Ree's musings

Loud thunder made me decide not to go online earlier today. I decided not to play any video games with save files in order to keep my data safe from power outages. In my quest for entertainment that wouldn't suffer thus, I raided my NES collection and rediscovered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project. I don't usually play beat-em-ups, so I struggled.

As I played, I wished aloud for an NES Game Genie, or some other cheat device that would let me assign myself more lives and continues.

My brother threw me a blank look. "I thought Konami made the Turtles games."

"Yeah..." I trailed off, not understanding his point.

"Tried the Konami Code?"

I had, but I knew some games used a slightly altered code instead. And this was Konami. It was likely some version of the code would work – and someone would have posted that information online by now. So I looked it up.

Wikipedia enlightened me: switching B and A in the code gives access to a hidden options screen with choices for difficulty level and number of lives, as well as a sound test. (The game's music is excellent for its era and has me craving ReMixes.)

I am a happier little ReeBean for this.