One of Nintendo's most beloved "fighting" series since its 1984 debut in arcades has never featured a two- player mode.
The situation changed on Monday. The discovery has been hidden on the Super Nintendo edition for nearly three decades.
You can immediately access the feature if you own 1994's Super Punch- Out!! in any capacity, an original SNES cartridge, a dumped rom, or even as part of the paid Nintendo Switch Online collection of retro games. You don't need anything else, just a pair of game pads.
The coder responsible for the @new_cheats_news account has been posting discoveries of leftover modes, menus, and gameplay features in classic games for the last three years. Many of the account's findings require Game gear codes or hex edits to original rom files to access them since the modes are often left behind in the games' original code.
Today's Super Punch- Out!! discovery is all about a simple series of button combinations. The two-player mode is hidden behind an additional menu which allows solo players to skip to any of the game's boxing fighters. Many classic games feature a "level select" menu, which can be used to practice against specific opponents more quickly.
The menu can be accessed by holding the R and Y buttons on the controller and pressing Start or A. Pick any of these icons to engage in a one-off fight, and once it's over, you're dumped back to the same boxer-select menu.
If player two holds their B and Y buttons down, friends will be able to access a two-player fight. There will be no sound effect or indication that it worked. The first player will control the boxer at the top of the screen. Every single basic and advanced attack can be pulled off with the combination of the "ABXY" array of buttons with the "up" and "down" on the D- pad.
AdvertisementI have been able to confirm that this works on both the original SNES and the game's version on the Nintendo Switch. In a traditional one-player mode, Gabby Jay throws a few punches.
The game's long-hidden two-player mode is not balanced for competitive play due to both the boss characters' high levels of power and their obvious pre-punch "tells." The latter comes with long pauses that solo players have been studying for a long time, so dodge them and the boss is left open to be stunned. I don't think Super punch-out will be on a competitive stage soon. The mode is an amusing option for fans of the game who have been waiting a long time.
There is a more balanced version of the concept featured in the Wii version of the game. There are a lot of fighting options for the second player in the two-player mode.
The game industry's history of hidden menus and Easter eggs is plentiful, but today's news is almost identical to the discovery of a cheat menu in the first three games of the series. This required inputting specific buttons on an arcade cabinet in the correct order, even without quarters.
In 2016 frame-by-frame analysis confirmed a visual tell of when to punch some of the toughest bosses in the game. An interview with one of the original developers of the game suggested there were more secrets to be found in the game. There could be a two-player mode in the older game.
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