Xbox : Ninja Gaiden Cheats
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Item locations
Lives Of 1000 Gods
Chapter 1
1. Ninja Fortress
Chapter 4
2. Area of Tairon near Lily Door (hang from blue rail, then cross on blue wire)
3. After defeating Chapter 6 Boss
Chapter 7
4. Kill 60 Fiends in the area where you got the Holy Grail (before flooding)
5. After defeating Suspension Bridge room Boss
Chapter 10
6. Kill 60 Fiends in the Peristyle Passage (Hall of Balance 1)
Chapter 12
7. Kill 60 Fiends in the area that you fought Doku (platform puzzle)
8. Kill 60 Fiends at the bottom of stairway to Imperial Palace (long stairway)
9. After defeating Flame Dragon Boss
Chapter 13
10. Tairon - after portal activation (go into portal near Great Bridge)- kill 60 fiends
Life Of The Gods
Chapter 2
1. Broken bridge (just before Hayabusa village, water jump to get across)
2. Hayabusa Village (place statue head on statue)
Chapter 3
3. Main Deck (small room)
4. Fore Cabin
Chapter 4
5. Flip over blue rail (next to note Ayane gives you about paying attention to the
color blue)
6. 1, 2, or 3 Scarabs
Chapter 6
7. Monastery Annex
8. Underground Cemetery (upper area)
Chapter 7
9. Suspension bridge room
10. Monk's safe (second time)
Chapter 9
11. Military Warehouse (break box on floor)
12. Military Base (bottom of stairs in control room)
13. In chest after train wreck
Chapter 10
14. Hall of Balance 2 (in chest)
15. In worm hole after defeating two worms
16. Entrance to Underground Sanctuary (wall run across door)
Chapter 11
17. Moat of Zarkhan (next to save point)
18. Moat of Zarkhan (underwater labrynth, right before silver medallion)
Chapter 12
19. Room you fought Doku (upper level)
20. Room you fought Doku (upper level)
21. Break statue head with hammer
22. Underwater near Zarkhan Falls
23. Magma Cavern (Path of the Flame)
Chapter 13
24. After defeating Flame Dragon (Magma Cavern)
25. In chest after breaking door near Great Bridge (wall run)
26. Pyramid (in chest)
Chapter 14
27. Labrynth
Jewel Of The Demon Seal
Chapter 7
1. Suspension Bridge Room (throne)
Chapter 10
2. Aqueduct 3 (take elevator down)
Chapter 11
3. Monks safe (third time)
Chapter 12
4. Ice Cavern (after defeating ice beast)
Chapter 13
5. Hayabusa Village (break door with hammer)
6. Pyramid (light altar with Fire Ninpo)
Weapons
Chapter 2
1. Bow (Hayabusa village, same room as Masamura's shop icon)
Chapter 4
2. Nunchaku (found on dead ninja near clock tower)
3. Windmill Shuriken (alley near Han's Bar)
Chapter 6
4. Vigaroon Flail (Underground Cemetery; near Ritual Room)
Chapter 8
5. War Hammer (go back into Monastery after defeating Alma)
6. Strongbow (across from Military Gate, get there with Skull key)
Chapter 9
7. Dabilahro (received after 20 Scarabs)
Chapter 11
8. Speargun (on dead ninja near Masamura's shop icon)
Chapter 12
9. Kitetsu (pick up after defeating Doku)
Unlock safe in monk's room
To unlock the safe in the monk's room for the first time you need to enter this combination: press Analog-Stick Left until you reach "2", then press X. Press Analog-stick Right until "7", then press X. Press Analog-stick Right until "1", then press X. Press Analog-stick Left until "2", then press X. If done correctly, each time you press X a blue light should turn on, until you see four blue lights and the elevator to the underground cemetery opens. The combination is the Monk's birthday as he states in the diary (27th day on the 12th month). You can now get the Book Of The Eons from the safe.
Defeating Black Spider Ninjas
Jump off the wall and use the X attack to smash down on top off them. Use this repeatedly, but be careful of the incendiary shurikens that they throw.
Defeating Alma
To defeat Alma (red greater fiend), equip the Vigorian Flails. It is recommended that they be completely leveled up. With the Vigorian Flail, you can still hurt Alma greatly even when she is in the air. Note: The shuriken, incendiary shuriken, and bow cannot hurt her; they just bounce off.
Playing classic games easier
Instead of going to the first floor of Han's Bar, use the following trick to start the games from the main menu. Successfully complete the main game while any classic Ninja Gaiden disc is in Ryu's inventory. This will unlock another main menu option that will allow you to play the classic games from there, without going to Han's Bar.
Unlabored Flawlessness
Upgrade the wooden sword completely to receive its true form, the Unlabored Flawlessness. It is a large weapon which you swing like the war hammer and Dabilahro, and has a very powerful Ki attack. This weapon makes Boss fights easy.
