+jgkspsx Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Keir said: Even though I beat Impossible Mission last week, I wanted to try again without cheating and I did it! Not so impossible after all... Now try the 7800 version 😅 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 1 hour ago, jgkspsx said: Now try the 7800 version 😅 Though the bugfixed version is quite beatable, and not even that hard! Of course it's a very lucky break that it always starts up with the same layout... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 34 minutes ago, thegoldenband said: Though the bugfixed version is quite beatable, and not even that hard! Of course it's a very lucky break that it always starts up with the same layout... I’m just saying, if you want a truly impossible mission, the retail 7800 release does what it says on the label 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 New Evercade carts and a whole lot of high score challenges wrapping up made the classic side busy for me this week. Arcade: R-Type - 15 minutes Atari Jaguar: White Men Can’t Jump - 115 minutes Wormhole 2000 - 35 minutes Atari Lynx: Angry Motes - 20 minutes Checkered Flag - 20 minutes Really realistic graphics in this one! Crate Challenge - 25 minutes Crystal Mines 2 - 150 minutes Genesis: Zero Tolerance - 15 minutes RIP to a real one. NES: Blazing Rangers - 25 minutes Motor City Patrol - 15 minutes Game Boy Color: Radikal Bikers - 35 minutes Seems drafty. SNES: Power Piggs of the Dark Age - 75 minutes Kept falling in the same hole so I called it a day. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Only Solar Fox for 46 minutes. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 7 hours ago, jgkspsx said: Now try the 7800 version 😅 Haha! No thank you. 5 hours ago, thegoldenband said: Though the bugfixed version is quite beatable, and not even that hard! Of course it's a very lucky break that it always starts up with the same layout... That would definitely make it a lot easier. In the C64 version, not only is the layout different each time but you don't even know which puzzles you'll have to complete (I think the 9 puzzles you have to complete are picked from a total of 21). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Crystalis (NES) 31 mins Started playing this last night and only just beat the first dungeon. Not as polished as Zelda is but still pretty fun. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 (edited) 5200- Frogger II- 20min Genesis- Granada- 35min SNES via RD2- FF MQ- 3hrs 40min (actually quite lame at times, but never played it till now) Breath Of Fire- 15min Final Fantasy II- 15min Lufia- 30min Lufia II- 15min Chrono Trigger- 30min Zelda Link to Past- 15min NES via Retron and RD2- 1942- 4hrs 1943- 45min Twin Cobra- 15min Gun Nac- 2hrs Galaga- 5min (I suck at this one) Mario Bros- 25min Guardian Legend- 20min Vigilant- 10min Zanac- 5min (this is insane) Gradius- 5min (still can't pass the two stupid pea spitting mountains on lv 1) RetroDuo 2.0 is excellent on SNES, but the NES side is very limited. I do like being able to play, say 1943, on it with SNES pads, or using the Power Pedal, but it's very picky about how it will load any SRAM games, and actually run them. My old Retron actually runs most anything. Since mentioned above, Crystalis won't run from a cart using flash chip saving, but will run from the older battery type multicarts. It's also very picky on which NES controllers will work on it, via the conversion cable. I use mainly the cheapo 500-in-1 cart, which anything will play, also the new 253-in-1, and both versions of the Forever Games 852-in-1. It'll load RPG's and games that save, from the old battery style, but not the upgraded flash version. A nod to the new 253 model, is that it's the only flash save multicart type that runs on the RD2 for NES I've also picked up a 130-in-1 SNES multicart using flash save, and it's a winner. I've made saves on Zelda, BOF, FF2, Lufia 1&2, and Chrono Trigger, and it holds them all. Only knock I'll add, is that the two included Dragon Quest games- 1&2, and 5, are not the english translations Edited June 6, 2023 by zylon added pic 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 6, 2023 Author Share Posted June 6, 2023 Here's the summary for Week 22, running from May 29 - June 4. We logged 4610 minutes of eligible play, playing 83 games on a total of 13 systems. Top 10: 1. Record of Lodoss War (Dreamcast) - 1113 min. (#1) 2. Kyuukyoku Tiger (Arcade) - 440 min. 3. 1942 (NES/Famicom) - 330 min. 4. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (SNES) - 220 min. 5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 152 min. (#7) 6. Crystal Mines 2 (Atari Lynx) - 150 min. 7. Gun-Nac (NES/Famicom) - 150 min. 8. Impossible Mission (Commodore 64) - 120 min. (#6) 9. White Men Can't Jump (Atari Jaguar) - 115 min. 10. Rabbit Transit (Atari 2600) - 110 min. (#5) Pre-NES top 10: 1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 152 min. (PN#3) 2. Impossible Mission (Commodore 64) - 120 min. (PN#2) 3. Rabbit Transit (Atari 2600) - 110 min. (PN#1) 4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 81 min. (PN#6) 5. Communist Mutants from Space (Atari 2600) - 78 min. (PN#4) 6. Frogger (Official/Starpath) (Atari 2600) - 55 min. (PN#8) 7. Traverse USA (a.k.a. Zippy Race) (Arcade) - 33 min. (PN#5) 8. Frogger II: Threedeep! (Atari 5200) - 20 min. 9. Frogger II: Threedeep! (Atari 8-bit) - 19 min. 10. Moon Patrol (Arcade) - 17 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Dreamcast (4 games) - 1188 min. (#1) 2. NES/Famicom (30 games) - 950 min. (#4) 3. SNES (21 games) - 685 min. (#2) 4. Arcade (7 games) - 614 min. (#5) 5. Atari 2600 (5 games) - 476 min. (#3) 6. Atari Lynx (4 games) - 215 min. (#8) 7. Atari Jaguar (2 games) - 150 min. 8. Commodore 64 (1 game) - 120 min. (#6) 9. Genesis (4 games) - 116 min. (#9) 10. Game Boy Color (1 game) - 35 min. While it gets a little more competition this week, Record of Lodoss War stays #1, and so does the Dreamcast as a system though only by a margin of 4 hours. On the pre-NES list, 7/10 games remain from last week with Solar Fox in the top position. 1943 (NES/Famicom) becomes #535 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1061 min. 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 On 6/5/2023 at 9:46 PM, DragonGrafx-16 said: Crystalis (NES) 31 mins Started playing this last night and only just beat the first dungeon. Not as polished as Zelda is but still pretty fun. I recently began a game of Crystalis, on my 143 cart. Just acquired the Ball of Wind, but fell short of clearing the 2nd half of that cave, after you blast through. Some teleporting boss thing got me. Better than Y's and lightyears past Hydlide, IMHO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 1 hour ago, zylon said: I recently began a game of Crystalis, on my 143 cart. Just acquired the Ball of Wind, but fell short of clearing the 2nd half of that cave, after you blast through. Some teleporting boss thing got me. Better than Y's and lightyears past Hydlide, IMHO You have to be at least lvl 3 to kill that boss. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 30 minutes ago, DragonGrafx-16 said: You have to be at least lvl 3 to kill that boss. I was actually lv4, I just completely suck at anything besides menu driven, or fly around shoot shit, lol. I just beat him, using my turbo pad. Now I'm in the area with ax throwing guys, and things I can't kill, they just "clang" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 1 hour ago, zylon said: I was actually lv4, I just completely suck at anything besides menu driven, or fly around shoot shit, lol. I just beat him, using my turbo pad. Now I'm in the area with ax throwing guys, and things I can't kill, they just "clang" Turbo? Just use your sword charge ability and shoot him. lol It's the bats that get you though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, DragonGrafx-16 said: Turbo? Just use your sword charge ability and shoot him. lol It's the bats that get you though. I tried that, nope. What did work perfectly, was turbo B, and just let sword keep flicking out, and keep charging the enemy as he reappears. Not a single heal needed. 😈 Same thing works for getting those helmet headed things out of my way, since I can't seem to kill or damage them. This was Mom's type of game. I'm more interested in pick a round of commands, and get a coffee while it plays out. Edited June 8, 2023 by zylon 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 This is my method, it's worked on everything so far. In a cluster fight? Just roll the dpad around and drop em all. You can actually just hold the button and walk around, always get the initiative, lol VID_20230608_162400064.mp4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neogeo1982 Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Finished RoLW finally and branched back out into many games afterwards. Dreamcast Record of Lodoss War - 1024min Power Stone - 60min Quake 3 Arena - 35min Dead or Alive 2 - 20min NES Alwa's Awakening - 120min Full Quiet - 70min Metroid - 30min Bad Dudes - 30min Burger Time - 20min 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 I didn't really pay attention to what all I played this time. I will probably take a break over here, as well. G/MD Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (prototype) - 23 Neo Geo AES/MVS Real Bout Fatal Fury Special - 15 Twinkle Star Sprites - 9 Arcade Hellfire (2P version) - 10 Kyuukyoku Tiger - 50 Out Zone - 20 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 11, 2023 Author Share Posted June 11, 2023 Atari 8-bit: Frogger II - 16 min. Yes, HSC entry just above detection limit, played at 8:30 PM on Sunday evening. