when the sreen loads you will see a two zeros

looks just like this 00 in the center of the screen

Press start if you want infinate battle lives if not choose how many lives between rounds

press left for 1 life, left again for 2 lives and so on. This goes up to 9

After 9 you reach the letter A. from there the letters go up ABCDEF

A=TEN B=ELEVEN C=TWELVE D=THIRTEEN E=FOURTEEN F=FITHTEEN after 0F you wind up with 10

10 does not = TEN 10= SIXTEEN

keep pressing left and it will read 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A

11=SEVENTEEN 12=EIGHTEEN 13=NINETEEN 14=TWENTY 15TWENTY ONE 16=TWENTY TEW 17=TWENTY THREE 18TWENTY FOUR 19TWENTY FIVE

then it displays 1A and 1A=TWENTY SIX. This contenues like this the whole way threw if you contenue to press left

If your into these higher numbers and do not want to spend a day getting there press up and the numbers on the left go up

the numbers are 123456789ABCDEF as well and this coresponds to the number listing as described above