/vr/ - Retro Games

Okay lads. I've been doing a special wagie/family man version of the gauntlet where I tally up the amount of hours spent on a game, with 36 as the limit. (To represent 3x12 hour gaming days, I miss my twenties.)

Consequentially, I've been gradually chipping away at Recca for weeks.

I'm now 11 hours into my 36 hour limit. I can make it to the end of Stage 3 about 50% of the time, but never fully powered. The stage 3 boss is very challenging and shits out homing missiles at you which bypass your shield. If you're lucky enough to still have the S shot secondary fire (seeker) by then, you can rely on it to take care of the missiles 90% of the time, but sometimes it'll miss one and you'll die, or the lasers will get you - and then it's back to the nearly impossible manual missile weave while dodging lasers AND placing bombs.

It's a well designed game but since it's made for Japanese shmup autists who castrated themselves to focus on their one true pursuit, and I'm practically a shmup virgin, I'm starting to think this is my limit. Stage 4 would be the final stage, but from what I hear it's a 7-boss rush.

... Maybe I should just give up and start over with a new NES game. This really might be beyond my capabilities.

This game really is one of those "figure out what the game wants you to do" games.

This is the second form of the fifth boss. He'll extend and retract his shield, and it's ridiculously difficult to try to get in between the gaps in it (it spins around) and chip away when you get the chance.

Hide up in the corner, then zip down and shoot charged shots at him when his shield is retracted, though, and he goes down in like 3 hits. I was stuck at him for quite a while before I figured that out.

>>4685770
It's a Summer Carnival game. Summer Carnival was this annual shmup tournament Naxat ran for three years back in the 90s, the game was made for this tournament and never released for sale.

>>4685786

I know, hence my comments about it, hahaha.

I actually worked out how to semi-reliably pass this boss on my next run after making this post. I tried to record a video of myself doing so but the file seems corrupted or something? I load it in the emulator (.NST format, Nestopia's own movie recording) and it just does nonsensical inputs that I didn't actually do and desyncs completely. Was gonna export to AVI, convert to webm, and post.

Anyway, the way you do it is this (in case anyone else rolls Recca:)

1: As soon as the boss starts loading, charge a bomb. Move up to about a third of the way up the screen and all the way right. Place the bomb the second it's done loading and move back to the bottom of the screen. Fire like a madman at the front-right turret. Dont' bomb. Just hold fire and dodge the bullets. Hope your touhou skills are acceptable. The bomb and bullet combination will take out the front-right turret quickly. You'll occasionally have to weave left a tiny bit to shoot down any missiles coming from the front-left turret. Don't go as far as the middle of the lasers will get you.

2: Once the front-right turret is down, move in front of the front-left one, dodging lasers as you go. Stay right in front of it and make small movements to dodge the danmaku fire from the other turrets. This will now be the only turret shitting heat-seeking missiles at you, and you'll automatically shoot them all down if you're sat right under it.

>>4685798

3: Once the front two turrets are gone, there are no more missiles - but each dead turret makes the lasers come more frequently, so it's now risky to go up the middle of the boss and plant bombs on the green core. Instead, park yourself on the right of the screen, and whenever the boss is at the end of the "inertia" it experiences at the far left, run up and place a bomb to the RIGHT of the whole boss, at the TOP of the screen. It'll float right into it and the green core will take full bomb damage.

Rinse and repeat until it dies, using the shield that comes up while your bomb is charging to soak up the danmaku from the 2-4 remaining turrets. (The two other ones on the right will die as you chip away at the boss with bombs from the outside.)

Here's the 6th boss, he's bullshit as all hell. He flies around the screen firing these icicles in a spiral, and while they don't LOOK that hard to avoid, your dragon's vertical hitbox is so obnoxiously large you constantly get hit even when you're sure you flew between two of them.

Best strategy is just to stay the hell away from him and fire the Steel Dragon's homing super shots. The Spark Dragon's smart bombs probably work too, but they feel weaker.

Here's level 7, definitely the coolest stage in the game. You're flying a dragon through the body of a beast as eyeballs form in the flesh and fire at you.

7th boss. He walks back and forth firing downwards, while fireballs form out of the air and home in at you. If you hit him with non-super shots he'll fire hard-to-avoid pink balls at you, so you need to avoid doing that, which makes avoiding those fireballs a lot harder since you can't fire constantly to get rid of them.

If you hide in the corner here he (usually) can't hit you, and you can just spam either smart bombs or, if you still have the Steel Dragon from last stage like I did, homing shots.

>>4685826

What game is this mate?

>>4685832
Dragon Saber, the rather obscure sequel to Dragon Spirit.

Level 8, weird little bonus level with powerups everywhere. >>4685697

And finally level 9, the "didn't think this game resembled Xevious enough yet?" level.

Let's see if we can't beat it this time.

And here's the trouble spot I mentioned. You need to get into the left passage, the right one is a dead end, but you can't hit those cannons on the south wall, and there are cannons up north that will fire down into the safe spots between the south cannons' fire, so you need to make this very specific dodge up towards the left wall, and you need to do it quit before those north cannons scroll onscreen.

And this is as far as I've managed to get. It looks pretty final area-ish, so I assume the boss is close.

And there he is!

That wasn't really all that difficult. He fires a bunch of different homing shots, most of which can't be destroyed, and can only be hurt by super shots, so once you get a handle on how to circle the guy to avoid what he fires it's not too hard. It helps that you get a speed powerup right before the battle.

>>4685905
For a second I thought he had a second form, but nope, that was all.

>>4685908
Apparently the final boss was really the transformed state of this goddess or whatever she is. The game could've probably benefited from explaining the plot in the opening cutscene, since I'm not entirely sure what's going on here, but it seems like I saved the world anyway.

Wonder if this ending is exclusive to the console port, the arcade version wouldn't exactly have a manual where the plot could be detailed.

Anyway, game beaten. It wasn't THAT difficult once I got the hang of it, but some of the later stages had a lot of places where you really need to know what's coming and how you have to react to it in advance. Not the best shmup I've played, but the concept is original and both stages and bosses look really cool.

so far I've done
>Ironsword II on the NES
>Top Gear Pocket 2 for the GBC
>Centurion Defender of Rome on megadrive
I never played or seen a turbografx16 game so lets see what I will get..

Oh ok

>>4685972
Not a bad first impression of the console.

>>4685930
Apparently the arcade version told the plot in the attract mode.
Still doesn't make much sense, though, how could this Arlia chick show up and give the humans the saber if she had already been turned into that demon king guy?

>>4686051
>>4685930

Maybe it was all some kind of silly test where she was complicit in her own possession, and gave you the saber beforehand so that you could try and prove humanity's worth or whatever.

Fucking gods.

>>4685972
>>Centurion Defender of Rome on megadrive
How was it?

>>4685930
Not gonna start it yet, but here's my DOS game.
Apparently an isometric adventure game with a fantasy setting, not at all what I expected upon reading the title.

>>4686273

What are you using to roll? I don't recognise that interface.

>>4686435
>>4683221

>>4686435
http://nukecritic.com/rgg/

Found the link in an older thread. It includes a lot more games than the one in the OP does.

Front Mission 3 guy reporting in.
Failed it and b extension PS1 again due to time constraints made worse due to technical difficulties. Rerolled Saturn again, got Area 51, beat it in short order yesterday.

Rerolling PS1. Again.
Please for the love of god do not let this be yet another long ass RPG that I'm either too busy or too unlucky with tech problems to finish in 7 da-
FUCKING
FUCKING
FUCK
I'm stuck in a fool's paradise of good RPGs that I do not have the time to finish. Granted I have played and beaten this one before at least so I might be able to power through it.

>>4686468
I'll never not believe in you, anon.

SMT-Anon here.

Okay so I went from having a good understanding of what it was I was doing, to having absolutely no clue in a heartbeat. Mostly just wandering around large cavernous buildings and beating the shit out of any monsters and then recruiting some on occasion.

I lost my fucking dog to plot after I combined him with a few things so I don't know if that's an SMT punch to the nuts or if I'll get him back.

Currently though I'm 'kind of' enjoying the game? I wish I had even a smallest bit more direction. Looking for the girl, but all I know is she's the leader of a revolution against the american army?

That plot point just sort of appeared without any leadup so no idea what they're on about.

>>4686468
I feel you. Two RPGs back-to-back so far but you appear to have the same luck I had on my last gauntlet. Godspeed.

>>4686979
I'm so fucking scared of what I'll get for my N64/PS1 title.

>>4686979

For what its worth, the game is really bad about telling you where to go. I don't think there's any shame looking up a guide if you're stuck. Some of the places you end up having to go are very far away on the map or not clearly marked at all.

>>4686979
Hee-ho!

>>4687565
Aidyn Chronicles? Ogre Battle 64? I hope you get something easy and fun, anon.

>>4687607
Yeah I think I've figured it out just by wandering around and visiting every location. I pretty much only resort to a guide on games when I have actually tried everything.

I am having alot of fun with this but god I suck at shmups
>>4686124
Was ok, just had to abuse of the password system and ''reload'' my ''savefile'' a bunch, essentialy save scumming

in reality I just savestated on the password screen just to save time

>>4687809
Fuuuuck, its easy to get to the boss if I have the super ship but once I lose it I just die really quickly. I gonna try again tomorrow

>>4687905
It's a pretty fuckhard game if I remember right.

>>4687617
>Further explanation about why nuclear missiles pointed at Japan aren't a big deal.
I'm sorry, what?

>>4686273
Okay, so this game is actually pretty fun... but the save function doesn't seem to work on Dosbox, and the game isn't the sort of thing you can beat in a single sitting. How do I work my way around this?

Ok, let's just bullshit our way through this with save states. The game uses a pretty cool system where you need to pay to save with ingame money, which exists in a limited amount, and where the price increases as you progress. There's no way to mimic this with savestates, so I'll just have to not save too often, I guess. Strategic saving is important, since the game has stuff like unidentified potions that can be identified by either casting a spell or by just drinking it and checking. The first unidentified potion you find is poison, which teaches you to not do that. You can also get rid of important items by using them wrong, which will perma-dead end you.

But yeah, it's an isometric adventure where you can interact with, push, pull and pick up practically everything. The game can be a bit dickish at times with hiding keys and the like under random other crap, so it's important to be thorough. Unfortunately the fighting system is rather awful, with the only weapon I've found, a sack of throwing rocks, being horrendously hard to hit anything with, but at least you get nearly 300 of them on the first level, so I guess it's intended.

