Andykin Skysk8r

Less than 3 months in and 630 games already done? lol People really love NES. 

What people think makes TG16 hard - tons of hard shmups

What actually makes TG16 hard - pinball. 

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."

Haven't played it in ages but from what I remember it was just about learning the levels like most shmups. 

For whatever reason Dragon Spirits was often a go-to game for me and my friends when we were drunk at 3am as teenagers. Good times, its a really fun game.

5 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

Had a really lucky run just now and R-Type is done! As usual had a flawless run up to Stage 6 and then promptly smashed myself into the first wall in the whole level. The last Stage is incredibly difficult if you don't have both options available and very easy if you do. I only knew about options on Stages 1, 4 and 7. Since I died at 6 I was expecting to go into Stage 8 with just one. I didn't realize that during the boss fight in Stage 7 that amongst all the junk that is getting tossed at you it can also throw the occasional power up. In fact I didn't even see it drop me an extra option during the fight and only when the fight was over and the game automatically moves you to the center of the screen did I pick it up by default. Boy was that exciting to go into Stage 8 with and thankfully I didn't screw it up. 

Are you a streamer of any kind? Typically only streamers can just grind on and on for months like this.

20 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

Messed around with R-Type tonight to see what I'm dealing with. Not too terrible so far. Lots of power ups, 3 continues, additional options, can use the one upgrade as either an option or a shield on the front or the back. I made it to stage 5 without much trouble. Unless there's something crazy in one of the final levels it's just gonna be a matter or learning a few enemy patterns and knowing which power ups are the most useful in which areas.

If I remember right the last stage has a bit of annoying slowdown but you should be fine. Have you finished Sinistron yet? Its not as bad as Sinistron imo. 

Bonk 3 being on the list is funny. Its like if SMB 3 was one of the last 100 games to be beaten in an NES challenge. Not sure what Battle Royale is but of the other 10 games 8 are fairly awesome.

Falcon is the flight sim nobody likes right? If you have the patients for it you should be able to handle Gunboat, the other military sim nobody likes lol

I think I remember playing Super Volleyball, finding it super hard to control and getting crushed by the computers, then later being impressed when Chris from Turboviews beat it. Though I might be mixing it up with a different volleyball game. 

8 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

Not sure I follow your math

Oops, this is why I shouldnt be posting at 3am 

So 8 games left and a lot of them are really good.

22 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

It's not that bad, it's just kinda boring, haha.

In my experience the boring games that are moderately skill demanding are always harder to get through than a fun game that demands a lot of skill. I'll always be more impressed with the guy who beat PGA than the guy who beats Contra or whatever.

Don't count the chickens before they hatch, PGA Golf is a deadly adversary. 

14 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

 

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. 

I did it in May 2020 so before the challenge started. The Japanese guy played on some obscure Japanese video website, all his videos had like 5 views. I made a video but only of the final level: 

12 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

Not sure how I missed this comment, but I made sure no cheats or glitches (or third party peripherals) for any games. Originally I had used the stairs glitch in Ghostbusters, but I went back and did it legitimately because that didn't sit right with me. 

I imagine Ikari Warriors was not fun lol

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. 

13 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

Tangentially related to this thread:

I'm currently working on Neutopia and when I'm finished with it that'll be game 47 for my personal list and half of the library done!

Both it and its sequel are classic. The music is stuck in my head still all these years later. Still waiting on Neutopia 3, it'll happen one day!

The best part of the game is the end of the 2nd loop, because its a funny pun lol Deep Blue is not so bad when you realize its not a shoot em up, its an avoid em up. The art is to just survive. 

On 10/14/2023 at 2:03 PM, Crabmaster2000 said:

Beat Silent Debuggers. I played it a long time ago and don't think I really understood the game. Now that I sat down with it and figured it out, it was REALLY cool. Pretty deep survival horror game. A few weapons to mess around with, good sense of creepy atmosphere, the blocks of the station being attacked and sealed off if you fail to defend them is pretty tense (I had the block that controls the lights go out so I had to play the last couple stages in the dark which was awesome). Cool game

I played on Normal, but I checked a Hard playthrough on youtube and they have the same ending either way. 

Wow I totally forgot about this game. Huge win, this one is tough as nails. 

Not sure what the win conditions are for Donpachi, but if struggling through it with 19 credits counts as a win Ill take it lol

Edit: Improved that to 16 credits.

7 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

I've played through and recorded my footage of every NES game on orignal hardware. I plan to do the same for TG16. So I want to figure out a way to make it work legit, no save states or emulation or anything like that. 

 

I have no problem with someone using an emulator, but I do feel like if you are using save states that's not in the spirit of this challenge to beat the games legitimately 

You will have to go old school and leave the system on overnight, hope for no power outages, and hope no people or animals bump into it. 

On 10/2/2023 at 11:20 AM, Crabmaster2000 said:

I just checked out the Ris'Hary guy's stuff that posted in here a while back. He originally "beat" the game by just beating each of the 4 mini-games. He did go back and go for the billion points though and has a clocked time of 33 hours to do so. I'll take longer look at his video later to see what his scoring strategies are, but even at 33 hours that's rough without no way to save or stop the machine. I typically record all of my videos for these completions, but I can't record 30-40 hours straight so I'll have to figure something out for that to make it feasible. 

You could just play for two hours a day then pause it until the next day, and emulators are allowed you could even make emergency savestates to use if the program ever crashed. 

On 9/18/2023 at 11:33 AM, Crabmaster2000 said:

Alien Crush....so I spent an hour and a half on it a couple days ago and got 30,000,000 points. At that rate it would take me 50 hours to score 1 billion points. I can't find much info on it online in regards to playing the game. 

 

Most Pinball games have some kind of setup that payout a big score in the form of a jackpot. Anyone know if Alien Crush has something like that? 

 

I've been able to clear 3 of the 4 bonus games so far and they award 300,000/500,000/700,000 so I'm assuming the one I havnt cleared is 1,000,000 since the regular enemies in it are worth more than the regular enemies in the other bonus games. I need something that scores FAR more than 1,000,000 though to make 1 billion points feasible on a realistic amount of time

About Alien Crush, the playthroughs on youtube are 45-55 mins long, so there must be some kind of multiplier trick. 

Good luck on JJ & Jeff. I remember having a few good rage quits on that one back in the day but did clear it eventually.