Adventure Island II is beaten. (No warps)

What a struggle this was! I gotta say, the difficulty in trying to beat this game is criminally underrated (Only worth 4 here, and 3.34/5 on gfaqs for difficulty)... The first few worlds are basically a breeze, but the later worlds is where things get a lil rough, and world 8 is just an absolute gauntlet. 1HK gives you no room for error when the going gets tough, and once you lose all your inventory of hammers & dinos you're done for - it pretty much negates the fact that you get unlimited continues. Add to that if you die at a boss, you have to play 2-3 additional stages just to get back to fight him!



I'd be curious to hear what others who have beaten this game think of it!

Nice, congrats! Considering how long this game is to do a warpless run, that's quite impressive. Now you gotta go for a deathless, warpless, P-wingless, cloudless run!  

Are there any major differences between the NTSC and famicom versions?
 

In the Famicom version, you immediately become small Mario anytime you get hit. So you get an extra hit in the US version if you're Raccoon Mario or Fire Mario or whatever. Which makes everything quite a bit safer.

I've been meaning to write up my thoughts on SMB3 vs SMW, so I'll try to get around to that soon.

It starts getting pretty hard at the end of world 7. I beat it before years ago, but I was trying again earlier this year and that's where I game overed. Given that the game is short and a lot of fun to play, a 4 rating makes sense (it looks like it'll increase next year to 5). After all, Ghosts 'n Goblins and Battletoads are 2s. I've said it before, but it seems like a big part of the ratings can be attributed to the game's rarity. AI2 is more commonly found than AI3. They're only 1 point different in rarity according to NA, which is a bit surprising to me.

I've only beaten 2, so I'd like to beat 1 & 3 at some point. Can't forget about 4 either - I just got a cart of the Famicom version which I'm excited about.

Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants done. i am trying to complete every nes game live on stream using original carts and real hardware. saw the unbeaten list and noticed i have finished a couple of them.

volleyball finished:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighter (normal mode)

I beat Kiwi Kraze several times this year. And deathless, nonetheless!

I just beat Peter Pan & the Pirates --

 

-- and all I can say is, in the immortal words of Krusty the Clown, "What the hell was that?!"

I've been too busy for much of this lately, but I'm 3/5ths of the way through Magic of Scheherazade, so I'm hoping I can finish that by the end of the weekend. But it is really great to have some activity in here, especially from new folks and old friends (hi, gnarblast!).

Correct my math if I'm wrong, scary, but Kiwi Kraze falling may have just handed me the Taito crown.

hey! been a few years since i've been on this site. i think the last time i was really active was back when Battle Kid 2 came out. time flies! i still remember you posting on the Color Dreams forum. did they get rid of the Unlicensed NES Games challenge? i rememeber there used to be an unlicensed list

 

Beat Hoops tonight. After a bit of messing around with the different characters I found a team that could cheese the computer pretty well. I went with Legs and Zap. Legs is super fast and was able to steal the ball very easily and Zap barely ever missed a shot when made from inside the key. By selecting W-Out (who ever gets a basket gets first possession of the ball for the next round) I was able to score a lot of baskets consecutively. The coolest part of the game was the ending credits though. They had a silly 80s movie style ending caption for each of the players to show where they ended up in life after playing basketball on the streets. Pretty neat.

In 2016 we beat all the licensed/unlicensed/pal games in one year, so it's kind of hard to top that. Also, a lot of the unlicensed stuff is just terrible to play or beat, especially some of the Action 52 games (I'm not sure anyone wants to do those again). The last two years I tried adding some Famicom games instead, but that wasn't too popular. This year, just trying to keep it simple since we didn't even beat all the licensed games in 2017-18.
 

do you happen to have a link to the old thread with the win conditions for the unlicensed games? i've been looking but i can't find it. 
 

http://nintendoage.com/forum/mess...
edit: I guess it doesn't have unlicensed win conditions.

I think most are pretty straightforward. Most of the Action 52 games either crash or loop.
 

Jordan vs Bird is done. Here's a pic of the one on one scorecard (I was Jordan). Also did the Game to 11, Slam Dunk Contest and 3 Point Contest.

Home Alone 2 is done:

 

I believe that clinches the THQ crown for me as well.

That's now 3 publisher titles decided in the past few days: Taito (nerdynebraskan), Milton Bradley (Crabmaster), and THQ (Bronzeshield). Congrats!

Taito Champions
 

2012	8-bit boice
2013	Enternal
2014	nerdynebraskan	36
2015	nerdynebraskan	28
2016	nerdynebraskan	33
2017	nerdynebraskan	18
2018	Kid Dracula	46
2019	nerdynebraskan	48+

Milton Bradley Champions
 

2012	Nightowljrm
2013	Red
2014	Baksteen666	10
2015	cdbblw	13
2016	NESfiend	10
2017	tablew/chairs	9
2018	arnpoly	7
2019	Crabmaster2000	24+

THQ Champions
 

2012	Crabmaster2000
2013	bimmy lee
2014	gnarblast	16
2015	DoctorNick	21
2016	tablew/chairs	21
2017	guitarzombie	38
2018	guitarzombie	15
2019	bronzeshield	23+

 

Magic of Scheherazade is done.

I've currently got Tetris 2 paused on Level 61, so I should have that done tomorrow.

Good luck, bronze! That one is brutal, but it would feel so good to get that off the list.

It took TMR over 24 hours to beat Tetris 2. That puts it up there with Bump n Jump and Qbert. Although TMR isn't the greatest at puzzle games so I don't know how long it would take most players.

Cyberball is done. It wasn't super enjoyable, but I was surprised that it hadn't been done yet.

M.U.S.C.L.E. is done. This is easily the worst of the NES wrestling games.

I remember watching his stream on normal Tetris and he was godawful at it. It seems like he just ended up beating it by enough attempts.