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[–] 50 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    My first exposure to cheat codes, I think.

    And man did you need it in Contra

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Where's the Select, Start?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    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 🤣

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    up down left right select start b

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    A B Right A C A Down A B Right A was cool too on Genesis

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)
    [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I just used this code yesterday in Ori and the Blind Forest to get the rainbow trail for the dash!

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