Private rank

At the title screen, press Square, Circle, Triangle, then start a new game. This results in a game with Michaels 9mmS, 99 clips, and bonus points displayed when earned.

Sergeant rank

At the title screen, press Triangle, Circle, Square, then start a new game. This results in a game with no weight limit, Taylor M82, Michaels 9mmS, 99 clips, and bonus points displayed when earned.

Lieutenant rank

At the title screen, press R1, L2, L1, R2, then start a new game. This results in a game with a level 2 shield, no weight limit, Taylor M82, Michaels 9mmS, 99 clips, bonus points displayed when earned, and a 10,000 point bonus when a level is completed.

Captain rank

At the title screen, press Circle, R1, Circle, L1, Triangle, R2, then start a new game. This results in a game with radar, no weight limit, Taylor M82, Michaels 9mmS, 99 clips, and bonus points displayed when earned.

Major rank

At the title screen, press L2, Square,R2, Triangle, L1, Circle, R1, then start a new game. This results in a game with a level 3 shield, Level 3 sensor, radar, no weight limit, Taylor M82, Michaels 9mmS, 99 clips, and bonus points displayed when earned.

Colonel rank

At the title screen, press Triangle, Square, Circle, Square, Triangle, Circle, then start a new game. This results in a game with a level 3 shield, level 3 sensor, radar, no weight limit, beginner level of all weapons, 99 clips for each, and bonus points displayed when earned.

General rank

At the title screen, press L1(2), L2(2), R1(2), R2(2), then start a new game. This results in a game with a level 3 shield, level 3 sensor, radar, no weight limit, intermediate level of all weapons, 99 clips for each, and bonus points displayed when earned.

Master of X-Squad rank

At the title screen, press Circle(4), Triangle, Square(4), then start a new game. This results in a game with a level 3 shield, level 3 sensor, radar, no weight limit, master level of all weapons, 99 clips for each, and bonus points displayed when earned.

Unlock All Weapons

To Unlock All Weapons, press START during a game and hold SELECT and START and quickly press X, X, Circle, X, Left, Down, Square.

Unlimited health

Press start and hold L1, R1, press Square, Circle, Circle, Triangle, X, Triangle, Square, Left, Right, Up, X.

Defeating Night Crawler

Knock Night Crawler onto the spikes that appear from the floor. Keep punching him, and the spikes will help kill him quickly, often without hitting you back.

Cyclops

Choose Cyclops when selecting a character. He has no punch combo, so you can continuously punch one enemy till he is KOd without having to stop, unlike the other X-men who can only punch three or four times. Note: This will not work on most Bosses. mini-Bosses and Sentinels.

Special move

Press A + B to do a special move. Note: This takes away a little bit of life.

Play As Bosses

Complete the single-player mode. When you hook up the Game Boy Advances and select a mode, you can choose from Bosses (but not mini-Bosses).

Programmer names

When the eject alarm sounds, try to survive for over one minute (without exploding or getting your shields out of critical range). “Eject” will disappear from the alarm light, and will cycle through the various names of the game’s programmers.

Pizza delivery

Play as the Empire under the medium difficult setting or higher and select the Warhead Interception training mission. Complete all the primary and bonus objectives. Do not end the mission. Instead, keep the Imperial Platform in view and keep your ship parked. Messages will begin over your radio seven minutes after your last objective was completed; with a pizza getting ordered. A large Imperial fleet will appear with the pizza, with a funny outcome.

Level Passwords

Enter the icons at the Password screen to open the corresponding level.

Level 3: Wolverine Head, Claws, X, Wolverine Body

Xtreme Costumes

On the main menu enter UP, UP, RIGHT, LEFT, DOWN, DOWN, START.

Wolverine 90’s, Weapon X

Beat the game.

Original Cyclops, Cyclops 80’s

Beat the game.

Original Jean Grey, Phoenix

Beat the game.

Original Beast

Beat the game.

Colussus without metal, Colussus 90’s

Beat the game.

Bobby Drake, Original Iceman

Beat the game.

Street Clothes Magma

Beat the game.

Original Nightcrawler

Beat the game.

Play as Beast

Successfully complete level 1.

Play as Colossus

Successfully complete the Nuclear Facility level.

Play as Cyclops

Defeat Mystique.

Play as Emma Frost

Locate Emma Frost in X Mansion after the Nuclear Facility level.

Play as Gambit

Successfully complete level 3.

Play as Ice Man

Successfully complete level 1.

Play as Jean Grey

Successfully complete level 1.

