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[NESfiend | 1,514]

1 minute ago, 8bitdontquit said:

In interest of keeping this share bear alive @NESfiendyou feel like sharing any scoring techniques? I've got 70g ripping tricks the whole run and died at backwoods 5 .  Finding it  hard to fathom picking up 200k in final level. Is it burning lives at the right time?  something else I'm missing.? 

Its all burning lives on backwood 6. You arent as far off as you think you are because so many points are accumulated there. A great no death run through the first 17 stages (everything but backwood 6) is going to net just shy of 80k. Each life burned on backwood 6 will net 20k and then some. I was actually thinking max would be somewhere between 280 and 285 and it seems like its right in there. That said, watch bert put up 300

[mbd39 | 2,017]

BTW, I've also been trying to max the score in Contra so haven't been focusing on this game. I've made it to the end of loop 7. You need around 10 loops to max.

 

[NESfiend | 1,514]

1 minute ago, mbd39 said:

BTW, I've also been trying to max the score in Contra so haven't been focusing on this game. I've made it to the end of loop 7. You need around 10 loops to max.

 

Wow thats crazy. Ive 1-lifed it but never tried a second loop. Thats been a long time though. Does it get harder through subsequent loops?

[mbd39 | 2,017]

Just now, NESfiend said:

Wow thats crazy. Ive 1-lifed it but never tried a second loop. Thats been a long time though. Does it get harder through subsequent loops?

Yes, it gets harder after every loop. It starts getting pretty hard by around loop 4. Much more enemies, they shoot more, and the enemies in stage 8 take increasingly more hits to kill. In the later loops the mini boss in stage 8 becomes a tough boss. You have to dodge the shrimp it spits out because they take so many hits.

 

[NESfiend | 1,514]

11 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

Yes, it gets harder after every loop. It starts getting pretty hard by around loop 4. Much more enemies, they shoot more, and the enemies in stage 8 take increasingly more hits to kill. In the later loops the mini boss in stage 8 becomes a tough boss. You have to dodge the shrimp it spits out because they take so many hits.

 

That's crazy. It's not an easy beat for one loop. Cant imagine 10 as it gets harder. How long have you been working on that? Seems herculean

[mbd39 | 2,017]

2 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

That's crazy. It's not an easy beat for one loop. Cant imagine 10 as it gets harder. How long have you been working on that? Seems herculean

I started trying last week because of a Contra contest on AtariAge (I'm second place. First place player maxed the score already.)

 

I've completed three or four loops before, but never made a serious high score effort until now.

 

[mbd39 | 2,017]

Contra is one of my absolute favorite NES games right up there with Tetris and Marble Madness. It's near perfect IMO.

 

 

[NESfiend | 1,514]

2 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

Contra is one of my absolute favorite NES games right up there with Tetris and Marble Madness. It's near perfect IMO.

Let's get marble madness on the 2021 schedule. First non sports game I ever beat aside from mario 1. Id love to get hooked in for a week and try and break 180k. Short length right up my alley too

[mbd39 | 2,017]

1 minute ago, NESfiend said:

Let's get marble madness on the 2021 schedule. First non sports game I ever beat aside from mario 1. Id love to get hooked in for a week and try and break 180k. Short length right up my alley too

I've only broke 180k three times. I'd like to hit 181k someday.

The short length does give it an addictive "just one more try, I know I can do better" quality.

 

[BeaIank | 1,617]

Contra is a lot of fun, but I much prefer playing it for low score than to max score.

[mbd39 | 2,017]

1 hour ago, NESfiend said:

That's crazy. It's not an easy beat for one loop. Cant imagine 10 as it gets harder. How long have you been working on that? Seems herculean

Another thing, the extra lives stop coming in loop 5, so you have to play well enough in the earlier loops to have enough in store because you'll need them.

[NESfiend | 1,514]

20 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

Another thing, the extra lives stop coming in loop 5, so you have to play well enough in the earlier loops to have enough in store because you'll need them.

I wouldnt have the endurance to come close. Maxing the contra score would be pretty legendary though. Hammer that shit out 

[mbd39 | 2,017]

4 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

I wouldnt have the endurance to come close. Maxing the contra score would be pretty legendary though. Hammer that shit out 

Rolling the score in Kung Fu was one of my gaming goals that I accomplished recently. This is another one. I'm definitely gonna try.

 

[bertsampson | 345]

Sorry to disappoint again, but my cold play through last week got me sick.  This is all I got, and no matter the icy feel from the this "fun" game, I'm really feeling the burn.  See ya'll in the tournament!

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[Jicsan | 586]

I didn't have much time till to chill this week, so I couldn't learn anything cool about this game.

4396

After eight tries I never crossed the first finish line before the timer froze me out.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

17 hours ago, mbd39 said:

BTW, I've also been trying to max the score in Contra so haven't been focusing on this game. I've made it to the end of loop 7. You need around 10 loops to max.

 

Last time I did that it took me 7 loops to max the score playing straight without any point pressing.

 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

10 hours ago, bertsampson said:

Sorry to disappoint again, but my cold play through last week got me sick.  This is all I got, and no matter the icy feel from the this "fun" game, I'm really feeling the burn.  See ya'll in the tournament!

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Feel free to keep posting mediocre scores when you get there. I don't really want to have to try too hard.

[mbd39 | 2,017]

23 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

Last time I did that it took me 7 loops to max the score playing straight without any point pressing.

 

I think it takes around 10 unless you're point pressing. I didn't even hit 5 million yet when I was at loop 7.

 

Edited September 19, 2020 by mbd39

[bertsampson | 345]

17 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

Feel free to keep posting mediocre scores when you get there. I don't really want to have to try too hard.

You got it.  Wouldn't want to stress you out too much.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

3 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

I think it takes around 10 unless you're point pressing. I didn't even hit 5 million yet when I was at loop 7.

 

Maybe it was 9. It took a little over 3 hours from what I remember

 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

3 minutes ago, bertsampson said:

You got it.  Wouldn't want to stress you out too much.

I appreciate it man.

[NESfiend | 1,514]

11 hours ago, bertsampson said:

Sorry to disappoint again, but my cold play through last week got me sick.  This is all I got, and no matter the icy feel from the this "fun" game, I'm really feeling the burn.  See ya'll in the tournament!

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"Fun" in quotes!? How dare you! 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

Just now, NESfiend said:

"Fun" in quotes!? How dare you! 

Those are pretty strong words given that he's basically the king of boring.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

1 hour ago, bertsampson said:

You got it.  Wouldn't want to stress you out too much.

I'd like to keep my minimal effort/high production ratio around this level, so try to keep that in mind.

 

[NESfiend | 1,514]

Played marble madness today @mbd39 Im rusty. 105k w/11 deaths. Doing the math on how score gets calculated, even if you finish with 70 seconds left and no deaths, I still only get to 160kish. What am I missing that people can get to 180?