I've almost made it through the first area, the game says I've explored 95% of it, but I screwed myself over by not realizing a warp activated by pouring holy water into a holy bowl and then drinking from it had to be done three times. The game does hint that it CAN be done three times, but by the time I realized it gets you different items every time you do it I had already wasted one bottle of holy water elsewhere.

It's pretty solid puzzle-wise, and hasn't been too hard to figure out yet, I'm liking it a lot.

>>4689313
Also, while replying, I just figured out the puzzle involving this guy. When you enter his cell he tells you he's hungry, and you can feed him one of the food items you've found to get a hint.
What I didn't realize until now was that different food items give you different hints, and one of them I just got was part of a combination code I've spent forever searching for.
This is one of those games you need to replay individual levels a lot in.

>>4689313
Would you look at that lovely Bitmap Brothers pixel art.

>>4689332
Played it before?
I beat level 1, turned out that warp thing I reset for was just for some extra spells and that what I really was supposed to do was get the code from that prisoner.

This is the original Cadaver, not Cadaver: The Payoff, though. That's an expansion to the game, and I tried it for a bit and couldn't get anywhere - I'm stuck in the first set of 7 rooms where I've found a guy that wants "supper" (can't find anything he accepts), a bunch of locked doors, one which opens with a key I found and one that opens with a lever next to it, some holes that need two daggers inserted in them, which I've found one of, a locked chest I don't have the key for, and a trapped chest I don't have a dispel trap spell for. It seems a lot more puzzle-heavy and complex, so I gave the original a shot instead, and it's a lot easier to figure out.

>>4689472
>Played it before?
Nope. I just like looking at Bitmap Brothers pixel art. Especially if it's isometric.

>>4689472
Considering the Gauntlet is to test your mettle but also be a fun experience for you to experience games you never had before, I don't see any particular issue with dialing back to a similar game.

>>4689484
Right. In this instance it's essentially part 1 and 2 of the same game, and considering how complicated Payoff is, it's pretty clear it was meant for people that had already played the original. It doesn't ease you into things at all.

>>4689496
Oh so like a direct expansion more than a sequel? That makes even more sense then.

>>4689506
Yeah, you need the original game to play it. After installing it, the game will ask if you want to play Cadaver or Payoff when you start it up.

>>4688057

>>4689520
And goddammit now I'm stuck in level 2. This game is tricky.

>>4687905
even with a turbo button, one fuck up and its over, jeesus

>>4689472
Managed to figure that bit out, you had to search corpses for diaries and then insert them in the slot at the start of the inn, since different people had access to different rooms. The diary I found in the locked room I needed the key for belonged to a mage that had access to a magic room where I could use some levers to have a teleport spell send me to the kitchen where a found a turkey for the hungry guy and that dispel trap spell I needed.

Here's a neat room where a magic force field prevents me from going into the right side, so I needed to use a magnetized lodestone to have the key hit that glowing teleport orb, which teleports it past the forcefield. You're stuck if you enter the room without that lodestone, though.

It's a fun game, but can be pretty tricky at times.

I'm the anon that was playing Air Buster for Genesis in the last thread. I fell short of time and patience for that particular title, unfortunately, and now I've resigned to start again at square one.

My new NES game is Sunday Funday, a vaguely christian themed platformer released by Wisdom Tree. There probably isn't much to say about this that wasn't already covered in the avgn review, so I'll see you boys at the credits screen.

>>4690439
You didn't need to go back to square one, you had to go back one square, so back to gameboy you go. Unless you want to redo the whole thing

>>4689884
I can't get past stage 17, today is my last day with this game so I guess I will have to roll megadrive again soon. I am really having fun with this game though, really addicting

>>4690425
Jesus, this addon is tough. Not only are the puzzles kinda complex, a lot of it involves effective use of magic and objects to work your way around things. One room had two vertically moving spike bars where the only solution I could find was to block them in place with a pole item and then jumping over them after drinking both a speed potion and a jump potion to get the necessary air and distance to my jump. Another room had a bunch of flamethrowers where I had to use a speed potion and an immortality potion and just run past. A lot of rooms open up for improvised solutions. It's pretty cool, but also pretty difficult and requires a LOT of restarts.

There was a pretty cool room where you had to toss chicken legs over a group of spikes in order to lure a slime monster into crawling through the spikes and destroying them, but while you get a single chicken leg in that room (if you're fast - chances are the slime will eat it before you even notice it), it's highly unlikely you'll be able to clear the room if you didn't carry any with you.

I got to the end of the first level, but I'll have to restart since opening the chest containing what I think is the exit key set off an alarm that sealed the room off, and I'll need a strength potion to escape.

Okay, so I want to show off the beginning of Cadaver the Payback to demonstrate how the game works and how this is absolutely an experts-only addon.

The gameplay is complex in a fairly simple-to-understand manner. It's an isometric adventure where you want around with the arrow keys and do pretty much everything else with the G key. Normally it jumps, if you have an item equipped it will attack if the item is a weapon and throw the item if it isn't, and if you have a menu displayed it chooses options. Touching an object that can be interacted with will call up a menu where you can choose actions like investigate, pick up, grab, open, eat etc. The return button opens an item menu where you can choose an item from your inventory and interact with it from a similar menu, which will also include drop and equip.

>>4691071
You play as a mercenary named Karadoc who was hired to kill a necromancer in the first game. The addon starts with him returning to the inn that serves as the headquarters for his mercenary brotherhood. The scroll in this room is the diary, which you carry around throughout the entire game and can use the read command on to see Karadoc's current stats. In this room it has a slightly different purpose, though - the top door is locked and the slot next to it says "members only", but by inserting your diary the door will open. Failing to realize the importance of this is how I got stuck so long.

On the other side is this main entrance room. You can pick up your diary again here, it will automatically spawn on that table if you insert it in the slot. The altar here will tell you to insert two "daggers of the brotherhood" if you investigate it. The book on the altar is a register listing the brotherhood members as you and some other guys named Purgino, Harridan, Marcus, Valuin, Jams, Hugh and Purval. If you search the skeleton in the corner you'll find another diary and learn that it's the skeleton of this Hugh guy. The chest and the door to the right are both locked, but the top door is open.

>>4691073
That door leads to this guest room section. The left door is locked, but the two others lead to guest room 3 and 2. The top passage leads to the second area of this corridor.

In guest room 3 you can move the pillow on the bed out of the way to find one of the brotherhood daggers underneath. It can be equipped as a weapon, but doesn't seem to do any damage to the enemies in this section, and you need it for the altar anyway. There's also a cabinet here that can be opened to find a Super Fast Potion with 4 charges (drink it for a temporary speed boost) a "holy symbol", and a bible I think is just there for fluff.

Guest room 2 has signs of struggle. This is where the guys that hired you were staying, you'll find some pieces of armor you identify as theirs, as well as a journal behind a barrel in the corner mentioning that after you left to kill the necromancer, all the villagers have been turning into monsters, and the only ones so far unaffected are the innkeeper and barkeeper. There's also a cabinet here containing a key marked "room 1" and a sack with 90 gold. Gold is used to save the game, but I can't get that to work for some reason and had to use save states instead.

>>4691097
The second part of the guest corridor has these monsters walking around. The bottom one is nearly impossible to avoid, but doesn't deal much damage and will die itself when it touches you. The other one deals far more damage and doesn't seem possible to kill.
Both doors here are locked. The door to the right leads to guest room 1,and can be opened by using the key you found on the keyhole next to it. The top door is opened by pulling the lever next to it.

Guest room 1 contains a strong box, but it's trapped, which means trying to open it will just hurt you. You can investigate chests to see if they're trapped or not, and not doing that with every chest you find will quickly lead to your death. The other items here are a bowl, two bones and two sacks of clothes (which are pretty big, and thus very handy to carry around to use as platforms). Investigating the skeleton will reveal another diary, and you'll learn this is the corpse of your mercenary buddy Valuin the mage.

The top door in the corridor leads to the refectory, where the innkeeper is waiting. He notices you're looking for your friends and says he might help you if you bring him his supper. There's a Stamina Potion (health recovery) on the table and some assorted crap lying around - three bones, a plate and a mug, but nothing else of interest. The door to the left is locked.

This is where I got stuck when I first tried this.

>>4691131
What you're supposed to do is to return to the first room. Remember you had to insert your own diary in the slot to get access to the main guest area? Well, if you insert Valuin's diary the system will think you're him, and he has access to the magic chamber behind that locked door in the Guests Entrance (you can also insert Hugh's diary, but I don't think this lets you access anything new). Here you'll find a locked chest with Purval's name on it, a magic orb that lets you use the Teleport spell, and three levers. This bit was also pretty tough to figure out.

To use spells, you equip the spell item, then press the G button. The Teleport spell normally doesn't do anything, and if you try using it in any room other than the Magic Chamber you'll just get a message saying it can only be used there. If you investigate the levers, you'll see the letters O, A and B on them. Flipping the levers and then looking at them again will have them spell B, R and D, so if you flip the middle one, you'll spell the word "ORB". This will make the Teleport spell work, and using the orb will warp you to the kitchen. You can also flip them to spell "BAD", which will make the spell warp you to a room I'm pretty sure is just a death trap.

The kitchen contains a bowl, a cleaver, a chicken, two chicken legs, a loaf of bread and three mugs. There's a corpse in the corner you can investigate to learn that it's Purval's and get his diary, a cabinet you can open to get a Dispel Trap spell, and a lever you can pull to unlock the northeast door, which was that locked door in the guest passage. The two other doors in the kitchen are locked.

>>4691160
At this point you have a bunch of stuff you can do.

You can also go back to the entrance and place Purval's diary in the slot, which magically unlocks his chest in the Magic Chamber, which contains 317 gold, which is presumably enough for a good deal of saves. This is obviously optional, though.

What you need to do to progress, however, is to return to Guest Room 1 and use the Dispel Trap spell you found on the strongbox there. After doing this, you can open it and find a Turn Monster spell (makes monsters avoid you for a while), a blue casket you'll need for a later puzzle, and the second brotherhood dagger you needed.

Placing the two daggers in the altar in the Guest's Entrance will make the tapestry slide up and reveal a button. Pushing this will make a chest key fall down from the ceiling. This opens the chest in that room, which contains a Massacre spell (heavy damage to all monsters, I think - you use it in the original game to kill a "boss" at the end of the first level) and another "holy symbol". These holy symbols later need to be combined with the blue caskets, so you need to locate 3 of each.

