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I turned off the save state on my N8 because I noticed it broke games like Startropics from booting. Anyone else experience that? It was an older firmware maybe.
NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread
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You're insane!!!=O Great stuff though.Been working on catching up Timu and no death running Contra. Lost a life on level 7 last run. Getting closer. Obsessed with this game more than ever. This gif shows how slick it still controls
It's actually really easy thanks to the fire power. It would be hard with just the regular gun. I would say Blaster Master is much harder.
I never used that code, ever, and I beaten it without the spread gun.
TBH I don't have much issue with the difficulty besides 1 boss and 2 stages. Same with Super C.
Huggers
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Haha cheers dude!
It's definitely not too tricky with a little practice. Shockingly I've hardly played Blaster Master. Think my biggest achievement NES wise was 1CCing NinjaTurtles
Huggers
Member
So brutal. I played it so much I can get through it okay but man, getting to that stage took some patience. And 1CCing Ninja Gaiden is ridiculous. I can beat it but I die. A lot
How's about Battletoads?
Everyone really needs to try out Blaster Master. It's one of the best.
GurgleBot20
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When people say 1CC, do they mean no deaths or just no continuing? I'm a little unfamiliar with what a credit got you in the arcades.
The best I can do in Contra (as of now) is beating it without continuing (and without the code) using only the machine gun. Doing no powerup just seems painful to me.
The best I can do in Contra (as of now) is beating it without continuing (and without the code) using only the machine gun. Doing no powerup just seems painful to me.
sixteen-bit
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1CC means single credit completion. You're given as many lives as the default setting allows. Many games give you extends after a certain score is achieved as well. It does not necessarily mean you must beat the game on 1 life. That's 1LC.
GurgleBot20
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Gotcha, thanks.
Huggers
Member
Now that I have never beaten. Can't beat Journey to Silius either. Timu may have done though?
I beaten Journey to Silius years ago!!!
As for someone like me who plays it, Levels 7, 9, 11 and 12 still give me trouble even with memorization.
Sometimes I can get through that stage flawlessly and other times I mess up badly...damn stage requires so much precision with the dpad.
Haha I rest my case.
It is the quintessential Battletoads level to me. Looks awesome and should be fun, but they did enough wrong to make it a horrible chore.
Yes!!!
RadarScope1
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Been working on catching up Timu and no death running Contra. Lost a life on level 7 last run. Getting closer. Obsessed with this game more than ever. This gif shows how slick it still controls
This. This is why 8-bit games, at their best, fucking rule.
D.Lo
Member
I never got past the snakes.
Grabbed this after only hearing about it recently, I love how many great games are on this platform that I've never played!
It's weird how it's a 1987 game but comes in the 'mid sized' Famicom box that was typically a translation size between the original cart sized boxes of the pulse line and the eventual 'standard' size Famicom box which most companies used from 1985 onward (eg the original Konami orange box line are this size)
Of course 'standard' is a relative term when it comes to Famicom boxes...
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Nevermind, the Heavy Barrel I was bidding on on Yamatoku was cart-only.
You die a lot? In some of my runs I don't even die, like my youtube playthrough of it. Mastering 6-2, 6-3 and Jaquio are key to success. Then again I made 6-2 look really easy, I mean I only got hit once on that section, lol.
Huggers
Member
Agreed man. Certain 8-bit games (most of which are on the NES may I add) are flawlessly designed
Huggers
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You're a savage Timu! Love the commitment to not just beating these games but no death running them, superb. I'm pretty sure on my Turtles Youtube playthrough I don't die at all. And the Technodrome was in the final place I looked!
Link your youtube vid!!!
And well, when I get the chance no death is possible for a lot of games!!!