Dabilahro Sword
Give 20 Scarabs to Muramasa. Note: In successive mode you do not get it again until you give 43 Scarabs to Muramasa.
Skip to Final Boss on level 16
On level 16, get to the boss, and lose to him. Now, continue, and get to the Dark Dragon Blade. During the cutscene when you get it, press start, and the cutscene where you go to the final boss will play.
Bat cash 2
Found another spot that you can do the bat cash trick. In chapter 12 there's an entrance to a bat cave that is hidden by a waterfall and on the other side of pool of water. To get to the cave look for three large stone heads and there's a save point to the left of the stone heads. Follow the stone heads to the pool of water and you will see the waterfall that is hiddening the entrance to the bat cave. Go through the waterfall and you be in a short tunnel and at the end is the bat cave. Jump down to the bat cave floor. Then start doing the bat cash by having your normal shuriken equiped. Kill two bats with the shuriken. And then press and hold the Y button to asorb the two yellow essence into ryu's sword. After you have asorbed the two essence into ryu's sword release the Y button to deliver ryu's ultimate attack. This results into each bat leaving a huge yellow essence gather them. This time around you do the trick probably 3 or 4 times before exiting the cave since this cave has a lot more bats in it. To exit do a wall run where you see the hole. Once back in the tunnel go to the waterfall and then turn around at the waterfall and head back to the cave and it will be filled with backs once more. And repeat this trick for about an hour and you will have the max cash the ryu can carry which is 99,999.
Bat cash
This is pretty simple. In chapter 6 once you get under the monastery. There's cave that has a very large number of bats in. Now the first time you are in the cave there these wierd red flying mutants. But after you beat the skeletal dragon. you'll see him in a frozen state. Anyways after you beat him. That cave becomes full of bats. Have your normal shuriken equiped. Kill two bats with the shuriken. And then press and hold the Y button to asorb the two yellow essence into ryu sword. After you have asorbed the two essence into ryu's sword release the Y button to deliver ryu's ultimate attack. This results into each bat leaving a huge yellow essence gather them. Leave the cave then enter the cave again. Then this trick all again. Keep repeating this trick for about an hour and your will reach the max cash ryu can carry witch is 99,999.
Futuristic Outfit
Complete the game on Normal or Hard difficulty and start a new game while holding L.
Evil Ryu
Complete the game on Very Hard.
Beat level three boss
Some players tend to have trouble with this boss mainly because of his massive power on attacks. Basically, he's equipped with a gigantic electric gun, that shoots out blasts of electrical charges in small intervals. What you should do is keep distance between him and yourself. Keep running in circles, but DO NOT jump (makes you an easier target). You can try rolling, but keep running in circles until he fires about 5 laser blasts. Suddenly, his gun will discharge, and it'll be jammed for a few seconds. Quickly sprint in, and lay down a few power slashes. If you want, you can also cast Ninpo magic to assist in causing more damage. Just repeat this strategy, and keep retreating/approaching. If you stay close too long, he'll grab you, and shoot you point blank with the weapon. Also, try to keep several potions on hand when facing him. You might take a few hard hits along the way. Aside from that though, he's not as challenging when compared to other bosses faced.
Ninja Gaiden II Passwords
Act I: A, A, B, X, Y, R
Act II: X, L, R, B, B, A
Act III: L, Y, B, A, R, R
Act IV: A, L, X, Y, Y, B
Act V: R, A, A, B, X, L
Act VI: Y, L, R, A, Y, R
Act VII: B, B, X, Y, A, L
Ninja Gaiden I Passwords
Act I: L, X, A, Y, A, X
Act II: A, X, X, R, Y, A
Act III: X, Y, B, R, L, X
Act IV: B, R, A, B, Y, Y
Act V: X, A, Y, X, L, L
Act VI: R, Y, R, L, A, X
Ninja Gaiden III Passwords
Act I: B, Y, R, L, X, A
Act II: A, R, R, Y, A, L
Act III: L, B, R, Y, L, Y
Act IV: R, R, B, A, Y, X
Act V: Y, A, B, X, R, X
Act VI: B, X, X, A, X, Y
Act VII: X, R, X, Y, Y, L
Easy Cash
Did this at the Clocktower in Tairon, but I'm sure it should work at any store. Simply go up the set of stairs marked by the blue border, and take care of the three enemies in the stairway. Now, go back down the stairs and return back up to kill the same three guys again. Collect the loot or health and repeat as desired! I found that if you use the Nunchaku, you can score around 30 or 40 hit combos, giving you up to 1,000 cash points at a time.
Retain Health with Kitetsu
While using the Kitetsu sword, equip the Tranquility Bracelet--earned by finding 40 scarabs--to counter the health drain effect of the sword.
