Bomberman '94 Cheat Codes & Secrets

Password System

Bomberman ‘94 issues a password after you clear each world, letting you resume from the start of that world on your next session. Passwords are four characters drawn from the game’s alphanumeric set. Enter them at the Password screen accessible from the title menu.

Password	Effect
BMBR	Start at World 2 (Rocky Mountain)
1994	Start at World 3 (White Glacier)
BOMB	Start at World 4 (Sky Land)
FIRE	Start at World 5 (Tentaclon Planet, final world)

Note: Passwords encode your remaining lives count in some versions. If a password stops working, verify you are on Normal difficulty — Hard mode generates different passwords for the same checkpoints.

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Sound Test

Access the full music and sound effect library without leaving the title screen.

Input	Effect
Hold Select, then press Run at the title screen	Opens Sound Test mode

Use Left / Right on the D-pad to cycle through tracks and Button II to play the selected entry. Press Run to exit back to the title.

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World Select (Debug Stage Skip)

A world-select shortcut is accessible from the title screen before the demo begins.

Input	Effect
Hold Button I + Button II, press Select at title	Opens world selection menu

Highlight a world with Up / Down, then press Button I to jump directly to World 1 through World 5. This bypasses the password screen entirely and starts you with the default lives count for that difficulty.

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Battle Mode Secrets

Stage Select in Battle Mode

On the Battle Mode map screen, press Select repeatedly to cycle through all available arena layouts before locking in your choice. All stages — including the later, more complex arenas — are available from the start without needing to unlock them through Normal mode.

5-Player Support

Bomberman ‘94 natively supports five simultaneous players using the TurboTap (Turbo-Duo multitap accessory). Connect the TurboTap to Port II, plug controllers into all five ports (one in Port I, four in the TurboTap), and the game auto-detects the configuration on the Battle Mode screen. No code required — the game recognizes the hardware.

CPU Opponent Injection

In Battle Mode with fewer than five human players, hold Select while pressing Button I on an unused controller slot to add a CPU opponent to that position. Useful for practicing 4-player dynamics with only two people.

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Power-Up Cheats and Item Tricks

Full Power-Up Start

At the title screen, during the opening jingle, input:

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Button II, Button I, Run

If entered correctly, Bomberman flashes briefly before the menu loads. Starting a Normal mode game grants you Fire Up ×3, Bomb Up ×2, Speed Up ×1, and the Kick ability from the first stage.

Rooey Kangaroo Color Cycling

When riding a Rooey (the kangaroo mount found in certain stages), hold Select and tap Button II three times. The Rooey’s color cycles to the next variant, which changes its special kick behavior. Pink Rooeys kick bombs horizontally; blue Rooeys perform a line-clear stomp. This works mid-stage and does not affect your power-up count.

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Hidden Extra Life Locations

Several stages contain extra lives buried under soft blocks in fixed positions. These are not random — the following stage locations reliably hide 1-UP icons:

World	Stage	Location
World 1	Stage 3	Bottom-right corner, second block from the wall
World 2	Stage 2	Center-left cluster, third row from top
World 3	Stage 4	Top-left corner pocket
World 4	Stage 1	Bottom-center, adjacent to the border wall

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Exploits and Beneficial Glitches

Bomb Push Freeze

If you kick a bomb directly into a wall at the same frame another bomb explodes behind it, the kicked bomb freezes in place and does not detonate until you walk into it or another explosion chain reaches it. This can be used intentionally to block enemy AI pathfinding in later worlds, since enemies will not cross a live bomb’s tile.

Screen-Edge Remote Detonation

In stages with warp tiles near the edges of the map, placing a bomb on a warp tile and then walking through a second warp while the fuse is active causes the explosion to originate at the destination warp instead of the source. The fire range still radiates from the new position, letting you reach areas blocked by indestructible walls.

Enemy AI Cornering

The World 3 and World 4 enemies use a wall-following pathfinding routine. Placing a bomb in the exact corner of a 2×2 hard-block cluster will cause the enemy to circle the cluster indefinitely without triggering the bomb. You can safely detonate from a distance using a fire chain from another bomb while the enemy stands still.

Rooey Dismount Invincibility Window

Dismounting a Rooey by pressing Button II gives Bomberman approximately 10–12 frames of collision immunity as the dismount animation plays. Skilled players use this window to pass through enemy sprites in tight corridors on the later worlds where enemy density is high.

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Developer Easter Eggs

Staff Credits Shortcut

On the title screen, let the attract demo play through two full cycles without pressing anything. After the second cycle ends, instead of returning to the title, the game displays a condensed version of the credits scroll. This is faster than reaching the credits through normal completion and includes a hidden message from the Hudson Soft development team not shown in the standard ending.

Hidden Hudson Bee Logo

In World 5, Stage 3, destroy all soft blocks in the top-right quadrant of the map before the timer drops below 100 seconds. If done with zero enemy kills, the background tile in the exact top-right corner briefly changes to the Hudson Soft bee mascot sprite for three seconds before reverting. This is frame-accurate to the tile refresh cycle and is easier to reproduce on emulator with save states.

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Difficulty Modifiers

Code	Effect
Hold Button I when selecting Normal	Starts Normal mode with Hard mode enemy speeds
Hold Button II when selecting Hard	Grants one continue on Hard mode (normally none are given)
Press Select 5 times on the difficulty select screen	Unlocks a hidden “HYPER” difficulty label — identical to Hard but with no passwords issued