Love to bump old threads... But a lot of the "remake" games may not save the data to file because a lot of them never had a save feature in-game. But with Contra you can use the old cheat code from NES to get 30 lives instead of the starting 2-3.
As the title screen is loading : up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start (or select, start - for two players). This has to be done real fast as the title loads but before it stops loading.
can somebody freeze the timer with a mod on perfect dark XBLA