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Start with no defense

Enter your name as CECHEESE.

Infinite shields

Enter your name as REBELRUN.

Infinite defense

Enter your name as TORRENS.

Infinite offense

Enter your name as PROSSER or SLAYER.

Infinite shields, defense and offense

Enter your name as BUGLE, EDDIE'H, MR.CUBE, RICHRICH, ROLLINS or PETEROCK.

Infinite shields, defense and offense with slightly different HUD

Enter your name as TOYAH.W!. It seems to have the same affect as above, but the offense and defense bars turn red and the radar will be given a sweeping red dial.

Infinite shields and offense, defense always active

Enter your name as PONG.

Set starting level

Enter the following as your name:

Level	Name
Baked	SENTE
Middle Rung	BOONE
Top Rung	SOLDANO
Shocka	ARVAY
Finals	KRUSE
Venusiva	OWEN
Phantom	BEAUMONT
Brk'oth	MITZI
Nazrac	HOLLY or TENGEN

Most of these are named after staff at Time Warner Interactive.

Replace normal opponents with bosses

Enter your name as WARLORDS. Now any MEK that isn't a boss will be replaced with a randomly selected boss.

All opponents are Baked

Enter your name as AVELLAR.

All opponents are Shocka

Enter your name as KLUG.

All opponents are Venusiva

Enter your name as STARK.

All opponents are Phantom

Enter your name as GRIGSBY.

All opponents are Brk'oth

Enter your name as HINDORF.

All opponents are Nazrac

Enter your name as FORD.

Play as boss MEKs

Enter one of the bosses' names to play as their MEK: BAKED, SHOKA, VENUSIVA, PHANTOM, BRK'OTH or NAZRAC.

Play as unknown MEK

Enter your name as PITFIEND.

Play Battlezone stage

Enter your name as THERESEC.

Less helpful radar

Enter your name as DANVANE'. Now rather than appearing as solid colours, opponents will be shown as pulsing green squares on the radar.

Nazrac says "excellent" every time you hit something

Enter your name as BILL.TED (a reference to the movie) or PRAISEME.

Unknown codes

FINBARR, HAL!!!, LOZZA, RUNDMC and SPOOKED! are special names recognised by the game but it is not known what they do.

Exception handler

If the game ever crashes, it'll display this exception handler.

All of the error messages are present in the ROM, starting at 002F7698:

EXCEPTION ERROR:
BAD EXCEPTION.
ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION.
ILLEGAL DELAY SLOT INSTRUCTION.
CPU BUS ERROR.
DMA BUS ERROR.
USER ERROR.
NMI EXCEPTION.
TRAP =0D - TASK TIMED OUT, SYSTEM LOCKUP.
TRAP =0E - RAM CORRUPTION DETECTED.
TRAP =0F - NO MORE SPACE IN OBJ AREA.
TRAP =10 - TASK CRASHED, VARS CORRUPTED.
TRAP =11 - NO EOL IN SOUND LIST.
TRAP =12 - SOUND BUFFER FULL.
TASK WAS @

T:
RAM FREE EXCLUDING
STACKS=