Chalupa Donny presents...
CONTRA : SHATTERED SOLDIER
- FAQ for Playstation 2 -
(sorry... no clever ASCII art)
Created By : John Malone (aka Chalupa Donny)
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____TABLE OF CONTENTS________________________________________
I - INTRODUCTION
II - GAMEPLAY ESSENTIALS
III - WEAPONS
IV - CAST OF CHARACTERS
V - GAME WALKTHROUGH
VI - 100% HIT RATE LIST
VII - SECRETS/UNLOCKABLES
VIII - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
IX - CREDITS
____I - INTRODUCTION_________________________________________
I am in love with Contra: Shattered Soldier. I have been a fan of the
series since the original and one of my favorite games of all time has been the
seriously underrated Contra: Hard Corps for the Genesis. Contra: Shattered
Soldier is easily on par with every previous game in the series, as far as
difficulty and enjoyment goes, plus it\'s an homage to all the Contra\'s that
came before it. In short, it\'s a Contra fan\'s dream come true.
In addition, Contra: Shattered Soldier surpasses the old Contras in many
ways. The graphics, obviously, are a cut above the rest; a combination of 2D
and 3D. The animation and attention to detail are simply jaw-dropping. The
scale of the levels and the epic encounters are equally awe-inspiring. Many of
the characters and enemies from old games make cameos here, plus the story ties
together everything that\'s happened in previous games. No doubt about it,
Contra: S.S. is a satisfying experience for Contra fans.
But if you\'re reading this FAQ, you\'ve probably already played this
game... so you already know what I\'m blabbering about! SO, the question is: why
am I writing this FAQ? My goal was to write something that was more in-depth,
and therefore more helpful, than anything else out there. Hopefully, I have
accomplished that. I hope you enjoy it!
- Chalupa Donny
____II - GAMEPLAY ESSENTIALS________________________________
Included in this section are the options, game controls, as well as many
other important aspects of gameplay.
-Control Scheme---
The controls for this game are included in the instruction booklet, but a
few details aren\'t in there. Let me break it down for you:
-Directional Pad: player movement, aim direction, menu select
-Left Analog Stick (L3): player movement, aim direction, menu select
-Right Analog Stick (R3): not used
-Square button: shoot (press and hold for continuous fire)
-charge shot (double tap and hold to charge, release to fire)
-X button: jump, confirm selection (menu)
-O button: charge shot (hold to charge, release to fire)
-Triangle button: not used
-L1 button: select weapon to left
-R1 button: select weapon to right
-L2 button: hold to lock weapon angle in place (character can still move)
-R2 button: hold to lock character in place (can still control firing
direction)
-Start button: pause menu, skip dialogue
Special Situations:
-Climbing Walls and Ceilings: When jumping toward a wall or ceiling, your
character will grab on. You can move around with the directional pad.
-Jump Down: You can jump down and release your grip from a ceiling, wall,
hanging bar, or from certain floating platforms by pressing down and jump (X
button).
-While Hanging on to a Missile: During the first part of Mission 4, your
character is hanging on to a flying missile. Pressing the X button will cause
your missile to spin in place. Shooting while spinning lets you cover a little
more area.
-While Hanging on to a Portable Helicoptor: During the second part of Mission
4, your character is hanging on to a portable device with helicoptor blades.
Pressing the X button will cause your character to move upwards very quickly.
You can hold the X button down to continue this effect.
-Difficulty---
Take a look at the Options menu. There are 2 levels of difficulty for
Contra: Shattered Soldier. The game plays essentially the same in both modes
except for some key differences, which are described here:
-Easy Mode: You have 99 continues and 9 lives per continue, but you can only
play through missions 1 through 5 and you cannot unlock any endings.
-Normal Mode: You have 3 continues and 3 lives per continue, but you can access
all of the missions and get any ending, if you are good enough.
After playing a certain amount of time (see part VII of this FAQ), you will
permanently gain an extra life, for a total of 4 lives per continue. This only
applies to Normal Mode.
-The Hit Rate System---
As you will see once you really get into the game, the Hit Rate System is
all-important. The Hit Rate System decides what missions you will get to play
and ultimately, which ending you get. So how does the Hit Rate System work?
In each stage it is possible to get a Hit Rate of up to 100%. This does NOT
measure your shooting accuracy. Instead, this measures your success in
destroying every possible RELEVENT target in the stage. I say \"relevent\"
because not every enemy counts towards the Hit Rate. A list of every target in
every stage is found in Part VI of this FAQ.
Unfortunately, it\'s not that simple. Losing lives and using continues
subtracts from your total Hit Rate at the end of each stage. For each life you
lose, 2 points are subtracted. For each continue that you use WHERE YOU START
FROM THE MID-POINT subtracts 10%.
Whenever you have the option to continue, it asks if you want to start from
the \"beginning\" or the \"half-way point\". If you start from the beginning, the
amount of lives you have lost are wiped clean and you are NOT penalized for
using a continue.
After the penalties are assessed at the end of the stage, you are assigned a
Mission Clear Ranking for that stage:
- 100% Hit Rate = S Ranking
- 90-99% = A
- 80-89% = B
- 79% or less = C
Your Total Ranking is the average of your Mission Clear Rankings from each
stage. Your Total Ranking must be a certain number for you to access certain
stages and endings.
-One Player VS Two Player Mode: What\'s The Difference?---
This guide is written from the 1-Player mode perspective, but all of the
strategies discussed in this guide still apply for 2-Player mode.
The only difference between 1 and 2-Player mode is that in 2-Player mode,
all of the mini-bosses and bosses take more shots to kill. This makes sense to
maintain game balance.
The problem comes when one of the two players dies, leaving the other player
all to their lonesome. It will take the remaining player much longer to beat
the bosses... about twice as long. Of course, this also means there will be a
greater chance for that player to die, as well.
The moral of the story is to make sure that your game buddy is about equal
to your skill, or neither of you will be having much fun.
-1-Ups---
You gain an extra life after getting a certain amount of points in the
course of the level. The first extra life is gained upon reaching 15,000 points
and you get another exra life every 20,000 points afterwards.
-Survival Tips---
- It\'s important that you become comfortable with all of your character\'s
abilities and weapons. Locking your shooting angle, locking your character
position, charged shots, etc. are necessary skills for beating the game.
- Practice, practice, practice! Use Training Mode and play on Easy mode so you
know what to expect before taking on Normal mode. It will save you lots of
frustration.
- If you\'re aiming to get the best Ranking possible (an \'S\' rank) and you screw
up, hit Pause and start over from the beginning. It uses up one continue, but
it gives you a completely fresh start and won\'t mess up your final ranking.
- There are many strategies for beating this game. I\'ve included which weapons
work best for me. It might not be what works best for you, though, so use what
you\'re comfortable with if you perform better that way.
____III- WEAPONS____________________________________________
There are 3 main weapons in Contra: Shattered Soldier. Each one can be charged
up (see Game Controls in Part II or the game instruction booklet), giving you a
total of 6 weapons.
Unlike the other games in the Contra series, you start out with access to
all of these weapons. They are permanently in your inventory. And you are going
to need all of them to beat the game. Parts of the descriptions are from the
instruction booklet.
-NORMAL SHOT---
- Heavy Machinegun: Has a long range with a powerful repeating action. This is
the most basic weapon, and it\'s a good one. This is a great weapon for when
there\'s enemies quickly coming at you from different directions.
- Fire Whip: This is a short-ranged but very powerful flamethrower. It goes
through barriers and can destroy many projectiles. This is superior for
short-ranged combat.
- Diver Mine: It arcs to the ground when fired and then continues to roll along
the surface. When it hits, it can burn and do continuous damage. As the
instruction book says, it\'s good for getting those hard-to-reach targets.
-CHARGE SHOT---
These are obviously more powerful, but realize that they have a much slower
rate of fire then the Normal Shot weapons.
- Round Sweep: This is the Heavy Machinegun charged shot. A gun pod flies
forward and then rotates and fires bullets in every direction. This is good for
clearing out multiple enemies or even to get some hard-to-reach targets. I
don\'t use this very much.
- Energy Shot: This is the charged up Fire Whip shot. The Energy Shot shoots a
very powerful shot that goes through barriers. It can hit large enemies
multiple times. This is the weapon I use the most and it\'s extremely useful for
any tough enemy.
- Homing Missiles: Charging up the Diver Mine activates this. This is another
invaluable weapon that launches several small missiles that heat-seek targets
very well. This is a fairly weak weapon, however, so it\'s not good for every
situation.
____IV - CAST OF CHARACTERS_________________________________
Who are the movers and shakers in Contra: S.S.? Let me introduce you to...
- Bill Rizer ---
The war hero from the Alien Wars (Contra III) was put into jail for crimes
against humanity after wiping out 80% of the world population and killing his
partner, Lance Bean, in cold blood. Also, humanity\'s only hope against the
returning alien threat. What a guy!
- Lucia ---
A cyborg created by an evil genius by the name of Dr. Geo Mandrake (\"the
Doctor\" from Contra: Hard Corps). The government took over the Doctor\'s plans
and completed the Doctor\'s prototype, creating the ultimate soldier. She\'s
Bill\'s new partner.
- Enemy Commander ---
The mysterious leader of a new group of terrorists, \"Blood Falcon\". Who is
this international man of mystery, really? I\'ll give you 3 guesses, but you\'ll
probably only need one.
- The Triumvirate ---
Apparently Earth in the future is ruled by these 3 guys: Commodus, Nero, and
Gaius. Cybernetic implants give them prolonged life as well as the ability to
share their thoughts telpathically. Why mention these guys? They gotta fit into
it all somehow....
____V - GAME WALKTHROUGH_____________________________________
I\'ve included the locations of the Missions as shown on the map in the stage
selection screen, references to other Contra games and anything else, plus the
Halfway Points of each stage. If you\'ve gotten past this point and you lose all
of your lives, you can continue from this spot (though it will cost you 10
points from your Hit Rate).
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MISSION 1 - Fortress
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Location: Africa
References:
- The intro where your character crashes through some buildings while flying in
an air transport and then bursts out at the end is very similar to the intro in
stage 1 of Contra: Hard Corps.
