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Maniac Mansion (NES) Forum  /  Regain control for an extra turn during apologies cutscene

capnshrimpycapnshrimpy

(He/Him)

Pennsylvania, USA

  capnshrimpycapnshrimpy
22 Jan 2023, 05:55

If you already have new kid re-enabled (timing of getting someone captured is essential) when you are ready to send Meteor to space and get what seems to be the right combination of pauses and the right timing for hitting New Kid, you can do the start to pull up the menu glitch during the apologies cutscene. Dr. Fred will start to walk around like in the lab (the only non-cutscene animation of him?). I can't say I understand the whole of how it works, but you can basically pause and return to the mansion after the "You Win The Game" cutscene. This time though, the credits are rolling at the top. All items are gone from your inventory and the other two characters are gone from where they stood, so hitting New Kid again will crash the game. The game is in an un-rewinnable state at this point and items are still gone if they were picked up, but what a hellacious twist. If this was incorporated into an alternative category, what kind of goal would it have?

Niss3Niss3 and ShesChardcoreShesChardcore like this. 

ShesChardcoreShesChardcore

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Minnesota, USA

  ShesChardcoreShesChardcore
22 Jan 2023, 12:10

You keep finding the most ridiculous shit and I love it.

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capnshrimpycapnshrimpy

(He/Him)

Pennsylvania, USA

  capnshrimpycapnshrimpy
22 Jan 2023, 16:55

Maybe theres an opposite effect possible like Super-Hamsteak where you can still win as the ghost after the game over screen or something. Now that'd be a brain cyclone if someone can figure that out. Not just the extra turn effect but the routing and leaving the required items in place to pick up, etc

 

capnshrimpycapnshrimpy

(He/Him)

Pennsylvania, USA

  capnshrimpycapnshrimpy
23 Jan 2023, 00:49

I was trying to do the opposite here, lose and then win, but you can't seem to be able to do anything besides wait in complete darkness. The game over screen text continues and a glitched menu only offers the option to Go To [down arrow]. During this doom and darkness, the package is delivered, with the doorbell ringing and cutscenes playing out. Even though the party was finished off by the microwave, this seems to suggest that if you want to do a

Super Hamsteak run

(any% w/ Hamsteak), you'll need to do the any% part first. Trying to combine those routes is a workout and I don't have it. I know someone out there is up to it.

 
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