Contra 3 (SNES) on HARD MODE. GRUELING Difficulty. 

This game (Super Probotector in the UK) and Mario All-Stars were the first games I ever owned. Played this to death in hard mode as a kid and I still got it today at age 38, muscle memory is strong lol

Pretty amazing how much the developers could fit in a single cartridge. 3/4 of one megabyte for all of that: side scrolling, mode 7, vehicles, layer 2, Battletoads-esque cart racing, ...

This is a tough ass game, for sure. 😬 Loved the run. It's nice to hear one's perspective on the Contra games, as opposed to the countless voiceless runs I see on RU-vid. Your reactions to everything that went on was priceless. 😄

I'm super hyped about THis! This is Good stuff 😄

This game was censored in the EU. They removed all humans, even the protagonist was a robot and they renamed it to "Super Probotector". I got it for the Wii Virtual Console and remember thinking "this is a contra ripoff for the SNES", not realizing it WAS Contra until years later.

LOVE THIS GAME!

Finally beat this game on easy mode last night, after 25 years of trying lol. Watching you play in hard mode is both satisfying and very disheartening. Maybe in another 25 years ill beat normal mode.

Ryu makes everything look so easy...

I love this game but this difficulty makes me depressed when I play it lol. I always have Ryu on in the background while I'm making my RU-vid videos. Good stuff (:

Bro the memories that you’ve brought back with this game right here!!! The up up down down!! Man and the music 🤌🏾💪🏾🔥. I’ve gotta game for you and I believe it was on Sega and or SNES, it’s called Gunstar Heroes you’ll instantly love this game, a true treasure. Please give it a try . Love your videos, you’re the king of MM 2 btw

Up up down down left right left right ab ab select start

Sweet gameplay! Thanks for sharing!

Damn, Ryu. You smoked this game. Playing this as a kid, I could never get past that boss in the top-view desert level.

30:05 You can stop the rotation completely by "double pressing" L: 1. press L shortly 2. release L shortly 3. press and hold L

This game was fun as hell and I remember the frame drops like no other lmao

Nice run through the game, cool trick to farm for lives. I always enjoyed this one, especially the music. Stage three is especially good to me!

Another tip for easy one ups is the eyeball in the roulette,it has one of the highest,if not the highest farming scores in the entire game! With 4-5 eyes you get one up! And it is also from the easiest to avoid as a phase while killing them! In this manner i beat this game on hard mode for the first time years back in my snes! 😉 The hype was overwhelming! 😊

Great, i was waiting for this video.

Good Job !

Last year, I finally beat this game. I didn't do it on hard mode, but still I could barely do it. I had to play it so many times. But damn was it satisfying, and the game kicks absolute ass. I know this video is old, but I'd love to see you play Contra Hard Corps on Genesis, it's really hard too.

Bonding time: My day is great. Thanks for asking Ryu.

Super Probotector in Europe. A funny hard game. Thanks

16:00 This is where I create my save state when I play this. The best stage music ever. It really adds an extra level of fun to this stage for me. Even had to get the .mp3 for this it sounds so good.

The best farm spot is in level 3 with the ship miniboss. Just stand on a side and shoot the enemies that jump from the ship. Once I wrapped a rubberband to the controller button, came back an hour later and had like 15 extra lives.

So sick, the gameplay

The flamethrower on level 3 is perfect for that stage. It goes through enemies and can reach bosses weak spots through their armor. Plus you can whip it! Also if you hold L + R you'll pose like a bad ass, and do a spinning jump attack firing both your weapons if you shoot. Overhead levels, you'll spin in place, effectively turning you into a blender with the right weapons. Lastly on stage 4, if you find yourself on a spinner you can press L or R to hold yourself straight or increase the speed in which you turn!

When I was a kid, my parents took us to Toys R Us and allowed each of us to pick out a random NES game. I saw Contra and wanted to get it. But I saw that there was a skull/alien on the front of the game itself, and thought that if I chose it, my mom would take the game away and not let me play it. So I chose Q-bert. Q-bert. Thankfully years later when this came out, my dad's friend worked at the local newspaper and got an early review copy, and he'd often give them to us to play. We played the crap out of this, so good.

During the Metal Alien fight on the wall in stage 6, a much easier way to dodge him is press up+jump to jump straight up, then hold right to grab the wall again.

I have played it over and over as a kid - Now playing it on hard mode is like meditation (so eeaaaasy)

This was my favourite game when I was a kid

Great video! Please do Metal Slug (any version)

Looking forward to THIS "debunk", lolol

now, we need the genesis contra live. that game without konami code is impossible, especially USA version (on japanese, you had an actual hp bar)

That game remind me the first i did drug i my life. I did LSD with my cousin and we spent the whole night playing that game,,,,, after years of playing that game i was able to play at hard without losing a single life. I also never knew the trick about switching gun all the time.

The fuck is Ryu doing skipping on the fire in stage 3?! Bro!

Sick play-through Ryu!! I could beat on hard too, but only with 7 lives at the start 😂

Contra:Hard Corps is still my fav

U can still eat those green bananas there ripe n sweet if they're in the section where the sweet1s are 😂

Had sooooo much fun with this back in that day....where Oh where have these games gone ?

I was wondering if you used turbo controllers. I always did on this game. The ascii pad! Super fun!

I played this game recently and could not get through hard mode, so I went and tried to rewatch you beat it on twitch only to find out i had to subscribe to watch you beat it now... So I happily pay, and watch you nail it. As soon as its over, I open youtube, and the FIRST video on my feed is this randomly uploaded video of the thing I subscribed to see. Crazy. This is your best work though brother, gotta get back to this hard retro gaming content. Still waiting for the day you decide to finish Super R type.

