![]() ![]() One version gives you full power with Laser, the other is full power with Double. Gradius V accepts both the left-right-left-right and shoulder trigger versions (in the case of the latter, L1, R1, L1, R1).The observant will note that this is the button sequence you'd hit on the SNES controller if you held it upside down while entering the original code. The original version, with thirty lives, is also in the game - it's activated by pausing, then pressing B, B, X, X, A, Y, A, Y, Up, Left, and Start.For example, in the SNES version of Gradius III, replacing Left and Right with L and R (the shoulder buttons) would grant the ship four options and the selected ? powerup. In later Gradius games, this code instantly killed you, but variant versions of it would provide the original benefits.Entering the code while the game is on pause powers-up the player's ship. The NES version of Gradius was the first game to use the code. ![]() And of course, it won't work on any game that doesn't use a standard controller (which rules out everything under the Bemani label) or a console that doesn't have an A or B button (like, oh, everything Sony has released ever). The weird thing was that for such a universally well-known code, it's hardly been seen at all since the NES, and most of the time it just gives the player a little easter egg or even does something harmful. ![]() Although games from other companies will give a Shout-Out. Named for Konami, the video game company that made it. For the examples listed below that include a select before the start, in Contra, select was used to select a 2-player game after entering the code. As the code is used on Konami games of various systems, the actual buttons will vary. The typical form is the directional combination followed by two buttons and then start and/or select, though most of the time, start is just pressed to start the game and not part of the cheat code proper. While the code first appeared in the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Gradius, it became famous for its use in Contra. The Konami Code is a specific version of the Classic Cheat Code, and is one of the most popular variants in video game history. ![]()
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