Battle City Cheat Codes Nes

[Raymond Freedman]

Eightcheat codes that can be entered on the title screen exist. Entering a code twice will not deactivate it. Once you entered a code correctly, a jingle will sound. Each code sets a different flag in memory address $C8F2, indicated by bN in the description below.

"SPEED" apparently makes the game run faster. "LEFT" is the number of lives. "EXTEND" determines which of two tables is used to determine at what number of points the player is granted an additional life.

Originally released for the Family Computer (Famicom), which later became the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the US, the game gained popularity and received various ports to different platforms.

While the original Namco Battle City game was primarily released in Japan, the game's popularity led to numerous clones and adaptations. Modern gamers can find playable versions, including clones, on platforms like Google, Microsoft (PC and mobile), and RetroGames.cz.

Due to the proliferation of clones, assessing the reception of the original Battle City can be challenging. However, Google user reviews indicate a positive sentiment, with 90% expressing satisfaction.

In line with the era's game design, Battle City lacks a detailed plot or main character. Players control a tank and become the de facto protagonist, defending the base without elaborate narrative details. The absence of named characters or explicit antagonists adds to the game's straightforward and focused gameplay.

While Battle City itself didn't evolve into a series with direct sequels, its influence is evident in the numerous clones and adaptations created by different companies. The original trilogy includes:

As was common in the 1980s and 1990s, Battle City includes cheat codes to aid players in overcoming challenges. These cheats, documented for the NES version, contributed to the era's gaming culture. However, given the game's age and potential variations across platforms, users should be aware that these cheats might not work universally across all versions.

This page contains a list of cheats, codes, Easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for Battle City for NES. If you've discovered a cheat you'd like to add to the page, or have a correction, please click EDIT and add it.

Battle CityBattle CityNamesEnglish Battle CityTournament detailsStructureSingle-eliminationLocationDomino CityFinal positionsWinnerYugi MutoRunner-upMarik IshtarThird placeSeto KaibaAppearancesAnime Yu-Gi-Oh!

Battle City is a Duel Monsters tournament hosted by the series tritagonist Seto Kaiba at the request of Ishizu Ishtar, whose goal it was to gather the three Egyptian God cards together in the the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga.

When Seto Kaiba learns of the Egyptian God Cards, a set of Duel Monsters cards that were purported to be based on three Egyptian Gods (and thus powerful enough to have never been put into circulation), Kaiba, at the request of Ishizu Ishtar, holds an elite tournament with the intention of winning and acquiring all three cards while defeating Yugi Muto in the process. The tournament would be held in the streets of Domino City, using a portable Duel Disk holographic projection system of his own design. For his efforts, Seto is given one of the Egyptian God Cards, "Obelisk the Tormentor".

To acquire the remaining God Cards, Kaiba created the ante rule in the tournament, a rule that the winner of a Duel could take the rarest card from the loser's Deck (any card of the winner's choice in the Japanese version), although they were not required to (as in Yugi's Duel with Bakura). Tournament participants each received one Locator Card; in addition to the ante rule, the winner of a Duel was entitled to take one Locator Card from their opponent, with the Duelist being eliminated if they had no Locator Cards left. However, in some Duels, Duelists wagered multiple ante cards or Locator Cards. It was not clarified what would happen in the case of a draw. The first 8 Duelists to obtain 6 Locator Cards moved on to the finals.

Duel Disks had cheating-prevention mechanisms, although this didn't prevent Espa Roba from having his siblings read Joey Wheeler's cards, Weevil from slipping a copy of "Parasite Paracide" into Joey's Deck, a Rare Hunter from using counterfeit cards (marked cards in the dub), and Arkana from trimming his cards down to size to draw those cards more often. The Duel Disks also allowed Kaiba to monitor every Duel by communicating with a satellite, in order to track the progress of all the Duelists.

Unlike the real-life Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, Duelists start a Duel with 4000 Life Points rather than 8000 (2000 in the Duelist Kingdom tournament). Other differences include being able to Summon monsters in face-up Defense Position (rather than Setting them) and Fusion Monsters not being able to attack during the turn they are Summoned. From this point onward, almost all Duels in the series follow these rules, except for the restriction on Fusion Monsters attacking.

