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Post by nocturnal YL on Jan 12, 2007 8:48:50 GMT -5
When you find yourself in grave danger when playing Fire Emblem, you may quickly trigger L+R+START+SELECT to reset your console to avoid death. However, do you know that this combination works for a few other games as well?
So far, I tested a few of my games. Mario Kart DS seems not to be working with this code. Polarium fails to work with this code, too. Other fail-to-work games include Metroid Prime Hunters First Hunt, Mario Kart Super Circuit and WarioWare Touched, to name a few.
And those works include New SMB, Kirby Squeak Squad, Tetris DS, Fire Emblem 4~8 and such.
And what makes it strange is that game manuals (I've seen the one for New SMB and Tetris DS so far) don't mention this code! Since when did the trend to include this code start? And why not just make it avalible in EVERY game?
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Post by kirbychu on Jan 12, 2007 9:14:55 GMT -5
It was in a lot of old games. I used to use it all the time on my original Game Boy, though the button combination was different, obviously. It's generally known as the "soft reset", if I remember rightly. I wasn't aware it was a secret.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 12, 2007 9:34:24 GMT -5
Technically it IS a secret code, as it is programmed into games by the developers, rather than being a system code.
It's been in use since Super Mario World at least. I'm not sure about games prior to that. But it's valid on most SNES and GB/GBA games.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Jan 12, 2007 11:07:57 GMT -5
That's curious... I took for sure it was a system code in the case of the GB/GBC one (but recognizable by some games in order to do other things, like TLOZ:LA). In order to save your file in TLOZ:LA and TLOZ:LADX without losing a life, you had to know that code, and the manual itself told you how to do it.
I used to compare it to how recent Microsoft operating systems don't allow you to simply "reset" your computer by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL, unlike old ones.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jan 12, 2007 11:48:30 GMT -5
Let's see... Ctrl+At+Del is, at BIOS, a system code. In an OS though, I think it's not of system-level - by saying system I mean BIOS. Even some programs can alter the use of Ctrl-Alt-Del!
EDIT: Did I accidentally input so much ENTER's? Sorry for that.
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Post by Nester the Lark on Jan 12, 2007 11:50:47 GMT -5
IIRC, the (US) manual for the original Game Boy (as well as subsequent ones) told you how to do the soft reset. It was standard for all original GB games. Also, it works for the NES version of Dr. Mario.
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Post by Phil Bond on Jan 13, 2007 4:31:28 GMT -5
It was standard starting with the Game Boy, but it was in the games, not the system. I can recall a time before Game Boy Color, I heard about this capability and tested it on my whole collection of about 20 games, and found that it worked on all but three. I always assumed it was implemented as a soft way to reset a game in the absence of a dedicated reset button, which is why it's continued on Nintendo portables since their inception. Sometimes resetting is simply the thing to do, so we have a standard.
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Post by mrmolecule on Jan 13, 2007 10:06:27 GMT -5
It works for all Pokemon GB I've tried, OOA, OOS, and others. That was a gripe of my GBASP, it's harder to press them.
I also noticed it does NOT work for 3rd party games.
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Post by Smashchu on Jan 13, 2007 15:56:55 GMT -5
All of the Sonic Advance games do it. I'm not sure if Sonic Rush is the same way.
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Post by Phil Bond on Jan 14, 2007 3:12:06 GMT -5
I also noticed it does NOT work for 3rd party games. There are no hard and fast rules. It's just a tendancy.
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Post by Smashchu on Jan 14, 2007 18:24:23 GMT -5
Works for Elite Beat Agents, as long as your not on the title screen or optiions.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 15, 2007 4:36:42 GMT -5
Just to clarify (as I just noticed this) obviously on these other systems we're talking A+B+START+SELECT rather than L+R.
No shoulders on the GB ;D
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Post by Phil Bond on Jan 17, 2007 4:13:47 GMT -5
NARF!
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jan 18, 2007 10:31:54 GMT -5
And it's START+B+X for FE9. Now I wonder if there's anything similar for Wii games... other than the HOME button
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Post by Phil Bond on Jan 18, 2007 20:10:12 GMT -5
There'd be no point to that. The Wii already has convenient reset abilities.
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