- The Spider-Mech mini-boss looks like a modified-version of similar
\'metal-spider\' mini-bosses that have appeared throughout the Contra series,
starting with the \"Babalu\" boss in Super C.
- The section with hanging bars and swarms of giant alien mosquitos is exactly
like a section in stage 3 of Contra III.
- The Demon Turtle boss is the same first boss that was in Contra III.
The first part of this stage is classic Contra. Waves of soldiers will swarm
you from left and right. Use your machine gun and blow them away as you run to
the right. Kill the mortar soldier that you encounter from above. Blow up the
parked truck while checking your backside.
Next is a twin-car motorcycle. It will past you from behind and then block
your path from the right. Duck it\'s shots while continuously shooting it; try
not to let it get away. Energy shots work nicely.
Climb the hill, but watch for a barrel with a sniper behind it. Duck his
shot and blow up the barrel. At the top of the hill is another sniper and
barrel, plus a mortar soldier above you. Blow up the barrel first.
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-MINI-BOSS: Spider Mech
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
Next a crane will lower this guy on the right side of the screen. It\'s first
attack is a swarm of mini-missiles launched high into the air. They can be
destroyed, but all you have to do is stay right next to the Spider to avoid
them.
Next the Spider will jump over you and land to the left. After that it will
launch a large missile. A targeting reticle will follow your character. Stand
in one place until the target gets totally red and stops blinking, then move to
one side quickly (the explosion is rather large). The Spider should be toast by
now.
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Next will be some soldiers holding shields. Normally you should deal with
the guys by using the fire whip to bypass their shields, but in this case there
are some bomb-looking structures attached to the ceiling above them. Shoot
these down from an angle (make sure you\'re not under!) and watch as the bad
guys get toasted. There are two of these bombs, make sure you don\'t miss them
if you want 100%.
Afterwards, climb up the wall and shoot down the 3 snipers to the left
either with your machine gun or homing missiles while dodging their shots. At
the top of the wall is another boss battle.
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-MINI-BOSS: Gun Platform
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Left/Right Side Guns
Blue Core
If you\'re aiming to get a 100% hit rate, it\'s extremely important NOT to
destroy the Core first, as you will not get a chance to kill the Side Guns if
you do. The guns on the left and right must be destroyed four times to get the
full 100%. If you don\'t care about your hit rate, just destroy the core from
the get-go. This should be very simple.
If your doing it the hard way, the easiest way to destroy the side guns is
to go after one gun at a time and by that I mean to completely destroy the
fourth form of one gun before you destroy the first form of the other. This
will make things much simpler. The safest way to destroy a Side Gun is to stand
on the opposite side and shoot at it from an angle.
LEFT/RIGHT GUNS: Destroying one gun will cause another, different form of the
gun to replace it. Each side has four of these guns before it\'s completely
destroyed. After one Side Gun is completely destroyed, the Core will deploy a
special attack (see below).
- 1st Gun: Homing Launcher -
Shoots missiles at regular intervals. A red laser target shows where it is
aiming. The small missiles can be destroyed. Very easy.
- 2nd Gun: Spread Shot -
Shoots two alternating patterns of spread shots directly below it. Either
stand on the opposite side to avoid it, or stand directly below it, near the
center, and carefully dodge the shots. Also, the fire whip can destroy these
bullets (thanks goes to Sarah who pointed this out).
- 3rd Gun: Napalm -
Will drop a glob of liquid directly below it, which is harmless. Once it
makes contact with the ground, however, huge waves of fire will travel left and
right along the ground. Carefully jump over it.
- 4th Gun: Super Fire Whip -
The gun will shoot a much larger version of your Fire Whip, sweeping back
and forth directly below it. The only safe way to avoid this is to be on the
opposite side. Do NOT ever get into the situation where both left and right
guns are Super Fire Whips.
BLUE CORE: If both guns are active, the Core is harmless. Once one Side Gun has
been completely destroyed, the Core will begin to attack. It will shoot a laser
onto the ground and sweep it either to the left or right.
Only the glowing point where the laser hits the ground can hurt you, so just
jump over it if it comes your way. It will do this once every several seconds.
Shoot the core from one side at an angle.
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-- HALFWAY POINT --
Whew! The things you\'ll do for that 100%. Plow past the next several bad
guys and torch the final shield soldier. When you get to the bridge, a cut
scene will take you to a snowboarding sequence.
Next is a series of jetpack soldiers. I use energy shots here; it takes two
to kill each soldier. If you give them enough time, they will shoot a stream of
bullets downwards at you. Get directly beneath them and kill them before they
can fire. If you don\'t kill them all fast enough, they will fly away.
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-MINI-BOSS: Arctic Snake
Weapon to Use: Fire Whip (Part 1)
Energy Shot (Part 2)
Weakpoint: Body Segments (Part 1)
Mouth (Part 2)
Next a large snake will come at you from behind, jumping in and out of the
snow. If you take a lot of time during this battle, the Serpent will leave.
PART 1: First he will dive somewhere in the middle. Estimate where he is going
to land, then zoom in next to him and blaze away with the fire whip (you may
want to lock your aiming direction).
After this he will jump back into the background, then turn around and
repeat his first attack. When he jumps back into the background, stay near the
middle since he pops out on the far sides of the screen. Two or three passes
like this and you should destroy all of his body segments. After his body is
all bones, he will switch attacks.
PART 2: Stay in the middle at all times. He will jump in an arcing motion from
right to left. Aim upwards and shoot the core in his mouth with energy shots
when he jumps overhead. After the core in his mouth explodes (you will see gore
coming out), he will jump once more into the background, then make one final
lunge at you. Stay to the right to avoid this. If you take too long in
destroying the core, he\'ll go away.
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Almost there! Next you will be on some hanging bars and swarms of huge
mutant mosquitos will come at you from all sides. Use your fire whip and move
through here as quickly as possible. These guys don\'t count toward your hit
rate, so only shoot at them if they grab you (and make sure you\'re over a
grab-bar before they drop you).
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-BOSS: Demon Turtle/Plague Face
Weapon to Use: Diver Mine/Fire Whip (Part 1)
Fire Whip (Part 2)
Weakpoint: Top and Bottom Openings (Part 1)
Turtle Head
Mouth (Part 2)
PART 1: First a Heli-Bot will land and get ready to attack. Stay back and
ignore him, the Demon Turtle will drop in from above to crush him. To get 100%,
you have to destroy the opening below the Turtle\'s head, which releases maggots
onto the ground, and the opening above the Turtle\'s head, which releases swarms
of flies. The only way to destroy these two is by using the diver mine weapon.
If your motto is: \"screw 100%\", then you\'ll only need to destroy the Turtle\'s
head, which is his main weakpoint.
Go for the top opening first. Grab onto the hang bar, jump, and unleash the
mines. If he lets some flies loose, get back down and wait until they pass.
Next go for the bottom one. Stay back and just let the mines roll over to the
opening. Kill any maggots that he releases.
During this time, the head will periodically do one of two attacks. If he
lets out a scream, move to the left and keep your distance, because his head
will shoot out and sweep up and down. His second attack is to let loose slow
purple fireballs. They have small homing capabilites, so dodge them carefully.
Once the top and bottom openings are destroyed, stay on the left, lock your
position and use the fire whip to finish him off; only stop to dodge any
attacks.
PART 2: Now the beheaded Turtle will turn around, revealing his hideous
backside: a sickly humanoid face. Equip the fire whip and stand close enough to
hit his mouth with it, but far enough back to dodge attacks. Lock your
position. He has three random attacks:
If he makes an inhaling sound, he\'s about to unleash flies, maggots, and
fireballs from his nose, but will keep his mouth closed. Burn the vermin as
they come out, but dodge the slow purple fireball. If he starts to open and
close his mouth, let loose with the fire whip and make sure to burn whatever
vermin comes out of his nose while damaging his mouth.
If he makes an \"I\'m about to vomit\" sound (you know what I\'m talking about),
he\'s about to do just that. You are safe standing close to him. Just lock your
position and aim upwards to get in some good hits. The arcing stream of vomit
should fly right over your head. When he\'s finished get ready to jump, as the
vomit on the ground will remain for a few seconds and spread out. Keep shooting
and this guy will be put out of his misery in no time.
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MISSION 2 - Train
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Location: SW Former Russian Republic
References:
- The hover cycle vehicle that your character rides first appeared in stage 4
of Contra III.
- The Steel Runner boss is an updated version of a very similar boss at the end
of the Train level in Contra: Hard Corps.
- SUB:
This is a tricky stage to get a 100% hit rate in, as some targets have a
pesky tendency to fly away quickly. The first quarter of this stage starts off
with your character riding on a hover cycle, battling a HUGE sub/helicoptor.
First it will fire a barrage of arcing energy bolts into the sky, which then
fall around you. There are safe spots between the bolts, which you can see just
before they hit the ground. Dodge two of these barrages.
Next the sub will shoot a laser along the ground, starting from the left and
then suddenly sweeping to the right. As the laser charges up, move to the right
side of the screen. Wait until the laser begins to move before jumping. This
can be tricky, since the speed of the laser is random. The sub will shoot this
laser twice in a row.
After the laser, the sub will dive into the ocean and then emerge on the
left side of the screen, demolishing the bridge behind you. As the sub dives,
keep to the far right of the screen and keep your gun locked aiming directly to
the left.
When the sub emerges, use charged energy shots or the machine gun to pummel
the gun turret that is mounted the nose of the sub. The gun will charge up and
shoot two shots, one right after the other. Just jump over these with a single
leap and keep shooting until the turret is gone. If you wait too long, the sub
will repeat its first two attacks.
-HELICOPTOR:
After the cutscene where the sub turns into a helicoptor, switch to the Fire
Whip if you\'re not on it already and charge that sucker up. As the helicoptor
begins to appear from the upper right, you\'ll see a guy riding a rocket appear
in the background. These guys fly in from the left very fast. You can jump over
them, but if you want to get that elusive 100% hit rate, you gotta kill them.