Play as Jubilee

Successfully complete level 2.

Play as Nightcrawler

Successfully complete level 2.

Play as Psylocke

Successfully complete the NYC Riot/Muir Island/Sewer level.

Play as Rogue

Successfully complete level 1.

Play as Storm

Successfully complete level 1.

Cheat Mode

Select Cyclops and use his Optic Blast on Jean Grey, and then on your reflection. The cheat menu will be displayed.

Unlimited Fuel

Enter the weight and fuel section in the settings menu. Set the fuel load to maximum. This will make the fuel tank full again. This can be repeated as needed.

Space Faster

Pilot the X-15 and use the B-52 drop in LocationSpecial In-flight. Press [Space] to be released and aim straight up. By the time you are out of fuel, you will be in space.

Hidden Stages

To enable the hidden stages, enter the password SFO.

Hints

Be wary of the power-up question marks. Yes, they can be neat, but they often hide a land mine that can take out a trooper or an alien in one burst.

Rockets and blaster bolts affect not only what they hit, but also everything in adjacent squares. So although a rocket launcher’s range is six tiles, it can damage seven tiles (six tiles plus a one-tile fragmentation range).

Use the Move and Fire order to duck out of a door, snap off a shot, and then duck back inside. This hides your soldier from return fire during your opponent’s turn.

Use the Etherals’ psionic power on the most powerful enemy target visible. Although the attack does little damage, the psionically controlled target may fire at its fellow troopers (or at itself for that matter). You want that friendly fire to hurt.

Cheat mode

At the main menu, hold L, then press Right(2), Left(2), Down, Up, B to unlock everything in the game. If you entered the code correctly, a message will be spoken.

Play as Bastion

Successfully complete story mode with Magneto without losing any matches to face Bastion. Defeat Bastion to unlock him as a selectable character.

Play as Bishop

Successfully complete arcade mode with Gambit to unlock Bishop as a selectable character.

Play as Blob

Successfully complete arcade mode with Bishop to unlock Blob as a selectable character.

Play as Dark Phoenix

Successfully complete arcade mode with Phoenix to unlock Dark Phoenix as a selectable character.

Play as Psylocke

Successfully complete arcade mode with Betsy to unlock Psylocke as a selectable character.

Play as Sentinel A

Successfully complete arcade mode with Cyclops to unlock Sentinel A as a selectable character.

Play as Sentinel B

Win twenty matches in survival mode to unlock Sentinel B as a selectable character.

Third costume

Successfully complete story mode with any character to unlock their third costume.

Fourth costume

Win twenty matches in survival mode with any character to unlock their fourth costume.

Fifth costume

Successfully complete arcade mode on the hard difficulty setting with any character to unlock their fifth costume.

Sixth costume

Defeat all ten fighters in time attack mode in under fifteen minutes to unlock the sixth costume for the fighter you selected.

Seventh costume

Select team mode and choose to fight with eight characters. Defeat all of the your opponent’s team by using two or less of your own fighters to unlock the seventh costume for the character(s) you used.

Wolverine gets his original yellow/blue/black costume.

Phoenix gets a red/gold costume similar to Dark Phoenix.

Juggernaut, Gambit, and Psylocke get a costume similar to their comic book original.

Beast gets a blue costume with a yellow X on his chest, and he also has a helmet.

When you chose the seventh costume for Cyclops, Wolverine, Betsy, Juggernaut, Sentinel A (Sentinel), Gambit, Storm, Sabretooth, Rogue and Magneto, they will most commonly appear in their costumes if they were in a “Vs.” series game (Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash Of The Superheroes, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, X-Men Children Of The Atom, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter).

Eighth costume

Win forty matches in survival mode with any character to unlock their eighth costume.

Classic costumes

Some characters have classic outfits that resemble the classic X-Men characters:

Wolverine: Costume VII

Betsy: Costume VII

Forge: Costume VI

Gambit: Costume V

Juggernaut: Costume VII

Magneto: Costume VII

Nightcrawler: Costume VII

Sabretooth: Costume III

Rogue: Costume VI

Ending sequences

There are three possible endings in the game in story mode:

Regular ending (Magneto’s Victory): Defeat Bastion with Magneto.

Alternate ending (Phoenix’s Victory): Lose the Magneto vs. Bastion fight and you will go to the Phoenix vs. Bastion fight. Defeat Bastion with Phoenix.

Secret Ending (Fury of Dark Phoenix): Get a “Perfect” victory in the Phoenix vs. Bastion fight. This will also unlock Dark Phoenix as a playable character.