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Gauntlet (Sega Master System)

A Master System port of the arcade dungeon crawler, but with support for only two players instead of four due to the Master System only having that many controller ports and no multitap.

Cheat Mode#

At the character select, choose a character with the D-Pad, then hold Up + 2 on Controller 2 and press 1 on Controller 1 to start the game. During gameplay, press Up + Down + Left + Right (this requires either an emulator/keyboard or a controller capable of pressing opposite directions simultaneously) on Controller 1 to enable cheat mode (press again to disable). This enables the following functions:

  • Hold 2 to walk through walls.
  • Hold any combination of Up, Down, Left, and Right, then press 1 + 2 to skip stages. The buttons being held determines the number of stages skipped, listed below:

Button(s) held

Number of stages skipped

None

Reloads current stage

Up

1

Down

2

Left

4

Right

8

Up+Down

3

Up+Left

5

Up+Right

9

Up+Down+Left

7

Up+Down+Right

11

Up+Left+Right

13

Down+Left

6

Down+Right

10

Down+Left+Right

14

Left+Right

12

Up+Down+Left+Right

None (disables cheat mode)

(Source: Sega8Bit)

References#


  1. SEGA REVIEW: GAUNTLET - Mean Machines, Issue 1, October 1990↩︎
  2. Linha Tec Toy ganha novos cartuchos "The Tec Toy line gets new cartridges" - O Estado de S. Paulo, February 1, 1993↩︎