Enter Palm Pre Developer Mode with Konami Code

Ah yes, the Konami Code. This was the wonderful series of button presses that provided me with 30 lives in Contra. Since then, we’ve seen the Konami code implemented on a series of websites, but it turns out that the code works on the new Palm Pre smartphone as well. Dive back a few years, enter the Konami Code, and you’ll enter Developer Mode on the Pre.



For those of you who weren’t obsessed with Contra back on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (these people really exist?), the Konami code is: up up down down left right left right B A Start. For multiplayer, it ended with Select Start, but that’s beside the point.

In any case, if you open up your Palm Pre and enter the legendary Konami Code (typing it in), you unlock a secret Developer Mode Enabler. From here, you can reset your smartphone and, while connected to a machine running the Palm Mojo SDK for webOS, you can do fun development things.

For people who are interested in coding or just want to experience a unique Easter Egg on Sprint’s hottest new phone, be sure to give the Konami Code a try. If you don’t have a Pre (like me), watch the video embedded below and live vicariously.

[Originally Posted at mercurynews.com]