thats what i said earlier up in the thread. just get through the ice caves
 

You can deflect stuff with your lightsaber.

Super Empire Strikes Back:

Level 18 - Cloud City - Entrance to Cloud City (115,445)



If you get to Cloud City and don't have anything better than a flame blaster, you're pretty much screwed.  There's turrets all over the place that you can't hit with the flame blaster, so you pretty much have to jump over them and pray you don't take damage.  There's also flying security Droids all over the place that fire the ion blaster, so they can deplete your health rather quick.  I played this for a while tonight, so I'm not sure I will give it another try.  I may focus more on getting a better score on Paperboy 2.

I must have played the game on Easy as a kid because I don't remember it being this hard.  Then again, the last time I played this game with any sort of regularity was probably between 18 and 20 years ago.  As soon as I got my N64 suring the summer of 1998, I wasn't playing much SNES.  I had all three Super Star Wars games as a kid/teen and I'm always shocked when I hear people say they are super difficult.  I was really good at them and was able to no-death each one at least a few times on Easy.  I did beat Empire on Jedi difficulty at least once, but never Return of the Jedi or Super Star Wars.  Empire was my first ever SNES game, so this one is my favorite of the three.  For those struggling with this one, here's some tips:

• Level up the blaster to the Plasma and try to keep it.  Of course, this means not dying at all.  Luke takes a little longer to level up his blaster because he starts with the basic blaster, whereas Han and Chewbacca both start with the flame blaster.  The Plasma blaster can take out most enemies very, very quickly (including bosses) and makes things a whole lot easier, even as Luke.  There's times where his Lightsaber comes in handy, but I rarely use it on Hoth.  Fighting the Wampas in the ice caves is so much easier with a Plasma blaster.  Dagobah is the best place to use the Lightsaber, especially when fighting Swamp Creature Habogad at the end of Dagobah stage 3.  However, you have to use the Lightsaber when fighting Darth Vader in Cloud City.  If you try to use any of the blasters, he will just block your shots with his Lightsaber.
• Luke's Lightsaber can block and sometimes deflect enemy attacks.  If you're not good with the blaster, Luke's Lightsaber can become a great defensive tool.  It can deflect Snowtrooper blasters, turret shots on the AT-AT, the ion blaster shots from the AT-AT cockpit boss (this is the easiest way to defeat it), and if you block with the Lightsaber in Echo Base under the falling beams, you will not take any damage.  It can also block so many more attacks.  Unfortunately, Han does not have this benefit, so your best bet against the falling beams is to either roll or bait them into falling.
• Search for hidden stuff everywhere.  There's hidden extra lives, blaster power-ups, giant hearts, health Lightsabers, Force power-ups, and shields all over the game.  These can be found by either shooting them with a blaster or chopping them with the Lightsaber.  In the ice caves, there's air currents in many spots that if you hit just right, you jump up to a small area where you can find some of the aforementioned goodies.  Having Nintendo Power issue 53 is helpful in this regard because it shows where a bucnh of the hidden items are located.
• Learn how to double jump.  It's not hard to do (just an extra tap of the jump button) and can help you get to hard to reach places and avoid enemy attacks.
• I may be wrong on this, but I believe Chewbacca is invincible when he does his spin attack.  If this is the case, use this to your advantage when fighting hordes of enemies or tougher enemies.
• You can use L and R at times to look up and down.  Use this when confronted with open air to search for nearby platforms before making a leap of faith.
• Once Luke learns the Force powers in Dagobah (you have to search for them, you don't just get them), I recommend using Convert Force to Health at all times.  This comes in very handy during more difficult boss fights later in the game, especially with Swamp Creature Habogad and Darth Vader.  Elevation is helpful in Dagobah to get to higher places where the Force power-ups are located.  The Deflect Force power-up is pointless in my opinion since Luke can block/deflect a lot of attacks with his Lightsaber.  I believe it deflects certains attacks you wouldn't be able to deflect otherwise, but I'm not sure because I don't use it.  Super Lightsaber is pointless as well since it uses up Force power very quickly.  You're better off using your blaster.

Paperboy 2:

83,200



Definitely getting the hang of this.

Unfortunately both of this month's games are too difficult for me.

Yeah, i hear ya about the blaster there, Bimmy. I died on the last Hoth battle and then ended up draining about 10 men trying to get past the boss after that. I'll take another attempt here this coming week. Haven't even cracked Paper Boy yet. Only got to play Star Wars a few times the first week of the month. That game takes a lot of time if you actually want to get anywhere.

