Contra

Contra is a side-scrolling shooter game for the NES. Equipped with heavy artillery and infinite ammo, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon.
The Famicom version, 魂斗羅 (Kontora), has cutscenes, music and environment effects not in the NES version. The game was released as Probotector in Europe, with redesigns of its characters to make them look like robots.
  • Gryzor,Probotector
  • Platformer
  • Shooter

Publications

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NES Contra "pacifist" by Mars608 & aiqiyou in 08:47.63


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Contra is a popular side-scrolling shooter game for the NES, infamous for its fragile protagonists. It's also known as 魂斗羅 (Kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems. This run focuses on a specific goal: do not kill enemies directly unless absolutely necessary to complete the game.
This is an improvement of 11 frames over the previous publication by the same authors.
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NES Contra "1 player" by Mars608 & aiqiyou in 08:48.21


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Contra is a classic action game. Equipped with heavy artillery and infinite ammo, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon.
This time, Mars608 and aiqiyou improve the previous TAS by 0.44 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.
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NES Contra "2 players" by Mars608 & aiqiyou in 08:36.57


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Contra is a classic action game. Equipped with heavy artillery and infinite ammo, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon.
Mars608 and aiqiyou have saved nearly a second over their previous run thanks to tighter movement control and a different strategy for reviving the second player.

Game Versions

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TypeNameTitle OverrideRegionVersionPlatformHashes
Hack Contra (J) [T+Eng1.0_MadHacker].nes J NES SHA1: 8e9c886ab94ce5fd17a875f4bb0cfdd47daa6bf9
MD5: 337eb76fc979a62961837a2cb258a6cd
Good Contra (J).nes J NES SHA1: be9dd65be8db897978dd34533dd3a037784a8ee9
MD5: d306c54ccfdf5cb4f8ec588f19b3e33d
Good Contra (Japan).nes J NES SHA1: 376836361f404c815d404e1d5903d5d11f4eff0e
MD5: 0e40bc1b049c16c5d7246cc28399cb5d
Good Contra (KC).nes U Konami Collector's Series NES SHA1: 0103887f489bcce044c73ad49057a714753b0517
MD5: 2686c4b168a7e82bdb2c6fb3061fcbfd
Good Contra (U) [!].nes U NES SHA1: c9ea66bb7cb30ad5343f1721b1d4d3219859319b
MD5: 7bdad8b4a7a56a634c9649d20bd3011b
Good Probotector (E) [!] Probotector E NES SHA1: 6531ff3a062c2a83fa9683bf8a859a3500e8d9af
MD5: 7127f616c13b58087481dd9e93aeb2ff