ONLY the charged energy shots are quick enough to kill these guys. One shot
should do.
Anywho, get rid of the rocket jockey that appears from the left, then
quickly move to the right half of the screen and aim up. A rack that drops
metal barrels will deploy from the back of the coptor. Use energy shots to
destroy it, first aiming at the barrels directly above you. One shot will
destroy the barrels before they drop on your head.
Stay on the right as the next rocket rider zooms in from the left. At this
point, nodes will open up on the bottom of the coptor. Do not stay under them,
as they will shoot lines of energy beams straight down. You can tell which one
will fire next because a line of electricity will appear before it shoots the
full beam.
You will need to kill all of these to get a 100% for this mission. You
should focus on the nodes that are about to scroll off of the screen to the
left first. It\'s smart to stay between the beam-shooting nodes, even if they\'re
not firing. Lock your weapon at an upward angle and use energy shots to destroy
them all.
As you get to the fifth and final node, the helicoptor will slowly move
downwards, limiting your movement. Stay in the safe spot on the left until the
coptor moves up again. Two rocket soldiers are going to zoom in from the left
again, so move towards the middle of the screen. If you need to jump, you need
to make sure you don\'t touch the protruding underbelly of the coptor, which
will kill you.
The final gun approaches above you on the right. Lock your gun at an upward
and right angle. Energy shots still work well. Begin shooting it, but be ready
to jump. The gun fires a shot that turns into two huge flames that sweep left
and right after it hits the ground. Stay in one place, to the left of the gun.
As it shoots, jump so that you land in the safe spot between the two flames
that shoot to the left and right.
After the final gun, the helicoptor will fly away. If you have destroyed all
of its parts, the coptor will crash into the ocean instead. The next part is
pretty hard, especially if you\'re going for 100%. A series of soldiers hanging
on to missiles will come in from the right. They hurl grenades that leave big
explosions when they hit the ground.
I prefer to use the energy shots here. A good strategy is to jump and shoot
the charged shots straight. Two shots will kill one them. It\'s possible to hit
two with one shot if they are lined up, since the energy shot bypasses
barriers. You MUST kill them as quick as possible; not just for safety\'s sake,
but also because they will leave quickly if they reach the left edge of the
screen.
-TUNNEL:
After six of those guys, you will enter a tunnel and you\'ll be facing a
train on your left. The first car has a huge cannon mounted on it. It will fire
blue shots that explode into three smaller heat-seeking balls upon impact.
Ignore the first big shot; it\'s harmless. The three little balls that come
afterwards are not, but they can be destroyed. If you don\'t destroy all of the
balls before the next volley arrives, they automatically self-destruct.
There are two good strategies to use to survive this part. I prefer using
two quick shots of homing missiles to take out the heat-seeking fireballs. This
only works if you remember 3 things: carefully aim the shots to where they are
needed (target the fireball closest to you), this process DOES usually require
two shots, and these two shots must be fired one right after the other.
Another strategy is to stay on the right or left edge of the screen, lock
your character\'s position, and sweep the fire whip around yourself to destroy
the fireballs. This can be tricky as well.
After the cannon shoots several volleys of these, it will stop shooting and
a target will appear on the cannon. Take this time to shoot it with energy
shots, homing missiles, or whatever else. Wait too long and it will start
shooting again.
The second car will launch soldiers on motorcycles, one by one. Simply use
energy shots or your machine gun to take them out. They will either swerve from
one side to the other in order to ram you or they will whip out a gun and shoot
twice. If you don\'t kill fast, they will disappear after they attack. After
five soldiers have been dispatched, the train car will disconnect itself.
-- HALFWAY POINT --
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-MINI-BOSS: Gun Pod Mech
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Left/Righ Gun Pod (Part 1)
Mech Body (Part 2)
PART 1: The third car is holding this feisty fellow. First two gun pods will
deploy above you to the left and right. The left one fires a shot that explodes
in flames when it hits the ground. Only the ground flames can hurt you from
this attack. The right gun pod pauses then fires machine gun rounds in a
straight line. Once you kill one of them, the remaining one will dance around
wildly, making it a hard target.
If the left one remains, it will begin firing shots more often. The right
one will still shoot machine gun rounds, but this time it will follow your
position as it shoots. Make sure it does not corner you if this happens! I
usually kill the right gun pod first, then deal with the left one. If you take
too long, the gun pods will self-destruct. If you want 100%, do NOT let this
happen!
PART 2: The main Mech follows a pattern somewhat. For the first several
attacks, it will be flying in the background and it can\'t be hurt. For the
first part, the Mech will choose one of the following attacks randomly. For the
first possible attack, the Mech will launch energy balls into the air which
then fall to the ground like rain. These are easily dodged.
The second possible attack, which is more common, is where the Mech will
move to one side of the screen and sweep a laser forward. Fire will erupt from
where the laser hits the ground. The Mech will slowly move to the other side of
the screen and repeatedly use this attack. The laser can\'t hurt you, only the
fire afterwards. Stay away from the first laser attack it does, then quickly
move to the other side of the screen before the second attack.
The Mech will do one of the above attacks twice, or do one attack and then
the other, or (rarely) it will do just one attack before it continues. Next the
Mech will line up behind your character and then rush forward into the
foreground. Move to one side to avoid this.
The Mech can be killed ONLY during its fourth and final attack. The Mech
will move above you and sweep a laser from one side to the other. To avoid it,
move to the side of the screen where the laser will end up and then jump as it
sweeps under you. As soon as he finishes this attack, he will quickly fly away,
so the time frame for killing him is EXTREMELY short.
The best way to kill him is to charge your energy shot up, then move
directly below him when he begins to shoot his laser and shoot upwards. One
shot will kill him before the laser can reach you. Several shots of homing
missiles will also work, but the energy shot is a sure thing.
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-TRAIN:
Now you will finally be on top of the train. Use your homing missiles for
this next section. Move the screen just far enough forward so that the
grenade-launching cannons are visible and your homing missiles can lock onto
them. Then move back to the far left while firing away so that the grenades
can\'t reach you. After the first cannon, continue forward and a gun turret will
rise from the train. Stay on the level below it and shoot your missiles upwards
to take it out. NEVER jump.
Edge forward and take out the two mortar soldiers who appear next. If they
get a shot off, move to the left and jump over the raining bullets if
necessary. Destroy the next grenade cannon, gun turret, mortar soldier, and the
final grenade cannon in the same manner described above.
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BOSS: Steel Runner
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot (Part 1)
Homing Missiles (Part 2)
Energy Shot (Parts 3 and 4)
Weakpoint: Left/Right Shoulder Pads (Part 1)
Target on Back (Part 2)
Backpack (Part 3)
Crotch (Part 4)
PART 1: This huge robot will shoot his fist at the train and then run along
side you. Use energy shots and continuously fire at the shoulder pad facing
you. You must blow both of them off. During this part the Steel Runner has two
attacks, which are random.
If he rears back, he\'s about to ram the train. Jump when he does this or you
will be knocked off the car. If he holds his arm forward, he\'s about to shoot
his fist at you. Jump over the fist and then be ready to jump again when it
returns like a boomerang from the opposite direction. The rhythm of this attack
takes some practice to get used to.
PART 2: After his shoulder pads are gone, the Runner will move in front of the
train, push it to a stop, and then lift the whole train car into the air. Now
he will shoot a rain of energy shots into the air. The points where they will
hit the train glow with blue energy. Just stand between these points. A target
will appear on his back; you can hit it with diver mines, but homing missiles
work much more effectively.
PART 3: Now the Steel Runner will drop the train and climb on top. He will
kneel down and shoot a series of metal blades along the ground. The blades move
to the far right, then boomerang back to the left. It is possible to jump over
these blades as they move back and forth, but this is difficult. Instead, stay
on the far right side and you should be able to avoid incoming blades with one
leap. If you are far enough to the right, the blades won\'t reach you at all.
However, finding this point can be dangerous without falling off the side.
While jumping, aim charged energy shots at his backpack.
After several rolling blades, the Runner will fly off of the train. He will
do several low flybys over the train car; you can avoid these by ducking. Next
he will land on the right side of the train and jump quickly to the left (and
sometimes he\'ll jump back to the right after that). Avoid these by moving to
the middle of the car and ducking before he jumps. After this the Runner will
continue with the rolling blades until the backpack is destroyed.
PART 4: Now only the legs and his torso is left. He will walk from the left to
the right, but he can\'t hurt you. However, you will need to destroy his legs if
you want 100%. Use 2-3 energy shots aimed upwards where his legs meet. You have
to do this fast or else the legs will walk over the edge of the train and the
opportunity will be missed.
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MISSION 3 - City
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Location: New York City
References:
- Dogs (of the mutant variety) also appeared in the city level of Contra III.
- The mosquito-like Seeker Drone was also a mini-boss in stage 3 of Contra III.
- The roly-poly robots that appear in the slaughterhouse section also appeared
in the beginning of stage 3 in Contra III (thanks to GAMEingguy2001 for that
one).
The first part of this stage is similar to the beginning of Mission 1; i.e.
you versus a whole mess load of soldiers. Use the same tactics as in Mission 1
to clear them out of the way. You\'ll need to duck to hit the soldier being
eaten by dogs.
When you come to the first helicoptor soldier, stop moving forward and focus
on killing him ASAP. He will drop napalm bombs on your head if you give him
enough time. Locking your position and peppering him with your machine gun is
the best way.
Next will be some sandbags and a sniper behind them. Duck his shot but stand
up to shoot him when it\'s safe. Do not forget to SHOOT ALL 3 SANDBAGS! The
sandbags count towards your 100% hit rate.
Soon after that you\'ll run up against a truck with a sniper on top of it and
another helicoptor soldier hovering over you. Kill the sniper first. Either run
under his first shot (never stop moving in that case) or jump over it. Next
focus on the helicoptor soldier before destroying the truck.
After that combo will be more sandbags and a mortar soldier behind them.