Meanwhile, Yugi and the nameless Pharaoh learn from Ishizu Ishtar about the Egyptian God Cards and how it may have a connection with the nameless Pharaoh's past. Ishizu warns Yami Yugi of the organization known as Rare Hunters, whose leader is Ishizu's brother Marik. He seeks Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and the 3 Egyptian God Cards to drain the nameless Pharaoh of his own powers. Ishizu convinces Yugi that in order to find out more about the nameless Pharaoh's past he must enter and win the Battle City tournament. Helping him along is Joey Wheeler, who seeks to become a True Duelist (help Yugi against the Rare Hunters in the dub). Ishizu would later reveal as an Ishtar, a family entrusted to guard the secrets of the nameless Pharaoh's power, her family were effectively locked away from the outside world, and Marik saw it as a lost cause. When Marik was punished for wandering into the outside world, the dark part of Marik was born and only Odion (Rishid in the Japanese versions) their adoptive older brother and trusted servant could hold Marik in check.

Although Yugi would enter the Battle City tournament without a problem, Joey, because Seto Kaiba only thought of him in a derogatory manner, was barred from entering the tournament. However, seeing that Joey would ante his "Red-Eyes Black Dragon", the shop owner, a Rare Hunter, successfully enters Joey into the tournament with the intention of getting his rare card off his hands. Joey, unfamiliar with Seto Kaiba's "advanced rules", had his card taken away from him even before the tournament began and Joey began the tournament by Dueling Seeker, a Rare Hunter for it. Although Yugi wins (as well as exposing the Rare Hunter's use of forgeries in the meantime), Joey declines to take his card back saying that he would have to earn it in the spirit of a True Duelist. (In the dub, Joey declines the card as a way to show that he would always be supporting Yugi - the True Duelist subplot was eliminated altogether.) Instead, Joey stakes his "Time Wizard" in the tournament - the only other card in his possession that is considered to be rare.

Also cheering Joey on is his sister, Serenity Wheeler who had managed to get her eye operation just in time due to the prize money from Duelist Kingdom that Yugi gave to Joey. Although the operation was successful, Serenity vowed not to remove her bandages until she saw her brother Duel.

In the second series anime, Arkana was "the greatest illusionist and magician since Harry Houdini himself", but his career and "movie star good looks" were lost because of a terrible accident during a simple escape routine. Arkana dismissed his love, Catherine, not being able to let her see him ruined, regretting it all the rest of his life; Marik falsely promised him the return of Catherine if Arkana became a Rare Hunter and defeat Yugi. In the manga, he tried to commit suicide twice; once when his mother died and another time when he lost his love.

Arkana plays a Deck that focuses on the "Dark Magician". He also uses various Spell Cards to power it up and save it from annihilation. He plays by a rule of Shadow Games, where the loser not only loses his rarest card (and his Locator card) but the loser loses his legs (in the dub he would get sent to the Shadow Realm). Unlike Yugi, Arkana possesses three "Dark Magicians" (only two were played, however, but his statements suggest he had three). However, after both players were down to their last chunk of Life Points, Yugi uses "Dark Magician Girl", whose special effect allows her to gain 300 Attack Points (500 Attack Points in the manga) for every "Dark Magician" in each player's Graveyards, to defeat Arkana.

Throughout the road to the finals, Yugi faces Marik's Rare Hunters, each of which is kept in line due to Marik's Millennium Rod's ability to exert mind control over others. Marik used his Rare Hunters in an attempt to torture and kill Yugi (win Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and claim the power of the nameless Pharaoh for himself in the dub). However, Yugi prevailed each time and acquired an Egyptian God Card, "Slifer the Sky Dragon", in the process. He acquires this card in a Duel against one of Marik's mind-controlled slaves, Strings, when Marik tries to use a strategy that is thought to have been unstoppable: by combining "Slifer" with 4 other cards:

Marik believed that Yugi would not be able to stop "Slifer". However, by taking control of the newly reborn "Revival Jam" using "Brain Control", Yugi triggered the effect of "Slifer", which allows it to destroy any monster Summoned with less than 2000 DEF or ATK (depending on the monster's position). After "Revival Jam" was revived, Marik was forced to draw 3 cards due to "Card of Safe Return". However, "Revival Jam" came back alive again and it triggered the effect of "Slifer" again. This loop caused Marik to run out of cards from his Deck to draw (with this, he lost).

Yugi earned his final two locator cards in a tag-team Duel with Seto Kaiba (also two short of a complete set of locator cards at this time) against the Masks of Light and Darkness (Lumis and Umbra); first in an alley way and then atop a skyscraper, with the losers plummeting to their deaths (in the dub, the losers would fall into the Shadow Realm). It was difficult but Kaiba would finally work together with Yugi and help each other out. Ultimately, Obelisk the Tormentor was Summoned and defeated the duo.

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