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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Got another vertical screen orientation game instead of shinobi because laziness. Strange one here, sega's angel kids. It's quite good but what's making it very difficult is that the joysticks are swapped (twin stick game), confusing! Left is right and right is left.
I had a look at the dipswitchs on the board and they still have the original seal over them, and besides that there's no dipswitch info online, no manual that I could find either. There are 4 soundpots on the pcb, 1 for music, 1 for sound effects, and the other two are a mystery.
Balloons are the worst enemy so far but I'll stick at it until I can beat it or lose my mind. Blasting through these games now
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Always find it interesting how many shmups of that era have Raiden vibes, it really did influence a lot of titles at the time.
I spent a couple of hours last night playing through IREM M92 games on MiSTer. I can never get over the level of detail in Gunforce 2/Geostorm and In The Hunt. So many little things you wouldn't even notice unless you looked closely. It's actually horrendously distracting if you're actually trying to play the games properly! (maybe that was a credit feeding ploy to make more money, distract them with detail!)
Picture on both looks absolutely gorgeous.
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Battletoads is still making my life miserable.
Had a good run last night. Got through the turbo tunnel first time. Lost only a life on the stupid jump in the ice stage. Only died once on the snakes. The fire tunnel I died twice.
So I got to the Intruder Excluder stage with plenty of lives and then proceeded to lose most of them. I did however make it to the top with 3 lives left and.... there's a poxy boss up there. Boss wiped me out.
Now to get something off my chest. Battletoads gives the played 5 hit points but I'm wondering why they bothered when near everything in the game including most bosses kill you in one hit.
Anyway I made it back to the boss on my next continue and had his pattern down.
The next stage are these water tunnels full of dick move level design. You've to first contend with robots that instant kill you if you get too close. Then you have to run away from gears which is infuriating when you don't know their pattern yet. The last area is a swimming section with really annoying enemies. There's also parts where you float up or down using little copter things but you are so close to the bottom/top of the screen it's impossible to react to the hazards. Managed to fluke my way through this after losing 2 continues. There's a few lives here at least and I got to the last section with 2 lives left. I died so much here but there's mercifully a 1 up you can keep collecting so I made it through.
Then I got to the rat race area.... christ. The first two rat races are fine. The last one however I only had one shot at it and despite me thinking I did ok the rat was so far ahead of me I had no chance. Not looking forward to playing it again.
Anyway if I ever beat that stage I've the whirly gig area which is meant to be extremely hard on a NES but near impossible on a modern display because of lag. I'll have to calibrate the lag compensation for that. And then a vertical shaft area that makes the Intruder Excluder looking like 1-1 in Super Mario Bros.
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It's actually not a bad game, just infuriating when played in a modern context. Had this been young retr0gamer who had a NES and this was one of the few games he owned I'd have lapped this up and loved it. Battletoads is almost great, there's just way too many moments where the game will kill you if you if you don't know what is up ahead as it gives you no time to react in many cases. Shame as it plays well and there's good variety in the levels. It looks incredible as well, the intro even has true sprite scaling which is mental on a NES.
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Eat **** battletoads! I managed to beat it!
The last few stages are tough.
The Rat Race in particular is absolute nonsense. The issue is on the last rat if you aren't absolutely perfect he can get ahead of you and the moving floors won't spawn for him and he just clips right on through. It means you can be on a great run and yet it will feel impossible to catch up with him.
But that's not the worst part. If you get too far ahead and get to the end before he does you can soft lock the game. You are stuck there and there's no way of continuing as there's no time limit. This actually happened to me on this run but I just said **** that, I used the emulators rewind feature to get out of it. **** that.
After that is clinger winger. You are being chased by a plasma ball awhile you ride a one wheeled machine. You have to hold in the direction of the surface you are moving on as it makes 90 degree turns.
This one when I got to it first time I made a save state and practiced so I guess that's cheating. It's actually not that bad once you get it but this would have driven me insane to play over an hour of the game to get here and have a few goes to understand it.
Basically for anyone that wants to try this game, if you press the wrong direction before you hit the change in surface you slow right down. The actual way to beat this is to not change direction until you hit the actual surface. You end up losing way less time than pressing the button too soon.
The last stage is a very tough platforming section. It's very difficult but surprisingly fair. The last boss as well is surprisingly fair.
