I just spent about 20-25 minutes without dying trying to beat this damn stage 6 boss in Contra 4 and simply can't do it. You have to rapid fire on this mother f'ing door to close him in on it and holding down fire won't cut it. After a few seconds he pushes it back open.. and repeat. Every joint in my right hand is shot now, sat there and pounded with the index for a few minutes, then the thumb, then index.. Boy that would have made one sad youtube video. Can someone tell me how to beat this guy? Do I need the machine gun or laser? The one guide on the internet suggests you use your standard gun (dodge the bullets, hold on to good weapons till bosses - hey, I made a Contra guide too!) but I can't see how this is. I guess by 23 the old trigger finger is already shot, somebody lend me some sympathy!

what difficulty? I haven't beaten it on hard yet so i'm not sure, but even on normal it was difficult to do without getting a better gun. I think you have to shoot one, then the other and switch on and off. I can't remember clearly though.

Up(2), Down(2), Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A

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How is Contra 4 for DS? Does it feel like the old contra?

I am not that far in, I just got this game last week and have been trying to finish Professor Clayton before I focus on Contra 4.

In the brief time I have spent with C4 I can say that it is truly challenging, even more so than the old school arcade and NES & SNES Contra games. This game would bring most of todays "Hardcore Gamers" to tears. I loved the levels I've played through, sounds like boss 6 is gonna be a pain in my @55!

If you like challenging games, pick this up! Konami really delivered both fan service and true old school difficulty with this one!

Just save a machine gun for it. No, you don't need it, but saves the mashing that every other gun would use.

Although I was like you, spent 3 minutes trying to just slow fire it.

It was easy difficulty I couldn't get the job done on. Just turned it off for now. As far as how this game compares to the other Contra game of the past, I'd say the duel screen makes it harder. Still I'm having alot of fun with it. I remember reading before I bought it though that C4 was supposed to contain copies of both the original contra and super contra. Do I need to finish the game first? Anyone else heard that?

-I'll try the machine gun for it when I go back to it Fuzzmosis, thanks.  

I've decapitated that skeleton before with the pea shooter, but I've played way to much metal slug/contras + track and field which results in button mashing victoly
for a normal human the machine gun is needed

Just have either homing, spread, machine or practically anything beside your standard pea shooter, this boss is extremely easy to memorize his pattern.

To unlock contra and super contra, you need to beat the game to unlock challenge mode, then beat 4/40 total challenge modes to unlock contra, 8/40 to unlock super contra, more will unlock other goodies such as other characters, comics, interviews, and what not.