Keep your distance to avoid his shots. There are several ways to get that
hard-to-reach bad guy. One, charge up your machine gun and fire the round sweep
over the sand bags. Two, use homing missiles. Three, jump and let loose a
well-aimed diver mine. Use what you like. Again, make sure to SHOOT ALL OF THE
SANDBAGS before leaving.
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-MINI-BOSS: Seeker Drone
Weapon To Use: Machine Gun (or Homing Missiles)
Weakpoint: Glowing Red Eye
You\'ll encounter this pain-in-the-neck on a platform elevator. You can only
hurt it when its red eye is open. Lock your position and aim at an angle when
shooting the Drone, don\'t stand under it. The Drone has two attacks.
First it will open hatches on its sides and 2 soldiers will jump out. Shoot
the Drone until the guys hit the ground, then quickly dispatch the men with
your weapon of choice. NEVER stand under the Drone when he does this attack.
You can\'t kill the soldiers until they\'re on the ground, but they can kill you
before that happens.
Its second attack is a tricky one. When the searchlight comes on, the Drone
pauses a few seconds and then lets loose with a stream of napalm bombs from the
top of his head. The stream of napalm will follow your position, so there\'s no
way to avoid it; you\'ll have to destroy those bombs. But how?
The easiest way to do this is to use your machine gun: lock your position
far enough away so that you can shoot diagonally above his head without
actually hitting his head (keep in mind the Drone bobs up and down), and fire a
steady stream of bullets in that area until the Drone stops dropping bombs.
Your positioning here is critical; if you let any bombs get through, the whole
thing is ruined. If you do it this way, the only time you can damage the Drone
is when he\'s dropping soldiers.
It\'s also possible to use homing missiles for his second attack. Stand in
front of the Drone (NOT below him) and aim straight up. As the bombs begin to
drop, let loose with your missiles just before they hit you, then continue to
shoot missiles as fast as possible. If things get hairy, you may have to move
around to avoid bombs that make it through. This method is not foolproof, but
if you get good at it, it\'s just as effective as using your machine gun (and a
little faster, I think).
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You are now at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Charge up energy shots for
the next sequence. You will encounter roly-poly robots from the right. They
first appear as balls, rolling along the ground or ceiling; they are invincible
while in ball-form. After a few seconds, they open up and shoot at you, then
roll back and continue.
When you first see one, stop moving and wait until they open up. When they
do, move up close, line up your aim, and let loose with an energy shot. One hit
will kill them. The first one appears on the ground on the right, the next one
is on the ceiling, and the last one will be on the bottom of a hill, below you.
You can also stand back to avoid their shots and use homing missiles, but it
will take more shots. Don\'t let any get away if you want a 100%. When you get
to a conveyer belt, get ready for...
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-MINI-BOSS: Creepy Crawler
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakspot: Anywhere
This beast is hard to describe; it\'s like a cross between a grub and a
starfish. Whatever the heck it is, it crawls on screen from the right, hanging
on the ceiling. Your character is on a conveyer belt that rolls to the right,
straight into the path of a meat grinder. It\'s not just for looks; stay away
from that sucker. If you\'re going to use energy shots, jump and shoot the
charged shots straight into him horizontally. This does the most damage because
it will hit him more times.
There are two parts to this battle. First the Thing will stop on the upper
right and let loose a bunch of bouncy energy balls, shot at different speeds
and angles. Avoid these the best you can while shooting; don\'t be afraid to
duck and jump if necessary.
Next the Crawler will amble its way to the upper left part of the screen.
Now for the tough part: the creature will drop patterns of spiky blocks onto
the path of the conveyer belt. They can NOT be destroyed; you will have to jump
over them to survive! Resist the temptation to jump on top of the meat grinder
to avoid the blocks or else the Crawler will bum rush you at a ludicrous speed,
causing you instant death. If you don\'t kill him after this attack, he will
move to the right again and repeat attack number one.
When the Crawler starts moving towards the middle and is leaking green blood
everywhere, stay to either the far left side of the screen or jump on top of
the meat grinder (the only time you should do this, really). The Thing will
fall onto the middle of the conveyer belt and then get grinded up into hotdog
meat.
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-- HALFWAY POINT --
Make your way over the grinder and hop on a grab-bar. It\'s mini-boss time
yet again!
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-MINI-BOSS: Cesspool Serpent
Weapon to Use: Machine Gun/Fire Whip
Weakpoint: Anywhere
Fear not, this guy\'s not as hard as the previous boss. Have your machine gun
equipped, and hang onto the middle portion of the middle hanging bar. All you
have to do is aim diagonally down and pummel the head of the snake until it
attacks.
It only has two attacks: first, it will spew a line of green vomit, starting
from the bottom of the screen and then sweeping all the way to the top. The
only safe spot is on the hanging bar above his head. As soon as finishes the
vomit, jump back to the middle.
The second attack is a little tougher; the Serpent will spray a swarm of
heat-seeking bubble-projectiles at you. Destroying them is only chance of
survival. I prefer to quickly switch to the fire whip and then carefully
destroy the bubbles as they come at you, starting from the bottom and then
sweeping to the top. You can stay in the same place to do this.
You may feel safer by jumping onto the platform above you on the left,
locking your position, and then destroying them from there with your weapon of
choice. Either way, it won\'t be long before this disembodied snake head keels
over.
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Switch back to your energy shots, as there will be two more roly-poly robots
as you continue to the right. Keep moving forward until you drop from a ledge.
The first bot will appear from the top of the ledge on your upper-left. The
next one will appear from the right, rolling on a hill at an awkward angle. Get
close to him and fire or stay back and use homing missiles while dodging. When
you run into a dead-end, get ready...
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-BOSS: Walking Tank
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoints: Bottom Gun (Part 1)
Top Gun
Nodes on Back (Part 2)
Rear-End Core (Part 3)
PART 1: For the first segment, the Walking Tank will be chasing behind you on
the left. Using your energy shots, duck and shoot behind you at the bottom gun
as much as you can until it blows up. It will probably get off one shot; just
jump over the rolling projectile that comes after you.
Next focus on the top gun. By now you will be running up against obstacles.
Always stay as close to the right edge of the screen as you can, since the Tank
will periodically rush at you. The projectiles that the top gun shoots should
not pose a problem. Get in shots at the main gun as often as you can while
maneuvering. Remember, with energy shots you can shoot through barriers.
If you\'re on the bottom level and the top path opens up or there\'s a wall
blocking your way, jump up. If you\'re on the top level and there is a wall in
the way, drop down. Just do what you have to so that you\'re not left behind.
Also, stay away from the gas tanks that sometimes appear on the ground, as they
will explode when the Tank runs into them.
After the top gun goes, jump to the ceiling and hang out above the Tank. If
you don\'t kill the top gun, the game will tell you when it\'s time to jump on
the ceiling because the tank will keep moving more and more to the right until
there\'s no room for you.
PART 2: While on the ceiling, shoot at the huge nodes that appear on the Tank\'s
back. Don\'t stay directly above them, though, since they fire large laser beams
if you wait too long. Also, the Tank will shoot missiles at you from the left
and right during this segment. Destroy every missile if you want 100%. Staying
near the middle of the screen for this part is a good idea. Once you see the
end of the Tank and the ceiling starts to end, jump back to the ground.
PART 3: Now you should be following behind the tank. Jump over the spike-filled
pits that appear and try to stay as close to the Tank as possible througout the
battle. The Tank has two alternating attacks.
For the first attack, it will shoot either two bouncing saw blades or a
roly-poly robot at you from its rear. Walk under the two sawblades as they are
bouncing in the air to avoid them. If one of them bounces into a pit, you may
have to jump over it. If it shoots a roly-poly bot, jump over it and then fire
an energy shot at it when it opens up behind you.
It always follows this attack by opening up its core. Take this time to get
in as many shots as possible but be ready to stop and duck, as the core will
charge up and fire a huge ruby-colored laser that fills up the screen.
Hopefully you are close to the Tank before you stop or the screen might shove
you into a pit as it scrolls to the left.
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MISSION 4 - Seabed
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Location: Off the coast of Japan
References:
- The first part of the level where your character is holding on to a launched
missile also occurred for the first time in stage 4 of Contra III.
- The alien eggs that are encountered throughout the level made their first
infamous appearance in the original Contra\'s final level, which were in turn
inspired by the spidery \"face huggers\" from the movie \"Alien\".
For the first section of this mission, you\'ll be hanging on to dear life
from a flying missile. Immediately switch to homing missiles, move to the far
right, lock your aim to the left, and let loose with those missiles. A swarm of
rockets will fly at you from the left side of the screen at various
trajectories. You can\'t miss a single rocket if you want a 100%! After many,
many missiles, a HUGE mini-boss will fly in from above.
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-MINI-BOSS: Aqua Mech
Weapon to Use: Machine Gun/Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Backpack (Part 1)
Rocket Sled
Plasma Gun
Exposed Core (Part 2)
PART 1: It\'s time for some fun! This towering robot consists of several
sections, some of which you\'ll have to destroy in order for him to reveal his
core. His core is the main weakpoint; destroy that and the Mech is toast. IF
you are aiming for that ever-elusive 100% hit rate, you should destroy his 3
other weakpoints first, starting with the backpack, before you go for the core.
Depending on which pieces of him aren\'t destroyed yet, this boss will follow
a different pattern. What follows is his starting-out pattern. First you will
be behind him. Lock your weapon aim to the right and use your machine gun to
pummel his backpack, which will be the only weakpoint that is exposed.
The Mech will fire homing missiles from a rocket launcher near his head and
he\'ll drop explosive depth charges from his backpack. The depth charges explode
right underneath your character; the only place safe from them is at the very
top of the screen. Fire continuously and stay level with the backpack until a
depth charge approaches you. Then move up to the top of the screen to avoid the
explosion and keep firing to get rid of the homing missiles. Wash, rinse, and
repeat.
Once the Mech stops dropping depth charges, keep shooting as the Mech drifts
towards you. The Mech will jump twice. During the second jump, fly under his
legs so that you\'re between the rocket sled that he keeps on a chain and his
legs (once he lands). Stay in this area and shoot the sled while dodging the
homing missiles that come at you from above. You shouldn\'t have to shoot them.
