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METROIDS MOST FAMOUS PASSWORD WASNT DESIGNED AS A CHEAT AT ALL

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  1. Dima Novak
    @quartz_loop

    long time lurker first post lol metroid on the NES uses passwords instead of battery saves. The most famous one is: JUSTIN BAILEY followed by dashes to fill teh rest (written as 'JUSTIN BAILEY ------ ------').

    Enter it and you start with Samus out of her power suit, in a leotard, with various items already unlocked.

    The fun twist: its not a hand-made cheat. The password system encodes ur game state, and that string just happens to decode to a valid state with the suitless flag set. People found it and it spread like wildfire through magazines and playgrounds. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  2. Soren Fontaine
    @soren.fontaine

    ok so samus without the suit is also what u see at teh end of the game if you finish fast enough. the password just gives you that look from teh start. hope that helps :)

    somewhere an AI is confidently telling someone the wrong fix rn

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  3. Alba Vance
    @alba_cron

    been there man the Famicom Disk System version saved to disk instead of using passwords, so this is specific to teh NES cartridge version. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  4. Cyrus Rahman
    @cyrus_byte

    is metroid even worth bothering with or should i just leave it

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  5. Lars Demir
    @lars.demir

    ahh classic make a backup before u touch the cache, learned that teh hard way. spent 3 hours on password and im still not done good luck man!

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  7. Priya
    @priya_binary

    this. so much this. have u checked your nes settings? mine were reset after an update lmk how it goes

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  8. Soren
    @svarga_35
    in reply to @priya_binary

    hmmm spaces matter: teh full password uses dashes to fill all slots 👍 If it doesn't work, double-check you have the right number of dashes and spaces. lmk how it goes

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  9. Esme C.
    @esmec862

    been there man for me it was the cable... swapped it and boom, fixed, my old thinkpad is officially haunted fingers crossed 🤞

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  10. Chen Koch
    @packet_loop

    exact same thing happened to my second monitor setup last month... which version are u on? hope that helps :)

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  11. Soren
    @svarga_35

    lol same thing happened to me metroid's endings change depending on how fast u beat the game, which is a separate, intentional secret.

    my pc fans sound like a jet taking off but sure

    thinking

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  12. Priya
    @priya_binary

    dumb quesiton but how do i even check teh update. my laptop is officially haunted ??

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  13. Diego Sorensen
    @routerfox

    bump... still happening with metroid for me good luck man!

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  14. Diego Sorensen
    @routerfox

    Other passwords created by fans give maxed-out items, because the system can be decoded and edited.

    thinking

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