CanadaHey all.
About time someone probably made one, so feel free to join and direct questions if you need any help learning this. :)
"A top-down game where the player controls Ralph, a happy dwarf in a blue outfit, and must guide him through 20 floors of the Evil Bear Lair. Be careful to not run Ralph into the bears that roam the Lair, as doing so kills Ralph and he will have to restart the floor."
Q: Why does this make a decent speedrun? A: No RNG and this game isn't hard, but it's not free either. If you play it casually, you'll see, the first few rooms hold your hand and allow for movement that isn't exactly tight, but the later stages require very precise inputs/movement to avoid death. The fact there's no RNG make the entire speedrun about execution & skill.
You can find the ROM/information here: https://www.romhacking.net/homebrew/75/
In terms of Discord, tutorials (I've seen some like from justin) - is there a collection somewhere?
Currently I'm 4th in NES Batman with a time of 10:19, one unrecorded 10:18. Once <10:15 happens I'm going to dedicate a lot of time into properly learning MMX2. I can already do the intro stage and this game amazes me.
Thanks for any responses. :D
Something I figured out how to space the other day which is neat. Way more optimized than the previous one cycle strategy that involved abusing invincibility frames and swapping between normal/special attacks to juggle the tiger.
I recently had this game approved. I hope more people have the chance to pick it up and add it to their repertoire. To start, I created 3 main categories: easy%, normal% and hard% reflective of the difficulty options in-game.
I have serious doubts anyone will run this except myself, but I hope folks stumble upon it and enjoy it as I did! I just scratched the surface of the flexibility of movement and suction in the submitted hard run, and it'll be neat to see how this game evolves as more and more people pick it up and optimize it over time. As it stands, my hard run is a barely optimized and nearly deathless play through. No TAS strats or anything of the such were implemented. Tech in it is very day 1.
Any questions? Feel free to ask here or message me directly on Twitch!
Thanks for checking this game out!
Made a quick tutorial that explained the basics behind most annoying enemies (sans scorpions) on how to quick kill all the bosses we know how to do as of 2017. Hope it helps out new runners.
Note: this was made for the Japanese version in mind in particular, but unless it involves different height dive kicks, or a change of direction of special attacks, anything there you could do in the NA version as well.
Hello all! I run Batman on the NES, Wild Guns on SNES, TMNT2(J) on NES and routed Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, TMNT3 and a few other games I don't have runs submitted for. I started streaming on Twitch about 200 days ago, and despite using this website almost equally as long, have never really posted on the forums.
I look forward to meeting more of the community here on the forums. :D
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask:
But if a run is in submission limbo and taking a vary long time to get verified, presumably because the moderators of the game aren't active anymore, who should I try to contact about it?
[edit]: I'M NOT A CAVEMAN I ACTUALLY DO HAVE MANNERS.
Thanks in advance. :)
A few days ago I was running Batman, attempting that sub 11, and I beat the game. 11:3x something, made some mistakes, etc. Instead of resetting I went downstairs to grab some water and made a phone call, and when I came back upstairs the game had kicked me back to the title.
I went and checked the VOD and I've always reset to start a new run. It takes about 2-3 minutes for you to be able to go back to the title screen without resetting. I didn't know that, and an interesting quirk about this is you start a new game, without resetting, you start that game with whatever ammo you had leftover from your previous game. I tested twice, once on emulator, and once on my Everdrive and both times I started the new game with 28 ammo and 70+ ammo respectively. I haven't tested on an original cart yet, but I assume it's the same. Not really useful to anyone here I'm sure, but maybe something a lot of people had no idea even existed (or maybe not). :D
Hello folks! :)
I never in a million years thought I would speedrun a game, but I picked up Batman recently, a childhood favourite with the sole intention of getting at least sub 30 (my first recorded attempt was a whopping 2 hours and 30 minutes!) I shaved that down to 29 -> 25 -> 20 -> sub 20, to 18 -> 16 -> 15 -> 14 -> sub 13. I'm sitting at 12:59 now and want to keep improving. I still have lots to learn, and lots of polish is necessary, but I look forward to hitting that 10/11 minute mark!
Anyway, on one of my runs, this happened with Firebug. Has anyone ever seen this before?
