I found a "new" glitch/feature in Gradius for Fami

[rbudrick]

Hi Folks,

I was messing around, trying to get this "Game Doctor" unit to work:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25565&highlight=htf

(for which I could stil Really, Really use your help with), and I decided to try something new. I thought, "Maybe if I hold down some buttons on the controller, the unit will do something." Well, it didn't (aaagghgghh how do you work this damn thing?!), but Gradius does a funky thing if you turn it on while holding down the A and B buttons on either controller.

If you do this, a white screen with grey letters pops up and reads:

KONAMI ONE
GRADIUS ONE

And then it just disappears and goes to it's regular old title screen. Anybody got any insight into this? Does the American version do this?

-Rob

[Sotenga]

Yo.

http://www.geocities.com/opcfg3/gradiussecret.html

[rbudrick]

Interesting......I didn't know anyone had ever found that before. Howver, their color scheme is opposite mine. Mine was grey letters on a white background.

Oh, and I checked gradius 2...it doesn't do anything like this.

-Rob

[davidbrit2]

I think the Vs. Unisystem versions of these games run this self test every time you power up. And I know Goonies II has this as well. I'm pretty sure there are a couple others...

[Dire 51]

Thanks, david! I've updated the page Sotenga posted the link to with that info. :)