Brought my trust old VCR with me this outing and recorded runs for both Metal Storm and Journey to Silius. Turned out I finished them much quicker than expected and had some extra time so I did second run for both and was able to do both games without using a continue. Hopefully that will make the videos more entertaining since you dont have to watch me die and redo the same areas over and over again. It also means the file size will be smaller and they will upload much quicker
. It does mean that I dont have a screen shot yet until I get a chance to move them onto my computer though. I'll try to get them uplaoded soon though so dont worry.
Had enough time to also give a test run on Blaster Master since its been years since I've touched it. Turns out I remembered where to go surprisingly well and made it to my least favorite boss (Stage 6, Bubble Crab) in about an hour. Since it went fairly smooth, up to the crab at least, I'll try to have a run recorded for Blaster Master in the next couple days. If anyone has any tips for beating that damn Crab I'm all ears.
Now for what you've all been waiting for.......the Air Fortress update. After spending what I assume to be around 5-6 hours playing Stage 6 I was finally able to conquer it!! Much to my intense pleasure, Stage 7 was very easy and I finished it on my second attempt. Stage 8 was a little tougher and took me a couple hours to figure out, but compared to Stage 6 it was quite tame. I was very happy to escape the final stage, but that joy quickly turned into projectile vomiting as it turns out there is a Ghosts 'n Goblins sytle second quest. I played the first area to see how different it was from the first go around. The layout of the Fortresses is identical to the first time around, they just add more and tougher baddies. So while I didnt get the True Ending, I am satisfied with calling this one beaten for the purpose of my challenge and I made sure to write down the code to continue on with the Second Quest if I ever want to revisit the game. The game was a lot harder than I initially thought, but I did really enjoy it.
I had to record several chunks of video (Stages 1-4, Stage 5, Stage 6-7, and Stage 8 ) seperately because of how many attempts some of the later stages took. I'm going to merge them into one video to upload to youtube. Let me know if you like it like that or if I should just keep them as 4 seperate videos in the future.
Here is the much anticipated Air Fortress Ending Screen:
[img width=642 height=496]http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk189/Crabmaster2000/AirFortress-Ending-1.png[/img]
12th Day of Challenge -
28/100Games Beaten since Oct.8th:
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Mega Man
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Mega Man 5
Mega Man 6
Castlevania
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
Duck Tales
Duck Tales 2
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2
Felix the Cat
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Ren and Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$
Double Dragon
Contra
Super C
Contra Force
Power Blade
Power Blade 2
Dynowarz: The Destruction of Spondylus
Metal Storm
Journey to Silius
Air Fortress
Future Plans:
Blaster Master is the next target
PS - Can someone let me know how to embed a link to my youtube videos in the name of the games I've got listed above? I think that would be the best way to go about it.
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y'know what's funny? Last night I beat my 28th game of THE YEAR. So you've beaten in 12 days the same number of games I've beaten in nearly 10 months. Pfft.
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Check your PM for link embedding help.
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@Bickman - Thanks yet again for your help. I owe you like 10 now.
@noise - I think maybe I've got the problem, not you  .
And in your defense, a lot of those games are short, have been beaten before, and I've got waaaaay more free time than most people my age.
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Crabby, take advantage of the well-known grenade glitch for Blaster Master. It's the easiest way to defeat most of the bosses.
The game has a glitch—colloquially known as the "grenade glitch"—to easily defeat some bosses.[14] To exploit this glitch, the player throws a grenade at the boss, and while the grenade is exploding and causing damage on the boss, the player pauses the game. While the remainder of the action on the screen freezes, the grenade remains active, continuing to damage the boss. After fifteen seconds the player unpauses the game to find that the boss is destroyed.[15]
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I was about to add the grenade tip, but Shadow beat me too it. I'm pretty sure it works on that boss, but if I remember correctly it doesn't on the end boss.
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I was just thinking, I'm pretty sure it only works on the bosses that are made up of background tiles (the screen goes black except for you and the boss.) The bosses made up of foreground tiles (standard sprites) are immune. It must have to do with a coding error on the background bosses.
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I'll give the grenade trick a try on the crab. Thanks guys, he is really the only boss I need a little extra something for.
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Crabmaster needs help beat a crab boss? Who knew?
On a side note, that end screen for Air Fortress would annoy the crap out of me if I had just spent hours beating the game, only to find out the fortress isn't really destroyed.
I'd still consider it beaten though. 
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@blcklblskt - As I was typing out the help request the irony of the boss hit me.
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Technically, Metal Storm has an extremely hard second run as well.
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@Shadow - So did Super Mario Bros.
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