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Contra
Highest Score
Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom (NES) | Original hardware

6,553,500 by

Whilethekidsareaway

(KID)

Achieved at : 2022-06-24

Rank : 1

(world record)

Lups : 700

Approved :

Yes

Voting completed : 2022-07-07

General Rules:

Must be played on an authentic NES or Famicom console; Excl. Mini. Play with default settings unless otherwise specified. No code modifications that give the player an advantage over other players. 1 credit. No continues. 1 player mode only. No use of trainers, cheats, auto-fire (when not default present in-game) , game saves, or cheat codes. Can be overruled by the Specific Rules (see below).
It is discouraged and may lead to voters not accepting your score to
- excessively point farm
- use glitches or other game exploits

Specific Rules:

Play on default settings (US/PAL/JAP version).
The Japanese version of Contra contains extra features not found in the US and Europe releases of the game, such as cutscenes in between levels and animated background effects such as trees blowing in the wind and snow falling. This was made possible by a special memory management controller (MMC) created by Konami called the VRC2 chip.

Nintendo did not allow third-party developers to use their own PCBs and mappers outside of Japan, and as a result Konami was required to use Nintendo's UNROM mapper chip instead, which resulted in the removal of the cutscenes and special effects.

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