Huggers
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Take a look! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hvSlgoMlY
Post a link to your Ninja Gaiden playthrough, keen to take a look. I'm oretty sure I watched your Contra one back along
Here's my Ninja Gaiden no death one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHn-W-WFhBc
You did an excellent job with TMNT, I'm impressed!
davidwhangchoi
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hey nes club,
i picked up a copy of the game of the month and star tropics which i never played but i still don't have a nes yet =/
i already have a loose copy of blaster master but i thought i should grab a CIB
i picked up a copy of the game of the month and star tropics which i never played but i still don't have a nes yet =/
i already have a loose copy of blaster master but i thought i should grab a CIB
valkillmore
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I'll be getting back into dat retro mindset this fall when the NES Pro gets release!! 
As for Blaster Master, it's the quintessential game from my youth that I remember more fondly than the experience must have been. That game is super tough. Or maybe I just stink at games.
My first visit to this thread. How much conversation about the NES Mini goes on? Anybody upset & slightly perplexed at the omission of Rad Racer? I feel it should have been included.
As for Blaster Master, it's the quintessential game from my youth that I remember more fondly than the experience must have been. That game is super tough. Or maybe I just stink at games.
My first visit to this thread. How much conversation about the NES Mini goes on? Anybody upset & slightly perplexed at the omission of Rad Racer? I feel it should have been included.
D.Lo
Member
I bought it on YahooInteresting, I lost auctions for Heavy Barrel, Pinball, and Rockman 6 on Yamatoku the other day...were you bidding against me?
Nevermind, the Heavy Barrel I was bidding on on Yamatoku was cart-only.
And have had that Rockman 6 for a long time (it was a lot cheaper when I bought it).I'll be getting back into dat retro mindset this fall when the NES Pro gets release!!
As for Blaster Master, it's the quintessential game from my youth that I remember more fondly than the experience must have been. That game is super tough. Or maybe I just stink at games.
My first visit to this thread. How much conversation about the NES Mini goes on? Anybody upset & slightly perplexed at the omission of Rad Racer? I feel it should have been included.
Welcome to the thread! I'm sure we'd be happy to talk about the NES Mini. I never played Rad Racer if I'm being wholly honest. The exclusions really makes you wonder if there's going to be a second one at some point.
I'll be getting back into dat retro mindset this fall when the NES Pro gets release!!
As for Blaster Master, it's the quintessential game from my youth that I remember more fondly than the experience must have been. That game is super tough. Or maybe I just stink at games.
My first visit to this thread. How much conversation about the NES Mini goes on? Anybody upset & slightly perplexed at the omission of Rad Racer? I feel it should have been included.
Welcome! We talk about all kinds of ways to play Nes here, but I feel most regular posters are playing their games on original hardware with original cartridges. But there is nothing wrong with enjoying a product like the NES Mini either.
sixteen-bit
Member
Rad Racer is a Square Enix game, right? Maybe they wanted to avoid the SE tax.
Battlesmurf
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the problem is that it boils down to how the game reads inputs and such. Worn controllers don't help matters. The best time I've had was with 4 microswitches/4 way joystick with no in betweens if memory serves. It's why the "pause then switch directions" thing works so well with that stupid level.
Boss fight happening with no checkpoint is hair pulling too lol.
Still waiting on whatever modern day Battletoads stuff they were hinting at, but I feel like it's just related to the character being in KI.
Back on track-it's an exciting time to be able to pick between so many newer NES options these days. I'm happy that more people get to experience these dam things lol
Clingerwinger is the one stage in Battletoads I hate. Still I'm usually able to do it without losing too many lives even on a HDTV. Only one or two times I got frustrated, said "fuck this", and used the pause trick which makes it impossible to lose.
That's probably the trickiest part in the game. You had to remember you saw H power ups in the beginning.
That's probably the trickiest part in the game. You had to remember you saw H power ups in the beginning.
What about Volkmire's Inferno, Terra Tubes and Rat Race?
RadarScope1
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Rest assured, when the NES mini comes out there will be plenty of discussion about it here.
Oh I love them. Volkmire's Inferno might be my favorite stage on NES. So fast and intense with a lot of variety and great excitement music that speeds up as you go through it.
Rat Race is a cinch as long as you know to hit the rat.
I don't like the last stage at all, lol.=p