Mr Popular over here who had friends to be player 2
Younger brother
Those are some good memories.
We were always fighting over whether him dying meant we had to start over 😂
Sometimes he’d just want to see me beat it
*Edit: Oh yeah, he could steal lives! Sometimes we’d agree on how many he should leave me and very often he’d steal more anyway 🤣
We learned VERY quickly that any fighting at all caused our mother to take away the controllers and send us outside.
Same, but we could get away with more at Grandmother’s house.
There was still a limit, but it was more forgiving, and we were always looking for it
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.
Thanks! TIL!
The image in a better resolution: https://zircon.konami.net/assets/img/contents/Gladuis_40th_illust.png