Finally, if you return to the innkeeper and give him the chicken, he'll unlock the other door in the refectory for you and give you a locked red casket as a thank you for your trouble. You'll later get an "Open Chest" spell you can use to open it and find that it just contains a Stamina Potion, which I doubt is worth wasting that spell on. Maybe there's some other way to open it that I didn't discover? Either way, passing through that door the innkeeper opened will lead to the bar and finally get you out of these initial sets of rooms.

And that was only roughly the first third of this level. It's pretty cool, but my god can it be overly complicated. Definitely intended for people that had played and beaten the original.

Uuuugh, I got as far as stage 25, 4 more and I would be done with it goddamn it.

>>4691191
Well, managed to finally beat level 1 of Payback. Turned out that deathtrap isn't actually a deathtrap, just a slightly difficult puzzle room you need to warp into near the end via a different teleporter that's preprogrammed to take you there.

Unfortunately the game crashes on level 2, either when I enter the menu or when I walk into a specific room. It's a real shame, I was genuinely enjoying this one.

The plot got kinda nonsensical, though. After the innkeeper lets you into the bar, the rest of the level is focused around you trying to find the landlord's bedroom so you can steal the front door key from his treasure chest, and I can't for the life of me understand why you have to leave via that door and not the guest entrance you originally used. Blah.

Not sure what I'll do, the game is genuinely impossible for me to complete now.

>>4690439
I'm actually kinda digging this game. The controls are tight and responsive, and I feel like the platforming is leagues better than the slippery bullshit the avgn made it out to be. However each level contains several forced combat sections, and they do really drag the pacing down.

I think I'm on the final level right now. It's visually distinct from the other three level tropes that have been used up to this point (town, sewers, pier), and is acknowledged by the pre level dialog as being "the hardest part of my journey."

>>4690449
I know, but my roll for GB/GBC was FIFA Internation Soccer. Since I was likely headed back to SNES anyway, I figured a reset might actually be the faster option.

>>4691779
I beat the final boss, a demonic bear with the ability to teleport and throw fireballs, and finally made it to Sunday School. Awesome.

Next up is a rather obscure looking RPG, the translated name being The Glory of Heracles III: Silence of the Gods.

>>4691965
Glory of Heracles is basically Dragon Quest: Greek Mythology Edition. Not awful, but it's so derivative and unoriginal it never made that much of a following.

>>4691553
Fuck me, I've spent all evening trying to figure out how to emulate the Amiga and Atari ST since the game is available there too, and all I get is crashes and an inability to save. I hate computer emulation.

>>4691325
well shit, my time is up and stage 25 was as far as I got, rolling mega drive again. I m kinda sad, I really enjoyed galaga.

Wew this game looks like a bad fighting game

>>4692426
Boy this is awful

>>4692435
Warren put on a fucking shirt dude. Also you have a tumor on your leg. Get that checked.

>>4692435
ok every character has a cheap out strat, this is easy

>>4692285
And just like that, I got it to work. Save files work too, and somehow I'm able to use my game disk as a save disk. I'm not sure exactly how it works, I think the emulator uses some weird temporary state system where the emulator reads my game disk as a formatted save disk when I try to save and load, but as the actual game disk otherwise. It's weird, but it's very handy and means I don't have to "manually" swap disks every time I want to save.

>>4692494
what the fuck, this was the easiest fighting game boss I've ever done, I just stood in the corner and spammed fireballs

Well back to Turbografx I go

>>4692519
ooh boy this looks... funky

>>4692539
this game is weird but I will figure it out, idk what is the best team, I don't care, you guys pick one and tomorrow night I will a tournament with it

>>4692505
Or scratch that, I got a proper save disk set up. Amiga emulation is a bitch because you need to download all kinds of bullshit additional files to get shit working, but now that it's up and running it's pretty smooth and simple.

>>4692557
>early 90s basketball
Pick Chicago.

>>4692557
Pick boston for Larry Legend memes or the bulls for michael memes, Larry is the goat.

Firs time I've done a guantlet, I got image fighter for my first game.
Its a shmup, a genre I'm terrible at so I don't have high hopes beating it.

First time doing the gauntlet. Got the NES version of Puyo Puyo.

>>4692965
Image Fight had a NES port? Sounds a bit too much for the NES to handle.

>>4692965
Image Fight is extremely brutal even for the genre. Good luck, anon. Post rage.

Doing the mission mode. The first mission was clear 7 Puyos at once, and pic related is to just clear 23 of them, doesn't have to be at once. I should be able to beat this in a few hours at most.

Already burned through 30 missions. Most of my losses are from getting thrown off by the physics. I keep moving the puyos when I think they've locked into place, but they lock on slower than the normal games. The game also feels faster than normal Puyo games. There are 6 colors, which makes the game a but dependent on RNG. Particularly in missions that require a specific color. Pic related was a bad case. You have to clear all red Puyos, but there were only 3 left at the end. I had to dump unnecessary ones to the side and chain them so it wouldn't overfill for almost a minute before the game finally spawned a fourth red.

Right now I'm stuck on Mission 50: Build a 7-chain. Board starts out with a bunch of Puyos that don't seem to chain well. I don't know if I'm missing an obvious answer or what. I'm getting annoyed, so I'm taking a break before trying again.

Okay, NOW we're back in action. Amiga version doesn't crash on level 2, the save system works as intended, and everything's good. In the original Cadaver a whole lot of magic and potions carried over between levels, but all I got to keep this time was a stamina potion and the diary. Guess they want to restrict what I can and can't do to solve puzzles.

>>4693014
It looks so sterile. Is Arle in the game at all?

>>4693124
Damn, this outside area is ridiculously difficult. There's deadly monsters everywhere and tons of houses and doors and chests and whatnot. I found several keys I'm not sure what are for, and even an Unlock Door spell that will need some very careful use so I don't waste it on a door I could've opened otherwise. I think I'll have to draw a map of this place.

>>4693103
https://puyonexus.com/chainsim/chain/NNBDj
Here's one solution. Best of luck anon.

I got it. Clearing the two reds on the second column makes a 6-chain.

>>4693147
Nope. The only character who appears is Carbuncle. In Endless mode you have the option of having the giant Puyo or Carbuncle randomly drop.

Just finished the last mission. There are 52 missions, and I expected more than that. 51 is just clear a blue Puyo that's buried under a tower of other Puyos. Simple but easy to screw yourself over. 52 is clear all blues, except the game does not drop more blues, so you have to chain in the right way to clear them all.

>>4693628
Third column, I mean.

>>4693103
>>4693484
https://puyonexus.com/chainsim/chain/J8TSi
Autism mode.

>>4688057
Okay so there were, in fact, nuclear missiles pointed at Japan. After beating this guy and another guy (Majin Thor) the nukes went off.
The leader of the rebellion (SkyWoman for those paying attention at home) used her magic to push Gauntlet into another world.

World was basically purgatory. Learned about the Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic alignments and went through a very, very annoying dungeon (which I should have taken a shot of but I've been so focused on just clearing this thing that I haven't been as much).

Just returned to the real world and now it's a hellscape.

>>4693392
I'm probably overdoing it a bit by mapping this area to this much detail, but this place is huge, confusing and incredibly deadly. Your ability to save being so limited doesn't help matters either, especially when a lot of items can be used in multiple ways and will dead end you if you use them wrong. And god help you if you run out of weapons.

Right now I'm mostly just exploring and reloading a bunch to figure out where the game wants me to use that two-charges-only Unlock Door spell it gave me. Not a whole lot of difficult puzzles in this area, but a surprising amount of places where you need to build towers of random crap in order to climb to some high area. I think there's been like four already, and this is just the first half of the level. Treating this as an RPG and giving myself a week, since it's pretty long and slow-paced.

>>4694343
That looks like some of my SMT maps. Though yours are arguably more detailed.

>>4694358
The limited inventory, brutal "used an item in the wrong spot? you're screwed" approach to puzzles and rather mean save system means replaying levels over from scratch once you figure out what you're supposed to do a necessity, so having the map list where everything can be found is really helpful.

It's a really enjoyable game, but it's also really fucking hard.

>>4694374
Yeah it definitely seems like one of those games where it's used to keep children occupied for hours because they literally need hours to figure all of this out.

>>4694038
SO.

I surrender. I checked a walkthrough and I'm roughly a quarter of the way through. There is no way in hell I'm going to make it through this game by Saturday. Or rather, I might be able to by following a walkthrough, but that's kind of counter-productive to the point of the Gauntlet anyway.

Additionally I've soft-locked the game and I'd have to reload from an earlier (much earlier) save to get it.

So RIP SMT, I will probably still play you on-and-off because you interest me, but that is not for now.

Time to re-roll NES and start that tomorrow.

>>4689313
>The first unidentified potion you find is poison, which teaches you to not do that

>>4694416
Doesn't help that the game pulls dick moves like these either. This is the Bankers Lodge, which you need to use the Unlock Door spell to enter (the spell only works on three doors here, so if you don't guess which those are and waste the spell, tough shit, gotta restart/reload). There's some money here, and a trapped chest I can't open yet since I still don't have a Disarm Trap spell, but there's also a jade hidden from view behind the table, and you need that shit. It's the third precious stone on this level, and you need to place these in some skulls in order to open a gate. And because the game hates you, this needs to be done with the Give command that makes you lose the item you use no matter if it was the correct one or not, and there's no indication which skull needs which gem. Oh, and there's invincible monsters attacking you as you fidget with those skulls because of course there is.

>>4694514
Short Order / Eggsplode.

Never heard of it. Apparently it uses the power pad. Mesen emulates that so it shouldn't be too bad.

>>4694536
Holy shit. Sometimes I have nostalgia for those old adventure games but this just seems like raw frustration encapsulated in nice graphics. I hope you have better luck with that than I did with SMT

This game is not as fun as I thought it would be, I have no idea of what these numbers supposed to mean

>>4694541
Jersey number and some sort of...hex code for their abilities? That's weird as hell.

>>4694545
yeah its so confusing, the controls are not very clear too, I don't know how to steal the ball. I need a manual to this but I can't find it online

>>4694540
As long as you comb the rooms carefully it's not too bad. There was a crucial item hidden in a random barrel earlier on this level too.

Remember this is supposed to be an expert-only addon, and that you can save and load at any time, but you need to pay ingame money to save. The game wants you to save and load a bunch to experiment and figure out how to handle shit.
The Jewelers Lodge has an alarm system where you're attacked by spiders if you try to exit carrying the caskets or ruby, and you need to pull a lever at the far side of the room after triggering it to turn it off so you can exit, and it was actually pretty fun coming up with a solution to how to do this without getting hit. You need to prearrange furniture around the room so you can jump around a bit and get the spiders stuck behind a table. Not overly complicated (and the spiders don't outright kill you, so you don't NEED to do this if you're willing to tank some damage), but took a few tries.

