Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Just 2 Dungeons left to go, but they are getting so much bigger and longer now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Double Dungeons is finished. It plays so crazy fast for a dungeon crawler! The final dungeon is MASSIVE, but because the speed of the game it really didn't take all that much longer than the few dungeons that preceded it. I was bracing for something a lot longer. If you thoroughly explore each dungeon then by the time you make it to the boss you will absolutely clobber them. The 2nd to last boss died for me in 2 or 3 hits because I was so over-leveled and well equipped. It was a fun game. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 World Sports Competition is done. I like these kinds of game so I had a pretty good time with it. Very similar to Track & Field II on the NES where you get saves/passwords after every 3 events. Having a turbo function on the controller is a massive help compared to NES games like this though, much easier with that for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Anyone ever beat the 2nd loop of Pac Land? I was working on it tonight and got stuck on level 25. I can't even find any videos of someone beating it on YouTube. The stage is brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 On 11/24/2023 at 7:30 PM, Crabmaster2000 said: Anyone ever beat the 2nd loop of Pac Land? I was working on it tonight and got stuck on level 25. I can't even find any videos of someone beating it on YouTube. The stage is brutal. I beat it yesterday. For a game that has unlimited continues, extremely short stages, very generous checkpoints and a decent amount of lives they really cranked up the difficulty in levels 25-32 of that second loop to make up for all of that. Level 25 in particular is one of the cruelest stages I've ever played in my life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 More Ending information: Darkwing Duck: Defeat F.O.W.L.s Crime Machine (must complete the puzzle to gain access to final stage) Double Dungeons: Defeat Vandess (must beat first 21 dungeons to obtain the code to access the 22nd and final dungeon) Fantasy Zone: Defeat the Chief of the Enemy Forces Pac Land: Beat Stage 32 on the 2nd Loop Turrican: Defeat MORGUL and escape level 4-2 World Sports Competition: Finish the 12th day of Olympic Mode 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 Not sure what the consensus is on the Pac Land win condition being one or both loops. Since the ending is slightly different on the 2nd loop I'd personally consider it a different ending and therefor necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 Been neglecting sports games again so I went through World Class Baseball today. It was fine, nothing very special about it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 Been messing around with TV Sports Basketball. It's a very frustrating game. There is no way to shorten the game length and it takes over an hour to finish each league game. There is absolutely no music at all for that hour other than the title screen which makes for a boring play. I also can't figure out a way to take advantage of the CPU like in most sports games so the games themselves are pretty tough and you can suddenly lose an hour into the game. Gonna be a slow slog. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 (edited) Had two games in a row that I blew a lead in the final couple minutes to lose by a single point. That sucked a lot. BUT I think I may have finally figured out a better method. Just won with a 40 point lead. Hopefully have some time tomorrow to try it again and see if it's something I can replicate or if it was a fluke. Edited November 30, 2023 by Crabmaster2000 Speld bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Won a second game today by 30 points. I think I got this down now unless the finals have a better CPU or something 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 Got through the main league and am in the Championships now. Looks like I have to win a best of 3 against the number 2 seeded team, then the 3rd and 4th place teams do the same (I don't think I have to watch those games to completion, but we'll see). And then one more best of 3 for the finals to be done with this one. Luckily it seems like the challenge the computers put up is randomly attached to each team and doesn't actually reflect their placement in the standings. I got beat by the 7th place team pretty bad, but stomped the 2nd place team already in the league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 Finally finished the League on TV Sports Basketball. What a slow game with no way to reduce the length of the quarters, and lots of pauses on the timer during play it took around an hour and ten minutes to play each of the 10 games in the league and then another 4 games for the championship rounds. There is NO music during the game so you just get to hear the dribbling of the ball and the rebound off the backboard when you miss for many many hours. They did have some fun with the character names though. My star player in the final game was Burnin Whang. