After 25 years, fans find secret in old Castlevania game

A historical element in the video game industry is the Konami Codewhich, as the name indicates, was provided by the Japanese company in 1985. Since then several games have made use of it as a reference or tribute and they have just found that an old one kept it secret for 25 years.

Although Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness debuted in 1999 for Nintendo 64, there are enthusiasts who have not stopped playing it. This is the case of users Moses and Liquid Catwho discovered that the title hid a variant of the code invented by the developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto in 1985.

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What does the variant unlock? Konami code in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness?

As reported by the user JupiterClimb, Moses found the variant of Konami code by inspecting the game code and Liquid Cat He realized the function.

According to the video he shared Mosesin a new game, the title only allows you to select the character Cornellbut once the Konami code The rest of the characters are immediately unlocked: Reinhardt, Carrie and Henry.

The code requires pressing the yellow directional buttons in the section c of the control of Nintendo 64as well as the bumpers l and R yy the back button Z.

The sequence is not the same as the Konami code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → BA), but a very similar one, since the number of times each directional button is pressed is only doubled and the final part is modified.

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Below you can see the sequence.

• Up (×4)
• Down (×4)
• Left (×2)
• Right (×2)
• Left (×2)
• Right (×2)
• l
• R
• Z

Something interesting is that Moses A few days ago he also discovered other tricks that through the pause menu can grant various benefits, such as infinite objects.

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