The Konami Code works in Palm Pre's OS
by JC Fletcher 
{ Jun 10th 2009 at 9:59AM }
Developer mode is accessed by typing "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" at the phone's launcher screen. That's right, the Konami Code. The same code used to cheat your way through Life Force works on your phone. It joins a growing list of non-Konami-game things to reference the code, bringing new life (thirty of them!) to a button sequence first used in 1986.
[Via Engadget]
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Storm Eagle @ Jun 10th 2009 10:04AM
That's awesome. Now only if it extended your phone's battery life.
NaeemTHM @ Jun 10th 2009 10:13AM
Or give us a keyboard not meant for baby hands. I went to Sprint to pick up a Pre for my Dad and was completely turned off by it's tiny keypad. You have to type with your fingernails! It's weird.
They should have went with a nice big Blackberry QWERTY.
Cody @ Jun 10th 2009 10:26AM
Yeeeaaahhh.....
Certainly ain't no Blackberry Storm thats for sure! The new update kicks ass!!
borland502 (SDF Macross) @ Jun 10th 2009 11:29AM
"Certainly ain't no Blackberry Storm thats for sure!"
And thank God for that. I'll only take crap from the iPhone users. At least they're familiar with the word 'innovation'.
ThatPCgameryouhate @ Jun 10th 2009 5:18PM
@borland502 (SDF Macross)
"And thank God for that. I'll only take crap from the iPhone users. At least they're familiar with the word 'innovation'."
I never knew that a touchscreen and the word Apple on the back made something "innovative". The iphone is certainly not innovative- it's just a good phone. It has good support, and that's really it. I mean, it has all the standard features+an app store, and "itunes" (which might be a negative). It's the phone that developers of all the other phones wanted, but never got. I'm thinking Microsoft could do the same thing.
The Palm Pre looks nice, and I actually want one, but I'm very satisfied with my Chocolate 3 (best clamshell phone I've ever used).
Jack Hollow @ Jun 10th 2009 10:11AM
The Konami Code: Because It's As Close As Were Getting To Performing Miracles
Letters2Kay @ Jun 10th 2009 10:16AM
Life Force was rad! I thought I was the only one that remembered that game...
Brian @ Jun 10th 2009 10:26AM
only one? I'm sure your not the only one in the whole world to remember the game.
cjshrader @ Jun 10th 2009 10:56AM
You are the only one who still says "rad" though, so you got that going for you.
Drew -- PS360: uphillbothways @ Jun 10th 2009 11:08AM
Fallout players still say "rad" and even "rads".
Letters2Kay @ Jun 10th 2009 11:48AM
It's the rad renaissance, yo. I’m taking it back.
And yes, I quite literally meant that I thought I was the one and only person on the entire planet that remembers the game Life Force.
aristokrat @ Jun 10th 2009 12:35PM
Is it possible that the Konami code is copyrighted? I'm not trying to be a hater, just genuinely curious. It seems like it would be a Konami IP, and all these other companies using it seems akin to Palm using Solid Snake as the launch screen.
silverwolf761 @ Jun 10th 2009 1:03PM
If that were the case, then someone surely should have the 'A' button being assigned to jump copyrighted
Alex @ Jun 10th 2009 2:25PM
It could be a 'complete coincidence'