I was wondering if any of you guys may have come across any interesting Contra-related dumps in the areas you're looking?

I'm always still curious about that title, Super Fight. Perhaps it's just a generic fighter. Well, one thing is certain is that I hope there are built-in cheats for Super X Man. If (when), I acquire that one, there will probably be more levels. That means more coping with shitty gameplay.

Similar to my Desert Storm thread, this is centered on the 16 bit game, Commander.

Condensed verdict: one of the worst excuses of a video game and definitely one of the worst Contra games.

Detailed information:

The game has 1 music track; it's a 5-second sample of the first level tune from arcade Super Contra. It literally plays throughout the entire game, except for the first level's boss, which is a tank. The tank's motor acts as the music in that segment.

You play as Ray, from Contra Hard Corps. Your default gun is the ordinary pea shooter, but you can upgrade to Machine Gun (same strength and as regular gun, the most pointless powerup), Spread Gun (can be weaker than your default gun) and fireball (acts like NES Contra's Fireball but is the most powerful gun in the game; it's slow, however). There's also a plain powerup without any letter. I don't even know what this does, but I suspect it clears the screen of enemies. But even that I can't even confirm because you find this powerup fly by ALWAYS when there are no enemies around.

You also can't gain lives through points, but it gives infinite continues. After each game over, you start at the beginning of that current stage you were on. The hit detection is absolutely horrid in some areas. And it doesn't help your troubles that the controller's motion sensor is programmed poorly, so you'll often jump when you don't want to (usually into enemies). Even when not doing anything, the player will jump sometimes.

All fodder enemies and some boss enemies were taken from Contra. Most bosses come from other sources (IDK).

The worst part of this game? There are only 2 levels. That's right. But even though there are some minibosses, the actual bosses themselves take forever to destroy. Using the fireball gun alone can take about 5 minutes to kill one boss when intensely firing at it. I don't consider this any bit a consolation for the game's minute length, nor can it qualify as a challenge. It's just tedious.

Bottom line: perhaps you'd want to beat this game knowing that it has infinite continues and only 2 levels, partly making up for its shitty nature. I'm getting really suspicious that this is just a stupid ripped and shortened version of Super X Man. Why? Well, that game has a main menu, character select, more guns and definitely more music. With that in mind, it's safe to assume it probably has more levels.

I'm sorry, but a question I got to ask:

1) The Wii ripoffs like the iSport and the Interactive TV Game, which have Commander and such, are these 16 bit games supposed to be SNES-based, Genesis-based or are they not based on any official system?

Recently, I received the Sudoku 49-in-1 in mail. Not only that, but I beat Desert Storm. Overview:

-Definitely made by Waixing. The game's engine doesn't exactly seem to be that of Super Contra 7, but very similar.
-You start with the spread gun as default and can get machine gun, "laser gun", barrier and powerup to get back to spread gun. You keep your gun if you get killed, this time.
-Music is annoying, but tolerable in some spots.
-The game contains 4 levels, each divided into 2 long sub levels. So there are technically 8 levels. The first 2 are quite easy after you learn the pattern etc. But the last 2 levels are unforgivingly hard due to shitty gameplay.
-The game actually boasts an options menu where you can set the number of lives for you and your partner (0-10) and even 3 difficulties (easy, medium and hard).
-Sound effects entirely from Super C.
-There might be ripped graphics from Super C besides a grenadier and slugs.
-If you compare the copyright number chain on the bottom of this game with Super Fight I, the latter might be released first.

This one is mostly aimed at Taizou: I seem to have found a cheat code of sorts. Get to any level after the first one and get game over. I don't exactly know what triggers the cheat, but you can continue on the level you died. Basically, I held A and B buttons and tried hitting start. Then, I held B alone and tried hitting start. Then I held A alone and kept hitting start. About 5 out of 6 times, it took me to the level I last died on. I don't exactly know what's the combo, so if you figure something, that'd be great.