Just a normal boring day for me when suddenly a friend of mine, Really_Tall, posts on Discord about Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero. Never heard of the game but it’s a sequel of sorts to a Wii game of the same name. The games essentially seem to be Konami’s take on monster collecting a la Pokemon.

Turns out that to get one of the Elebits, it’s hidden behind a button combination. This button combo also happens to be different in every version of the game. Fun.

I couldn’t figure out where these codes were given out, but I would guess a website or magazine, if you happen to know, I’d be interested.

For whatever reason, only the codes for the Japanese and US versions are out on the English speaking web. This left out the European and what I found out later, the Korean version out of luck. Whether the codes were ever given out or not, I have no idea.

I really am one of the most unintelligent people when it comes to stuff like this, but I decided to give it a go anyway with my script kiddie instincts. Though even calling it that would be giving myself too much credit.

To start off, I booted the US version on DeSmuME, opened up RAM Search and made an assumption: The game most likely increments a single address for every input you get correct and resets to 0 if not. I searched for “Greater than previous value” and as I went through the button combo, I was eventually reduced to an address that looked exactly what I wanted.

By luck, it turned out this address is the exact same in the European version. I then proceeded to test inputs to increment the value while save stating my way through until I was finished.

At this point I could’ve just called it a day, but I figured I might as well look into the Korean version. Why not.

The address didn’t match up. Just what I expected. Not to worry though, I just viewed the address I had found in the US version in Memory View.

Finding a piece of text like “eb_download_omega” was really lucky, just by searching for this I can find the corresponding region in memory for the Korean version. Just a simple search later and:

From there I just did the same stuff to figure out the button combination.

So, what are the codes? Glad you asked.

Japanese: Up, L, Right, Y, R, A, Left, B, Down, X

American: B, Y, Up, L, Right, R, Down, Left, X, A

European: R, Left, A, Down, L, X, Right, Up, Y, B

Korean: X, Down, L, Left, B, Up, R, Right, A, Y

Hopefully this helps any people who knew about a cool obscure game like this to 100% it now, even if 10 years late. Have fun 🙂