God damn it. I just got to the final boss of The Rocketeer on my first attempt, but couldn't figure out how the hell it was supposed to work. And it only took me 30 minutes, but every single second of it was just AGGRAVATING. I don't know if I have it in me to do it again.
I just beat Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour on Professional difficulty...
...and got the exact same ending as before, including the "TRY THE NEXT OPPONENT LEVEL" message. But, er, there is no higher difficulty level, nor does a new difficulty level unlock after the credits (I checked). And I played all the most prestigious tournaments, won them all without dropping a single set, reached #1 in the world, etc.
So I guess the designers were just dicks who didn't bother to update the ending text for when you beat it on the hardest setting. FWIW they also screwed up the ending to the Game Boy port (they switched the names of the CPU and player in the victory screen), so I get the impression that half-assedness was the order of the day for this franchise.
Anyway, it's beaten, done, finished. And since the ending is no different on Professional vs. Intermediate difficulty, I guess for future "Can NA beat every SNES" efforts, the game only needs to be beaten on Intermediate. FWIW the key to the game is:
- serve with L and R waaaaaay out wide and you'll get tons of aces;
- rush the net and hit hard volleys (B) as close to the net as possible;
- when returning, block the serve back with B, and then rush the net;
- occasionally use drop shots (Y) or lobs (X) to change things up or try to elicit an error from the CPU.
The toughest adversary, by far, is Edson. He's very, very fast and a beast at the net. Barnaby can be tricky, Akira's shots bounce super-high for some reason, and Mueller is solid all around, but none of them (or any other opponents) are challenging in the long run, whereas Edson repeatedly pushed me to tiebreaks.
Since I beat it a year or two ago, and no one had beaten it this year, yet, I decided to play through this game again. Still a pretty decent game and worth a try for those who enjoy platformers.
Is Family Feud really "beatable"? As far as I can tell there's no CPU oppponent, and no real way to lose. I completed a full game (see attached). I suppose you could try to max out your winnings, but this GameFAQs page seems to indicate that the game ends with no fanfare when you go above $80K.
I see that no one has beaten Lufia and the Fortress of Doom yet. Maybe I'll try to knock it out. It's a decent (although not great) RPG that deserves a playthrough.
I don't think it would be anytime soon. I still have a significant amount of BoF2 left, and then I have a stack of shorter games that I've deemed beatable that are queued up next (Metal Morph, Beauty and the Beast, The Brainies, Dream TV, etc.)
Beat Alien 3 finally! I definitely enjoyed it, however it hasn't aged as well as I had hoped. Still recommend a play through for anyone who hasn't tried it yet. I'll post pics asap.
Was doing a quick reconcile, and I believe I'm at 85 games beat, before the update (which would push me to 90).
It also looks like there is only 261 entries in the beat list (again, pre-update), which would match the individual counts if you update me and de-dupe nintendopower_4_ever
I posted about this before, but there are five games missing from the front page -- four games that aren't being counted (Fun 'n Games, Mario Paint, Super Bomberman Party Pak, Super Noah's Ark 3-D), and pegboy's clear of Imperium which got edited out somehow. Add those back into the mix, and all the numbers line up, IIRC.
Basically, the list is missing five entries, but those games are being added to the beaten games total. So you've got 261 beaten games currently listed + 4 unlisted games that either can't be beaten or aren't licensed + the missing Imperium = 266.
I don't know where Rooster got 722 games though; it should either be 721 (with the 4 games omitted) or 725 (with those included). Right now, with Imperium missing, there's only 720 games listed at all, beaten or not.
BTW I think we're up to 272 games beaten (including the 4 unlisted + Imperium), which puts us very close to the 276 mark (which was the record set in 2012).
Also, I'm working on Family Feud. I was wrong about the lack of a CPU opponent (it's got a counterintuitive menu system), so it should be beatable or completable in some form.
EDIT: OK,Family Feud is done. As I read in a FAQ, you need to reach $80,000 to trigger the ending and retire.
I have run the beaten games list through a line counter and it returns 268 games beaten. I have taken a calculator and added up all games beaten from the participation list and it gives me 274, which is the same number that I have been following while adding up everyone's games all along. I have added Imperium to the unbeaten games list because I can't remember if someone has beaten it or not.
Right now there are 268 beaten games listed on the front page, and 452 unbeaten games listed. That's 720 total.
Imperium is still missing from both lists. If you search the thread for "Imperium" using the search box, pegboy's post of May 23 comes right up. So that's 269 games beaten; 721 total.
What are the other five unlisted games that bring us up to 274?
I have added imperium to the completed games list, but I can't speculate as to whether there are 5 games missing, or whether the numbers are simply an error in the leaderboards. But I am correcting the overall totals.
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But then I got this:
So the game is sending some mixed messages. I don't know if we want to count the victory at this point, but I'll be going on to Pro difficulty anyway.
...and got the exact same ending as before, including the "TRY THE NEXT OPPONENT LEVEL" message. But, er, there is no higher difficulty level, nor does a new difficulty level unlock after the credits (I checked). And I played all the most prestigious tournaments, won them all without dropping a single set, reached #1 in the world, etc.
So I guess the designers were just dicks who didn't bother to update the ending text for when you beat it on the hardest setting. FWIW they also screwed up the ending to the Game Boy port (they switched the names of the CPU and player in the victory screen), so I get the impression that half-assedness was the order of the day for this franchise.
Anyway, it's beaten, done, finished. And since the ending is no different on Professional vs. Intermediate difficulty, I guess for future "Can NA beat every SNES" efforts, the game only needs to be beaten on Intermediate. FWIW the key to the game is:
- serve with L and R waaaaaay out wide and you'll get tons of aces;
- rush the net and hit hard volleys (B) as close to the net as possible;
- when returning, block the serve back with B, and then rush the net;
- occasionally use drop shots (Y) or lobs (X) to change things up or try to elicit an error from the CPU.
The toughest adversary, by far, is Edson. He's very, very fast and a beast at the net. Barnaby can be tricky, Akira's shots bounce super-high for some reason, and Mueller is solid all around, but none of them (or any other opponents) are challenging in the long run, whereas Edson repeatedly pushed me to tiebreaks.
Since I beat it a year or two ago, and no one had beaten it this year, yet, I decided to play through this game again. Still a pretty decent game and worth a try for those who enjoy platformers.
It also looks like there is only 261 entries in the beat list (again, pre-update), which would match the individual counts if you update me and de-dupe nintendopower_4_ever
Or maybe I'm crazy and way off
I posted about this before, but there are five games missing from the front page -- four games that aren't being counted (Fun 'n Games, Mario Paint, Super Bomberman Party Pak, Super Noah's Ark 3-D), and pegboy's clear of Imperium which got edited out somehow. Add those back into the mix, and all the numbers line up, IIRC.
Basically, the list is missing five entries, but those games are being added to the beaten games total. So you've got 261 beaten games currently listed + 4 unlisted games that either can't be beaten or aren't licensed + the missing Imperium = 266.
I don't know where Rooster got 722 games though; it should either be 721 (with the 4 games omitted) or 725 (with those included). Right now, with Imperium missing, there's only 720 games listed at all, beaten or not.
Also, I'm working on Family Feud. I was wrong about the lack of a CPU opponent (it's got a counterintuitive menu system), so it should be beatable or completable in some form.
EDIT: OK, Family Feud is done. As I read in a FAQ, you need to reach $80,000 to trigger the ending and retire.
Imperium is still missing from both lists. If you search the thread for "Imperium" using the search box, pegboy's post of May 23 comes right up. So that's 269 games beaten; 721 total.
What are the other five unlisted games that bring us up to 274?