Super Contra 6 is a pirated hack of Contra Force for the NES, released in 1994. On multicart menus and just about all cartridge labels, it is simply named Contra 6.
Overview
Super Contra 6 is no more than a mild graphics hack of Contra Force. Currently, its release information is not known, however, it seems to bear striking similarities to some other hacks.
The 4 playable characters were replaced with characters from other games/movies. Burns is now Rambo; Smith is Guile; Iron is Ryu and Beans is Bill. Their portraits don't exactly match and three of them are taken from Contra games, the other from Ikari Warriors 3: The Rescue. Bill's replacement on Beans is considered a fitting choice as the latter is the only character that lays prone when ducking, classic Contra style.
This hack also seems to have fixed a lot of the slowdowns that the original game is most infamous and criticized for. However, the intro sequence is now somewhat corrupted.
Trivia
- Almost all the changes seem to be borrowed from other Contra games. The Kanji title screen at the beginning is taken from the Japanese version of the original Contra.
- Similarities between Super Contra 6, Super Contra 5 and Contra Fighter could possibly indicate a shared design team.
- This game has a cheat code that was not present in Contra Force and may give 17 lives to every team member, To get 17 lives, press UP + START ingame (same may be done on the Command Select screen).
- While Suponev actually reviewed Super Contra 6 in the second episode aired on 2X2 channel, the version he shows has graphics of the original Contra Force but frankly, it has eight lives per member instead of regular two. Hence that, there is a possibility that pirates may have been sold Super Contra 4 under the number 6.
- A hack of this hack, titled X-Plan, appears on some Famiclones.
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