Kill Rachel
This is a neat little thing I found. It turns out that you can kill Rachel when she's hanging above the pyramid before Alma V2, or in the volcano cave before Evil Murai. Just shoot her with an arrow and you'll get a game over.
Play Japanese Versions of Classic Ninja Gaiden Games
Put the Text and Subtitles to Japanese from the Options menu, and you can play the Japanese versions of the first 3 classic Ninja Gaiden games "Ninja Ryukenden".
Run on Water
Anywhere there is water, simply walk Ryu onto the water and then repeatedly tap the A button to run across the water.
Breathe Underwater
Approach a large body of water and just as you hit it tap A to run on the water. Keep running until you hit a wall and start sinking slowly. Eventually you will hit the bottom and if you keep running you will be able to breathe underwater.
How to beat 2nd boss
To beat the second boss you need the art of the inferno. Your just run up to him and jump and press y to stab down at him and keep repeating the Art of Inferno. The Art of Inferno should be equipped if not equipped, or it could equip automatically. Now you have to chop him up a little bit more until you beat him.
Easy Boss #1
The first boss you come to which is murai. You can't really attack head on. So go to one of the walls and face the wall and wait for murai to get close. Then do a wall run straight up the wall bye pressing A and then holding up on the anlog stick. Once you are above his head press A to jump off the and right after jumping off press X to deliver an attack to murai. Then as soon you reach the ground roll away. This won't always hit murai he'll dodge it sometimes. But the attack will hit about 70% of the time. Just keep repeating this process for an easy win.
Easy Ninja Gaiden 2/3 Trilogy Games
After getting access to Ninja Gaiden, play the game on very hard. When on Chapter 4 and you're in the Clock Tower Plaza you will see a door with a pink jewled eye. Above it will be a platform with a chest. Make you way up to the chest. Once there turn around and you should see the Clock Tower. Shoot the face of the clock with your arrows and another chest should appear next to you. Open to find (Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos). Ninja Gaiden 3: The Ancient Ship of Doom is in Chapter 10. Once you enter the Hall of Balance. Enter the door (not the one behind the waterfall) and when you get into the room run to the right and inbetween the two podeums do a Flying Bird Flip to reach the top. There you will find Ninja Gaiden 3 rather than the previous Scarab that was there. Whoever said you had to get Master Ninja in every level should have wished they known this !
Dark Dragon Blade
Start a new game with an already completed save file. Visit Muramasa's shop in Chapter 13 to find the blade.
Defeating Zombies
Use the diving Y attack that takes off their head. It will not kill them, but they will be blind.
Kill enemies quickly
To kill an enemy very fast, jump towards them fairly close using A, then quickly tap Y immediately before you hit them. You should either throw them with the guillotine throw or slice their heads off. If they keep trying to get off the ground, tap Y again to pin them down or cut their head off. This is useful when you need some extra money, are almost dead, or when you just simply want to get through the section quickly because of frustration.
Finishing kill
While a foe is on the ground, walk up to it and press Y. This will instantly kill almost any foe.
In-game reset
Press Start + Back during game play to return to the main menu.
Unlock Classic Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword Of Chaos mini-game
Get a "Master Ninja" rank in all levels under the normal difficulty setting.
Classic Ninja Gaiden 3: The Ancient Ship Of Doom mini game
Get a "Master Ninja" rank in all levels under the hard or very hard difficulty settings.
Unlock Classic Ninja Gaiden mini-game
Give 50 scarabs to Maramusa.
Special attack
Press Y + B to unleash a super attack that will seriously hurt anyone.
Special attack
Press Y + B to unleash a super attack that will seriously hurt anyone.
Alternate costume
Successfully complete the game under the normal difficult setting. Then, hold L while selecting the "New Game" option at the opening menu. Successfully complete the game under the very hard difficulty setting to unlock yet another costume.
Ultimate Wooden Sword
You must buy the wooden sword first and then rack up the essence to upgrade it completely (a little over the 99,999 essence you can hold at once so make a couple trips) it will change into something called "unlabored flawlessness". It will kill anything besides a boss with 2 good whacks.
Keep the Original Blue Ninja Costume
Highlight "New Game" and hold down the L + R triggers and press the A button. You will hear a scream to confirm entry. You will now keep the original blue costume that Hayabusa starts with beyond the second chapter.
Unlock Plasma Saber Mark II
Win the entire game on very hard difficulty.
Movie Gallery
Beat the game on Normal or Hard to unlock all CG movies.
Skip Cut-Scenes
You can skip most of the cut-scenes in Ninja Gaiden by pressing START, A, START.
Plasma Saber
Beat the game on Normal to unlock a new costume and plasma saber (Luke, you are now a ninja). To use the new costume, hold down the LEFT TRIGGER and select New Game.
Very Hard Difficulty
Beat the game once on Normal or Hard.