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1. Gradius 2 impossible upgrade#
2. Gradius 2 impossible full#
3. Gradius 2 impossible code#
4. Gradius 2 impossible professional#
5. Gradius 2 impossible free#

Gradius 2 impossible full#

Any cheats that increase lives and continues are ok to use (and perhaps recommended), but the full power-up cheat is banned.

Gradius 2 impossible upgrade#

Collecting capsules is ok (even the blue “Mega Crush” capsules), but under no circumstances can we upgrade any part of our ship, even its speed. The system allows you to prioritize what you absolutely need to have early on during the game.īut, what if we decided to throw that away and challenge the game with just the initial speed and setup of our ship? Would it still be possible to beat the games where you must have tons of firepower unleashed with a single button, and even have a fast ship? That is what the “No Power-Up Run” challenge is about. If you chose to hold off on using your capsules, collecting more allowed you to advance further to the right side of the power bar, allowing you to get weapon upgrades, shields, and the ever-useful Options (or Multiples in other games/regions).

A mechanic that sets Gradius apart from other similar side scrollers was its power-up system where you collect power-up capsules from defeated enemies and used them to enhance your ship. To understand how this works, though, you need to know what exactly power-ups are in the games. This is the difference between sophistication and a makeshift job.The No Power-Up Run Challenge is a recent new addition to the way people can play the Gradius games. This was quite the same feelings I had, at the time, playing Super Mario Bros on NES (Well stronger for Mario but this is incomparable).

Gradius 2 impossible professional#

There it was a super production, a team job and a professional one. I also felt a real difference with usual lousy half games which I was used to. This was later called game design, or game-play.

Then I had an epiphany: this game had been conceived by designers (even though I didn’t know this term), that is to say, people which worked hard on a product, thought about it and found solutions to numerous problems, took decisions to improve and make the game pleasant. I also remember a small detail which struck me at this period: when the player’s spaceship approaches a gun turret too close, this one doesn’t shoot,fair play,to prevent death by an unseen or inescapable bullet.

Gradius 2 impossible free#

What a nice time of free secrets, that was before the free2play era my good lady. And I remember, unforgettable moment, the day where I said to myself “Certainly dumb, but why not try entering the breach, to see…”, and then, the screen disappeared, an unknown bonus level appeared, and I was filled with an enormous feeling of joy, and wonder was glowing in my kiddy eyes.Īnd of course, I pass on the game secrets and modifications if you insert another Konami game in the second MSX cartridge port, like playing as Penguin if you put Penguin Adventure or a lot of cheats with Q-Bert. Once dead, the boss stays inert for a few seconds then explode in a sheaf of yellow pixels.

Gradius 2 impossible code#

A good reason to later wear glasses…).Īnd finally, the secrets : secret passages almost impossible to find, bonus weapons which, at this time, I’d never suspected the existence (I was young and without internet nor gamefaqs, huh), the famous Konami code cheats…Ī big souvenir : when you fight a boss, you have to shoot him right in the belly to open a breach in his defenses and then, attack his core (the famous: “shoot the core”). Next, the graphics, with huge animated flames, gigantic bosses, destructible backgrounds, which made your eyes cry (unless that cames from the 8 to 8 pixels scrolling. Listening to 8 tracks musics, composed by a real professional musician was a change from those usual 3 tracks melodies written by the accustomed amateur musician. The Nemesis 2 cartridge has a SCC chip which add five more sound channels to the MSX standard three. To begin, the first thing that blow your mind when you start the game is the sound. One of the most prolific game publisher on this machine was Konami which released future classics like Metal Gear Solid, Twin Bee, Castlevania, Gambare Goemon et Nemesis (aka Gradius outside of Japan).Īnd a saturday afternoon, I received as a gift a Nemesis 2 cartridge and after that my life was never the same. One of its advantage was her Japanese conception allowing it to have a cartridge port transforming it into a decent game console. At the time, this computer was of the same quality than his direct challengers like the C64 or the Amstrad 464. After being introduced to programming with my VG5000, I’d wanted to quickly acquire a more sophisticated machine.