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For MagMax the Pastebin has "Loops after second boss; there's a brief transition period and then you return to stage 1". The NES Ending FAQ has "beating Babylon the 2nd time in the metal city will constitute beating this game." but there is actually a hidden "meigetsu" message that appears after you've finished three loops on a single continue. Should the requirement be changed to completing three loops on a single continue?

I think I learned this when I was doing research for the game but since for the 5th loop there was no change and 6th loop was basically a combination of the criteria for the other loops, I decided to just stick with doing four loops. I may revisit this at some point as I like to try and always show games as complete as possible but I'll enviably miss some things and there will also always be new discoveries about these games being made.

This in interesting. Did you discover this? I did not know about this. I think I may have to go back and revisit this game for my personal Longplay project. So even if it doesn't change the contest, this is useful information for me!

I really glad you made this thread. I think there is sill a lot that can be fleshed out in deciding what constitutes beating many of the NES games. I really looking forward to the discussion about some of these. Two games that I think should be discussed are: Spelunker - Conceivably 4 loops can be required because they are slightly different (1st Loop - Orange: Normal Keys; 2nd Loop - Green: Invisible Keys; 3rd Loop - Grey: Jump to get Invisible Keys; 4th Loop - Gold: Fire Flair to get Invisible Keys). Here is my Longplay on YouTube showing these different loops: Sqoon - Loops after 8 phases but there is a second loop that has a different background. Here is my Longplay on YouTube:

Maybe instead of changing this thread to perpetual have a new thread instead for just the gamed that weren't beaten this year? Looks like there are 567 games on the list. Only 77 were beaten this year. Remove those from the list for next year and have a thread fro the remaining 490 games? Keep doing this for each subsequent year until the library is complete. Points would be reset each year so it would be a fresh competition each year which will hopefully renew interest every January.

I've been lurking a long time and have enjoyed following this thread. Seeing the system complete finally got me to sign up for an account so I could congratulate all of you for this accomplishment! Great job! I am looking forward to seeing a ranking thread in the coming year. I will be interesting to see what everyone thinks is not only the best but also what are the worst N64 games.