Alexa never ceases to amaze us. And it is that Amazon's voice assistant is full of secrets that can only be discovered by exploring and investigating its capabilities and commands. Even so, it is not always easy to know everything that she hides and a clear example is the Super Alexa mode. What exactly is it and how is it activated?
What is Super Alexa mode
Many users of Amazon's voice assistant are beginning to discover right now what it is the Super Alexa mode, one of those secrets that it hides And they are not always easy to discover. Because as you will see below, its activation is a very simple process.
The recently discovered by many Super Alexa mode is neither more nor less than an Easter egg or Easter Egg. In other words, a rather funny curiosity that may sound familiar to players and that when activated causes the assistant to pronounce some of these phrases:
“Woooo good job, Super Alexa mode on”
"Congratulations, correct exact code"
"Super Alexa mode activated. Startup of reactors, online; enablement of advanced systems, online; breeding dongers, bug; missing dongers, miscarrying"
"Ting, tin, tin, the code is accurate, downloading updates"
Logically, and as you can guess after pronouncing these phrases, your smart speaker with Alexa will not do anything else. That is to say, it has no use beyond the curiosity generated by the thought that you are going to activate something that will enhance the abilities of the Jarvis-style assistant in Iron Man.
How to activate Super Alexa mode
To activate Super Alexa mode and listen to some of the phrases that we have mentioned before, although it might give you a different answer (who knows), all you have to do is invoke the assistant and say exactly the following command:
"Alexa, up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start"
If instead of starting you say start, nothing happens and the code works the same. Of course, if you make a mistake and instead of twice up you alternate between up and down or change the order from left to right, you will be able to verify that nothing happens.
This is not much of a mystery, if you do not say the code correctly it is as if you did not enter anything for it to work.
What is the Super Alexa mode for?
Well, as we have said, Super Alexa mode is really useless beyond being one simple curiosity and a nod to the gaming community. Because it is curious, this way is neither more nor less than a way of making use of the same command sequence that Konami popularized. What's more, this is how the combination of arrows and buttons that is performed today in different video games to unlock certain options and/or actions is known.
The story behind the Konami code
Journalist Jorge Méndez was in 1986 when Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a programmer working at Konami, was working on a port of Gradius for the NES. During the testing phase of the video game, which he uses to see that there is no programming error, he found that the game was really complicated and that forced him to start the games frequently.
For this reason, Hashimoto created a code that would allow him to have a series of advantages such as the power to increase the player's life and power-ups. Thus, the players who were to try the title would find a series of extra aids that would make it much easier for them to carry out their work.
That was how the Konami code or Konami Code was born, through the need to create a kind of back door or method that would allow access to a series of tricks and advantages of a video game. And yes, the combination that had to be done on the controller was the same as we have seen before: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start (start).
Of course he didn't just stay in Gradius. Once discovered, he stayed in many more games, both belonging to its sequels and other titles from Konami itself and even other developers. And it is that the Konami Code was even able to transfer to the company itself.
Many games today make use of this combination to activate special modes or access options that would otherwise remain hidden. What's more, as we've seen, Alexa even winks at her to activate her own Super Mode, which isn't really that super. Or in services like Google's Gmail and social networks like Facebook among many others.
How to try the Konami Code in the first game that used it
Gradius, a ship game that was released for the NES, was the first game to implement the use of the Konami Code for such a high level of difficulty. Or that's what Hashimoto recognized led him to use it, so why not try for yourself what the experience is like with and without code.
To test Gradius difficulty level and also how was the experience in that first game that saw the birth of the Konami Code, the easiest thing to do is to resort to an emulator. Once you have it installed on your device, all you have to do is pause the game at any time and perform the aforementioned combination. You will see that a series of Power-ups and advantages are activated with which it is easier to advance.