hey sandafloor! splinter just told me real ninjas finish on hard mode. whats tge deal! 

kobra is waiting in the grass for now   

Had my first death stupidely on slash stage. But I got by slash this time and died on the pirate ship. Careless deaths for both . sucks

But anyway. Updated score. Stage 6

Whats the deal with the only 2 death rule for TMNT anyway? Is there a way to farm infinite lives or something?  I'm probably not going to play it but I'm just curious.

You start with 2 lives(well 3 because zero is a life) You get another life for every 200 points. This way you dont have continues and score reset. With 2 lives you can see their score and life count and can tell if its 2 life rule.

Thats my guess why.
 

So it doesn't save your hi-score after you lose I take it?

My testing told me it would be the right amount of challenge.  I think its too easy of a game to do a full credit, and it didn't seem like a great candidate for high score.

And quest is right, it makes my job easier to see where you stand with a pic

 

yeah i can easily beat the game if given a full credit. I get up to 1000-1200 points which gives me 5-6 extra lives on top of the 3 you start with. 2 is a challenge. You cant goof off with 2.

After I beat it last time on a practice run it said I beat it in 25 minutes on the game end screen. The game really isnt that time consuming.
 

prob points. unless you can no death. no death might be my only shot because im not good at the bonus stages. 
 

ya done good son. one credit for hard mode. but on defualt one credit is way easy. 

I agree. Having only two lives has been a really fun challenge. Ordinarily I can steamroll my way through the game on one credit no problem. 

 

I'm working on no-deathing it now. I'm good all the way up to the Bebop and Rocksteady fight, and that's mostly because of the damn yellow footsoldiers with the flying discs tearing me up, forcing me to grab the pizza. Out of context, that last sentence just sounds weird. 

Outside of that boss fight, I got all the way to the second Krang without dying, easily. 
 

the starship stage is where i lost a life. but i think (if i want to try again) i can no death. 

i lose a life during stage 4 alot too :/ 
 

super nintendo sucks though  

i only played this game a few times back in the day w/my friend who had all the games. i love the turtles so i figured id participate    plus, ya know, sandafloor. 

See, I got this game for my birthday right after it came out(I was a HUGE turtles fan back then) and played the bejeezus out of it. Memorizing how to mix up combos to attack multiple foes, etc. I've never no-deathed the game, but I've beaten a few thousand foot soldiers in my time.

Hey, hope this is ok. The pause button doesn't work on my SNES controller, so I just took a photo as quick as I could. I got to the level 3 boss and had no clue how to beat him, so he destroyed me lol. I may be able to get farther when I'm off work, but I figured I'd give it my best amateur try and put SOMETHING in.

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Have you tried the Select button? I know I forgot and thought it was Start(like 99% of other games out there) and was thrown off by Start not doing anything.
 

Ohmuhgahd really? I had to hit Select? I'm sorry lol. My SNES controllers all suck, so I just figured it was that! D;

lol no worries! I even reset the game, and fumbled through the title screen using the Slecet and Start buttons to be sure, because it seemd off to me too. 

Ok so I tried again, and took this photo:

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Quick question - I assume that even if I get free lives (as I did here), it's still just "two lives", correct? So I can stop here, and start over at the beginning? Thanks!

the way i read the rules. you have to stop immediately after your second shell shock. 

 

Makes sense, so that's what I did. Thanks!  

I've made some good progress for a genre I'm pretty bad at! Level 5 is now my best on the two lives.

updated turtles score. Stage 6 boss

Got to beebop and rocksteady without losing a life and still having 2/3 of my first life. Damn those yellow disc throwing foot soldiers. Well Rocksteady this time just wouldnt cooperate and I lost both lives at the boss. They are truly the hurdle in this game. Slash and beebop(the two middle bosses) are harder than super krang and super shredder. Just nuts.

TMNT updated. Got to Shredder, but he whooped me. Took a pic of the Stage screen before the fight just in case.

I beat Bebop and Rocksteady with only taking one hit this time, but those damn yellow foot soldiers with the death frisbees straight up killed me prior to that fight.