Next the Rocket Sled will fly up, leaving room to escape to the right. Take
that opportunity to get out of there, shooting whenever you have the chance,
but stay directly to the right of the sled while it\'s in the air, since it will
be shooting a spread of homing missiles above it. Once the sled falls back
down, destroy all the missiles that come at you from above and from the right.
Now the rather large gun that the Mech is holding will fire a steady stream
of fireballs while homing missiles pop out again from the launcher near its
head. Lock your aim to the left and shoot his gun while skillfully weaving
around the fireballs and moving up to take down homing missiles when they get
too numerous.
When he stops shooting his gun, lock your aim down and fire at the rocket
sled, as it\'s about to unleash another wave of homing missiles straight up at
you. After clearing the missiles, move to the very top of the screen. In a few
seconds the Mech will quickly dash to the right; make sure you fly over his
head. This brings you back to his backpack.
If you\'ve been shooting non-stop, his backpack should blow-up within
seconds. The pattern will continue as normal, so keep using the tactics above
and soon either the rocket sled or his gun will be destroyed next. After that,
focus on the remaining weapon. Once those three weakpoints are gone, the Mech\'s
pattern will change.
PART 2: First the boss will raise his remaining arm and then dash forward,
swinging a huge electrified whip at you. Simply stay on the far right side of
the screen to avoid this. Next he\'ll fire 4-5 homing missiles at you from the
launcher near his head. Use your machine gun to get rid of them. Once they\'re
all gone, switch your weapon to the energy shot and lock your aim straight
down.
For the Mech\'s third attack, his chest will open up and his core will be
revealed. Once this happens, he\'ll shoot a huge laser beam that covers more
than 3/4 of the screen. Fly directly above the Mech to avoid the laser and
shoot down at the core with energy shots. After this attack, he\'ll go back to
the whip. Repeat this pattern about 3 or 4 times and the Aqua Mech will go down
in flames.
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After a neat little cut sequence, you\'ll find yourself descending a long
vertical shaft hanging on to a personal mini-helicoptor. Quickly switch to your
homing missiles and let them loose as soon as you see those little spider
aliens crawling on the walls. Those spider aliens jump directly at you within
seconds and they\'re very fast.
Destroy all of the alien eggs that you see attached to the walls, too, with
homing missiles in order to get that 100% hit rate. Whenever you encounter a
long vine with a fang-toothed mouth at the end, aim for the head and keep
shooting as it retracts. To destroy these \"viper vines\", you\'ll have to keep
shooting them until they retract all the way into the wall.
Once you reach the bottom of the shaft and let go of your one-man
helicoptor, switch to your machine gun and aim straight up to destroy it;
you\'ll get 10,000 points for doing so. Switch back to your fire whip and
proceed to the right.
-- HALFWAY POINT --
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-MINI-BOSS: Virtual Head
Weapon to Use: Fire Whip
Weakpoint: Anywhere
PART 1: This is definitely one of the easiest boss fights in the game. First
get directly under the metal-plated head and aim up at him with your fire whip.
Follow him from below as he moves back and forth and use your flamethrower to
destroy the heat-seeking energy rings as they appear. When the Head moves into
the background, he\'s preparing a new attack.
He will fire two lasers from his head onto opposite sides of the screen,
then sweep them back and forth. The lasers themselves can\'t hurt you; only the
point where they touch the ground. Stay in the middle of the screen when the
attack starts, then jump over the points where the laser hits the ground as
they approach you. It\'s just that simple!
PART 2: After knocking the little metal pieces off of the head, all that will
be left is a large brain mass. The fight ain\'t over yet! Stay below the
floating brain and slightly to one side as you fire upwards with the fire whip.
The brain will try to follow your position and drop energy balls onto the
ground on you. When he moves towards you, just take another step to the side.
As long as you\'re not cornered, he won\'t be able to hit you.
Be careful, though. When he stops, he\'s about to fire a large suction beam
directly beneath himself. Stay farther back from this attack and use this
opportunity to get in some shots at him while he\'s immobile (energy shots work
well, as always). Also, you can use the short time where nothing is happening
just before or just after this attack to cross beneath him and get to the other
side.
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Now go to the right and have your machine gun equipped. The next passage is
populated with alien eggs, covering the floor and ceiling. Shoot each of them
as you see them, killing the spider aliens that occasionally pop out. Lock your
position if you need to. Avoid the water-filled pits and be sure to destroy the
one viper vine that you encounter. He\'s hard to hit with your machine gun, so
try using homing missiles.
When you reach the platforms floating in a vast lake of green water, equip
your homing missiles and jump to the last one. After the freaky fish cracks the
plate glass window in the background and the water starts to fill the area,
bombs will begin to drift downward from the ceiling. If they touch the water,
they will explode and send fragments every which way. So don\'t let that happen.
Use homing missiles to take all of them down. You\'ll need to destroy each and
every one of them to get a 100% hit rate. Once the water stops rising, switch
back to the flame whip and prepare yourself...
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BOSS: Mutant Fish
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Mouth
This boss is really hard the first time you meet him; but once know his wily
ways, he\'s a snap. When the water stops rising, don\'t jump, since the Fish\'s
first attack will be to jump across the top half of the screen. After this, the
boss will follow a fairly predictable pattern.
For the first attack, the Fish will be completely submerged under water,
where you can\'t see it. When bubbles rise beneath one of the three platforms,
make sure you\'re not standing on there! The fish will quickly jump into the air
at that spot, taking the platform with it. The boss will perform this attack 3
times. Just jump to another platform if bubbles appear beneath you. The boss
can\'t be harmed during this attack.
Next the Fish will swim back and forth beneath you, then quickly dart
off-screen either to the left or right. Make sure you\'re on the platform
farthest from the side he just went. If you jump a lot or are on the ceiling as
he does this, his next attack after he\'s off-screen will be to jump in the air
again, so be sure you\'re on a platform if this is your situation.
Either way, next he will appear from the side he disappeared on with his
mouth open. Then he will suck the platforms into his mouth. New platforms will
keep appearing from the other side, though, so you\'ll have to jump on to those
platforms to keep from getting swallowed. Note that this is one of the only
times you can hurt him. When he first appears, duck and shoot energy shots into
his mouth. Get in as many shots as possible before and during the platform
suckage, but make sure you have enough time to jump to new platforms.
Once the platforms slow down and he stops sucking, jump onto the middle
platform, because next he\'s about to charge at you, knocking down the rest of
the platforms in his way. There\'s two possible variations of this attack.
In one of them, right after sucking he will flip the platform next to him
onto his head, pause, and then charge at you. To avoid this, just as he starts
charging after the pause, jump onto the platform on the Fish\'s head and then
quickly jump from there to the ceiling.
The other variation of this attack is very similar. After he stops sucking
in the platforms, he will leave the screen, then suddenly charge from the same
side he\'s been on, knocking the platform closest to him onto his head. This one
is faster than the first variation. To avoid it, quickly jump onto the platform
on his head as soon as you can and then jump to the ceiling.
No matter which variation he performs, his last attack will always be
another jump into the air. However, you will be hanging on the ceiling and at
first there will be no platforms below you. As soon as he\'s done ramming the
platforms and he goes off-screen, he will jump into the air within the next few
seconds. The platforms should be just now starting to float up. Drop down to
where the middle platform would normally be to avoid the jumping attack.
It\'s possible to get in one more shot by aiming up after you land and firing
an energy shot into the Fish\'s mouth as he passes overhead. This requires some
skillful timing.
After maybe 10-15 energy shots, the Fish will start bleeding from the mouth,
seemingly dead. However, he\'ll still try to get in one or two final attacks. If
he starts bleeding from the mouth while he\'s jumping, he will try to bite the
platform closest to him when he lands. Stay away!
After this, you will see bubbles under a platform one more time (usually the
middle platform) and he will make one final leap straight into the air, taking
out that platform for good (he does this attack whether or not you killed him
in the air or in the water). Now he is FINALLY dead. Man, I love this game!
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MISSION 5 - Archipelago
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To Play This Mission: You must beat Missions 1 through 4.
Location: The Gulaga Archipelago, SE of Australia
References:
- \"The Gulag Archipelago\" was a book by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
It was a real place in Siberia where exiles and prisoners of war went during
the first half of the 1900\'s. Suppposedly it was a rather nasty place.
- The Bunker seen halfway through the level made its first classic appearance
in the original Contra.
- The Heart mini-boss is a variation on the final boss of the first Contra, Red
Falcon.
- The Twin Aliens made their first appearance in Super C (I think) and have
appeared as final-level mini-bosses in just about every Contra game afterwards.
- The final Red Falcon battle is a variation on the final battle scene in Super
C.
As in stage 4, you can shoot the one-man helicoptor that you\'re riding on
after you let go. Aim straight up and blast it with your machine gun to net
yourself 10,000 points.
The first part of the stage is similar to missions 1 and 3; that is, there\'s
tons of soldiers coming at you from every which way. Like before, use your
machine gun to clear a path. Destroy the truck in your path with the sniper on
top and the mortar soldier behind the sandbags using the same strategies as
before. No big whoop.
Soon the terrain will start to change drastically. There will be a big drop
with a mortar soldier sitting at the bottom. Use homing missiles or diver mines
to clear him out. Proceed a little farther forward and there will be a cliff on
the other side of the gorge that the mortar guy was in.
Equip your machine gun before going to far and then move right while
shooting continuously to get the sniper that is directly ahead of you. Jump on
the cliff that the sniper was on and then use diver mines to get the next
mortar soldier below you. Jump down from there onto solid ground (avoid that
water) to encounter the next mini-boss.
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-MINI-BOSS: Hermit Snail
Weapon to Use: Fire Whip/Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Snail\'s Body
Next you will meet a snail using an army jeep as its shell. Use energy shots
when it exposes its body. After a few seconds it will perform one of two
attacks.
For the first attack, it will unleash a volley of missiles straight up into
the air. Then it will tuck itself under the jeep as the missiles start raining
down, covering the ground in flames. You are not safe on the ground; as soon as
the missiles stop shooting, jump right onto the jeep on the back of the snail.