It IS enjoyable, seriously.

>>4694548
k Found a manual, things are a little bit clear now

>>4693650
I'm back. Just rolled my SNES game: a Squaresoft RPG I've never heard of.

>>4694540
Okay so there are in fact two games in one. I'm just going to get this started tonight because I'm bored and drunk.

This one has several levels and so obviously I'm going to go for the 40 story burger, whatever that means. Probably something awful.

>>4694558
God the matches in this game lasts for like 30 minutes, its boring and annoying

>>4694573
Just like real basketball

>>4694550
I believe it. It sounds really punishing but as long as it isn't super long and monotonous like SMT was, I can see it being a fun play.

>>4694570
Hey I rolled this last time. Super fun. Very very cool magic system.

>>4694572
It's a memory game. Finally a game that will recognize my powerful memory. That is to say, a notepad. I finally have a use for all these notepads that my work sends me.

>>4694520
It's not very potent poison (everything in the game has its unique effectivity stat - it's how that Unlock Door spell works too, it will unlock a door if the door's lock effectivity is lower than the spell's effectivity. You can't see the effectivity of the locks, though, just for spells and items), and there's an antidote next door, so it's not as mean as it sounds.

>>4694570
There are 3 characters to choose from. I chose Sion, the warrior. Right now I'm supposed to find my friends who went missing after Sion Leeroy Jenkins'd a giant at a tower used to worship a god of destruction.
I've figured out how to magic system works. There are different words that have different effects. You can use those to write your own spells. For example you start with:
>IG: fire damage
>IGNA: fire damage to all
>LEF: heal
I figured that "NA" must mean to target all, typed in "LEFNA", and got a spell that heals all.

I fought the first boss, a statue of the creator of the giants. He was pissed that I woke him up from slumber. Right before the fight, a giant named Ture, who was imprisoned by the other giant from earlier, joined the party. Now Sion is off to fight in a tournament that decides who becomes the captain of the knights. But before that, I'm going to start another character's story.

>>4694721
>He was pissed that I woke him up from slumber.
Relatable.

Getting close-ish to the end of this area now (my diary says I've been to 70% of the rooms so far).

This puzzle was pretty neat. There's a key lying on top of a bunch of spikes, so you need to toss a bunch of random crap onto the spikes and then shove the entire line of stuff until you manage to push the key off.

>>4694741
This mapping and note-taking is also working out pretty well. Finally got a single Dispel Trap spell, and it was nice to be able to instantly check which chests were trapped and where they were located. Ended up disarming the trap on the locked one in the Village Store, assuming this chest key I found there would unlock it, and it did, giving me lots of money and a Freeze spell. Now I just have to hope the game didn't require me to open a very specific other chest, but that sounds overly cruel even for this game.

Damnit, I rented this game as a kid. I know how much this will suck.

yay

I'm in Level 2 right now.

>>4694809
Level 1 was some grassland area, boss was Wile E. Coyote which was weird since he is portrayed as the big bad guy in the intro. Level 2 was a desert area with some bullshit "The ground will now fall out so RUN" areas, boss was Yosemite Sam. Level 3 is some mountain area with lava spots. Had Elmer Fudd as a miniboss halfway through, then Sylvester and his son? on skateboards for the boss. Currently sitting on about 40 lives going into 4-1 since the game throws lives at you like crazy in the bonus rounds if you collect enough carrots.

It wasn't until I played for a bit that I remembered why I hated this shit so much. Trying to do an attack with precision is nearly impossible, movement is funky, and the level designers enjoy putting enemies exactly where you're jumping or landing.

>>4694854
Oh fuck! Guess I'll never run out now.

>>4694887
rip

>>4694721
Started the chapter of Surlent, the sorcerer. The intro answered some questions I had with the plot. There's a myth of an apocalypse that occurs every 4000 years. The game takes place in the last 16 days of the year 3999. The thing I fought earlier is from a Lago Stone, and it is a Rudra, basically the creator and destroyer of the race.
Surlent's story starts off with researching the Lago Stone of the Reptiles, another extinct race. He goes to get the Holy Grail in order to help, but some young "treasure hunters" stole the grail. Now he has to get the other 2 receptacles.

>>4694937
There was another receptacle, the Holy Robe, at a cave. Those treasure hunters were there too. They said they'll give back the Grail if they can have a look at the Robe. Surlent thinks this is a good idea and now the treasure hunters have two out of three receptacles.
There's a cult that's been kidnapping children in broad daylight using living dolls. Surlent and co. go check that out. Looks like Sion's also investigating.

>>4694854
>then Sylvester and his son?
You don't remember Junior? He appeared in a decent number of shorts.

So there's a spell in the game that lets you talk to dead people. One of the corpses you can spend a charge on is located in an area where the door closes after you've already grabbed the item there (which you needed earlier), so the only way to reach the corpse after getting the spell is to waste an Unlock Door spell on the door. The result? Yeah.

And yeah, this is not something you'd even think of trying without saving beforehand.

>>4695234
It's not AS dickish as it sounds, though. You get 6 charges of this spell, and the one corpse you're supposed to cast it on is pretty obviously the priest, the only corpse you identify by looking at it, who's found right next door to where you get the spell. All the other corpses seem to just give joke "info".

And right now I'm pretty damn stuck. I feel like I've explored most of the city, with only a few locked areas I can't get into. The game really seems to want me to get into the high priest's house so I can uncurse this gem I found in the morgue, but I can't find the key anywhere. There's also this weird chest in the mayor's house that disappears when I touch it, and I feel like I'm missing something there. It's also unclear to me which chest the game wants me to disarm, one gives me that talk to the dead spell, another a second unlock chest spell, and the third a powerful freeze spell, and they all feel important.

>>4695467
>There's also this weird chest in the mayor's house that disappears when I touch it, and I feel like I'm missing something there.
...scratch that, I was somehow able to open it by pressing the button right before it disappeared and there's just money inside. Not sure if a glitch was involved or not.

>>4694581
So beat the 40-story burger. Little rabbit apparently overate and got a little fat.

I guess I'll work on Eggsplode too. Seems to work in the same fashion. Will beat the "hard mode" and then reroll SNES

>>4695467
>>4695570
...and after like 6 goddamn hours of banging my head against the wall and trying absolutely everything (and finding a couple other solutions - this puzzle >>4694741 could be solved much more easily by placing a tall item next to the key and then activating the gravel machine next to it, which makes an endless stream of gravel shoot out of the hole and hit the tall item, pushing it and the key further and further to the right. A lot less work, at least) I finally stumble over the fact that this door only the mayor can enter can be opened with the Unlock Door spell, which has a much more logical second use of letting you escape the militia armory after grabbing the items there.

I hope there's a second solution to this puzzle I just didn't find, because this was mean.

>>4695806
Well, there was a second Unlock Door spell in there, as well as one of the temple keys I needed, but I still have no clue where to find the second or how to get into any of the other doors.

This game will be the bane of me.

>>4695064
The kids got saved. An eclipse happened, which cause the Rudra in the Reptiles' Lago Stone to come alive and kill Surlent. Then he ended up in Limbo. He found the Humans' Lago Stone, and his Jade stone revived the Rudra of humans, Hausen. He says he will take Surlent back to the living world if he touches the apocalypse sword. He does, it was a trap, and now Hausen and a buddy of his who took Surlent's body is now out in the living world. Gomorrah, the guardian of evolution, gave Surlent a temporary body. The boss I'm fighting right now is the Rudra of Reptiles.

Fucking figured it out! This is the entrance to the house located in that weird gap in the middle of the map, which has two levers in front of it. The levers start out in opposite orientations, but pulling one will make the other adjust as well. The solution was to cast the Dispell Curse spell on the levers to lift the curse that makes them act this way, then set them both to down position.

I figured it out by just combing the map and trying to figure out why all the stuff directing me to the priest's house were at the start of the level, around the same time you find this dispell curse scroll, then trying to figure out what it could possibly be used on. These levers were my dozenth guess, but that's what the game wanted me to do.

I'd probably have benefitted from playing the original first and having some sort of idea what Dispell Curse can be used for.

>>4696052
...and inside I find a jump potion and an empty red casket "for holding a small gem", which I take to mean I was supposed to put the ruby in here before giving it to the skull. Reset time.

The room also had a shitty defense system that's pretty much impossible to guess how to get past until you trigger it and fuck yourself over, but that's par for course for this game.

>>4694573
This game is too boring, I am trying to play it but I Get bored on the first match because it lasts forever

For the sake of this gauntlet I gonna reroll turbografx because this one is just, not even fun or challenging, its just boooring.


Now for the reroll, this game looks rad but its a hexbased strategy game, anyone know how long it is ? it looks radical as fuck

>>4696104
>hexbased strategy game
Sign of quality. 6>4

>>4696081
>which I take to mean I was supposed to put the ruby in here before giving it to the skull
Nope, that was not it. You can put the cursed gem in it, though, so my next guess is that I need to do so in order to purify it, since a book in the Healer's house told me "the true altar should not be soiled with the remains of human sacrifice".

Problem is that I need to go to the priest's house to do this, and I still can't find the key to it. At this point I'm pretty convinced I'm missing something obvious, since the game is pretty much screaming at me to go do this before passing those jewel skulls.

>>4696185
Knew it. One of the early enemies had it.

>>4696230
...and that wasn't the key to the priest's house either, but to the carter's, where I found some more weapons and some gold, as well as another Activate spell that better be the solution to all this, because this is getting ridiculous.

>>4696267
That seems to have been it. The Activate spell can get items out of chests without opening them. By opening the locked chest in the council hall with the Unlock Chest spell to get a Dispel Trap spell, then using Activate on the chest in the bank to get another Unlock Chest spell, I could use both the Dispel Trap and Unlock Chest spells on the trapped and locked casket I found in the smith's house to get some new keys.

This has to be the solution to the level.

>>4696306
I've been almost literally everywhere except that stupid priest's house now. The three keys let me access the wizard's house, where I could use the ram's skull from the wine lodge to get the key for the village safe. The wine lodge requires the Unlock Door spell to open unless there's a key hidden somewhere I haven't found, but in the village safe I found the other temple key and the mayor's crown, which is definitely how you get into the fletcher's house without the Unlock Door spell.

>>4696372
And yep, entering the temple was the end of the level. Never figured out how to enter the priest's house or the other village store, never figured out what the deal with this cursed jewel, the casket or the armorer's key was... but I still beat the level, and none of my items carried over, so I'm not losing anything by using weird alternate solutions like this. I love how the game allows for it by giving you so many items that can be used in all kinds of ways.

