If you want to go back to the original color simply slide through the character select menu to another character and go back, and you´ll see the original color, and then simply select the character. If done correctly, the character will show an alternate color, you must select the character once again to gain access to the alternate color. Simply enter and die, then go back to main screen and go into the Character Select Mode. After that, enter any challenge that takes place in the Harvest Yard Stage. To change colors on the unlockable characters first you must have unlocked Challenge Mode, then you must choose one of the unlockable characters.
Alternate Color for Unlockable Characters.Get hit by one of the fireballs it drops down on you the instant you destroy it. The best way to do this is by killing the mini boss of level 1 because that usually gets you an extra life. In order for this to work, you must have zero lives left, and die at the same time you get an extra life. This glitch will allow you to obtain 99 lives. If done correctly, you will start the game with 34 lives. This must be input before the chopper drops your character on the ground, so it must be done very quickly. "Up" on the touch screen refers to the top of the screen, "down" refers to the bottom of the screen, and left and right refer to the left and right sides of the screen. Then press B, A, and then tap the center of the touch screen. Alternate Color for Unlockable Characters.Īfter starting a new game in arcade mode on the normal or hard difficulty setting, wait for the first level to start and then tap up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right on the touch screen.And at the 12th loop in the last stage, you can't kill the " flying scorpions(Bugger)" just by spamming shots while running through the stage. Besides the quality of the video(7 years old) look at how much the difficulty increases. You can see at this link what happens at the 8th loop of Nes Contra. Take a look at the following video: Contra After Beating the Game 100 (One Hundred) Times in a Row - Link is broken and i could not find any other streaming service with it uploaded, unfortunately. Max points is 6553500 and you will get at the 8th run( jonebone post).Spawn points for troopers will be less predictable.Amount of enemies(specially troopers) will increase.Enemies that require more than 1 shot to kill, will need more damage to be killed.Bosses will need more damage to be killed.What we can get after reading this reports is that: Trows absorbed a lot more bullets that I could shoot before they
I died because the flying yellow things he After about the 5th time, difficultyĭoesn't increase anymore, but if you die, you're screwed.
I got 7 games straight through the game, and I finally died at the User Damon Plus, reported that after the 5th time, things slow down a little on difficulty progression, but you will still see some hard to kill mobs:
Player get before the game becomes unforgiving :) I'm on Snow level Running/shooting speed is faster so watch out. On the third round the amount of troopers is increased and their LukeInside user reported after beating the 3rd time: If you take a look at Gaming Forums, you will see reports that the game gets harder after beating. I have beaten Contra during my childhood 2 times in a row, and i have noticed a little change.