

The story is advanced through story cutscenes, and some stages present the players with branching paths. Bosses are tougher and require more hits to defeat when playing with two-players. The second player can join at any time during the game by pressing START . Two players can play simultaneously (but they are not allowed to choose the same character). Players can choose between one of four unique player characters, which have their own unique weapons.

The objective of each stage is to reach the end, shooting enemies and fighting numerous bosses along the way. The game is a side-scrolling run-and-gun. Members include male soldier Ray Poward female soldier Sheena Etranzi Brad Fang, a wolf-like humanoid and Browny, a small robot. When an unknown hacker infiltrates the city's security system and reprograms a group of unmanned robots to cause havoc, the Hard Corps are deployed to handle the situation.

Nemesis_c has created a bat file to fix the checksum for you Contra superpatcher.In 2641, an elite team of commandos called the "Unified Military Special Mobile Task Force K-X," also known as the "Contra: Hard Corps," has been assembled to combat the rapid spread of crime and illegal activities following the war. Enhancement Hack, however the check will need to be manually corrected prior to being playable. Note this patch can be applied on top of M.I.J.E.T.A new code is available that takes you to the game’s debug level! Press Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, C, B, A, Up Down.Player 1 and Player 2 can now select the same character.Up to ten lives can be selected in the menu.(Note, however, that unlike the Japanese version, these codes are entered on controller ONE.) Restores the three cheat codes that were also present in the Japanese version but removed from the US version.In addition, this patch does the following: This patch restores the ability to take three hits, complete with the life bar. For unknown reasons, this functionality was removed when the game was released in the US, making the game vastly more difficult in the process. In the version of the game that was originally released in Japan, it was possible to take three hits before dying. This is a patch for Contra Hard Corps (U) for the Sega Genesis.
