Back in 1986, a Japanese company Konami — one of the leading developers and creators of video-games programmed a secret key combination in the Gradius game version for the NES game console.
Nevertheless, the key combination became truly popular due to the American version of Contra game (as a “code for 30 lives”).
The code is intended for different purposes in different games:
Increase in the number of attempts
Full weaponization in the beginning of a game
Adding lives
Other
Konami Code
Konami code consists of a 10-digit combination of:
Konami code in the web
Konami is rather common and widely used in the web. Many web developers use it to hide some information. However, in most cases, it is “just for fun”.
Some examples of using the Konami code in the web:
· For example, on the website Digg, when you enter the combination (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A), photos of all blocks are changed into other ones and a rather holistic picture is formed
· Entering the secret combination on the website Geek&Hype results in playing the cartoon — All Your Base Are Belong To Us
· You can play “Batman versus Superman” on the website ProfiTheme by entering the Konami code
· And on such a rainbow service as Сornify you can draw with all colours of the rainbow straight in the margins of the website, but only on condition that after entering the Konami code, you will add Enter, enter, enter
· The website Log will remind of the Konami code origin.
· You can play the popular snake game on the website ElliottKember
An example of realizing the script for entering the call for Konami code on a website is as follows:
this.startWaitingCode = function () {
var keyChain = '38384040373937396665';
/** Concatenation in a row of requiring keyboard key codes*/
currentKeyChain = '',
/** The current sequence of key codes */
self = this;
$(window).on('keydown.konamiCodeKeys', function(event){
currentKeyChain += event.keyCode.toString();
/** Supplement the current sequence code of the pressed key*/
if(currentKeyChain.match(keyChain)){
/** Check for matching required combination in the current comb.*/
self.init();
$(window).off('keydown.konamiCodeKeys');
return; }
if(currentKeyChain.length > 20)
/** Check the current key combination on the line overcrowding*/
currentKeyChain = currentKeyChain.substr( -20 );
});
}There are many other resources that have encoded features hidden in their source code. For example, the KonamiCodeSites resource is a list of such resources that should also be called for through the Konami code. That is to say, examples in the example.
A list of examples how the Konami Code is used in different areas:
· One of Deftones rock band’s songs from their album “Saturday Night Wrist” is named “U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start”.
· The Gotsicles band’s song named “Konami Code III” is devoted to the Konami Code.
· In the Google Reader, the developers have hidden an Easter egg connected with the use of the Konami code. If the code is entered on the project’s main page, the ninja is going to appear on the background of the sidebar.
· The owner’s written warning to apply the “governmental level 3” was replied by the Pirate Bay tracker’s employees as follows: “You will face no difficulties after entering the Konami code”.
· On the WebOS from HP the developer’s mode is activated by entering the Konami code in the search bar — upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart. This gives a root access to the system of a device allowing you to do anything with it.
· In the Need For Speed: Most Wanted, the code is used for getting access to the “back-yard” of the car tuning workshop
· In the Little Big Planet 2 game, the code is used at one of the final levels. X,O is entered instead of B,A.
· There is a reference to this code in the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 game in the regime: “Road to Wrestlemania: John Cena”. After Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase get the team championship belts, Santino Marello says: “They used a cheat to get the championship. I don’t know if it was up-up-down-down or left-right-left-right”.
· In the introductory video in the Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot complement to the Borderlands game, where Mad Moxxi talks about her husbands, after the phrase “My first husband was a dirtbag and a cheat”, the Konami code, as if a bullet, hits his head through.
· In the Silent Hill 3, when you repeatedly go in the Extra New Game regime and enter this code in the main menu, Douglas will be without pants when first meeting with Heather, which changes the sense of the dialogue in a funny manner.
· In the Hellsing serial, in the 2OVA, the code was pronounced when the security guards were being shoot.
· In the Ctrl+Alt+Delete web-comics, the Konami is the anthem of the Winter-Een-Mas holiday. Also, Abby is trying to enter the Konami code when Eathan is registering her member account in the GameHeaven.
· The code is also mentioned in the Everyday Normal Crew song by Jon Lajoie.
· In the Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! anime-serial, the Konami code is pronounced by the main character when she is choosing a drink in the vending machine.
· In the Kiss×sis anime-serial, in the 4th series, OVA, one of the main characters, massages her breasts in the form of Konami code, which was recommended by a women’s magazine.
· In the Ralph cartoon, the Konami code is entered by the Caramel King to break into the source code of Sweet Forsage game.
· In the Amazing World of Gumball animated television series, in The Tape series, the eight-bit cyber-spider Ocho used this code to get money for snack, to increase the speed for the race and to write a composition. Later on, the code was used by Gumball, but it worked wrong.
· The Falling in Reverse band’s song “Game Over” has a line with the code combination.
· In the Dungeon Defenders game, on the Akatiti jungle map, you can get a peta “Turtle on the Treadmill” by using the four turtles thrown about the level and by opening two boxes according to the Konami code.
· The Mari0 game has cheat codes that will be unblocked only after the game has been passed to the end. This can be avoided if the Konami code is entered in the main menu.
· In the dlc quest live freemium or die game, if the Konami is entered, the “nice try” achievement appears.
· In the BioShock Infinite game, when the Konami code is entered, the “1999” mode is enabled.
· In the Yume 2kki indi-game, in the room called “The Konami Room”, you must enter the code to get in the Tribe Settlement.
· In the Memories of Replica indi-game, in order to go through the labyrinth in the Monochrome Dessert location, you should move in the directions of the code.
· In The Watch от Ubisoft project, the Konami code is required for passing the Master of Secrets mission. The code must be entered as soon as the mission has started.
· In the Ah! My Goddess anime, thanks to the invention by Skuld, Katie and Verdandi appeared in the endlessly widened room. Later on, Skuld will say: “To turn off the device, you should type on the joystick: up up down down left right left right and double click “insertion”, but Katie isn’t likely to know about that.
· In the “Endless Summer” visual novel developed by the “Soviet games” developer studio, the Konami code activates erotic scenes in the screen.
· In the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance game, the Konami code unblocks 2 difficulty modes as well as all the missions and some items.
· In the plurk micro-blog, the code activates the timeline animation, and messages start ringing.
· In the League of Legends game, Veigar champion enters the Konami code on his glove as the Final Boss Veigar character.
· In the Underhell game, in the Introduction Chapter, you can hear a dispute between two bandits regarding the right combination of the code.
· In the Gravity falls animated TV series, at the end of each screen of each episode, you can notice for a few seconds a picture with the main antagonist of the cartoon series — Bill Cipher — surrounded by various written encrypted and coded messages. In the right part of the picture, the Konami code is written in the third line on the top.
· In the Opera browser configuration, the code shows settings for experienced users, for example, “Hide the search box from the Express sidebar”.
· In the Flawless Victory song by 8-bit HaraKiri musician, the Konami code is used as the chorus.