I also like how the solution to getting items down from high places is always to make weird towers out of fried chicken and other assorted crap. I'm know I'm yelling at the game a lot, but it really is fucking fun to play, and it's extremely satisfying to figure out a solution to a puzzle and make some progress.

>>4694867
Ok, 4-4 was a bitch to do. Lots of things that can take a full heart, and no healing stuff until near the end. Lots of precision jumps from moving platforms to other moving platforms over instant kill pits. I lost nearly 10 lives here alone. The boss was Pepe Le Pew, and he was an asshole who kept farting at me. Farts knocked off a full heart as well, just barely took him down and avoided having to run 4-4 again. I'm now out of the weird green caves and into a forest. Never bothered to go this far as a kid, I turned the game off out of boredom by the end of level 3.

>>4696814
Level 5 is full of bullshit. Namely, some areas where you need to make exact jumps to and from moving ropes, after jumping off of disappearing platforms. Rope wasn't there? You're dead. Despite the deaths, the bonus rounds have me back up to 95 lives going into 6-1, which appears to be a castle or something, I don't know.

5-2 had Elmer Fudd come back, and 5-4 had Foghorn Leghorn and that smartass little annoying guy who's bothering him sometimes. They were VERY easy to beat, since neither one required you to take damage to deal damage, or put yourself into a situation where you might take damage.

>>4696849
6-4 appears to be another endurance run level like 4-4 was. No healing anywhere here. No enemies that drop hearts, no heart icons, nothing. Falling spikes and exploding clocks all over the damned place. I made it to the boss, and even figured out I could only hurt him by hitting his footballs back at him, but I missed my timing, lost my last heart, and now I gotta do 6-4 all over again.

At least I came into the level with plenty of lives.

>>4696889
Ok, Taz in the football helmet throwing footballs was actually the last boss. Thank god that's over, I fucked up my timing a second time and had to do 6-4 a third time. Still had 92 lives to spare. Turns out the party was being thrown by all the people trying to kill me who were angry Bugs was having a party. This shit makes zero sense even in cartoon logic. Fuck this game, ranks right up there with Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde and Hylide as the worst rentals I ever had.

>>4695962
Turns out the battle was also a trap, and Surlent died again. He got another body from Gomorrah, this time a warrior's. The Holy Grail was found in some ruins far away, the floating continents fell down to Earth, and I'm getting rekt by a worm.

>>4696901
And I roll one of the easiest strategy/sim games in existence. I like Aerobiz and Aerobiz Supersonic, but it's too easy to win on the hardest difficulty. Too late tonight to get to it, I'll smash through it tomorrow. Might as well go ahead and roll GB/GBC.

>>4696901
Honestly, writing a plot for a Bugs Bunny game isn't easy. There's a reason nearly every Daffy game in existence is based on Duck Dodgers.

>>4686468
Due to work I had to put off starting FF8 for a few days but now I'm ready.
But before I do, question. Can I play the PC port instead for personal convenience? Only difference from the PS1 version as far as I can tell are slightly enhanced graphics, some fixed typos and the option to cheat like a cowardly bitch with infinite magic which I will not be using of course.

>>4697393
The gauntlet runs entirely on an honor system, so it's theoretically up to you. The anon playing Cadaver switched to the Amiga version because the PC version crashed in Dosbox at a certain point.

>>4695725
All right so Eggsplode appears to be just a 'press a button to save the chicken' with these fucking foxes running around putting bombs under them? I don't know. I don't know that there's an end point but I'll see how far I can get.

>>4697610
Gamefaqs says it's a pure hi-score game with no ending, so just set a goal for yourself.

>>4697610
Also pushing the button on a chicken with an egg breaks the egg and costs a life. So you can't just push buttons on the elevated chickens. But the eggs are white and the bombs are blue, purple and yellow so it's pretty easy to tell them apart.

>>4697621
Yeah that's kind of what I was guessing. All right...I guess I'll just play until I get to some high score. Aiming for...eggs are worth 100 a pop, so a million points. Let's gooooo for 10,000 eggs.

>>4697393
>>4697571
Works for me, PC it is.
Also ouch, this bitch be cold.

>>4695570
Figured that puzzle out now, the fact that I was able to open it by hammering the button quickly before it disappeared was most likely a glitch. What you were supposed to do was to use the Reveal spell from the Wizard's house on the room to make the chest materialize again after disappearing. The mayor's house is right next door from the wizard's, so it was a very quick detour that gets you a rather solid amount of money. I'm starting level 3 now and have nearly 2000 gold, while the price for saving is a bit over 200.

I like the save system in this game, where each save costs an increasing amount of gold. Really encourages replaying earlier sections so you can beat them with less saves and thus be able to save more later. In practice it's pretty much just the same as Resident Evil's ink ribbons and the like, but it makes you less certain just how many times you CAN save and actively encourages searching for hidden rooms with extra gold.

>>4697761
So at the beginning of this temple level, I find a bunch of locked doors, a wine barrel with a tap, a glass orb on an altar, and a room where a rude priest demands I bring him wine. There's a goblet in the room with him, alongside some books, a Fireball spell and some books. Placing the goblet under the wine barrel and turning the tap fills it with wine, but giving it to the priest will just make him demand more and give you the empty goblet back. The solution was to drop the glass orb on the ground to smash it, then drop the broken glass in the goblet, fill it with wine and serve it to the priest to kill him, then search his body for a key.

I fucking love it.

>>4697804
Also found some more plot in the form of a book that explains the surviving members of my mercenary brotherhood managed to seal the evil that killed everyone else into this temple, and that they're now here protecting the seal. Considering the city was overrun with monsters, I have a feeling they failed.
This level seems a lot shorter than the previous, I've covered a fourth of it already.

It's a bit hard to see in this screenshot, but I'm balancing on one foot on a candle in a candlestick that's balancing on the very very tip of a thin ledge over a pit of death.
Took me a while to even think of trying this.

>>4697980
This temple level seems a lot easier than the other two so far. It's pretty small, barely has any enemies or traps that require any skill to avoid, and the puzzles are very straight forward so far. Nice breather after that damn city.

>>4697610
I made it to 100,000 before getting bored to tears.

This would probably be really annoying and difficult to do with an actual power pad but at about 100,000 the difficulty didn't increase, I still had full lives, and it was just painfully boring at that point. I could have topped out the scoreboard but no real point. Done, cleared, rolling SNES.

>>4698392
Literally never heard of this game, but it's a puzzle game supposedly, kind of like Lemmings. Making dinner then gonna fire it up.

>>4698396
Arino played that on Game Center CX, it looked really fun. Doesn't really play like Lemmings though, more like Tetris Plus. You try to guide a single constantly-moving character to an opening by building paths for him to follow.

>>4698392
The Gamefaqs guide guy said it was great at parties. I can see it being a lot of fun to try to play drunk.

>>4698405
Ooooh sounds fun.

>>4698413
Nice. That's exactly what I'm after.

>>4698396
Well that's an interesting opening screen. Let's see how this goes. There's a 'Resume' option so presumably I can just...start from a level I screw up on so shouldn't be too bad.

>>4698494
Stumped already. I can't get to the exit on the bottom right because as soon as my boy touches the water, he immediately drowns. Been on this for a while trying to figure it out but might take a break and come back to it because Unless there's some mechanic I'm not aware of (and there has to be) this level is above me while I'm below water.

>>4698569
There was a bubble item on the previous level that lets you stay under water for a bit without drowning. For some reason you don't seem to have it.

>>4698621
The way I solved the prior level he skipped over it. So that's interesting. I'll have to be wary of that going forward.

This is such a cool puzzle. You find this incantation you can read in the altar rooms to summon objects based on what talismans you have placed in their holders, but earlier in the temple you find a translate spell you most likely tried using on the incantation to find out what it meant. But logically enough, the incantation must be read as is to work, so the translation spell just ruins it. It's clever and makes perfect sense.

so i rolled for an nes game and got dragon warrior 3 so is it okay if i play the gbc version?

>>4698906
No.

>>4698906
Play what you rolled, faggot.

This is how we remove blocks from high platforms.

Actually got stuck here for a while because I didn't notice the blocks on top were movable with a Strength potion.

>>4697006
Turns out Desert Rose uses only Earth attacks, and it's weak to lightning. I found a spell that does wind damage then adds float status. After playing around with it, I figured out how to make it target all. (NA doesn't work, you have to put O at the beginning.) I also typed swears into the spells list while grinding and found out that "YOUASSHOLE" is a good lightning spell. Desert Rose became a joke thanks to the float spell and assholes.
Now I'm getting rekt by the dude that took my body. He moves first and starts the battle with a spell that can OHKO two of my guys, so it looks like I'm grinding again.

So I discovered a "quiz room" where I get asked some random questions, mostly about pop culture.
This was one of them.

The puzzles are getting tough. Earlier in the temple I found three objects (an urn with ashes, a bottle with a foul-smelling liquid that poisons me if I drink it, and a silver bowl with runes on it) inside a circle. If you check the door in the room before picking them up, you'll see that it's closed. Later in the temple you find a second circle and have to place the same items inside it to remove a wall in another room.

It's clever, but it also requires you to remember exactly what items you found where.

>>4699558
Using swear words as attacks was one of my favorite things.

Gravity does not work this way.

>>4698685
Honestly after that one level the rest of them weren't that hard. A few took a couple tries but the game was pretty easy overall. It was a cute and fun game though, would recommend.

Time to roll Gameboy

>>4699957
I didn't realize they made a MK4...for the Gameboy? Surely just a fighting game won't be that hard. I've been playing all these games with a fight stick anyway as it's my only USB controller.

>>4699961
>MK4
>for gameboy
>"Surely just a fighting game won't be that hard"

You blind fool! have you learned nothing in your time here?

>>4699961
>MK4 for GBC

Whuh oh

>>4700024
>>4700028
I'm about to boot it up. Let's see how much I remember about Mortal Kombat.

>>4700046
Holy shit this is bad.

I mean is beating the Novice Tower sufficient or to 'beat' the game do I need to conquer the Master Tower?

>>4700060
Beat Novice, easily. Flawless Victory on almost all of the fights. Not counting that as a victory. Jumping to the Master Tower.

Currently just getting my ass beat. The game apparently just doesn't respond to controls at all so that's cool.

I love the atmosphere in this temple. There's barely any enemies in here, it's all about navigating around booby traps and unlocking complex locking mechanisms. This is the Luna Shrine, where I have to place the four L, U, N and A orbs in order to make a lever in the nearby Orbis Shrine open a secret door instead of the visible door it normally opens.
It all has this Indiana Jones feel to it.

