Bionic Commando
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Earn a continue
Find the helmet
Play Area 4 in the dark
Move around as the enemy computer is being destroyed
Earn all of the life points
Use the rocket launcher in Level 7-1
Communicators
Find the secret tunnels
Fighting Giants
Exit an area
Earn a continue
Sent in by Java
To earn a continue, "meet the enemy and descend" and kill the enemy
Bionic soldier. He will leave you an eagle. Each eagle gives you a continue.
Find the helmet
Sent in by Java
To interrogate the enemy soldier and find the secret path that contains
the helmet, use your arm to get behind him. It freaks him out.
Play Area 4 in the dark
Sent in by Java
To play Area 4 in the dark, don't use flares in area for a modest
but interesting challenge.
Move around as the enemy computer is being destroyed
Sent in by Java
To move around as the enemy computer is being destroyed, instead of
being frozen in victory, a very hard thing to do, you have to fire the last
shot to kill it, then get the computer off the screen before the shot hits
the computer. This should only be attempted by those who fancy
themselves masters of the game.
Earn all of the life points
Sent in by Kent
A really good place to earn all the life points is at the end of level one.
Before you go into the bosses chamber stay outside and kill all the
paratroopers. You'll have full life in about twenty minutes
Use the rocket launcher in Level 7-1
Sent in by Sparky
If you're like me, you like to use the rocket launcher, now in level 7, I
think, you can't use the rocket launcher on the wall, you have to use the
3-way, destroy the wall, then hit A, B, and start at the same time to
get out of the level, descend into the level again, switch to rocket
launcher when you're choosing your weapons, and you can go through the
level with the rocket launcher, (if you don't know how to beat the big
robot at the end, the rocket launcher really takes care of the computer
a lot quicker than the 3-way).
Communicators
Sent in by Tom V.
Communicators: Use the red one in Areas 1, 4 and 5, the green one in 2, 3
and 6, the blue one in 8, 9 and 7, and the brown one in 10, 11 and 12.
The order I mentioned the Areas in above is the best order to play them
in (1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 7, 10, 11, 12 excluding the neutral areas).
Find the secret tunnels
Sent in by Tom V.
To find where the secret tunnels are on the area map, talk to the prisoner
in Area 17. You have to actually touch him to get any info from him. You'll
find the Helmet in one of the tunnels.
Fighting Giants
Sent in by Tom V.
Fighting Giants (Areas 6, 7 and 12): Hang from a ledge above you at a
safe distance. When he's in range, drop and hit him on the way down. Use
the Rocket Launcher for best results (It only takes 4 hits, if I remember).
Exit an area
To exit an area, simultaneously press and hold A, B and Start. You
will go back to the Descend/Transfer screen to select a different area.