Waiting until the snail gets all the way into its shell might be too late if
the first missiles land right next to you, so try jump on his back as soon as
possible. After the missiles land, he will drive to the other side of the
screen. Just stay on his back until the coast is clear.
His second attack is a little trickier. The snail\'s mouth froths up, then it
shoots a whole mess load of bubbles that grow, then rise to the top of the
screen and float to the opposite side. If you don\'t get rid of them, they\'ll
cover the whole top of the screen. When you see the Snail\'s mouth is frothy,
stand just close enough to the him that you can damage him with your fire whip,
then let loose. Sweep and down to pop most of the bubbles before they grow full
size. Almost certainly the Snail will start to drive before you\'ve cleared out
all the bubbles; use Energy Shots to get rid of any leftovers.
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Use your flame whip on the shield soldier that appears next. When you enter
sort of a rocky tunnel, jump onto the low ceiling and equip homing missiles.
Proceed slowly forward until you see a sniper on the ground below you. Quickly
fire off your missiles and dodge the bullet he fires (hopefully he won\'t get a
chance).
After you get back to the ground, you\'ll be standing before a graveyard of
airplanes. The propellers that block your way are deadly to the touch. Gunfire
can set them moving, letting you pass (hopefully). Unfortunately, spider aliens
will periodically crawl at you from the right, mucking everything up.
I find that diver mines are really useful here. Whenever you see a spider
alien, shoot downwards at an angle right in front of you. The mine will travel
forward and smite the alien. If you don\'t shoot an angle downwards, the mine
might fly right over the alien. Also, make sure you\'re not close to any
propellers when you\'re shooting at the crawlers.
For the cross-shaped propellers, shoot it once or maybe twice with a diver
mine and then walk in the spaces between the blades as it\'s slowly spinning.
There\'s one propeller that only has two blades; the physics are different for
this one. You have to shoot it at least twice before it spins all the way
around. Once it does, cross under it when it\'s safe.
Next you will be walking beneath the opened back of a cargo plane. Soldiers
will be jumping out of the boxes in the back of the plane. You can only hurt
them once they land, but they can kill you as they are jumping, so proceed with
caution. Shoot them as they land and then move quickly past the plane when
there\'s enough space below the boxes.
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-MINI-BOSS: Bunker
Weapon to Use: Machine Gun
Weakpoints: Napalm Gun
Core
Oh yeah, it doesn\'t get any more old-school than this, my friends. The
Bunker is similar to the fortress that you encountered way back in the first
Contra, but it\'s a little harder. First jump on to the top platform on the left
and shoot the sniper on the top of the Bunker. Don\'t leave yet because 2 more
snipers will take his place. Done? Good.
While you\'re still up there, shoot down at the shield soldier who\'s on the
ground until he\'s dead. Next, when the coast is clear, jump down to the second
platform and shoot at the Napalm Gun. You can destroy the napalm bullets he
shoots at you. Be sure to kill any soldiers that may appear from the left.
After the gun is destroyed, clear any soldiers that may be on the ground and
then jump down there. Shoot the core and kill any soldiers that appear behind
you. Not too bad, eh? Once the core is gone, your character proceeds through
the opening.
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-- HALFWAY POINT --
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-MINI-BOSS: Enemy Commander
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
After a cutscene that reveals the identity of the Commander, you\'ll be
fighting him. He\'s a small enemy, but he packs a whallop. Energy shots work
well on him, but so does the machine gun, if you\'re more comfortable with that.
Homing missiles have no trouble hitting him, but they are far too weak for this
already lengthy battle.
The Commander has many, many attacks, which he will perform at random. You
can tell which attack he\'s about to perform because he telegraphs each of them;
that is, he performs certain movements before each move. The safest place for
almost all of his attacks is on the ground. Here are his five attacks:
- Floating Energy Balls -
If the Commander hangs onto the ceiling, he\'s about to drop large blue
energy balls at random positions on the screen. They don\'t move; they just kind
of hang there for a while. To avoid this move every time, stay on the ground
and duck when he first performs this attack. If there\'s room above you to move,
get up and shoot him. If not, just stay down until it\'s safe.
- Lightning Spokes -
For this move, the Commander will hover in the center of the screen and glow
with blue electricity. Target points along the ceiling, floor, and walls will
glow. Stay in between the spots, because the Commander is about to shoot
lightning spokes that strike on those spots. Like the spokes of a wheel, the
bolts of lightning will slowly spin around the Commander. Stay between the
bolts and walk with them while shooting the Commander.
- Rolling Thunder -
The Commander will kneel on the ground and energy will gather in front of
him. He\'s about to shoot a blue projectile that travels very fast along the
surface of the room. It will go all the way around the screen and stop when it
comes back to him. He shoots three of these projectiles total. Stay on the
ground and simply jump over the projectiles as he fires them (easier said than
done).
- Fireball Strike -
If the Commander is hovering on the left or right side of the screen and
fireballs are encircling him, he\'s about to do this attack. Stay below him and
get ready to move quickly. After a few seconds the balls will suddenly shoot at
your position VERY fast. Jump out of the way to avoid them. Definitely stay off
the walls for this attack.
- Pinball Attack -
This is his most unpredictable move. The Commander will be standing on the
ground, slightly to one side of the screen, then hover in the air and curl into
a glowing ball of energy. Next he\'ll suddenly launch himself, bouncing around
randomly off of surfaces like a pinball. Jump, duck, and dodge like there\'s no
tomorrow; that\'s the best advice I can give you. Note that he can still be
harmed while he\'s in pinball form.
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-MINI-BOSS: Heart
Weapon to Use: Machine Gun or Fire Whip/Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Alien Eggs
Heart
Here\'s an interesting spin on the final boss from the first Contra. A
ghastly disembodied heart will descend from above you while two alien eggs from
each wall will unleash waves of alien spiders.
The spiders are what make this boss tricky. First I usually use energy shots
to destroy the 4 alien eggs by standing directly beneath them and aiming
upwards. However, using the fire whip to kill those extra spider aliens that
keep popping up is hard at best. That\'s why the machine gun makes a fine weapon
for this battle, even though it takes longer to kill the heart.
After the eggs are gone, use the machine gun or fire whip to blast the heart
while and make sure to destroy those pesky spider aliens that appear from the
left and right.
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-MINI-BOSS: Megapede
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Head
This boss is surprisingly simple. Keep firing at its head as it appears from
the upper right. When it crawls along the floor, jump over its head and on to
its body when there\'s enough room. After that, stay away from his head as long
as possible while shooting at it, only jumping on his back when there\'s no
other place to go.
Even he curls up so that he almost covers the whole screen, just hang on to
the left part of his body and his head will stop right before it gets to you,
then he\'ll reverse his course. Then again, he should be dead long before that
happens.
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-MINI-BOSS: Twin Mutants
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
PART 1: These guys should be familiar to Contra veterans. One vaguely
trilobite-ish alien is hanging onto the ceiling while his twin sits on the
floor. Their unpredictability makes them tricky. They have several attacks. Try
not to stand directly beneath the top alien and certainly don\'t stand to close
to the bottom alien. Shoot at the top from an angle if possible. Sometimes they
both suddenly jump straight up. If you\'re directly below the top alien, this
may kill you.
Most of the time they are taking turns dashing. The top will move first,
then there will be a slight pause, then the bottom will dash across the screen.
You\'ll have to jump over him. If they burrow into the ground, they may switch
sides. During this first part, I try to shoot both of them an equal amount of
times. That way, when one dies, the other one won\'t have so much energy (and I
think the one alien by itself can be tougher than two of them).
PART 2: When one of the aliens dies, the other alien will change attacks
slightly. If it\'s on top, it still may dash back and forth, but it will also
jump at an angle sometimes. You can duck this attack or avoid it by simply not
ever getting too close to him.
If it\'s on the ground, it may jump (duck to avoid), dash (jump over him), or
rain gray spiky projectiles everywhere. Weave between these while shooting at
the remaining alien. If you took the time to shoot both of them equally in part
1, this part should be over quickly.
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-MINI-BOSS: Slinky Beast
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Exposed Core
This creature is indeed very strange. It has two claw-like halves that are
connected in the middle by a red core. You can only harm this beast when the
core is exposed. Unlike the previous boss, this guy has a pattern.
First both of its halves will grab onto the ceiling and the floor and then
pull them together. Jump onto the ceiling when it\'s within reach, then stay up
there when they retract, because the Beast is about to drop napalm onto the
ground. The napalm is nearly impossible to avoid on the ground. Wait on the
ceiling until it passes, then drop down quickly.
Shoot up at the core as the Beast walks slinky-style to the other side of
the screen then, after it drops down, duck. It will raise its top half and
shoot a large laser across the screen. After it dissipates, get up and be ready
to jump over the Beast as it dashes back and forth a few times. Watch out for
the strange rhythm of his movements.
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-BOSS: Red Falcon
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoints: Left/Right Eye
Left/Right Arm
Forehead
This boss looks very imposing, but he\'s actually not too bad. Red Falcon
lies in wait below you while you\'re hanging on to a grab bar at the top of the
screen. This boss attacks in stages. First its head and eyes will attack, then
the arms will take turns. In order to get a 100% hit rate, you will need to
destroy both eyes, both arms, and then finally the forehead (the main
weakpoint). As you destroy each part, his attacks will change. Of course, if
you\'re not interested in your hit rate, just go for the forehead.
His default attacks are as follows. His eyes track your movements and shoot
small fireballs while the forehead shoots one larger bolt. The head sweeps from
left to right and shoots like this three times. If one eye is gone, the
forehead will shoot three large fireballs in a spread. If both eyes are gone,
the forehead will shoot five large fireballs in a spread. Avoid these by moving
in between the spread shots (it\'s not too hard).
His arms are snake-like heads. When it\'s their turn to attack, they pop out
like snakes one at a time and curl around your grab bar, leaving some spaces in
between their coils for you to hang on. This fairly easy to dodge, as they move
slowly. Once an arm is destroyed, the empty socket will still attack you. It
can do one of two things:
The first attack is to fire a single blue energy shot that will latch on to
a point on the hanging bar and remain there for a while. If you touch it,
you\'ll die. Don\'t worry, though, you can always jump over it. For the second
attack, the empty arm socket will spew little claw-like projectiles that arc
through the air. You can destroy them if need be. The safest way to avoid this
attack is to stay far away from it.
