Joey Kay Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 Hey gang! It happened to me again tonight - for only the second time since I bought Food Fight back in 1989! The "Instant Replay" feature has a secret bonus that happens only, well, twice in 13 years. And believe me, I've got my $19.95 out of that game zillions of times over since that July day in 1989. Anyhow, if you die on a level, then finish it completely and get an "Instant Replay", VERY RARELY it will replay the level the first time around when you die. Then when the replay gets to your death, the screen flashes "Almost Made It!" and gives you a free life! Has anyone else experienced this? Cheers! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent X Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 It did that for me once several years ago. I didn't even notice that it gave me an extra life, because I was still in a state of shock that such a thing had happened in the first place. Interestingly enough, I don't recall ever hearing that anyone else experienced this occurrence in Food Fight, until this very message! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariKen64 Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 loooong ago i had the instant replay messup on me and actually do what i didnt do in the first place!! it happened twice , both times very close to each other! it was weird!!! the only other major glicth like that happend to me with punchout!! for nes when it mixed up boxers order and had odd roundtimes that happened because i plugged and unplugged contorllers while it was running, never happened again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Kay Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 Okay... this is a ridiculous necrobump. Ages ago Dan Boris solved the mystery of what triggers an Instant Replay on Food Fight. See: Now I'm wondering what triggers an "Almost Made It!" Instant Replay. Anybody looked into this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumbleJag Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 (edited) Since source code is released for this game should be easy to find out exactly what the conditions are to trigger "Almost Made It". Edited September 6, 2021 by JumbleJag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 TABLES.S: TEXT8 DB $B8,$C4,$F0,$D6,$CA,$CC ; "ALMOST" TEXT9 DB $F0,$B8,$EC,$BA,$2F,$C2,$CC ; "MADE IT" Food Fight source: FOODFIGHT.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumbleJag Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Now Trebor made it even easier to find out,programmer would have to like this game to look through the source though,that's not me as I dislike this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 19 hours ago, Joey Kay said: Now I'm wondering what triggers an "Almost Made It!" Instant Replay. Anybody looked into this? That's when you get killed in Instant Replay. I believe the programmer only record input and how long the button been press. So not everything is in-sync perfectly when being played back so it may be off a frame or 2, or food is thrown faster speed, etc. The arcade also have the DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT! message for that reason too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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