Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start. It's a powerful string of commands capable of garnering its invoker thirty lives, a gaggle of power-ups or other potent in-game bonuses. However, a technomancer from ProtoDojo.com has figured out a way to give the Konami Code practical applications in real life -- it can now be used to unlock one gigabyte of LOLCat JPEGs, German techno covers of Billy Ocean songs or, well, smut.
This little slice of realized magic is possible due to a 1GB flash drive embedded into a hollowed-out NES controller. Entering the Konami Code into the controller unlocks it, allowing you to browse its contents on your compy. To see how this technological feat was made possible, watch the video after the jump. After that, start pondering what this guy could put into a Power Glove. Perhaps -- dare we say it -- a two gigabyte flash drive?
It could be a gesture to express a feeling of solidarity with the gaming community. "Only gamers deserve to see the contents of this drive."
More importantly, its function is secondary to its role as a tool of worship. Every entry of the Konami code is a ritual, a mantra, performed to honor the NES and gaming in a broader sense.
Funny. That's how I remember it. For me, Contra was almost always played with friends. It was so hardwired into my muscle memory, I could hardly put in the single player code.
Depends on the game I think. I remember the Batman Returns cheat code on the SNES was Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A and on ISS it was Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
Whylekat, it was origionally used on Gradius, and then included as a backdoor code on several other games released for the NES, including Konami's Contra, which gave you far to few lives for most people to be able to have a chance to beat the game, so the 99 lives granted by the code was needed.
Damnit joystiq, I have one of these and was storing my social security number, bank account info, and all of my online passwords on it and you just told the whole world how to access it all.
And apparently I just made a 4 hour phone call to Taiwan that I don't remember doing.
I know there are plenty of NES parts out there, but I'm getting tired of the defacing of perfectly good old hardware regardless. Also tired of people using the term "old school Nintendo." The people who do usually didn't seriously play the games back in the day and have only an ironic respect for the hobby.
The code itself does not have the Start button in it; is this not common knowledge or something? Every time I see someone these days talk about the Konami code, Start is included. **It's not a part of the code.** The only thing Start does is start the game or unpause the game. If you put the code into Gradius III (using the shoulder buttons instead of directional left and right because that blows up your ship), you can see the results take effect even with the game paused, without hitting start.
Tell all your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors...together we can rid the world of this misinformation!!! =D
Fairly imaginative use of a basic security function board and a switch, but unfortunately could have easily been done using the any number of other NES Controller USB PC Controller/Emulator (USB Drive) Mod Including
But instead of using joy stick controls (in the case of the first one) using the keyboard controls, and then password protecting the flash drive using the corresponding keyboard inputs as the password, and maintain the usability of the control pad in the process.