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MISSION 6 - Sanctuary
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To Play This Mission: You must be playing on Normal mode and have a \"B\" ranking
or better after beating Mission 5.
Location: Somewhere high above Earth
References:
- The first sequence in the stage when you are standing on top of an air
transport has been duplicated in many Contra games, but made its first
appearance in stage 4 of Contra III (a very ground-breaking game, in case you
haven\'t played it).
- The Relic boss sequence is evolution in reverse: starting from a man, to
amphibian, to invertebrate, to unicellular organism, and finally inside of a
cell.
You thought the last stage was rough? That was amateur night at the improv.
This is the big leagues, buddy. Get ready for boss battle madness...
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-MINI-BOSS: Heli-Bot
Weapon to Use: Fire Whip (Part 1)
Energy Shot/Homing Missiles (Part 2)
Weakpoint: Wing Guns (Part 1)
Torso (Part 2)
PART 1: There you are, just minding your business on top of your flying machine
thingy, when suddenly this helicoptor bozo comes from nowhere and starts
hurling missiles at you. Lucky for you, your airplane uses chaff to detonate
the missiles before they do any damage. Unluckily for you, the helicoptor has
many, many more ways to kill you than just missiles.
First the helicoptor will sweep from one side of the screen to the other and
shoot energy blasts at the top of the plane. Stand on the opposite side and
jump over the blasts as they get near you. You can\'t hurt the coptor during
this.
Next is the hard part. The helicoptor will hover right above you and deploy
two guns on its wings which shoot laser beams. Be sure you are directly under
the helicoptor for this part. These beams start off aiming nearly horizontally,
but then they sweep down on both sides until they are aiming straight down.
These beams act as deadly barriers that force you stay under the helicoptor as
it moves.
To make things interesting, the helicoptor also launches wave after wave of
large, heat-seeking missiles at you from above. Use your fire whip for this
first part and aim up at the either of the wings while you fire. Once the
helicoptor starts moving and launching missiles, use your fire whip to destroy
them as they come at you. This part is quite difficult; it\'s hard to aim at the
missiles while walking at the same time. Nevertheless, it is the best way.
PART 2: Once you blow off the wings, the view will shift to side-scrolling and
the helicoptor will truly morph into the Heli-Bot. This boss has a pretty
simple pattern. First it will land on the left of your plane and shoot
projectiles along the ground. Jump over them and shoot at its torso with energy
shots.
Once it leaves, equip homing missiles. The Bot will now land on the front of
the plane and will shoot a thin, but long-lasting laser that aims low. The only
way to avoid this is by ducking. And the only way to hit him during this attack
is to use your homing missiles.
After this attack it will leave and then land again near the middle of your
plane, stand for a few seconds, then blast off again. After this it will go
back to the first attack. Later in the battle, it may switch the order around a
bit, but it\'s not too tricky.
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-- HALFWAY POINT --
After a cutscene, it\'s already the halfway point. Well, halfway in name
only, because you\'ve got quite a ways to go.
- BOSS: The Relic -
The Relic consists of five forms, so it\'s really like fighting five
mini-bosses since they are so different.
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-FORM 1: Homo Superior
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
The first form of the Relic is like that of a giant, alien-featured man. He
floats in the air and has a habit of teleporting. Shoot him with energy shots
as much as possible when he stays still (which is not often).
This form uses several attacks. For one attack, he\'ll either appear on the
upper or lower corner of the screen on the left or right-hand side and gather
energy in his hands. This means he\'s about to shoot two large semi heat-seeking
fireballs at you. Stay on the opposite side of the screen of where he appears
and jump over the fireballs at the last second. These can be hard to avoid.
Sometimes you will have to jump between the two if the first one is very low
and the second one is high.
If he teleports to the upper right or left-hand corner of the screen but
doesn\'t gather energy, he\'s about to stretch his arm and try to hit you with it
at an angle. Move to the opposite side of the screen and jump over his arm to
avoid it if necessary. Sometimes he\'ll strike at you once or he will continue
striking with his arm, starting at a wide angle and then sweeping the attacks
until they reach below him. Either way, the same tactic from above will keep
you safe.
For his final attack, he\'ll teleport above you and then hover back and
forth, following your position. When he\'s directly over you, he\'ll strike at
you with his stretchy arm by shooting it straight down. This is easily avoided
by simply moving to one side when he stops to strike at you.
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-FORM 2: Frog
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
Next the Relic will morph into its dreaded Frog form. For the first part,
pummel it with energy shots until swims away and moves to the right side of the
screen. Move to the far left so that you\'ll avoid his vomit shot (jump over it
if necessary) and then continue shooting him as much as possible.
Now he\'ll spew several strange projectiles that are like spinning rods which
grow longer in size as they move towards you in a straight line. Shooting them
causes them to shrink back quickly, but they\'ll continue growing. These can be
very hard to avoid sometimes. As they spin, position yourself so that you can
duck under it and the sides of the rod won\'t hit you.
After the projectiles the toad will swim into the background and then swim
back into the foreground. When it zooms into the foreground, it can kill you,
so avoid it by moving aside. It will follow that by appearing from one side of
the screen and then quickly dashing to the other side at different height
levels. You will either have to duck if it\'s at about head level, jump over it
if it\'s very low, or simply not jump if it is very high. Do NOT stop shooting
at it during this part!
When it slows down and reappears, it will be on the left side of the screen.
It will shoot its vomit shot and the rod-like projectiles just like before. If
it\'s not dead by now (hopefully it is), you\'ll have to use the tactics as above
to avoid them. And it\'s not easy.
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-FORM 3: Jellyfish
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
The next form is much simpler in theory. This large Jellyfish will float
around back and forth above you and release smaller jellyfish that float lazily
downwards, also swinging back and forth. As soon as you shoot a jellyfish, they
quickly dive downward. Their touch is still deadly at this point, so be very
careful in your shooting.
Periodically the main Jellyfish will fly around the screen, hugging the
walls and the floor and moving either clockwise or counter-clockwise. In order
to jump over him, you should make sure some room is cleared of smaller
jellyfish above your head. Either that, or jump very carefully.
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-FORM 4: Cell
Weapon to Use: Machine Gun
Weakpoint: Nucleus
This boss seems hard at first until you figure out a strategy. First of
all, never, ever use energy shots on this giant cell, or else his cell juices
will splash everywhere and kill you automatically. Homing missiles are likewise
ineffective. The only weapon worth a darn is the machine gun.
What you have to do is shoot his jelly-like body until you make an
indentation in it that reaches to the vulnerable nucleus lying in its middle.
As soon as the battle begins, move to the far left, crouch, lock your position,
and aim your weapon diagonally up and right. Keep pounding away with your
machine gun until you can damage the nucleus, then shoot some more.
As a defense mechanism, the Cell will release star-shaped projectiles that
sort of home-in on your position. Fear not, though, because you can easily
destroy them with your machine gun without moving. Most will run into your
stream of bullets, and the rest you can quickly pick off by slightly adjusting
your aim.
Also, if you don\'t hit the nucleus enough (which shouldn\'t be problem,
using these tactics) the Cell will slowly start to move towards you. You can
only slow it by hitting the nucleus. Hopefully it will not come to that,
though.
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-FORM 5: Primal Core
Weapon to Use: Fire Whip
Weakpoint: The Core (what else?!)
This is it; the ultimate form of the relic is revealed. And what the heck is
it? I\'m not totally sure. A core surrounded by energy lies in the middle of the
room while enormous swarms tadpole-like creatures swim about above you. Maybe a
sperm/egg representation? Who knows? All you should care about is the fact that
those tadpole things are hell-bent on killing you.
The strategy here is simple. Stand directly under the core (you won\'t be
hurt by it), lock your position, and aim straight up and blast away with your
fire whip. Eventually you\'ll see the structure around it weaken and the core
will start taking damage.
Keep shooting until you see the tadpoles around you start moving downwards.
These huge swarms attack from all sides and are impossible to dodge. Sweep your
fire whip all around you wherever it is needed to keep the thingies from
touching you. It seems impossible, but I assure you it is not; you\'re just
going to have to sweep like crazy.
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MISSION 7 - The Final Boss Battle
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To Play This Mission: You must be playing on Normal mode and have an \"A\"
Ranking or better after beating Mission 6.
Location: ???
References: none
There is only one battle here...
-FINAL BOSS: The Amalgamate
Weapon to Use: Energy Shot
Weakpoint: Anywhere
This creature chases after you as you\'re flying away from the destruction of
the Relic. It\'s a strange combination of all the bosses you have just fought.
Only two of its forms will give you trouble, though...
PART 1: This boss has only two major attacks, which alternate. First, the man
shape on top will lob a purplish ball down on you which will break apart into
two smaller balls in mid-air. These smaller ones will then bounce around on the
plane, traveling to the left or the right. He will do this three times in a
row. Be sure not to jump during this attack.
The first time he lobs one, stay on the far left side of the plane, on top
of where the cockpit would be, and duck. Next, walk over to around the middle
of the plane, to where the middle of the wings are, and duck. This location
should be safe from the next two bouncing ball attacks. It\'s hard to describe
these exact locations in words; you\'ll have to experiment to find those safe
spots.
Next the Frog shape will grab onto the back of the plane and do a fireball
attack. There are two kinds of fireball attacks, but you don\'t which one it
will be until after he\'s already started.
For the first one, he will shoot out four fireballs which will hit the
ground and explode in a pattern (like he does in the intro sequence of this
Mission). The first one will hit on the far left. Jump over it and stand just
to the right of the contact explosion. You\'ll be safe from the rest of them.
The other attack is simply four horizontal fireballs. Jump over the first
one and quickly duck the rest. For either attack, you should jump over his
first fireball, since, as I said, you\'ll never which form of the attack it\'s
going to be. If you\'re fast enough, none of his fireballs will ever burn you.