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Gonna work on Power Golf next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Power Golf is done. Took up way more of my day than I intended it to. The CPU was tough, but not unbeatable as they occasionally made some errors. The hardest part is getting the aiming right as it moves quite quickly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Started working on TV Sports Football now. Seems like the same setup as TV Sports Basketball with a 10 games season followed by 2 best of 3 championship rounds. Won my first game on my first try in about 35 minutes though so hopefully this'll take me half the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 This one is going to be easy! You can pick a team that has fast players and your running plays are nearly untouchable. I went with the Thunderbolts and the only team that can keep up are the Infernos. As long as they don't make the Championships it'll be a cake walk..... and I can ensure they don't make the Championships because you unlike TV Sports Basketball you have to simulate each game you're not playing in separately. So if I don't like the outcome of a match I can just put in my previous password and simulate matches again until I get the outcome I want. The Rhinos are a big strong team, but they are very slow so an easy win for the Thunderbolts. Just have to make sure I play the Rhinos in the finals and I'll be done in no time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Done with TV Sports Football now. It's weird that you get a credit roll after every single league game except the Championship game. You just get this splash screen and nothing else when you beat the game. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Started Takin' it to the Hoop. Did the first game in the League mode. Seems like it's going to be easy, but there is not password or saves so I'll need to set aside several hours one day to play through it consecutively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Beat League Mode today on Takin it to the Hoop. Hopefully get the Tournament Mode done sometime in the next couple days as well. It was long with no way to break. Took me about 4 and a half straight hours of play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Beat both League mode and Tournament mode in Takin' It To The Hoop to see if they had different endings, they do not so I feel like just one or the other should be fine to consider this one beaten. It was SO easy against the CPU, the games are just long and slow. I ended up just shooting for ridiculous 3 pointers and then stealing the ball back before the opponents got a chance to shoot to speed up the game since the timer wouldn't stop as much that way. Really unimpressed with the sports games on the TG16 so far. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Started working on Timeball. Not sure how much the later levels ramp up in difficulty/time consumption, but I made it to level 30 out of 100 in about 2-3 hours, so not too bad so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Crabmaster2000 said: Started working on Timeball. Not sure how much the later levels ramp up in difficulty/time consumption, but I made it to level 30 out of 100 in about 2-3 hours, so not too bad so far. The hardest levels in the game are from around where you are until level 89. So basically it seems the devs put a solid effort into levels 1-30ish, then started to run out of time so then worked on levels 90-100, and for all the levels in between you can tell they didnt have time to make sure there was a reasonable increase in difficulty and probably just made them all as fast as possible and just had guys working in shifts to eventually complete the levels to prove they were actually possible to complete. As far as I can tell I'm one of two people on the internet who have beaten this game and the Japanese guy who also did it changed the settings to make the ball move slower. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Andykin Skysk8r said: The hardest levels in the game are from around where you are until level 89. So basically it seems the devs put a solid effort into levels 1-30ish, then started to run out of time so then worked on levels 90-100, and for all the levels in between you can tell they didnt have time to make sure there was a reasonable increase in difficulty and probably just made them all as fast as possible and just had guys working in shifts to eventually complete the levels to prove they were actually possible to complete. As far as I can tell I'm one of two people on the internet who have beaten this game and the Japanese guy who also did it changed the settings to make the ball move slower. Did you beat it prior to this challenge then? I didn't see you on the list as having completed it. Do you happen to have a link to video of either your playthrough or this Japanese fellows? I'd love to have some help through some of the trickier stages for when I get stuck. So far I haven't needed anything, but it sounds like it may bet rough from your description. I did a quick search and there didn't seem to be much info for Timeball online. Edited December 11, 2023 by Crabmaster2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 (edited) More ending information for the Spreadsheet: Ninja Spirit - Defeat The Evil One (stage 7) Power Golf - Beat the CPU in a Match game Somer Assault - Defeat The Creator Takin' It To The Hoop - Win either Tournament or League Mode with any team (same ending in both) TV Sports Basketball - Win the League Mode with any team TV Sports Football - Win the League Mode with any team World Class Baseball - Beat the Champs in Pennant Mode Edited December 11, 2023 by Crabmaster2000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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