bronzeshield

Ah, that's Devil's Crush/Dragon's Fury, right?

Glad to do it! One thing: you can get the traders to change their offerings by hitting a fairly obscure key combination -- something like hold A + press up and down.

This wasn't obvious to me when I first played through No Escape and I thought the options were much fewer, but the SNES version has a dedicated button for it and I realized I'd been missing out on a lot of possible trades.

When I beat No Escape there were no video playthroughs on YouTube, walkthroughs, or anything. Figuring out the crafting mechanics myself was fun, though I never did build a working gun!

Pssst...hey, @Jeevan, any chance the first post could be updated? I'm in the mood to beat more PlayStation games and it's very motivating to see my victories (and others' too) crossed off the list.

Trying to decide what to tackle next. I've been playing around with a few:

• Mortal Kombat: Special Forces (ridiculously hard to see, it's so dark)
• Eagle One: Harrier Attack (that intro FMV is amazing)
• M&Ms: Shell Shocked (shovelware Crash Bandiclone)
• Roland Garros: French Open 2001 (yikes)
• Chocobo's Dungeon 1 (fan translation of Japanese exclusive, probably not eligible here but it's a decent "roguelite" and I've found it mildly entertaining)

I scanned the Genesis manual for No Escape ages ago and it ought to be somewhere out there...

Or, heck, here it is -- I think I got Preview to export it under the forum size limit.

I actually like No Escape! The beginning is terrible but once you get the hang of it, it's surprisingly deep, with trading and item creation mechanics. The combat is weak but the stage design is kind of interesting. And it's got two different and totally distinct ways to beat the game, with separate endings.

Also it's noticeably better on the Genesis, IMHO. The way the SNES version starts out is ridiculous, and the Genesis is much more manageable.

No Escape manual [reduced size PDF].pdf

Sampras Extreme Tennis is done:

I played Tournament mode, which consists of eight rounds at different venues, ending in a match with Sampras. That's clearly the game's main mode (or equivalent of Career mode, etc.). You have to beat it twice, as the first time unlocks the Super tournament.

This one wasn't released in the US, only Japan and Europe. I played the PAL version on real hardware as, apparently, my Sanyo CRT will accept a 50Hz signal. Who knew? At least on this PAL version, it definitely plays a lot better at 50Hz vs. the forced 60Hz mode you can enable with certain boot discs.

1 hour ago, mbd39 said:

Warriors of Rome II

Well done, it is indeed Warrior of Rome II. A fun game!

22 hours ago, Red said:

Anyone else playing anything?  @RetroMichel, how's Boxyboy going?  Looks like your were almost done...a year and a half ago.  @bronzeshield, make any attempts at Davis Cup Tennis, Double Dungeons, Hit the Ice, or Moto Roader?

No progress to report but I have been thinking about it lately, especially Double Dungeons and Moto Roader. It shouldn't be hard to clear the second circuit in Moto Roader and get the ending credits, though it's demotivating that I'll have to play so many more races to call the game beaten for my own list (if that makes sense).

45 minutes ago, Khromak said:

Just beat blaster master on famicom. I've beaten it before on NES but recently acquired the famicom cart because of the regional differences. I've gotta say, this time around i definitely would've had to start over from the beginning if i was playing the nes version.

The Famicom version has unlimited continues, right? Blaster Master is on my list of games to beat legitimately (though the pause trick is arguably fair game) and the Famicom version would be a good way to practice. The pattern on the final boss looks really nasty to me. It's a beautiful game but desperately needs a password system.

Not Civ II or Tyrants, but those are good guesses!

...well, I'm quite sure that I'm right, so I'll go ahead with mine:

6 hours ago, srbossman79 said:

Here's one for you all.  Good luck.

That's Whomp 'Em, isn't it?

I beat Aces of the Air last night. It's total Simple 1500 Series shovelware, but there's something charming about it and there are certainly worse ways to spend a couple hours. Still, it's not very good.

By the way, the win screen is just ""Congratulations - ALL MISSION COMPLETED" as you see in this YouTube video below (not mine). The original Simple 1500 release in Japan had a credits crawl, so naturally they just hacked it out for the North American localization. 

3 hours ago, G-type said:

(The Adventures of) Captain Comic! One of my favorite unlicensed NES games. (Maybe my favorite.)

5 hours ago, G-type said:

Pilotwings for SNES, I think?

Dammit, I knew I knew that one! Got stuck thinking it was a Tengen or Atari (arcade) game of some kind. I've played way too much Tapper to forgive myself for that. 

8 hours ago, Floating Platforms said:

160    Simpsons: Bart vs. The Juggernauts, The

Fortunately, Bart vs. the Juggernauts isn't that bad. Once you figure out how the game works, it's not difficult to beat --I think both times I cleared it, it took one day of practice and then I beat it the next time I picked it up.

(Don't get me wrong, it's not a great game, but it's not unplayable jank either.)

29 minutes ago, koifish said:

I don't think that I've seen a scan for Nobunaga's Ambition or for Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball. That's why I went and bought my own manuals for those two.

Incidentally, I never did make more progress in Big Hurt. I should go back to that.

I've got Nobunaga -- I think it's the only monochrome GB game I own CIB, actually! -- but I see that Floating Platforms's archive also has it. That comes as a relief, since I keep forgetting that my scanner doesn't work with my new OS!

What Game Boy manuals haven't been scanned? I have about 100, could see if I have any of the ones needed. They can indeed be quite tough to find, especially sports games.

Just to keep things on track (and in case it helps @Splain), here are the 16 games beaten since the first post was last updated:

Baseball (cj_robot)
Donkey Kong Land 2 (Tantalus)
Double Dragon (MegaMan52)
Dragon's Lair: The Legend (Floating Platforms)
Extra Bases (cj_robot)
Final Fantasy Legend II (Floating Platforms)
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB (Floating Platforms)
Kirby's Dream Land (MegaMan52)
Kirby's Dream Land 2 (MegaMan52)
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (MegaMan52)
Mega Man II (MegaMan52)
Mega Man V (twiztor)
Oddworld Adventures (Floating Platforms)
Pyramids of Ra (Floating Platforms)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Floating Platforms)
Super Mario Land (MegaMan52)

I think Ultimate Stuntman has infinite continues. Need to get back to that one!

Reminds me intensely of Caliber .50 on the Genesis but I don't think it's that.

6 hours ago, Red said:

That's from the best street brawler on NES, Bad Street Brawler!

Ah, hell, that crossed my mind! Had a feeling it was a beat-'em-up. I didn't know the game well enough to place it, but now that I do a search it comes right up.

Makes me think of Phantom Fighter for some reason.

Milon's Secret Castle is done:

I can appreciate what they were trying to do, but the game just never becomes fun for me. Milon's slow horizontal momentum is the main culprit, I think.

4 hours ago, scaryice said:

There's an argument to be made that since I've allowed people to count a version from another region (like someone playing a Famicom cart instead of an NES cart), then maybe the Japanese manual's code should be accepted? Hmm... Well, I'm pretty sure you can beat it without continuing. I tried playing it a little while ago and made it to level 4 twice, I think? It doesn't seem too rough until there, at least once I realized the wings existed.

Yeah, I can make it to 4-2 or 4-3 with no problem. 4-3 is the real bottleneck in the game, though I played it a lot when I beat the game with the continue code so I know it fairly well by now. The biggest problem is that the platforming is so janky (mainly since you can't ever actually stand still), and if you miss or lose the wings...