PART 2: After damaging it badly enough, it will make a last desperate attempt
to drag you into the nuclear inferno. Just stand on the left side of the plane.
You don\'t even have to shoot; before the plane goes all the way in, the
creature dies.
This part is rather strange, since you can damage him during this part, but
I\'ve never been able to kill him. Not that killing him helps anything; you
already get a 100% hit rate after destroying his first form.
CONGRATULATIONS! CELEBRATE YOUR VICTORY WITH A NICE, ICY COLD VANILLA COKE!
MMMMM, VANILLA COKE! SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY!
____VI - 100 % HIT RATE LIST_________________________________
Here is a list of all the targets you must destroy to attain a 100% hit rate
for each level, in the order that they appear in the stage. Some enemies are
only on-screen for a certain amount of time... DON\'T let them get away!
Mission 1: Fortress Percentage Gained:
1st mortar soldier 1
parked truck 4
twin-car motorcycle 4
sniper and barrel on hill 2
sniper, barrel and mortar soldier at the top of the hill 3
Spider Mech (mini-boss) 8
shield soldiers (x3) 3
the bomb-things on the ceiling above the shield soldiers (x2) 2
when climbing the wall, the 3 snipers on the platforms 3
Gun Platform (mini-boss):
- destroy the left gun 4 times 8
- detroy the right gun 4 times 8
- the core 7
the mortar soldier and shield soldier before the bridge 2
jetpack soldiers (x5) 5
Arctic Snake (mini-boss):
- destroy each segment on its body (x9) (part 1) 9
- shoot the core in its mouth (part 2) 7
part 1 - Demon Turtle (boss):
- destroy the opening above its head with grenades 3
- destroy the opening below its head with grenades 3
- shoot the head 8
part 2 - Plague Head (boss) 10
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TOTAL 100
Mission 2: Train Percentage Gained:
the turret on the front of the submarine 3
soldiers riding on top of missiles (x4) 4
crate-dropping rack at the back of the helicoptor 5
laser-shooting nodes on the bottom of the coptor (x5) 10
napalm-shooting turret at the front of the coptor 5
flying soldiers hanging-on to missiles (x6) 6
the gun-car on the train 5
each motorcycle soldier from the 2nd train car (x5) 10
Gun Pod Mech (mini-boss):
- destroy the left and right gun pod (part 1) 4
- destroy the main mech (part 2) 5
grenade and gun turrets on the train (x5) 15
mortar soldiers on the train (x3) 3
Steel Runner (boss):
- left and right shoulder pads (part 1) 6
- launcher turret on back (part 2) 4
- jetpack on back (part 3) 10
- torso (aim for the crotch) (part 4) 5
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TOTAL 100
Mission 3: City Percentage Gained:
1st helicoptor soldier 2
sniper and the 3 sandbags 4
sniper on truck plus the truck 5
2nd helicoptor soldier 2
mortar soldier and the 3 sandbags 4
Seeker Drone (mini-boss) 6
roly-poly bots (x3) 6
Creepy Crawler (mini-boss) 6
Cesspool Serpent (mini-boss) 5
roly-poly bots (x2) 4
Walking Tank (boss):
- bottom gun (part 1) 5
- top gun (part 1) 5
- laser-shooting nodes on top of the tank (x4) (part 2) 12
- missiles while above the tank (x12) (part 2) 24
- rear core (part 3) 10
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TOTAL 100
Mission 4: Seabed Percentage Gained:
missiles launched from the left (x18) 18
Aqua Mech (mini-boss):
- backpack 3
- rocket sled (in front of the Mech) 4
- plasma gun 3
- exposed core 5
alien eggs on the walls of the shaft (x9) 9
viper vines on the walls (x3) 6
Virtual Head (mini-boss) 5
alien eggs on the horizontal path (x20) 20
viper vine hanging from ceiling 2
missiles launched from above the rafts (x15) 15
Mutant Fish (boss) 10
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TOTAL 100
Mission 5: Archipelago Percentage Gained:
the sniper standing barrels on a truck 7
mortar soldier and the 3 sandbags 4
the sniper and 2 hard-to-reach mortar soldiers 3
Hermit Snail (mini-boss) 5
shield soldier 1
when hanging on the cliff, the sniper below you 1
Bunker (mini-boss):
- shield soldier on the ground 1
- snipers on the top (x3) 3
- napalm gun 4
- red core 5
Enemy Commander (mini-boss) 9
Heart (mini-boss):
- alien eggs on the left and right walls (x4) 8
- exposed heart 5
Megapede (mini-boss) 5
Twin Mutants (x2) (mini-boss) 10
Slinky Beast (mini-boss) 5
Red Falcon (boss):
- snake arms (x2) 8
- eyes (x2) 6
- forehead 10
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TOTAL 100
Mission 6: Sanctuary Percentage Gained:
Heli-Bot (mini-boss):
- wing guns (part 1) 5
- robot torso (part 2) 15
The Relic (boss):
- Homo Superior form 15
- Frog form 15
- Jellyfish form 15
- Cell form 15
- Primal Core form 20
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TOTAL 100
Final Mission: Boss Battle Percentage Gained:
The Amalgamate 100
____VII - SECRETS/UNLOCKABLES________________________________
-EXTRA OPTIONS---
These can be found by going to Options, then \"Etc.\"
-Training-
-Mission 5: Beat the game, earning any rank on Normal mode.
-Mission 6: Beat the game up through Mission 6 (must have a \"B\" rank or
better after Mission 5).
-Final Boss Battle: Beat the game, including Mission 7 (must have an \"A\"
rank or better after Mission 6).
-Database-
Beat the game, earning any rank, to unlock this option. Includes info about
all of the characters and of the official in-game history of the Contra series.
-Theater-
After you beat the game and unlock an ending, it\'s saved here. You only get
an ending by playing on Normal mode.
-\"Satellite Weapon\": Beat Mission 5 with a \"C\" ranking to see this
ending.
-\"Return\": Beat Mission 6 with a \"B\" ranking or less to see this.
-\"Triumphant Return\": Beat Mission 7 with an \"A\" rank or less for this.
-\"Puppy Vs. Contra\": Beat the game with an \"S\" ranking.
-Gallery-
Beat Mission 7 to unlock this feature, which has pictures from the making of
the game.
-THE 30 EXTRA LIVES CHEAT---
If you remember the original extra lives code from the first Contra, you are
truly old-school, my friend. Heck, it was even mentioned on Saturday Night Live
(Johnny Moseley hosted). The current version of the code is a little different
but remains true in spirit.
On the title screen, press the following on controller 2: Up, Up, Down,
Down, L1, R1, L2, R2, L3, R3 (the last two are \"press the left analog stick in,
then the right analog stick in\"). You should hear a \"1-up\" sound if you did it
correctly.
Now when you start the game, you will have 30 lives. If you use up a
continue, however, you will NOT start over again with 30 lives.
-PERMANENT EXTRA LIVES---
I\'m not totally sure how these are unlocked, but after playing the game a
certain amount of time, your amount of lives will increase by one in Normal
Mode. This is, as mentioned, permanent. Based on the feedback I\'ve received,
everyone seems to get the extra life after about 4 to 6 hours of \"Total Playing
Time\" and around 40 Battles (times you\'ve started the game).
____VIII - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS________________________
I\'ve included this as a new section to provide people some additional help. If
this section or the rest of my FAQ doesn\'t answer your question, feel free to
e-mail me at: [email protected]
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Q: How come when I\'ve played up to a certain level and I save my game, I have
to start from the beginning when I reload my save later?
A: This is a very frequent question, since the game is not very clear on the
subject. When you save your game in Contra: S.S., it is only saving TWO things:
1)Your Total Playinig Time, and 2)number of Battles (the number of times you
started a new game). It does NOT save what levels you\'ve beaten! There\'s no way
to save your progress in Contra. Just like in the old games, you have to beat
it in one sitting.
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Q: I\'m having trouble doing the 30 extra lives cheat. Can you help?
A: Several people have asked about this... the code is correct, so I\'m not sure
what exactly is causing a problem. The only thing I can come up with is to make
sure you are inputting the last 2 commands correctly (the \'L3, R3\' part). You
have to press the analog sticks IN.
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Q: Is there a 99 lives cheat?
A: Nope.
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Q: Why do you have a total of 100% under each table for the \'100% HIT RATE
LIST\' section? Redundant, no?
A: Indeed it is. They are leftovers from when I was making the FAQ and I needed
to count up all the points to make sure they added up to a hundred
(placeholders, you could say). So why are they still there? Hmmmm... just
something to make my FAQ a little more unique, I guess.
____IX - CREDITS_____________________________________________
- First I would like to thank Konami for continuing to kick it old-school. Now
how about another Castlevania game, huh?
- The very excellent Gamefaqs website for publishing my FAQ and my other FAQs.
It means a whole lot to me. That\'s http://www.gamefaqs.com ... check it out!
- Thanks to Axysnova for the awesome \'blowing up the helicoptor\' trick.
- Thanks goes to Wes Rhodes and Palverz for being the first to help me confirm
how to get the permanent extra life.
- Thanks to the GAMEingguy2001 for a reference that I missed on mission 3.
- Thanks goes out to Sarah for pointing out you start out with 9 lives on
Normal and not 10 as I stated, and also, for adding some new info on the Gun
Platform battle.
- Also I would like to thank all the rest of you people who keep e-mailing me.
You can stop it now ;)
- I would like to thank my family, and especially Mom for always supporting me
and giving me life.
- Thanks to Dan, Jeff, and Justin for being around.
- Thanks to Gladys O., who changed my life, if just for a while.
- Thanks to the makers of delicious new Vanilla Coke. The classic taste of
Coke, plus the new refreshing flavor of vanilla!
- And thanks to everyone else. You know who you are. Go you!
- This FAQ was written and researched entirely by me, Chalupa Donny AKA John
Malone <[email protected]>. Lastly, I would like to congratulate myself on a
job well done.
Until next time... peace
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characters mentioned are a registered trademark and property of Konami. All
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