Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Turns out a I just needed some sleep and to regroup. Today's session went a lot better. Winning run only used a single continue too! That last boss rush is so easy compared to the 5 levels leading up to it. Space Harrier is beaten. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Haven't had much time to play lately. Finally did today and sat down with Aero Blasters for a bit. Seems alright so far. I was a bit worried about it, but after Raiden, R-Type, Space Harrier, Psychosis and Dragon Spirit recently it doesn't seem like it'll be too bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Made it to stage 6 (final stage) twice in a row tonight. Stage 5 is eating up most of my lives. If I can get a good run through 5 I probably have a good chance at this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Aero blasters is that game that would kick my ass and I wouldnt even mind. I would just say "Okay game, you win. Thank you." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Making it to stage 6 fairly consistently now. Had one run to the final boss, but only had one life so he clobbered me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Finally had a good run and had enough extra lives to get through the final stage on Aero Blasters. Tried the second loop and its mostly the same except they made the weakest enemies in each stage invincible which is kind of funny and super hard to deal with. Also the bullets were faster. Thankfully it is the same ending even if you do a second loop so I don't think it is required to call this beaten. Pretty tough game, but not too frustrating outside of just a couple spots. That's it for shmups on the system now too! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Time Cruise sucks so much. Whoever came up with the idea that all the Pinball games need the scores maxed out was an idiot. My last 2 runs of Time Cruise ended at 60,000,000 and 70,000,000 out of the required 99,999,9999. And then I have to do Alien Crush afterwards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 What people think makes TG16 hard - tons of hard shmups What actually makes TG16 hard - pinball. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 So I'm 100,000,000 points into Alien Crush now. Guess that's going to be my week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Just lost all my balls 4 hours into Alien Crush..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 50 minutes ago, Crabmaster2000 said: Just lost all my balls 4 hours into Alien Crush..... Holy shit. That's insane. You have my sympathy. That goal of 1 billion points sounds absolutely unreasonable. Is that really necessary? I can't even find anything even remotely close to that goal on Youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzeshield | 293 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 1 hour ago, Gaia Gensouki said: Holy shit. That's insane. You have my sympathy. That goal of 1 billion points sounds absolutely unreasonable. Is that really necessary? I can't even find anything even remotely close to that goal on Youtube. Apparently that is indeed what's required for the ending: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Alien_Crush I've linked the video below. 10 hours of gameplay!! Yikes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 2 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said: Holy shit. That's insane. You have my sympathy. That goal of 1 billion points sounds absolutely unreasonable. Is that really necessary? I can't even find anything even remotely close to that goal on Youtube. It was good learning experience to not ever goof around or Stray from the safe path. Gotta stay focused and attentive the whole time. I'm back around 130,000,000 point in less time work 9 balls stocked up (the max). Just gotta grind now and not make the same mistakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I'm at 172,000,000 and I just lost all my balls but 2. Got it paused and just need to step away for a bit I think. If I lose it here I'm gonna need some time to regroup. I think I'm about 5 hours in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Thankfully was able to recover myself. Currently have it paused at 250,000,000 with 9 balls. Gonna have to leave my system on overnight and do what I can again tomorrow. Super worried about the system freezing or some kind of power outage. Even with all the NES game I've beaten this is a new kind of tension. When I was down to 2 balls left I was so stressed. I've restarted long RPGs or Strategy games after putting a dozen hour into them, but when it's a game like this with no safety net (saves/passwords/warps) it's a whole new kind of stress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Couldn't sleep so I got up super early and put 4 more hour in. Had a moment where I was down to my last ball and was able to turn it around again. Extremely stressful. Now paused at just under 400,000,000 with 8 balls 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 (edited) Another 9 ball to last ball scare and now paused at 480,000,000 with 9 balls. This game is going to turn my hair white, and give me a heart attack and an ulcer Edited February 27 by Crabmaster2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Every time I'm ready to take a break and pause I have to use a ton of mental effort to fight my urge to turn the machine off when I shut my TV off. I don't want burn in on my CRT so I keep turning it off when I'm paused, but I've always shut them off together so I have to fight that muscle memory. I also have a new fear that I'll hit run and select together by accident and reset the machine. No low ball scares this time. Roughly 520,000,000 point now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Trying to barrel through as much as I can. 590,000,000 now. No near misses. Feels live I've got a decent handle on it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 650,000,000 for today. Getting to tired to trust my reflexes so it'll have to stay on overnight again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) Just grinding today for as much as I can before getting the kids and work. No scares today and kept my extra balls at 6 at my lowest. Paused again at 800,000,000. Not sure I'll have time to finish today. Might have to keep it paused over night once more and try to finish tomorrow. Edited February 28 by Crabmaster2000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Got it done!! Alien Crush is beaten and was a very unique experience. What a ridiculous goal to beat a game that has like no tools to help you get to that goal. Just checked my videos for my total play time over the last 4 days. Just over 27 hours of gameplay to finish Alien Crush. Pretty proud of my old TG16 console for chugging along for 4 days straight without any issues at all. Was a pretty mentally grueling thing to do. Very glad I'll never have to do that again. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHCGreg | 111 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Wow! How does Alien Crush compare to Devil's Crush? Is it easier to get extra balls? I recently beat Dragon's Fury on Genesis which is a port of Devil's Crush. I used the password feature to save scum my way to the max score and beat the boss. There's no way I could have done that without save scumming. My best score without scumming was only 91.9 mil, a long way from a billion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 (edited) 1 hour ago, LHCGreg said: Wow! How does Alien Crush compare to Devil's Crush? Is it easier to get extra balls? I recently beat Dragon's Fury on Genesis which is a port of Devil's Crush. I used the password feature to save scum my way to the max score and beat the boss. There's no way I could have done that without save scumming. My best score without scumming was only 91.9 mil, a long way from a billion. Alien Crush gives much less in points and has no saves or passwords like Devil's Crush. Getting extra balls in Alien Crush is a long procedure of loading up the Aliens eyes before entering its mouth (or the shell thing at the top if you can light all his eyes too). Table also isn't quite as complex. And the music loops after like 20 seconds which kind of sucks when you have to put 27 hours in. Think I had about 15 hours into Devil's Crush, but like you I could save scum so it wasn't hard. Edited March 1 by Crabmaster2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Beat Davis Cup Mode in Davis Cup Tennis. Just want to try Championship mode as well before calling it beaten since I can't find any videos showing if it has a different ending or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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