Hell Fighter

Hell Fighter
Developer: Sachen Publisher: Sachen Platform: Unlicensed NES Released in AS: 1992 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select.

Hell Fighter details the time when a black belt got an endless supply of throwing darts and started attacking skeletons, hopping ghosts, and blue devils wearing white thongs, all while dying in one hit and breaking brick blocks like Mario.

CRC Test

On Controller 1, hold A + B + Select + Start and press Reset to bring up a quick CRC test. Two hex strings will flash twice on-screen before the game starts up.

Extended Level Select

In the Options menu, holding A + B on Controller 2 while selecting the starting level will allow the fifth and sixth stages to be accessed from the option.

Hidden Names

Guan-Her Chern

At the Sachen logo screen, hold A + B + Select + Start on Controller 1. Keep holding them until the Sachen logo stops moving, and release every button except Select. While holding Select, press A, B, Start, A, B, Start, Up, Left, Down, Right, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start and then any other button to bring up 陳關和, the name of director/programmer Guan-Her Chern in Chinese characters.

Cai Jinmao

Accessing this message is similar to accessing Guan-Her Chern's name. At the Sachen logo screen, hold A + B + Select on Controller 1 and A + B on Controller 2. Keep holding the buttons until the Sachen logo stops moving, and release every button except Select. While holding Select, press A, B on Controller 1, A, B on Controller 2, Up, Left, Down, Right, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start, Start on Controller 1, and then any other button. A scrolling message reading 蔡進茂, or Cai Jinmao, will then appear - but unlike Guan-her Chern, no one of this name appears in the game's credits.