>>4700084
Who are you playing as? Or can you even tell?

>>4700128
Sub-Zero at the moment. I think I figured out how to get through this, which is basically just spamming his ground-slide attack. I can't get his freeze to work at all though.

But the way it works, and I'll try to get a screenshot, is that even when on the ground, enemies don't have immunity. The sweep will still hit them, knock them airborne, and then give me enough time to do another sweep as soon as they hit the ground. Once they're in a corner the match is over.

But it's murder on my forearm pushing the buttons rapidly for like a minute straight. The damage on this game is all sorts of fucked. Roundhouses and Uppercuts do a fraction of what they normally do. Everything seems to hit for the same amount meaning that if you can do the punches over and over, you can very easily kill someone in just a few seconds.

On Novice, that was every fight. Here on Master, it's almost impossible to land more than two.

Also, Scorpio (Scorpion is too long for the bar) with his spear doesn't stun them, so you're just bringing them in close to beat the shit out of you. I dropped him pretty quick.

>>4700162
This is the best I've got. Basically you just hold away from them and hit A+B together, and Sub-Zero slides across the screen. When they're in the corner, it knocks you back while they go up, and so by the time they hit the ground, you can just zoot forward again. Potentially going to be done with Master here in the next hour, if my forearm holds out.

Oh shit there are bosses in this game now.

>>4700184
Poor Lui Kang. Maybe he should have let his older brother Liu fight instead.

>>4700195
I might stick this game on my backlog. It looks really neat actually.

>>4700203
Top of the Master Tower. I have cracked the code for all future unfortunate souls who roll this piece of garbage.

>>4700203
who the fuck is lui kang? what illegal version are you playing LMAO

>>4700306
This game feels like hot trash desu. It feels like a bootleg but I downloaded two other ROMs and they're all spelled that way so I have no idea.

>>4700306
It is sadly official.

>>4700317
Weirdly enough, on the gamesdatabase site it's spelled right. So who the fuck knows.

>>4700319
And done. Let it be known that <- + PK is the key to beating this Master Tower.

>>4700206
It's really cool. But holy shit I'm stuck now. Entering the boss room removes all your non-key items, which means you can't really fight the boss. I obviously have to lift this curse somehow, but I've combed fucking everywhere and the only thing I haven't figured out is what to do with these three "urns with white powder" I found in a hidden crypt under the high priest's tomb. The game has made it pretty clear beating that boss will clear the level, so it's annoying as hell.

>>4700341
Oh, and there's also these skulls. The Inner Shrine has an "altar to harvest" with a skull decorated with "runes to the harvest" on it, while the Outer Shrine has an "altar to the sowing" with one of the LUNA orbs on it. Near the end of the level you'll find a skull with "runes to the sowing" in the Relicary, and you'd thing just plopping these skulls down on their respective altars should have some sort of effect, but it doesn't.

>>4700338
>after you beat everyone, some other guy came out of nowhere and nearly killed you, and you had to get your ass bailed out by one of your victims
Good ending, game.

>>4700364
Scorpion's ending on easy was just him taking Quan-Chi back to the Netherworld with 0 resolution. This game is a piece of garbage. Let's roll gamegear.

>>4696104
I can't seen to find a decent pcengine cd emulator, I was using Ootake for the hu-card games but for the actual cd games you need the actual cd for it

anyone knows any good one ?

>>4700398
Are you sure you can't just mount the CD image?

>>4700372
Apparently another puzzle game. Neat.

>>4700398
Mednafen plays both hucards and iso CD images.

>>4700404
>>4700417
I tried both, might be the thing I downloaded, it was a bin and cue file, I tried using retroarch too

>>4700430
https://www.emuparadise.me/PC_Engine_CD_-_Turbo_Duo_-_TurboGrafx_CD_ISOs/Vasteel_(NTSC-J)/150033
Use that instead.

>>4700432
Ins't that in Japanese though ?

>>4700437
https://www.emuparadise.me/PC_Engine_CD_-_Turbo_Duo_-_TurboGrafx_CD_ISOs/Vasteel_[U][CD][WTG990801][Human][1993][PCE][xeno-nec_archives]/63924

>>4700442
that is the one I downloaded, It didn't work, I don't know if I am doing something wrong or what

>>4700414
So basically the goal of this game is to connect the moving red gear on the left, to the unmoving one on the right. You have 3 gear sizes.

Small, which connect to medium U/D/L/R, and to Large UL/UR/BL/BR.

Medium Gears which connect to each other at UL/UR/BL/BR, and not at all to Large Gears.

Large Gears which connect to each other at U/D/L/R.

It's basically just maneuvering around the field and setting up the gears in conjunction. So far it's pretty easy but we'll see if it ramps up.

>>4700359
So if I go everywhere, including the death trap room Deaths Pit, the diary says I've been to 97% of the rooms. Chances are there's another secret room on the map between the Relicary and the Deep Cellar, since there's no other open location anywhere. The question is, how the absolute hell do you get there?

>>4700460
reeee, I tried everything I could to get this game to work but I just can't do it. It looks so interesting too, I will give it some time because I am really not in the mood to fidget with emulators anymore, but if anyone can help me please do


In any case if I can't get it to work I will just reroll pcengine again

>>4700668
Try the Japanese version. How complicated can it be?

>>4700707
I tried, didn't work either, on retroarch I just get a black screen, ootake only plays pceng cd if you have the actual disk, and mednafen doesn't even open

>>4701005
Ok I got it to work, I think it was the BIOS that were missing, opening retroarch on its debug thing seemed to help too

>>4701097
Oh. Yeah, you need that.

>>4701005
Mednafen is a command line program, so just drag-and-drop your file into the program to load it.

>>4701097
Ah Vasteel, one of my favorite TG CD games. I only wish the empire's units were as good as the rebel ones.

>>4701097
Ooh my god the voice acting is horrible and what are those pictures in the back even supposed t o be

But boy the soundtrack to this is jazzy as fuck, its very chill

Rolled Rainbow Silkroad

I haven't played an NES game in about 5 years. Hopefully this is decent.

>>4701152
oh cool you have played this ? How long does a campaign last ?

>>4701160
One thing that I don't like in this game is the combat, they let you control the units which is cool but the movement sucks. So I found it easier to just let the AI do the job for you

>>4699558
Surlent got his body back, Kurgan's sealed in the Holy Grail, and the Rudra of the Danans wants a shard of the Giant's Lago Stone. There was a mysterious light that made everyone outside disappear.
PIKACHU is a lightning spell that adds shock status. It's the only Pokemon name I tried that actually made a matching spell other than RAICHU, which was PIKACHU without shock. PICHU made a holy spell.

>>4700341
Figured it out! Throughout the level you find three "caskets of protection" that contain various items. The clue was the "of protection" bit of that name - the caskets are among the few items that aren't removed when you enter the boss room, and you can put items in them and then pull those items out while in the boss room. Really clever, took me a bit of thinking to guess.

>>4702953
Piece of cake with the Fire Shield Potion. I have a feeling it's literally impossible without the strong Mind Blast spell you get from a puzzle in the Luna Shrine, though (that's what the LUNA orbs were actually for - drop them in the corners of the room, then the silver orb in the middle to transform the orbs into pieces of a Mind Blast spell you can then drop in a magic chest in a different room. It's more obvious than I make it sound.)

Level 4, then.

Level 4 looks a lot like level 1 from the original game. Wonder what that might mean. Am I back in those crypts?

>>4702986
So what did those urns do?

>>4703069
No clue. Never figured it out. Not anything required, at least.

I love how clever some of these traps are. Here's a room where the exit doors are always locked. The clue is to realize they lock the instant you face them by listing for when the locking sounds pop up, then drink an alcohol potion, which makes you walk backwards.

I am finally winning the first battle on this game, it took me 2hours to do it, it really last quite sometime; At the end of the day it all ends up to who can spam the most units win

>>4703927
what the fuck is this thing why is it in the game, I already captured everything and the AI doesn't even manage to create more units, why do I have to do a stupid attack minigame

>>4703976
I am a big fan of strategy games but this one feels like a chore, jesus

playing Captain Planet for the NES, it alternates between a very unforgiving shmup and metriod esque platformer each level

(playing on wii emulator so not my screenshot)

>>4704035
I did managed to win the first map and according to the how long to beat timer it took me 3hours. The worst part was attacking the enemy command center, it just wasn't fun. I hope this game is not too long.

Another clever puzzle that took me a while. This elevator platform starts out by going up and down inside that "cage" to the left. You can't enter the cage, but you can push items into it if they're thin enough to fit between the bars. The elevator will start going upwards once it hits the ground, or whatever item you placed on the ground, and if it goes high enough above the cage, it will start going right across the room and start going down that other cage instead. If you toss items into that cage the same will happen, so you can set it up to alternate cages every turn and thus constantly pass through the middle of the room.

You'd think you could just make a stack of items and jump onto the platform when it passes through the room, but there's a weird warp field in the air towards the top of the room that will warp you to the previous one when touched, so you can't actually get near that platform. Instead, the trick is to realize the elevator starts going down when it hits the wall, toss some rocks onto the elevator to create a little stack there, then toss a rock so that the stack you built will hit that rock as it falls downwards. The elevator will interpret this as having touched the wall and go down in the middle of the room, and you can quickly jump on and grab the casket before it rises back up.

So what's the deal when I fail to complete a game within 3 days? Do I stay on the same console or do I have to take a step back? I got Asterix and Obelix on SNES in the last thread and the game sucks so I never bothered even trying to beat it. Am I back to NES now or can I reroll another SNES game?

>>4704756
You go one console back, so you roll a new NES game.

>>4704575
Here's another fun one. Earlier in the level you find this urn located in a tiny crevasse where you can't pick it up. Later on you find two "magic stones" which, by experimenting with, you'll realize will float towards the east when thrown or dropped. Simply backtrack to this room and toss the stone into the crevasse and it'll push the urn out.

>>4704793
Back to NES it is then.

And I have no idea what this game is.

>>4704849
Well apparently it's a jap-only sequel to 3D World Runner. It's a pretty fun game so far, although it is the kind of game that doesn't give you any continues and sends you back to the start of the game when you run out of lives. It's very challenging and it's making me realise that my reflexes are slowly but surely going to shit as I get older.

