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The internet has made it easy to find cheats for games, but we miss the tips pages from game magazines, when the discovery of a new code could inspire you to go back to an old game. These codes aren't exactly new, but oldness is the essence of the Virtual Console! We're bringing back the classic codes every week on The VC Advantage.

Bloody Wolf (TG16)
Is it possible for a game to be any more retro-war-game than Bloody Wolf? You've got hostages handing you power-ups, shirtless commandos, and unattended motorcycles. It's the total opposite of the dour Call of Brothers of Company of Medal of Whatever stuff we have now. Ridiculous cheats complete the experience!

Hover Mode: At the title screen, press down, up, left, left, II, II, I, Select, Run. The Bloody Wolf dudes were already eerily similar to Princess Peach, right? This code gives them the same hover-jump. The resemblance is just uncanny.

Fast Mode: At the title screen, press up, down, right, right, I, I, II, Select, Run.

Gain Ground (GEN)
Level Select: At the options screen, press A, C, B, C. This lets you skip all of that troublesome ground-gaining, because, really, who wants to gain ground?

Military Madness (TG16)
Madness? This is ... oh, right, this is madness.

Switch Sides: At the continue screen, hold Select and press Run. The best way to punish the opposing faction is to lose as them. It uses a skill-- losing-- with which you've already demonstrated proficiency!

Making up for its delayed arrival to Australia's Virtual Console, the TurboGrafx-16 will debut in the world's smallest continent next week with eleven releases! Hudson's VC site lists that over a third of the games will be shmups -- no big surprise there -- but classics like Dungeon Explorer, Military Madness, and Bomberman '93 are also set to appear at the system's opening ceremony.

The US, having been spoiled with dozens of TG-16 releases since the Wii's launch, will receive only one PC-Engine title next Monday: Dragon Spirit, an impossibly hard, vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up in which you pilot a blue dragon. Check past the post break for Hudson's planned releases across all territories this July.