The game is pretty mean near the end with three of the hardest stages, intruder excluder, Rat Race and Clinger Winger ending in boss battles that can hemorrhage your lives if they get out of hand. Clinger winger in particular is pure nonsense.
I really don't think I could have beaten this without the you can beat videogame youtube series. It really helped a lot as I wasn't going in blind to most situations even if the execution was still tough!
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Yes definitely. You just have to accept that you aren't going to beat these games first time and it's going to take a lot of repetition to get good at them. But each time you get play the games you get better. I mean while I was struggling with the last stages of this game I was getting to the point where I was able to rack up insane amounts of one ups from stage 2 and beat the turbo tunnel with ease. Battletoads would be on the upper level of NES difficulty but I find the easier 8-bit and 16-bit games are still a joy to beat. There's also the satisfaction you get from beating a genuinely challenging game that new modern triple A games outside of Souls games can't deliver. I will reiterate how helpful 'U can Beat Video Games' is for attempting these games.
However if you are happy using save states then enjoy the games how you see fit. As I said I used save states myself in this playthrough. While I didn't use them to create checkpoints I did use them to practice tough parts of the game that take well over an hour to reach.
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Started Knightmare on the MSX. Tough game as you only get 3 lives and it's a very tough game but I'm using save states every time I die as of you beat a stage you can find a hidden item then next time you play that lets you skip forward to the next stage. So far ive only reach stage 3 of 8. Banjo guy Ollie was a big fan of this one and I can see why.
Also started starfox. Beat the easy route. I never finished this game on the other two routes.
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Having a nightmare with, eh, knightmare's third stage.
The game really ramps up the difficulty in this stage and I was struggling with it. Got to the boss who seemed handy enough. My shield was working very effectively at blocking the bosses projectiles until I discovered a new mechanic, the shield only lasts a few shots. Once that was gone I panicked and disaster struck.
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After getting really pissed off with stage three of Knightmare yet again I started up what I thought was a quick go of Contra on the MSX before bed. This is a very different game to the arcade or NES game. You mercifully have a lifebar in this game. The game is also very good at dishing out extra lives. The levels follow the arcade quite closely but the layouts are very different. Since the MSX2 has issues with scrolling the game is a flip screen game and has been totally redesigned to accommodate this.
As a result of all these changes its a very different game. The sprites and backgrounds are more colourful than the NES game but the level design is not as good with less dynamic elements and enemy variety. When you pick up a gun icon it opens a menu and lets you select your weapon. They're all kind of useless other than the machinegun, no spreadgun in this version.
Anyway I got all the way up to the alien heart which is the last boss without much difficulty in all other versions. However the game then continues and is over twice as long. 19 Stages in total. I beat the game first time quite handily but it took way longer than I was planning for.
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Finally got to stage 4 in knightmare. This game is so difficult. It's actually insane how many sprites and bullets Konami got the Msx to push. Also how they managed to make bosses so tough. There's only a few bullets on screen but they are tougher than most bullet hell bosses.
Anyway I decided on a new strategy. Stage 1 has an extra life so if I get that and beat then take the warp in stage 2 I'll have a better chance. Turns outs later in stage 1 there's another warp this time to stage 3. So I can get the extra life and then skip to stage 3.
Now I've got to find the exit to stage 4 but also face the horrors of this new area.
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Beat the medium route of the original starfox. I really don't think I played anything other than the easy route before as this was all new to me. The game definitely ups the difficulty here with some really difficult bosses and stages. Took me a while to figure out the stage with the space/aquatic life and that you were meant to not shoot the innocent creatures! There's also some really interesting looking levels in this route. The boss of Titania reminded me of the water boss in Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and the highway stage in venom was an interesting change of scenery.
Kind of looking forward to the hard route but I've a feeling it's going to break me.
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I kind of like it. The game is an hour long and quite exhausting, especially with that framerate. Starfox 64 is longer again. It would be nice to have an option to play all levels back to back but I'd say it would become a real slog by the end. I also really like the branching paths based on objectives in starfox 64, added some mystery and replayability.
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If someone told me it was the best gameboy game ever I wouldn't be able to argue. The GBA sequels have been great but nothing has matched DK '94. Also it's crazy how much that game influenced Mario's 3D games.
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