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Here are my times for this week (June 5th through 11th) on classic systems: TI-99/4A: Ambulance: 19 min. River Rescue: 17 min. Slymoids: 427 min. in 10 sessions This week's TI-99/4A session started with a chat among teammates who used Snag it to extract and send screen shots. But that wasn't the only software called this way, so I sent them a link to the TI-99/4A game "Sneggit" on The Videogame House, which then I read myself, so I found out that Sneggit, as well as Slymoids were written by a hobbyist who actually worked for TI as a chip designer and did the games in his spare time. And it somewhat shows... the games don't have all of those TI stereotypes, for instance Slymoids, contrary to most TI-99/4A sofware uses a custom sound driver instead of the built-in sound list player. So the notes in the title song decay, and there can be three sound effects heard at one time which get distributed over the sound channels. I then played this for a long time trying to beat it, but I couldn't pass Level 4 out of 5. I also played some Ambulance and River Rescue, but those games didn't hold my attention for too long. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 ATARI 5200: Jr. Pac-Man - 190 minutes GAME GEAR: Ms. Pac-Man - 40 minutes Pengo - 5 minutes Super Space Invaders - 35 minutes GENESIS: Ms. Pac-Man - 230 minutes NES / FAMICOM: Ms. Pac-Man [Tengen License] - 200 minutes SNES: Ms. Pac-Man - 40 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 Quite a mix this week. Arcade: R-Type - 135 minutes My thumb just isn’t as fast as it used to be. Atari Lynx: California Games - 75 minutes Finished the BMX course for the first time ever (?) Checkered Flag - 35 minutes Game Boy: Rod Land - 20 minutes Game Gear: Hurricanes - 20 minutes Genesis: Haunting starring Polterguy - 65 minutes Really needs to be revived. NES: Metal Mech: Man and Machine - 75 minutes I remembered liking this despite rough edges but I forgot how huge the levels were. PlayStation: 40 Winks - 10 minutes Not bad as 3D digital control collectathon platformers go but not really pulling me in either. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 My times for the week: NES: Adventures of Lolo - 4 min. Bird Week - 6 min. Castelian - 9 min. Hebereke - 6 min. Hello Kitty World - 50 min. Kyoro-Chan Land - 174 min. Marble Madness - 8 min. Mechanized Attack - 16 min. Nuts & Milk - 4 min. Pipe Dream - 3 min. Puzznic - 9 min. Racket Attack - 1 min. Sesame Street 123 - 5 min. Track & Field II - 10 min. Beat Kyoro-Chan Land on Hero difficulty, and cleared Marble Madness on my first try. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayler Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 (edited) Been having multiple dual sessions last week of clearing a dungeon in Gunman's Proof -> save -> switching to Battle Pinball. Both games are great. SNES Battle Pinball - 75 min Gunple: Gunman's Proof (jpn, Aeon Genesis translation) - 236 min Edited June 12, 2023 by Wayler 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 SNES- via RD2 FF MQ- 4hrs It's not bad, but I probably won't play through this again UN Squadron- 15min Meh... Sonic Blast Man- 25min cheesy, but I still find it fun Raiden Trad- 45min I stick to the default "red" weapon, just maxxed out NES- via orig Retron and RD2 1942- 90min 1943- 30min 1944- 2hrs 30min 1945- 10min Y's- 20min Crystalis- 2hrs Star Soldier- 25min Mighty Final Fight- 30min 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 Week of 6/5/23 - 6/11/23 Atari 2600 Ms. Pac-Man - 60 Commodore 64 Times of Lore - 10 Total time = 70 minutes Didn't have a lot of game time this week, so it was mostly spent on the HSC. I did return to Times of Lore briefly but I'm just not enjoying the game anymore. I'll keep playing anyway since I'm so close to the end. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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