I know this game is dead for the most part, I think that is because Supreme Master difficulty is just too hard. There should be more categories or sub-categories for Practice and Warrior difficulties. I’m these modes, the enemies have less health and would make the game easy and a good game to speedrun.

It's a good Idea, but. well, you can always run the JP version which allows you to beat the entire game in any dificulty

I did not know that. Could we somehow split these as well into subcategories?

I believe they're already split up that way. No?

DonAtreides seems they are, but could we make other subcategories for different difficulties on the NTSC version (think I spelled it right)?

In the English version, the easy difficulty doesn't let you finish the game though.

That’s what I’m saying, that could just be another sub category

You want a sub category for just the first three levels of a game? Like a 30% category?

Yes, and in case you didn’t know it’s called Practice difficulty.

I think what we're looking at then is level times since Practice mode is the tutorial, more or less.

It seems unnecessary in my opinion, but it's not my call. It seems like people who have mastered the hyper-knee technique are going to sweep it and, if you can do that, you can run the game on Supreme Master anyway.

I cannot hyper-knee, well, only when I get lucky. I have to try to about 3-5 times before I can get it. But you’re right. People who can hyper-knee can and would sweep it. I have however beat Supreme Master once, and it was on a chromebook emulator and I didn’t record it. I’ll just keep trying ig

Yeah, it's tough to do. It's all about timing. A good way to practice is to play the first level on any difficulty. Go all the way to the right on the first level but don't go up the ladder. You can practice there without being attacked after you kill the "Williams" enemies.

Just put on your favorite Twitch streamer in the background and practice on an emulator. Boring meetings are also a perfect time to put some practice in. :)

Thank you. I just need some practice. Is the NES region locked? Can it play games from all regions or do I have to get a Japanese NES to play the JP version?

It's not region locked, however the NTSC-J version (Famicom) has 60 pins instead of 72, so you'll need an adapter. Alternatively, you could get an Everdrive and just play the NTSC-J ROM (image file) that way. The advantage of the Everdrive is that you can play basically any ROM that you can find, although PAL (European) versions might play a little oddly.