BriGuy82

25K!

22 hours ago, Andy_Bogomil said:

So anyone buy GME this morning??

Lol was very tempted.

I smell 25k on the freestyle this week. 

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@guillavoie 

I would love to know what the all-time high score in freestyle is in these competitions. I remember you posting monster scores way back when.

@Gaia Gensouki

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Xevious/Walkthrough

This link shows where they are. It's for the arcade version, but as it turns out they are in the same locations on the NES version. I verified all 4 when playing. The only thing is, they are always somewhere in the same horizontal strip on the map, but they move along that strip. So you basically have to bomb horizontaly along as much of the strip as you can because they aren't always in the exact same spot each time.

Just a little side note about Xevious, you can get a bunch of extra lives by points, but also there are 4 hidden flag locations where if you bomb the ground you get extra lives as well. I didn't see any video on YouTube where they utilized that in the NES version. I watched the Mexican runners video and one or two others and they all skipped over the extra lives. 

5 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said:

I'm unfortunately still at eight countries. I found a relatively safe method to expand my territory, but it takes long and gets a bit boring after a while. I ended up playing a few games of Master of Orion 2 instead. I'm sorry.

 

@T-Pac

The gamefaqs site for Xevious shows all of the 16 maps: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/579616-xevious/faqs

I only ever made it until 9, because of those stupid enemies, that separate into many smaller homing projectiles.

Yes, I learned about pause buffering to beat those guys. Once you do that, they are actually pretty easy. Otherwise it's almost like 50/50 getting by those things.

8 hours ago, T-Pac said:

Congrats, dude!

How do you identify the loop-point in Xevious? So much of the game looks so similar - is there a clear indicator somewhere?

[T-Pac]

Yeah, so every time you pass a wide green forest is when a new level starts. So that pic I took is past the last level and starting back to like level 6 or 7 I think. There's a distinctive upside down y shaped pattern on the ground, and then a distinctive group of ground enemies right past that point. Once you play it a hundred times it becomes alot easier to differentiate the enemies and landscape . But yes, when I first started playing, I didn't even realize that there were levels.

Made it to level 11 with deaths. The qix basically sticks to you and can move across the screen in a second. I'd be really impressed if someone could make it to level 13 on 1 life.

I'm most interested in the NES cartridge shell. They should put a game in it next time!

Level 7

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Just now, BeaIank said:

I need a picture of the progress + score, so pause when you die or reach stage 13!

Lol sorry! I need to learn how to follow directions!

Oops sorry. Didn't pause the game 

Xevious 

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5/5/24

2nd loop

Kinda anticlimactic for Xevious ending. That pic is the start of the loop point back to the middle levels. Threw in a pic of my score on that finishing run.

XEVIOUS

The end of Xevious is tough. I think I was like an inch away from completing it and I died. I screamed so loud my family thought something happened . I give it a 10/10 on my anger scale for cursing to myself and wanting to snap the brittle 30 year old plastic controller in my hands.

4 minutes ago, guillavoie said:

You're right! We deliberately put it in the Puzzle genre knowing that it is mainly an Arcade game, just because of the slight element of puzzle in it (creating an unknown form out of the coins). We do that sometimes to fill in more of the best suitable contest games in the different categories.

I think when you get to the point in this game with the 2 sided rupees it becomes alot more like a puzzle game as well.

Just posted a score update. That's it for me on this one. That was a perfect on every bonus level and I killed as many of those urchins as I could. On one level I killed over 20 of them and burned through as many lives as I could.

Just bought a copy of Xevious and Star Soldier. Thought I had both those games but I can't find em. I've been playing Xevious on a powerpak, but I prefer completing the games on actual carts when I can.

Alpha Mission 

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3/15/24

Area 13

STARSHIP HECTOR 

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4/8/24

1 complete loop, score resets to zero on 2nd loop

I didn't even know this was a thing. Are we able to just post scores here? 

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