A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century

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• stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  C-up x4 C-down x 4 C-left x 2 C-right x 2 C-left x 2 C-right x2 N64 pad’s L+R shoulder + Z-trigger

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  • poke@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It unlocks characters, outfits, and hard mode.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quarter of a century? It can’t have been that long since the original…oh…oh no…

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then you won’t be horrified at all to learn the original Castlevania was released on NES in 1986, right?

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No that’s the point I’m making. When I read the headline I was horrified that it’s been that long since the original and they’re not even talking about that.

      Time is a son of a bitch.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NES releases don’t bother me because I was still a kid when I played them. Things released twenty years ago bother me because it seems like yesterday given that I was already an adult with an established career and a mortgage.

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s fine until you tell me that’s almost 40 years ago!

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    • OhmsLawn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what it said in the title, a quarter century ago.

      /s

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      hey shut up.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a weird looking strategem

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  • ForceLightning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s the oversized personal shield generator

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  • objectionist@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a konami code stratagem would be sick though

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    • Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would not be surprised if it just nuked the player

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• aniki@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Has anyone played it? I wonder if its any good… I always thought that N64 game was generally considered one of those awful 3d renditions of a 2d classic.

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  • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Castlevania 64 was clearly an unfinished game. The first couple levels make their ambitions clear, and the rest of the game is just sort of slapped together. Legacy of Darkness added the rest of the game.

    Nobody really celebrates these games. I grew up with them and can appreciate the experience they were offering, but they weren’t exactly my favorites, and I don’t feel they aged particularly well. Maybe take a look through a long play video before committing any real time to it.

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good? No, definitely not.

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• nytrixus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only reason it’s been that long is because the Castlevania games on the N64 were trash.

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• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Similar code for the spyro demo in crash 3

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