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>>10998583
Getting good is a mentality.

1) Discipline
2) Endurance
3) The ability to rethink yourself

You shouldn't make the same mistake more than once. If something doesn't work you should be able to find another strategy right away rather than butting your head against a wall insisting on doing something that doesn't work. Then you need to be able to think of all the tools the game offers you.
Getting good isn't just about the execution, a player who just looks up strategies from TAS or guides only to execute them is just a monkey and will never be as good as someone who is able to do it on his own (and sometimes even find better strategies than the established ones everyone mimics).

Once you have this above mentality, the rest is just playing games. Anyone who gets angry or blames the game or whatever else shitty excuse like "it was the pad or input lag" lacks the mentality and will never get good until he changes that.
Whatever you do, never succumb to savestates, even for "training" or "create checkpoints". If you do that it means you'll never have the discipline and endurance and level of gameplay assessment required to get good, I genuinely believe savestates are counter productive too because you need to learn not to repeat the mistake twice and even not to make the mistake the first time, with a savestate safety net you'll just do whatever under the idea that you can just repeat it quickly and you're bound to forget what you learn right away rather than learning skills that will be useful in the next games you play. Besides if the idea of repeating a couple of mins of gameplay is so insuferrable to you than you should find another hobby. I don't care about the level of cope "1CC collectors that train with savestates" have, they'll never be good in my eyes.

works on my machine

If losing a few extra lives is such a problem, then you seriously need to get good.

Here is my currated Get Good Program ™:
Grab an NES and beat the following games, precisely in this order
>Castlevania
>Ninja Gaiden
>Street Fighter 2010
>Adventure Island
>1943
>Throw in a puzzle game of your choice among Fire'n Ice, Moai Kun or Adventures of Lolo 2

No looking up guides on TAS videos on youtube, manuals only. Obviously no savestates.
This covers a variety game specific skills that will be useful in many other action games and the discipline and endurance learnt from these will solve your problems that you'd never even flinch at seeing 15 lives go in fumes when you continue your save in Donkey Kong fucking Country.

>filtered by a N64 Nintendo game

>>10150437
Time to start getting good then

>>10061738
anon pls my tab is 12" inches
nukes all chink devices easily
ppi, resolution, response time, SIZE
get rekt son
>>10061749
shilling = pretending to be interested in hot garbage consumer items to drive web traffic to temu\aliexpress\dhgate\etc
no one wants your "brick game"


if you are actually selling these types of devices PLEASE make one with the dpad in the correct spot

>>10001356
This is what happens when nintendo babies think they're hardcore gamers because they beat Yoshi's Island

>>9770423

>>9648269

>check walkthrough for a game
>>okay so this part is really easy!!!
>no real explanation given
>find out later on in the guide the writer uses savestates and assumes you will too

>>9534671
>yes I know they wanted to make games last longer

This is what casuals actually tell themselves

>>9193736

By simply being good at video games.

>>4836670
fuk, wrong image