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The VC Advantage: Life during wartime
The internet has made it easy to find cheats for games, but we miss the tips pages from game magazines, when the discovery of a new code could inspire you to go back to an old game. These codes aren't exactly new, but oldness is the essence of the Virtual Console! We're bringing back the classic codes every week on The VC Advantage.Bloody Wolf (TG16)Is it possible for a game to be any more retro-war-game than Bloody Wolf? You've got hostages handing you power-ups, shirtless commandos, and unattended motorcycles. It's the total opposite of the dour Call of Brothers of Company of Medal of Whatever stuff we have now. Ridiculous cheats complete the experience!Hover Mode: At the title screen, press down, up, left, left, II, II, I, Select, Run. The Bloody Wolf dudes were already eerily similar to Princess Peach, right? This code gives them the same hover-jump. The resemblance is just uncanny. Fast Mode: At the title screen, press up, down, right, right, I, I, II, Select, Run. Gain Ground (GEN)Level Select: At the options screen, press A, C, B, C. This lets you skip all of that troublesome ground-gaining, because, really, who wants to gain ground?Military Madness (TG16)Madness? This is ... oh, right, this is madness.Switch Sides: At the continue screen, hold Select and press Run. The best way to punish the opposing faction is to lose as them. It uses a skill-- losing-- with which you've already demonstrated proficiency!
Torrent of TurboGrafx-16 titles set for Australia's Virtual Console
Making up for its delayed arrival to Australia's Virtual Console, the TurboGrafx-16 will debut in the world's smallest continent next week with eleven releases! Hudson's VC site lists that over a third of the games will be shmups -- no big surprise there -- but classics like Dungeon Explorer, Military Madness, and Bomberman '93 are also set to appear at the system's opening ceremony.The US, having been spoiled with dozens of TG-16 releases since the Wii's launch, will receive only one PC-Engine title next Monday: Dragon Spirit, an impossibly hard, vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up in which you pilot a blue dragon. Check past the post break for Hudson's planned releases across all territories this July.
VC Monday: Tennis (NES), Space Harrier II (Gen), Military Madness (TG16)
In just a few short hours -- at precisely 12pm ET -- Tennis (NES), Space Harrier II (Genesis), and Military Madness (TurboGrafx-16) will clamber out of their Craftmatic adjustable beds and drag their weary bones onto the Wii's Shop Channel, part of a weekly ritual we've come to know as Virtual Console Mondays.They may be old, but that doesn't mean they don't have any self respect! Nope, if you want to reignite that old fling, you're gonna need to pay ... just not as much as you used to. Though this troika of platform-specific releases have temporarily joined forces on the Wii, a distinct class system is still evident. NES titles, like Tennis, fetch a cool 500 Wii Points, while Genesis titles, like Space Harrier II, are going for 800 Wii Points. That's 100% more bits for only 60% more Points! Clearly, you can see the injustice being perpetrated here! All the while TurboGrafx-16 is still rambling on about that 16-bit graphics chip of his, so they figured an extra 100 Wii Points for those games oughta shut him up.
