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tepples wrote:

Mother of god.....

It's nice to see Diskun as a playable character. But I think the important question is: will you be able to play as Error from Adventure Of Link?

The Digimon are a nice touch......

I don't know what accomplishment I made biggest, although possibly Pokemon de Panepon, I won at the hardest difficulty level of vs computer mode (it is still too easy, I think), and even with the B A Left Left code and six digits scores, managed to max out the score in both endless mode and ojama mode at level 99.

tepples wrote:Or just implement the wet dream roster, minus the Conker and Banjo characters that have since gone Microsoft-exclusive.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/ ... shhaha.gif

I would prefer not to arrange it like a mess like that, rather to assign a numeric code for each character and print them in a book, and then you can select the character you want by numeric code (that way you can have over 9000 character possible even though it won't fit on the screen) (with a way to input numeric codes into the game input device, you may even be able to do "blind character select" where opponent won't know which character you selected until he also selected it) Anyways there are other character I would like too, including Akagi and Imakuni? and Light Yagami and Professor Oak and others (and would make "Tetris" to be a stage instead of a character)

Well, I played Battletoads for the first time today, and I can verify that the Turbo Tunnel is bullcrap. Every time I'd play it, I'd get all the way to the end, and then I'd keep crashing into the wall when you have to go up and down really fast. Other than that though, it's 90% memorization. I wouldn't even use it in the same conversation as Master 3 from Super Monkey Ball though. That's total hell, but at least you don't have to waste 10 minutes to get back to where you were if you run out of continues (I mean, any sane person will have unlocked unlimited continues first. Otherwise you'd have to waste half an hour.) I will say though, that's the most outrageous difficulty spike in any game I've ever played.

Fun fact: in the Game Gear version, crashing just takes off some health instead of instakilling you.

street fighter 2 snes all perfect. this is legit too without cheats and on hardest difficulty.

Espozo wrote:Battletoads ... Turbo Tunnel is ... the most outrageous difficulty spike in any game I've ever played.

Every level in Battletoads is basically its own little game that ramps from easy to hardest difficulty over the course of the level.

You might try the Japanese version. By the time they were translating it they thought the game was too hard and made the last challenge of most levels a bit easier.

rainwarrior wrote:Every level in Battletoads is basically its own little game that ramps from easy to hardest difficulty over the course of the level.

I would say that's poor level design, but just thinking about it, every level is just about its own game, so it's fine.

By the way, I tried the Turbo Tunnel again today, and I beat it on my second life... I think I was just getting frustrated and started to do worse. Yeah, it's no Master 3.

rainwarrior wrote:they thought the game was too hard

You don't say? It's games like this that I don't know what audience they're going for, because no kid under 10 has the hand eye coordination, reflexes, or patience to finish half of these games.

Yeah, whoever says that the turbo tunnel is hard has never gotten to any levels after it. I got whooped by the ice cave...

Myask wrote:Consistently beating Battletoads's Turbo Tunnel...back then.

How old were you? I always find though that if you beat something in a video game, it's fairly easy to have the same level of success every time afterward. Even if it took me countless numbers of hours to get to Expert Extra in Super Monkey Ball and I ran out of lives, the next time I tried to go to Master, I did, and with 4 lives left over. People always freak out about how difficult the R-Type games are, but I find them easy because of the countless number of times I've played them. I've come very close to beating R-Type III without getting hit, but I'd always accidently pick up too many speed ups and I'd end up crashing.

Myask wrote:Reaching and completing Super Monkey Ball's Master difficulty.

Good Job! Someday, I'm probably going to try to actually get through the whole thing on one continue, but I need a good breather from that game. That almost seems impossible though, because of the fact I feel a lot of the Master stages are more dependent on luck than anything. On Master 4, I often get launched by the carpet when it's unraveling, but only about 75% of the time (the other time it just pushes me off the edge), and I'd be majorly pissed if I got that far to keep dying. The freaky Dole one and the one with all the pegs spinning around are even harder and I only beat them about 50% of the time, but I feel they're more skill based. Master 3 is a nightmare though, and I've never actually seen anyone beat it the "intended" way. It would be a lot easier to cheat on it if the goal weren't sideways.

Myask wrote:Completing F-Zero GX's Story Mode on Very Hard.

Damn... I don't know what's up with all 3 of AV's games being insanely difficult. Super Monkey Ball 2 isn't as difficult as the first one though, if only because you can have 99 lives. I beat that from Expert to Master Extra with 20+ lives to spare (thank God you can warp past Helix.)

Myask wrote:Completing Zelda II....in just over ten minutes (NG+).Completing Zelda II at Attack level 1....which means hitting Thunderbird 96 times without dying.Completing Zelda II in 23 minutes (NG)....which means going through Death Mountain with no candle.

I give up... I haven't even beaten that game once, but that also has to do with the fact that I didn't know how to continue at one point and never really liked the game that much to begin with so I never had even close to the amount of determination as say I had with Super Monkey Ball.

Myask wrote:Unlocking Undertale's mystery door.

I didn't think any game that wasn't 15+ years old would be hard enough to be on this list.

Espozo wrote:I always find though that if you beat something in a video game, it's fairly easy to have the same level of success every time afterward.

Try doing that with Tetris, especially before around 2001 when they started using more even randomizers (BPS's 7 bag and Arika's 4 history 6 rolls). Performance in 150-point and 3-minute modes of The New Tetris for N64 is heavily dependent on the initial piece load.

tepples wrote:Try doing that with Tetris

Really?... You might as well have said rock paper scissors. Tetris does become easier the more times you play it though as it's not like it's entirely luck based.

Any game with a strong random element will be like that. Master of Orion stays interesting largely because the entire galaxy is randomly generated every time, and no two games will play out the same (though if you play it often enough you start noticing exploitable patterns in the AI). Doesn't mean skill isn't important.

...in other news, I just tried Knight League on Master level with the Golden Fox, and I got owned mercilessly on Death Wind I. I used to at least have a decent shot at third, and as I mentioned earlier one of my proudest gaming moments was the one time I got second. But this time I couldn't even make it to the final lap... I'm rusty.