Indeed, but the bar is very low right now

 

Got to cloud city tonight and that's where the fun really starts. I got the boss, but had next to no energy and died. Once I lost my blaster I died a bunch in a row and called it quits. The asteroid level is annoying as hell. I swear it doesn't matter how well you do you always end up with one or two bars left of shield. This game is ruthless, even when you know where a lot of blaster power ups are. LEvels with Luke aren't too bad if you have the health force. Just need to get past cloud city. Haven't played Paperboy yet.

Game complete. All I can say is fuck this game. I was able to find a couple secret power-ups in Cloud City which allowed me to get past that level a lot easier the second time around. I had to play the game over from the start after dying on the Foundry just to be able to keep my gun. I'm certain if you die on that level there is basically no way to recover unless there is a ton of secret power-ups somewhere I couldn't find. Even with the best gun, I got two incredibly lucky shields which definitely saved my life (not only survive but recover some hearts). While the level after that is easier, I would say the same thing; If you die you probably won't be able to regroup. Died about ten times on Cloud City X-Wing level which drained all my surplus lives. The rest of the game isn't too bad since you have the force. I would say the Foundry is by far the hardest level in the game. 

On a side note, the Darth Vader duel in this game is amazing. For such a generally cheap and shitty game that really gets the blood going and is really well programmed. Give you just enough power-ups to survive and probably takes a good ten minutes to kill at the best of times. It's absolute chaos at the end when you have to kill him while he's throwing stuff at you with the force. The funny thing is he's relatively easy compared to some of the other boss fights. A hell of a lot less random at least. 


146,430 

In no way was I going for a low score, in fact there were a lot of times I had to farm hearts. Overall, I probably played about 20 hours or so. Played for about 5 hours today lol... fuck. 

Yeah low score is really only a tiebreaker, which I doubt will be used

Well done

Died at the big boss probe droid on hoth. Lost my powered up gun and then lost 3 continues worth of lives. Absolutely didnt feel like going through those ice caves again after that

16,050

Okay, throwing my hat in the ring for Paperboy 2. I'll try to do a score for Empire before it's too late. 



Edit: 

Ice Cave I (?) - 21,115

Maybe someone can help me with the level ID? I beat the frost-breathing boss, so whatever's basically right after that. This game doesn't play around. 

67,700 on Paper Boy 2. Might try to boost that, but a score for now. 

The boss is the first Ice Cave, so I'm guessing the next level after that

 

How far did you get?

 

Uhhh, not sure. I think I got to the first round of 'middle street'. I'm not sure how this game progresses though. Is it dependent only on rounds or subscribers? Because I definitely lost a lot of them along the way   Sniped the shit out of the baby a bunch though.

My impression is that it's 3 streets, 7 days each

Improved my score a bit, but never as good as Andy_Bogomil. Nice score!

Paperboy 2 - 126,150




Super Empire Strikes Back - Cave 1 6,475


 

hmmm, I don't think I played easy street 7 days, but I'm really not sure.... It kinda blurs together after a while. Was at least 4 or 5 times.

Thanks Seppatoni!

Just updated my score on Paper boy, I was on street 2 day 3 when I lost my last life. You would know when you left the 1st street, it sections off into 3 sections.

Lol havent played paperboy in a long time. Got fired on tuesday lol. Atleast i got that robber. Maybe the market now will higher a loser paperboy since i did save their business


its not my fault though. I have to throw papers at everyone to see them get pissed. Its just too tempting

Greatly improved my Paperboy 2 score after playing it for the last few hours. I edited my post on page 2. I think I got to Saturday or Sunday on Week 1 before I lost my last life to a bad combination of a baby in a stroller and two guys moving a couch. I had a really good layout for my paper route, and if you can get a really good one, this game can be fairly easy.

Here is my submission. Didnt get as much time on the games as I wanted.  I got to Snowspeeder II level of empire. Lost all three continues on it. I was about 10 feet from beating that level several times. Its just impossilbe to hit everything and avoid taking damage. The snowspeeder is just too damn big. I roped all the ATAT but cant beat what should be a simple level lol.  I just suck at paperboy 2 though. Got to day 3 lol. Had a perfect day 1 though  

67,385  LEVEL 9- SNOWSPEEDER II


16,000   Day 3 Easy Street

Updated my score for Paperboy 2 yet again. I'm really starting to get the hang of how to earn points in this game. I made it to Sunday, Week 1 this time around.

Contest over. I'll update the scoreboards Thursday when I'm at work, and get the new thread up either later tonight or tomorrow