Her Arm Cannon is also one pixel longer, making it more closely resemble her normal Arm Cannon. This may very well be due to the confusing layout of the tiles. Interestingly, these unused tiles for both sets of unused tiles are located in the same location in the tilesets. As suitless Samus is unique to the later cartridge versions of the game, it's possible that the artist who initially drew the tileset was not aware that the alternate tiles were unused. Her hand is held in a different position, her hair is less messy as it waves, and her chest is flatter. Oddly enough, the alternate tiles for suitless Samus seem to be from an earlier version of her running animation. (Source: Bi-Weekly Famicom Tsūshin (Famitsu) - Vol. the one included with Metroid Prime), possibly because Nintendo is unaware of the code's existence. This glitch was not fixed in any of the later rereleases of the game (e.g. Alternatively, you can just avoid killing Metroids altogether. If you kill a Metroid without obtaining a missile expansion, and it attempts to drop a missile pickup, the game will freeze. PROTIP: If you intend to beat the game with this password, it would be wise to pick up at least one missile expansion first.

All items obtained (sans missile containers and energy tanks).

Ice Beam equipped (this uses the Wave Beam's graphic with the Ice Beam's palette, which never happens normally).

Infinite missiles (though you technically don't have any missile expansions this can lead to a crash in Tourian, as noted below).Infinite health (the tens digit of your health never changes you can still get hit and take damage, it just won't have much of an effect).The NES version of Metroid contains a secret password, which enables several debugging features: NARPAS SWORD ('NAR' refers to Toru Narihiro, the programmer who converted the game from the FDS disk format to standard ROM).Īctivating this password will set byte 69b2 in memory and send you to the start of the game with the following debugging features enabled:

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