mbd39 | 2,030 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 20 hours ago, Khromak said: Conquest of the crystal palace is done. The hardest part of this game is the spike ceiling and the two final bosses. This time, I got the spike ceiling on the second try or so, first final boss on second try, and final boss on the first try. Because of this, it was WAY faster than any other clear I've ever done. It's a fun enough game, but some sections are kinda BS unless you know some tricks I remember having to do a lot of farming for money on the last level which became tedious. There's a secret move where if you attack while changing direction you deliver a much more powerful sword blow. This does quick work against he final bosses and that's how I was able to beat it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khromak | 770 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 21 minutes ago, mbd39 said: I remember having to do a lot of farming for money on the last level which became tedious. There's a secret move where if you attack while changing direction you deliver a much more powerful sword blow. This does quick work against he final bosses and that's how I was able to beat it. Oh yeah, this basically describes my previous attempts. Spending a long time farming money so I could buy the (increasingly expensive) extra lives to get a bunch of attempts in a row. Then dying 3-5x in a row on one of those 3 (spike ceiling and 2 bosses) and going back to the start, with no money, expensive extra lives, a small health bar, and having to go through the whole palace again. This time I was really fortunate. I still had a small health bar which was sketchy AF for the bosses, but I got through that section with just the ~5 lives I had the money to buy. I definitely took major advantage of the "back slash" by turning around after slashing. Learned that trick from a speedrunner/guide video online when I was getting blasted by that end section some time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Mad Max is done. What a tough game. Especially the final boss is still a run-killer for me. Even after having beaten this game two or three times already I'm still always on the edge when fighting him. And if you die during the fight you have to go back two levels and replay roughly 20 minutes or so until you get another chance against him. 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriGuy82 | 797 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Working on flight of the intruder. Haven't played it in a while. Almost beat it on my first try. I just wasted a bunch of lives remembering how to land the jet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,204 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Just here to look at @BriGuy82 avatar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriGuy82 | 797 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 28 minutes ago, skinnygrinny said: Just here to look at @BriGuy82 avatar Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Short Order / Eggsplode is done. Finding space to put my Power Pad down was longer and harder than beating this for the first time. I'll continue working on Power Pad games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 World Class Track Meet is done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 (edited) Dragon Power is done. I started over from the beginning to get that power-up from Shen Long, so that I can have 250 max health. However, due to the randomness of the health items even that didn't help too much, because I just would barely get any health power-ups until I eventually died. Ultimately, I had a really lucky run just now where I got two cakes in the last level, i.e. restoring 100 points of my health each. So it was more dumb luck combined with a bit of skill, that made me win the game. The luck factor is definitely what ruins this game for me. It would have been an okay game otherwise, but this kills any interest for me in replaying Dragon Power anytime soon. Also, notice the shameless plug at the end. Edited March 5 by Gaia Gensouki 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzeshield | 293 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 1 hour ago, Gaia Gensouki said: Ultimately, I had a really lucky run just now where I got two cakes in the last level, i.e. restoring 100 points of my health each. That sounds identical to my own winning run! Maybe that's what it takes to win this game, as simple as that -- favorable RNG, with little hope otherwise. Speaking of randomness, did you ever trigger the weird cutscene in Level 3 that restores your health? I only ever got it once, but on this one occasion, out of nowhere the game cut to an exterior scene of a building or something like that, while the palette shifted to mimic a sunset. Then I was kicked back into the main area with full health. It was the oddest thing, and I've never seen it documented anywhere! And I have no idea what triggered it, though I have some vague memory that it came after being indoors somewhere. I've played that level dozens of times, at least, and only that once did it happen (on an emulator FWIW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 3 hours ago, bronzeshield said: Speaking of randomness, did you ever trigger the weird cutscene in Level 3 that restores your health? I only ever got it once, but on this one occasion, out of nowhere the game cut to an exterior scene of a building or something like that, while the palette shifted to mimic a sunset. Then I was kicked back into the main area with full health. No, I don't think I ever got that one and I had to repeat Level 3 quite a lot. Would be interesting to replicate that however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khromak | 770 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Faxanadu is done! I remembered I have a NES to famicom converter so I played on my twin famicom, but the colors seemed slightly off. Played fine though and I'm back on CRT baby! Anyway there's not much to say about this one, I've done it a few times before, it's alright. The key mechanics would make a blind play quite frustrating I think, but I don't really enjoy blind plays anyway so no skin off my nose 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khromak | 770 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Related to my earlier post, checked with some other consoles and it seems the colors are just off on my TV, so that's fun! Took off the shell to put together a list of capacitors and noticed a wire was loose. Decided I'm going to do the cap kit anyway so the TV is out of commission for a while. I'll probably still try to make progress on either The Bard's Tale or Bases Loaded using my flat panel for the time being. I can't catch a break this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie | 927 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Also what are the conditions for Gold Medal Challenge? I don't own the game, but I've played it a lot with friends. Is it just to come as #1 with the most medals at the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 3 hours ago, guitarzombie said: Also what are the conditions for Gold Medal Challenge? I don't own the game, but I've played it a lot with friends. Is it just to come as #1 with the most medals at the end? That's right. Just gotta have the highest medal count at the end. Hope your good at button mashing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie | 927 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 1 hour ago, Crabmaster2000 said: That's right. Just gotta have the highest medal count at the end. Hope your good at button mashing! Is that why its so tough? I always played it against my friend and we used turbo buttons. Also I have NO idea how to win the Marathon. Neither of us have ever gotten close to beating it. I thought I did last time I played it but somehow came in like 4th. Its RIGGED!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Sorry if this is a dumb question, but with Greg Norman's Golf Power, do you have to get on par or is it enough to just play a round of 18 holes? My best result so far was +10 at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Super Team Games is done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khromak | 770 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 (edited) I messed around with bases loaded for a little bit, but the batters were hitting my "perfect pitches" about 25% of the time, so I think I wasn't doing it quite right. I also couldn't get a single run in like 4 innings so it seems I suck at batting. I'll probably come back to it later, but for now, I started up my bard's tale party, naming them after the top 6 in the current standings. Funny enough, the wizard ended up being a wizard, and guitar ended up being a Bard. Edited March 6 by Khromak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 (edited) Athletic World is done. This one was the hardest of the running games for sure. Edited March 6 by nerdynebraskan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 On 1/25/2024 at 2:17 PM, McBryce said: Anyone have any tips/strategies for Bases Loaded 3 and 4? I’m trying to take them both down this year. I’ve played a few games of 3 and gotten absolutely nowhere. It's time for a wellness check! How is this going for you? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 597 Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 16 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said: Sorry if this is a dumb question, but with Greg Norman's Golf Power, do you have to get on par or is it enough to just play a round of 18 holes? My best result so far was +10 at the end. Yeah, that's all we've required. I'll go ahead and mark you down for it then. I've played the game a few times, and last time I decided to play against a cpu opponent and beat them. But, you can just give yourself a huge handicap so it isn't any harder. Maybe we should require something like that in the future, still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 597 Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 14 hours ago, nerdynebraskan said: Athletic World was done. This one was the hardest of the running games for sure. Thanks for taking out all the Power Pad games! Dance Arobics next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie | 927 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Gah! I got to the 2nd to last level of Last Starfighter and choked! But to be honest the first part of Level 14 is the hardest probably in the whole game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 2 hours ago, scaryice said: Yeah, that's all we've required. I'll go ahead and mark you down for it then. I just used standard setting, basically just pressing A when the game menu appears. At the end it looked like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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