A unusual thing about the game is that it has some weird stereoscopic 3D mode that activates if you press select. You probably need to wear special glasses for it to work or something, I dunno. Also it's an early Square game released a couple of weeks before Final Fantasy and Nobuo Uematsu even composed the soundtrack. This must have been before he hit his stride because it's all very generic stuff so far, even kinda annoying in places to be honest.

Still, good game. Sort of like if Space Harrier with platformer elements. I'm probably not going to be able to beat it though.

>>4704905
>You probably need to wear special glasses for it to work or something, I dunno.
Yeah. A lot of the early Square games did this, including both 3D World Runner and Rad Racer. It was what they tried focusing on before they switched to RPGs with Final Fantasy.

The 3D effect is actually really good, it's worth trying out.

This puzzle annoys me. There's obviously a way to get whatever this item is out of the urn (I'm assuming it's the key to the casket you find in the nearby room, since I got the content out with the Activate spell and it's all stuff you need in this area, not in the area where the Activate spell is), but I can't figure it out. I thought putting water in it would help, but nope.

Also in this game: Mega Man blocks.
These particular ones are pretty easy, there was a harder set last level where the block you were standing on would disappear at the same time the next one appeared, so you had to time it correctly.

I think this is the endgame... I've been to nearly every room on this level, and this is where the guys that hired me in the first game seem to be imprisoned. One of them has killed himself already... the game has a time system, wonder if it's related to that, or if there's no way to prevent it.

>>4705136
Okay, so only one prisoner is still alive. I can free him, but all that happens is that the door behind me gets locked and he tells me I'll never escape. I can unlock the door with the Unlock Door spell, so that's not a problem. The other three cells just contain skeletons, most notably skulls with emeralds inside. The door at the end of the prison has a voice demanding I bring the skulls of my patrons, which I can't do since I haven't found the key to cell 1 yet. I assume there's a final boss or something behind that door, and that this is the end of the game, I've been to 90% of the rooms with 40 rooms visited, and I've found a total of 42, two of them being death traps, so there's just one or two more rooms to find. There's a curious spot on the map west of the Fred Room, might be something there.

I've also found a glass orb that contains a key, but no way of breaking it. The orb is also cursed and hurts me whenever I'm holding it or is in a room less than two rooms away from it, so it's a bit hard to experiment with.

But I'll get this shit done.

>>4705187
Scratch that, you can actually kill the only living patron to get his skull as well. That means the only thing left is to get into that final cell and grab the final skull.

>>4705216
This is one way of doing it.

>>4705243
Confirmed it's possible to sneak that dang skull out of the cell without the key by making giant staircases of crap.

I don't have the immortal potion I need to survive a murder attempt on the living prisoner, so I can't get his skull now, but that can be fixed with a reload.

Home stretch!

This room sucks ass. You need to push those six buttons in the right order to open the door (you get a chime when you push the next one in the sequence, so it's not THAT evil), but the room is constantly damaging you, so you need to chug an immortal potion and then push the buttons before it runs out. Since the potion doesn't last that long, that means a whole ton of reloading a save as you work out the correct order.

>>4704793

Also curious, does three days mean 72 total hours invested in the game, or just whatever spare time you have to invest over three days? I only have about an hour or maybe two to invest in gaming per day.

>>4705407
There we go. We don't need no stinkin keys.

All four skulls. Let's see if this is what it takes.

>>4705458
"The Exit". Seems to be the final room of the game.
The room is swarming with deadly monsters, and I found a chest key in a cell, I'm assuming there's a good weapon in that chest I couldn't get to before they killed me.

>>4705471
The chest just had money, but there was a key in the room that kept warping away from me as I approached it. Eventually it ended up in the middle of the room where it floated up and down and I could grab it. I had a Turn Monster spell with a bunch of charges, it makes monsters run away from me, so this wasn't a terribly difficult room.
Let's see if I've beaten the game.

>>4705484
Now what do we have here?

>>4705485
So to beat the game, you have to eat that mushroom, which makes you go on a crazy trip for a bit before this final message pops up.

And that's it, game beaten. There's definitely lots of stuff I missed and optional puzzles I didn't solve, and I technically cheated like hell to get that one skull out of that cell, but I beat it.

Damn fine adventure game, feels like a weird mix of isometric adventure and graphic adventures, with tons of things to interact with, a really involving menu system and some really nice logic puzzles. I've never played anything like it, and I'm really glad I discovered it.

Now to check a walkthrough and see what stuff I missed out on.

>>4705501
Congratulations. Sounds like it was a really tough game from your posts.

>>4705501
Congratulations anon!

>>4705508
>>4705586
Thanks. Went walkthroughing and saw what I had missed. Apparently that damn priest key was in a barrel of infinitely spawning spiders, and I could get it by dropping spider poison into the barrel. I took that to be poison FROM spiders, not poison to kill spiders.
The final cell key was in the glass orb I mention, you were supposed to drop it down the huge pit that leads to the "Small Pit" room to break it. And this urn >>4704964 you were just supposed to throw a rock at to break, which I'm pretty sure I tried.

Ah well, my solutions worked fine too.

>>4705759
Neo Geo next, then.
Not gonna start yet, but I'll roll my game now and see what I have to deal with.

Pretty sure I haven't actually played '95 before. So I just have to beat it with a single team on whatever difficulty setting, right?

>>4704051

Im on level 3 of this so far, ironically one of you biggest enemies are trees which kill your ship in 1 hit.

>>4705813
Fuck me, these games are uncontrollable with aan emulator. I want my arcade stick.

I should hopefully be able to cheese this on the lowest difficulty.

Also, Kim is the best SNK character ever.

Got pretty close, at least. Kim, Yuri and Billy are a pretty solid team.

Omega Rugal is a dick.

>>4706164
There, managed to beat it as the Korea team, my favorite non-custom team. Chang was actually really good against Omega Rugal, at least on the easiest difficulty.
They had a great ending too.

>>4706424
Also, I wish I had the manual for this game and could've read the character profiles ahead of time. Apparently the Korea team suspected Rugal to be the host of the tournament, but while Kim entered the tournament to defeat him, Choi and Chang wanted to join him.

>>4705895
How useless a power is heart?

>>4706424
Didn't get a picture, but went back and beat the game in Single Play mode with Billy too.
This laptop keyboard was not made for fighters.

>Rival team's ending has Iori disband the team by beating the hell out of Eiji and Billy
What a dick

>>4706950

So far, very useless, but each power has a specific application and each level seems to favor a different ability.

>>4707654
>Rival team's ending has Iori disband the team by beating the hell out of Eiji and Billy
>What a dick
That's why he has a new team in '96, they didn't want to associate with him anymore.

>>4706424
>>4707654
Let's see what's next then. GBA isn't /vr/ and the wiki says "GBA or Master System", so let's do Master System.

>>4707849
Oh boy.
Is this one as difficult as the first Adventure Island?

>>4707761
How does this game play, anyway? How are the powers used?

>>4707857
Yes. Prepare your anus.

>>4708504

The levels rotate out, you are in some kind of aerial ship for one level in which the game acts as a shmup, and your powers cycle your ships "weapons". Fire shoots traditional laser-like shots, earth drops rocks good for hindering ground enemies, etc. After you do a level like that, you play as Captain Planet, where the game turns into a metroidy kinda platformer and your powers turn you into a ball of energy based on what power you have selected. The water ability lets Captain Planet go through some objects, fire will hurt enemies, and so on.

The levels arent long, but you need to figure out which powers to use pretty much through trial and error.

So I've never played this series before. What am I in for?

>>4709903

>>4709903

District of Columbia?

>>4709917
What have

>>4709927
I'm not entirely sure what is going on with the gameplay or anything else that is happening, but it's really fun

>>4709936
route a or b chumps?

>>4709975
Route B. Fuck em in the ass.

>>4709903
Crossover strategy game with characters and robots taken from literally every major and minor mecha series in existence. It's awesome as hell.

>>4710061
>>4710067

It's a bonanza

>>4700515
Okay so I took a few days away to work on a GameJam so unfortunately I ran out of time. I finished though.

That kicks me back to GameBoy.

Cave Noire. Some sort of...caveman mystery game..?

Okay, let's try Wonder Boy. How hard can it be?

I really don't get what the point of having a secret level select code is when you're just going to print it in the manual, though.

>>4685770
Game is intentionally designed for expert shmuppers. Also the music is amazing.

>>4710259
Opened on this. Oh boy.

>>4710282
Okay so it appears to be a gameboy roguelike. You pick one of four missions (this one I'm on is to kill 3 enemies) and you move about on a grid. Enemies only move when you move. You also get four random (at least I think they're random) items at the start.

It's definitely interesting so far and I like the idea behind it as I'm pretty sure it's designed to just sort of...grab-and-go. You can play a mission on a lunch break and then save it and be done until the next time.

I'm digging it at least so far. We'll see how it gets past the early levels.

>>4710267
Well, it's a lot more colorful than Adventure island, at least. The biggest difference between the two seems to be that in Wonder Boy, there's a doll on each stage that gives some bonus multipliers at the end of the level if you collect it, and you need to collect the dolls from all the 36 first stages in order to access the 4 final ones.

We can do this.

>>4710308
Got two Game Overs on level 2-2. Oh well, this isn't a game that has a reputation of being easy.

Infinite continues from the start of each level, all the dolls seem to be lying out in the open, and the manual said that if you use a bonus stage to warp past a doll location it'll automatically be collected. It should be doable.

>>4710347
Okay, scratch that, I had to suicide into a Game Over at the end of 2-4 because I hadn't found the doll, turned out it was hidden and I missed it. It wasn't super difficult to find, but this could become a problem, especially since you have to keep track of these things yourself.

>>4710295
Cave Noire is a very cool game. Enjoy anon.

Fuck these enemies, they're near impossible to see.

Also, I realized the hidden dolls are hidden inside fake rocks that your axe will pass through if you throw it at them, which I vaguely remembered from when I played this way back in the day, but it's still a dumb system. You never know if you have to actively search rocks or not, which means if you warp past a doll you won''t be able to instantly tell if you collected one or just accidentally missed one until you beat the stage, at which point it's too late. You can't search rocks with the skateboard either.

Found all so far, though. Up to 4-1 now.

Huh, I don't think Adventure Island had desert stages.

>>4710381
I'm enjoying it a lot so far. But like most roguelikes have been fucked on RNG a few times. But I'm learning what does and doesn't work so I feel like I'm getting somewhere.

Also made it to a bottom floor and was absolutely destroyed by a dragon-like boss.

Can't say I remember these fuckers from Adventure Island either.

Also, didn't Adventure Island have a fireball weapon? No such thing here.

>>4710419
Not these weird rock formations either.

