Narpas Sword



Narpas Sword is a famous password in Metroid that is, like JUSTIN BAILEY, purposefully built into the game and will not check with password generators. This is the password:

NARPAS SWORD0 000000 000000

All 0 characters are zero, except for the one O in sword. The zeros are optional, and may be excluded.

When used, Samus will be given infinite energy and Missiles, an altered Ice Beam, and every power-up in the game with the exception of Energy Tanks and Missile Expansions (which are not needed anyway, considering the infinite amount of ammo and energy). Samus still has to find and defeat both Kraid and Ridley, though.

It is interesting to note that when this password is used, the Ice Beam's projectiles are represented by the sprite for the Wave Beam projectiles, despite being colored like the Ice Beam and behaving exactly like the Ice Beam. This appears to be the result of trying to give Samus the Wave and Ice Beams simultaneously; obtaining the Wave Beam while using this password does nothing. The sprite is the same one used to make up the Wave Beam only rendered a different color. This combined sprite can be seen by selecting both the Ice Beam and the Wave Beam using a Metroid password editor.

Also, Samus' energy cannot go below 29, or above 39. While sometimes Samus will lose health if she gets hit, she will sometimes gain health if she is hit more.

There have been some debates on what the password stands for. Some players believe it refers to a "Narpas" sword, Narpa's Sword, or possibly even Narpas's Word. Others feel the password is properly read as "NAR Password", with several suggestions having been offered for the meaning of "NAR": an abbreviation for the name of the person who handled the conversion from the Famicom Disk System and designed the password system (Tohru Narihiro); an acronym for "North American Release"; or an acronym for "Not A Real", as in "Not A Real Password"