As a heads up, I think I have gotten another bonus life somewhere, I'm guessing at 100k points or maybe 150k during a "destroy everything I can" longplay. Maybe there was a special 1up plane or something, or maybe a bonus for landing on the carrier right, or...? Anyhow, just wanted to throw that out there! I tried to pick up that 2nd bonus life yesterday at times but was unsuccessful.

Apparently you have to walk up to his room frame-perfect without pausing so that you get consistent patterns for the Drac fight. I wanted to get a savestate just before the fight to avoid wasting the time walking up the stairs repeatedly, but all the ones I've made I've gotten weird patterns out of so I was asking for a verified good state to see if it was me making wrong inputs or a bad savestate giving me issues. To savestate with the Powerpak, usually you have to press start (same button as pause, which can make a "bad" savestate?), and I wasn't sure if that was interfering with my savestates or not. Anyways, angrylanks sent over his savestate so I'm going to practice with that and figure out what I was doing wrong :)

Here is the video explaining the fight and talking about the need to have a "good" savestate for practice:

Hey all! I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for glitches to help beat this game even faster. I did a bit of experimenting but didn't see anything other than the way you can have more health than shown on screen and also how you can jump on top of some of the enemies on the organs stage, both of which I think are pretty well known. This game is so janky, but yet... seems to be somehow coded well enough that we haven't found any major exploits for it yet! If you've seen anything weird in your runs, maybe post it here and we can try to figure out if it could be advantageous :)

Hello! I'm finally starting to take this game more seriously, but haven't been able to get a good savestate for the Dracula fight on my Powerpak. Well, maybe I have, but I'm not positive if I'm goofing the fight up due to my timing being off or due to the savestate being weird :) Could anyone share a verified working Drac fight savestate with me to practice the quick kill with? The more savestates of different levels and whatnot the better since I'm going to be changing from PRG0 to PRG1 too and might have to remake mine, but the Drac fight is the one I really need. Hopefully I'll be able to get competent in time for the tournament on Saturday :)

Thank you very much!

Oh, and if extra hardware like an NES equivalent of Game Saver+ would work then I could use them with my actual carts, but I'd rather not spend extra cash on hardware unless it's absolutely necessary... well, and I know nothing about it (Action Replay/etc?) :3

Hello! I am learning to run this game, but haven't been able to get savestates working on my PowerPak. The savestate functionality doesn't work on any version of the game I've tried, English or Japanese. I've searched a lot but haven't been able to find out any information on how to get savestates working. It would help my practice a lot, had anyone had any luck getting them to work? :)