Some of these boss designs are amazing.

7-1, all dolls found so far. The game is starting to get tough, but not overwhelmingly so. The dolls are a bit annoying to look for, not so much because they're hard to find than because you have to stop and check every stone you see, even when this puts you at risk. It's especially annoying on stages that don't give you an axe at the checkpoints so you need to bump into the rocks instead.
It's such an unnecessary system and Hudson made a good call when they dropped it from the NES port.

8-1, still all dolls.

Don't remember this level style from Adventure Island either. The game definitely has more variety than that one.

I always get saddled with Bugs Bunny games when I do these. Luckily it has infinite continues so it's just a matter of time.

Made it to level 35 of Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, gonna call it good for the night.

>>4710539
And fuck me, was it hard. Pieces of the bridge drops down as you walk over it, fish will jump out of waterfalls, and worst of all, boulders will occasionally leap out of the cliff wall and try to hit you.

8-2 seems unfamiliar too.

>>4710556
Crazy Castle is good, though.

>>4710557
Ah no, it was just the regular forest level with a different palette. Neat.

Had a super bullshit bit towards the end with three completely impossible to avoid rocks at the end of a jump, though. Literally just a "do you have enough vitality to not die?" checkpoint.

Damn, these weren't here last time I was on this level type.

>>4710569
Fucking hell that level was hard. Thankfully the sky area bosses are easier than the temple area bosses.

9-1, only 4 more dolls to collect now.

>>4710580
9-4, and there's the final doll. Finally done with this bullshit searching, now to beat the remaining stages.

Weird, I expected a "you found all the dolls. Welcome to stage 10" message or something. Wonder what happens if you fail to find them all.

10-2.
Fuck you game, this is unfair. Give me a weapon.

>>4710643
Jesus, 10-2 starts off so stupid hard it looks like they even realized, since the second half of the stage is dead easy. Hopefully that was as bad as the game gets, this is getting ridiculous.

>>4710676
Yep - 10-3 wasn't very hard, and I beat 10-4 without even dying once. I have a feeling it's another of those levels that don't give you a weapon, since it'd have been pretty difficult without one. Thankfully I had one from 10-3.

Final boss time.

>>4710687
Cute.
And that's it. Holy hell that was not an easy game.

Fun, though, very pleasant to play. That dumb doll collection objective aside, it felt like a more solid product than Adventure Island, with a lot more stage types and monsters.

>>4710693
The game is called Super Wonder Boy in Japan, referencing the fact that it's a port of the arcade Wonder Boy with a bunch of additional stages. Adventure Island is a straighter port.

Also, Adventure Island is MUCH harder than the Master System Wonder Boy.

>>4710989
Oh, ok.

Let's see what the C64 has to offer, then.

>>4711110
Ooh, this is a Llamasoft game, I can tell from the title.

>>4711114
Ok, this game is awesome. You play as a llama shooting diagonally upwards at invading spiders, and can control a forcefield up and down to make your shots ricochet off it. hitting a spider kills it, while hitting its string will make it fall to the ground and start crawling around. Killing a certain number of spiders will beat the level.

Doesn't seem to be any new features added at new levels, so that's pretty much it. Doesn't seem too difficult so far.

>>4711229
Ok, we're back.
So, this game doesn't have an end, and the levels seem fairly automatically generated in that they just increase in speed, number of spiders and amount of spiders you need to kill. You can choose to start at any level from 1-32, and I managed to beat level 32 and confirmed doing so sends you to level 33.

Pic related is my best attempt so far, starting at level 1 and making it to level 15 with 99188 points. Not sure what kind of goal I should set myself, I'll just keep playing and see if I can do better.

>>4710556
Glad it's over. Didn't enjoy getting murdered repeatedly by Loony Tunes zombies

>>4711240
142686 points on level 17. I think I'll try for 200000.

Not sure how much I'm liking the game. It's a good concept, but what you see on level 1 is what you get, and your strategy is going to remain the same "try to set yourself up in a position where you can cover a decent amount of horizontal ground by pressing up and down while also mastering how you need to position yourself to kill stuff on the opposite side when necessary" one, preferably with also starting each level by trying to clear out as many spiders as possible before they start overwhelming you to know that quote number down to a more manageable amount.

I dunno, it's not like it's really any more simplistic than something like Space Invaders, but it doesn't really grab me.

>>4685972
>Centurion
Did you sleep with Cleopatra?

My SNES game is Star Trek: The Next Generation: Days of Future Past or something

The ship repairs so slowly and I suck at the combat mini game. I can't make it to the first starbase to get the first password. Does anyone know how to play this game??

>>4711517
Managed to save hibernating aliens by fixing their ship. Just what the fuck is a TAVAD?

>>4704056
Ah, I was unable to post lately, but I got to the 4th stage on this game and I assume there is around 10 and the game is around 15hr long or so. But I have been quite busy so I couldn't beat it, I will reroll megadrive when I get time

No screenshot because phone posting

>>4712245

I also am having trouble with my game (Captain Planet guy here). Ive been playing for over three days, but only have about 3 or 4 hours invested in it. Im still not sure if the spirit of the rule is 3 days and thats it, or if you get 72 hours to complete a game.

I figured out that most levels have a "trick" and if you can apply the right power correctly, it makes the level much easier. There are no hints or guides, so this is all done through process of elimination. I figured out in this level I had to use the Heart power on a frozen bear so it would chase after this oil truck, slowing it down enough for me to drop a rock (using Earth power) in front of it.

>>4712313
you got at best a week for long games, or more if it really needs. In my case Vasteel could be beaten in a week if I really had the time and patience. But I don't have the time to do it, so I'd rather roll for some megadrive later, desu the pcengine has been quite a shitty thing for me because it has a lot of shmups and I am dreadful at those games

>>4712313
You're making this game sound pretty neat, actually. Is it worse than you make it sound?

Captain's log: My next mission is to rescue miners trapped in cocoons. The mine is a huge maze with multiple levels. The air is unbreathable unless properly ventilated, so I've sent Data in solo because he's a robot. Notice the hot dog demon.

Spent 2 hours so far trying to beat this maze and locate/memorize the locations of all 10 miners.

>>4712489

It feels like a port from an arcade game designed solely to suck down quarters. Some parts you have to almost be pixel-perfect, which comes mostly through memorization. At a point in each level so far, I have truly wondered if it can get any more frustrating, and it does. It has now become a personal challenge to beat this crap.

First time trying this challenge, hope I don't roll something really bad.
Not exactly sure what this is, but it doesn't seem that bad on initial search.

>simulation game set in the age of discovery
Not exactly what I was expecting for an NES game, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless. My only worry is that I won't find a victory condition, but we'll have to see.

>>4712675
Another anon played it last thread and was able to beat it. The victory condition is to get to marry the king's daughter.

It's just like Earthbound

>>4712313
I've booted this up a few times to laugh at how bad it was and had no idea there were tricks like that. Neat.

Picard is the neutral hero

>>4712675
Yep. I played it and beat it. If you have any questions I might be able to answer them for you.

>>4711431
Fuck it, I can't even get over 100000 points again now. It's hard to apply any real strategy in this game, and while there's absolutely ways to play more carefully and ways to maximize the amount of points you get, it always ultimately boils down to luck. If the spiders corner you, you're fucked, and there's no sure-fire way to prevent that. The controls are too jerky to allow for very accurate aiming too.

142686 points should be good enough. Let's roll PS1.

>>4713680
I have no idea what this is. Some kind of karaoke game? A music video creator like those Sega CD things whose name escapes me?

I'm sure it won't be good, but it might be fun to try out.

>>4713684
>Mix TV Presents: Eminem (also known as Mix TV Presents The Eminem Game in the ESRB database) was a game that was to be developed by Conspiracy Entertainment based off the rapper, Eminem. Announced on May 14, 2003, the game was to feature six puzzles for players to complete, as well as four music videos by Eminem (two of which were revealed: "My Name Is" and "The Real Slim Shady") and unspecified bonus material.

>The game was completed and submitted to the ESRB in two separate forms (the standard receiving a T rating for "Comic Mischief, Mild Lyrics, Suggestive Themes", and the 'uncut' receiving an M for "Strong Lyrics").

>On July 28, 2003, Conspiracy Entertainment filed a $5 million lawsuit against Eminem's representatives for pulling out of the deal, supposedly because they were looking for a bigger company to release the game.

>No footage or images of the game were ever released.

Why is this thing on the list of it doesn't even exist? Reroll.

>>4713687
This one it is, then. Wonder if it even has a goal.

>>4713692
This game seems confused about what its name is.

>>4713715
Amazing English.
From the looks of it, the game lets you decide for yourself what your goal is going to be. The default is $100000, so let's go for that.

What the hell is "LETITBET"?

>>4713726
It was apparently some odd variant of Texas Hold Em that I sucked hard it. Blackjack is more my game.

Game's not too bad. Decent selection of games, nice controls, solid graphics. You always play against 3 other players, which can be human or computer-controlled, and the goal is to be the first to reach a specific total sum. All four players will be playing the same game at the same time, and you can switch between them as you please.

I can honestly see his being pretty good at parties.

This translation is killing me.

I like this smug avatar. It's genuinely satisfying as hell to make a huge risky bet and have it pay off.

Found a neat trick with the roulette, too. The game is pretty insistent on having SOMEONE win something nearly every round, so by just betting on every single thing the computer players bet on, you'll end up making big money every time they do, which is unrealistically often.

CONGRATU-
LATIONS!
YOU ARE
THE WINNER!

And apparently I donated all my winnings to charity.

Good game as far as gambling games go, honestly. I can't say I've ever played anything better. I failed to figure out the controls for video poker, but everything else played well, and it supports up to four players at once racing each other to be the first to get the target sum, which heavily encourages risk taking. I like it.

>>4714494
And that's it, gauntlet completed.

>NES: Adventures of Dino Riki (failed)
>NES: Gotcha: The Sport
>SNES: Alfred Chicken
>GBC: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
>Mega Drive: Double Dragon
>Turbografx: Davis Cup Tennis
>DOS: Second Front: Germany Turns East (dropped, too complex)
>Turbografx: Dragon Saber
>DOS: Cadaver: The Payoff
>Neo Geo: King of Fighters '95
>Master System: Wonder Boy
>Commodore 64: Metagalactic Llamas
>PSX: Las Vegas Casino

Managed to discover some fun new games through this.

>>4714512

Congrats, what game was your favorite?

>>4714575
Probably Cadaver. KoF95 and Wonder Boy are both great games too, but they weren't exactly new experiences to me and I didn't spend all that much time on them.