You gotta do the double paddle button pose on stage 1 when the plane drops the fire bombs 😢 It's just not the same if you don't. Gotta know when to pose.

I strongly believe that the developers in each game know some tricks,or assumed they will be used! But left them out there to check them out our selfs while playing & became better.😉

As a kid i had a controller with auto funktion, i switched weaponswap on permanennt outo xD The downside of this was that the swab was so fast tat when i died i lost both weapons.

The golden age of Konami. Contra 3, Super Castlevania 4, Gradius 3, TMNT Turtles in Time

For me, Contra: Hard Corps/Probotector on Mega Drive is even harder than Contra III/Super Probotector. Still, Super is hard as shit on Normal, so well done on taking down hard mode.

GGs Ryukahr, I wish I could watch it live. Each time you ditched a C was like a stab to my heart though 😅

How long have you been holding to this one???

YES THANK YOU

Ah, Contra 3. It is such a blissful, pick up and play game.

Are you going to play Contra Hardcorps or have you played it already?

i see h'es using the weapon switch turbo button trick.

this game is impossible to play without a controller, tried it on my phone and almost threw it in frustration, but still they really don't make them this fun any more

Couple of thoughts on this game: 1. Is this the only game made harder for the NA crowd? And, 2. How about that sound track?

The worst part of this game is when your own family steals your lives one of my faves

Man you are somethin’

I used to beat this game all the time back in the day. I wouldn’t put in on to hard to beat games

this was tough! but i beat it as a kid.

So that one where they surround you if you slide when they come together you survive

22:35 epic dodge

Please play the second samurai for Sega genesis this game is hard and challenge

32:02 yes you did, only way to rack em up easy..

every new life you get a bomb.

This was cake. memorized the whole game when I was 14. Now tty Contra Shattered Soldier!!

Amazing how 10yo kids did it back in the days without whining like a toddler about gruelling difficulty 😂😎🤓👍👍👍

i want to try to beat this at some point on hard.

Weird to hear Ryu cursing 🙃

Top weekly donator is Notch, THE Notch? Minecraft creator?

Time for Contra on PS and PS2

Now do Contra Hard Corps

Is this some kind of modded version? Playing on the original cartridge, you can't pick up two different weapons and use both. Seems way too OP.

s for shotgun, no scatter

One time I ran through this game on SNES with someone who knew exactly what to do. I can't get good on New 3DS version. I'd rather play Hard Corps Uprising on 360.

The overhead view got us 🥴. Never thought dodging projectiles could look this fun.

i love this game, but it is way way too hard for me.

is there a version of this game that doesn't include the top down levels? i don't remember them from my childhood

That nostalgic temper fuelled couch co-op…

Even with the rewind option that the mini snes has I'm still worst than you...

I'm amazed he doesn't know how to speed scale walls. You have to jump up, and re-grab the wall otherwise, you'll fall. Could've saved himself a few minutes in Stage 3 (Old Refinery).

I can’t wait to see you play Abadox for the NES.

Konami creates one of the best Games ever

My brother and I could beat this game without the code and rarely dying at all. Is that hard mode? Cause this game isnt really that hard, especially if you owned it as a kid.

imagine if you had limited ammo in this game

Always hated players who constantly shoot in these types of games, also is he cheating or does he really contantly mash the weapon swap button?

As a teenager in Australia I was always slightly bitter that we got Super Probotector rather than Contra 3, because I wanted to have 'the original' and thought 'Probotector' was a truly awful name. These days though I think the mecha main characters really fit in with the rest of the visual design more than the Rambo guys do.

This makes me want to replay Blazing Chrome

That is old video, right ?!

Actually I was a little disappointed about this game, the graphics are nice, you can hang from the walls and ceilings, you can carry 2 weapons at a time and also there is new buttons to keep shooting while standing in one place, the problem is the duration of the game and the stages. The top view stages are horrible, very hard to control, almoust impossible bosses, also the guys inside the capsule thing if you look directly at them they just take cover, and if you duck they keep shooting, so even when you are still alive you have to stand up so this is a cheap death. So taking sways the top view stages, there are only 4 normal stages, and some of them are super short, and some bosses are just annoying like in the third stage you are climbing the wall and that thing with the drill keeps following you, the only way to avoid this is to go all the way up, I when it get close just go all the way down very fast. I know is good a game has a challenge, but this is so annoying, the only way to see the real ending is to finish in hard, this is so unfair. Actually I have finished it in hard in a real snes, took me like 3 weeks to don it, I keep practicing so much, It never occurred to me to do farming, so I just keep going, and always got to the final boss and because I was so nervous I even fall down by mistake. I liked more the original contra and the super C, this ones has more balance, longer stages, top view stages are not anoying, they are master pieces, but the super nes and don’t like because it is just to short. The same happened to the battletoads in battle maniacs, it is superior to the nes version, but it is just to short, so anoying they make games less longer, I wonder why?

The flame doesn't seem that good. I tried but did not beat this game on normal mode.

I play through Contra 3 on hard mode all the time without resorting to the quick weapon swapping trick. It's not that hard.

THERE IS A FUCKIN HARD MODE???

i use cheats for these games and emulators

And all of this just for money 😎🤮

Turn off the turbo controller and start over the right way.

This game sucks.

it's funny how nobody to this day even knows the Code for Super Contra 3 which i have managed to pull off, like twice in the past and even than i still try and let many know of it, because i want to believe i am the first and only person that knows of this code for the US Contra 3.

I beat this game 85 time.