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There was a code you entered into Contra for NES to get 30 extra lives. You entered it with the controller. What was it?

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The Konami code:

↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Start

or for 2-player

↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Select Start

(technically, the "Start" and "Select, Start" are not part of the code, but are necessary to start the game)

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  • Accepted: first one, plus included the select, start info.
    – Jaydles
    Jul 15, 2010 at 18:42
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The Konami code.

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    Too bad the image is too wide for this layout.
    – Denilson Sá Maia
    Jan 11, 2011 at 17:31
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Technically the code is:

  • up up down down left right left right b a

and select changed the mode to two players, and then start started the game, but the "[select] start" is generally referred as part of the code. This code is referred to as "The Konami Code", "The Contra Code", or simply "The Code"

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The code (rendered in HTML) is:

↑↑↓↓←→←→ⒷⒶStart

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    This adds absolutely nothing that hasn't already been said.
    – Nick T
    Oct 5, 2011 at 2:58
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For2 players, and I could be wrong, which I usually am. I remember, up up, down down,left right, left right, b a b a, select, start. But its been a minute for me. :/

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    The question is about 5 years old and has multiple answers already, including what you just wrote. Adding another answer isn't technicly wrong, but don't be surprised if yours no longer gets any positive attention.
    – DJ Pirtu
    Jul 27, 2015 at 7:35
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Another representation of the code, which is responsible for me knowing it by heart without ever having played Contra: The Gothsicles - Konami Code IV

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The actually code was up up down left right left right A B A B select start and you had to to it at the very beginning before the game actually loaded to the screen to ask how many players

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Up down up down left right left right B A select start

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I played this game in 86' The code was Up, up, down, down, left right left right a b b a. You had to enter it really fast at the beginning of the game.

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    This is not the correct code.
    – Sterno
    Mar 11, 2014 at 15:29
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    You might be conflating this with the Ikari Warriors "ABBA" code to come back to life after dying.
    – CloudyMusic
    Mar 21, 2014 at 6:06

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