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Heavy Sigh posted:What the hell is up with Brightman's stage? The platforms disappear when you touch them until suddenly they don't. It took me a while to figure out too - you have to stand on the green one. Considering how far that part is from the checkpoint, it got frustrating for me.
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Taoto posted:Yeah, I saw the updated one. I just didn't want to lose my progress. Oh well. You don't lose your progress. The saves are created first when you play, so if you replace the game files the saves will still be there.
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donges posted:It took me a while to figure out too - you have to stand on the green one. Considering how far that part is from the checkpoint, it got frustrating for me. I also don't think it's intuitive at all...
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Dec 27, 2012 10:53
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It's a test to see whether or not you're Brightman.
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Dec 27, 2012 11:10
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Stop that, if Air Man changes direction you'll be stuck that way.
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Dec 27, 2012 14:16
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So after about two hours of frustration I finally beat one stage of Mega Man Dongs. The game is basically all-out kicking my rear end and is certainly not doing my blood pressure any favours either, but it looks so good and has such great ideas that I find myself wanting to keep playing regardless. Video game masochism at its finest.
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Dec 27, 2012 16:40
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Simply Simon posted:To be quite precise, when you first jump on the green, you have to keep standing on it while they flash, then you can go on, and for longer stretches, whenever you reach green, wait there for the flash to pass, then go on. Honestly I first thought I had to use the ceiling thing's Flash Stopper to keep myself in the air until the platforms regenerated. Then I thought it had to do with the colours of the disco in the background, like red would mean the platforms would stop disappearing.
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Dec 27, 2012 16:54
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Dectilon posted:It's a test to see whether or not you're Brightman. Speaking of, for everyone who's playing with infinite lives, consider turning it off and getting a few game overs. It's the only way to reap the benefits of Brightman, the Smartest Robot Master's collected wisdom.
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KingEffingFrost posted:Speaking of, for everyone who's playing with infinite lives, consider turning it off and getting a few game overs. It's the only way to reap the benefits of Brightman, the Smartest Robot Master's collected wisdom. Have another update. In this one you can get brightman's wisdom by pressing escape, so even the infinite lives-players won't lose out.
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Dectilon posted:Have another update. In this one you can get brightman's wisdom by pressing escape, so even the infinite lives-players won't lose out. The world is now a better place. But not for long! Because...  (Pictured: Mighty Bomb Jack reviews GameFAQs reviewers, giving them a taste of their own medicine.) Levels 7 through 10 There are two additional things I want to touch on that I didn't get to in the video. The first is that screenshot up above. When you get a Game Over, you're treated to this screen before being hurled back to the title screen. "GDV" stands for "Game Deviation Value". It's a number from 47 to 99 that's supposed to tell you how well you played that round. Here's what the manual has to say about it: Mighty Bomb Jack Manual posted:"GAME DEVIATION VALUE" will be indicated on your screen after the game time is Clear as day, right? No? Well, for those of us who aren't Brightman, GDV is actually affected by your score, the number of Secret Coins you've collected, and how many levels you've beaten. I'm not sure why 47 is the default value. I guess they wanted players to feel a little better about themselves after they Game Over on level 3? The other thing I want to talk about is the room preceding the Crystal Ball Room. This is another thing that's different between versions of the game. In the Japanese version, there is no invisible chest with a sphinx to unlock the door. No, the mechanism is far more insidious. You must enter the screen where the door is supposed to be (or spawn there after a death) while the tens digit of your score is a 7. If you do, the door will be waiting for you at the top. Otherwise, you get nothing. There is no way you would ever figure this out without a guide or a call to the Tecmo help line, if there was such a thing. But to the game's credit, it gives you an "easy" mechanism to change the tens digit of your score: you gain 10 points every time you jump. And that's it for now! We're over halfway through!
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I think this game wins the prize for the Most Obscure Bullshit Secrets. I'm not sure how anyone could figure out the sequence to the crystal ball without random luck. This game is really awful but fascinating nonetheless.
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Dec 28, 2012 02:14
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I know I'm late on this but yesssssss new Simon MM LP  
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Dec 28, 2012 03:10
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Haha, the 999 music with the flowchart was a great choice.
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   The picture is kinda wonky. I think I'll think of something different. Stage Thoughts on pastebin BD links work now!
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Dec 28, 2012 16:55
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I remember when I first saw the video when Phig and Dect originally made this joke. It is glorious to see it in action. Also, hats off to you Dect and other dude who's name I'm completely spacing on, that 'Get Equipped With' message made me laugh harder than I should right now because I'm sick and laughing makes me cough which kind of hurts at the moment. It was worth it though. Seriously, I'm not going to play this cause I suck at the old MM games so seeing Simon play through this is a godsend for me. Keep up the good work friend.
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Smash Daisaku posted:I think this game wins the prize for the Most Obscure Bullshit Secrets. I'm not sure how anyone could figure out the sequence to the crystal ball without random luck. This game is really awful but fascinating nonetheless. Fascinating in the same way that a massive car wreck is. You keep watching because you just have to see how much horrible it gets.
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Smash Daisaku posted:I think this game wins the prize for the Most Obscure Bullshit Secrets. I'm not sure how anyone could figure out the sequence to the crystal ball without random luck. This game is really awful but fascinating nonetheless. There's really no such thing as "figuring out" anything in Mighty Bomb Jack. When it comes to secrets, you have 4 options. 1. Get obscenely lucky. We're talking "winning the Powerball" level luck. 2. Look it up. 3. Miss it entirely. 4. Die horribly and restart the game. Those are the only options. There are no legitimate clues anywhere in the game or manual. The closest thing to a hint I've seen in the game, and this is only in the non-Japan version, is that diagonal line of bombs that leads to the sphinx hidden in the fire blocks. But even then, if I didn't have something telling me "Hey! There's a vitally important item you need and this is the first step to getting it!" I'd think the game was just trying to trick me into a death... But have I mentioned how much fun the floating is? It's pretty loving fun.
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This is kinda out of nowhere, but King, your run of Mighty Bomb Jack made me look for other LPs of yours on the archive and I kinda marathoned Metroid last night, so I guess that's a compliment or something? Figured I'd say something.
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Games like Mighty Bomb Jack are the reason why I have any interest in LPs in general. I want no part of that game but I am curious to see how it shakes out. I also want to see what this "best ending" is. It probably just adds more exclamation points to the Congratulations! screen.
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KingEffingFrost posted:Mighty Bomb Jack bullshit Have you tried Mighty Jill Off at all? It's a remake/homage to Mighty Bomb Jack except instead of a superhero you play a submissive leather-wearing lesbian with a foot fetish who has been commanded by her mistress to get to the top of her tower. Yeah. It might be less of a bullshit simulator than Mighty Bomb Jack is. Also I am very upset that Punch Donkey doesn't make the horrible Wily saucer noise anymore. Very. Upset. "Admiral H. Curtiss" posted:Also, I know, Capcom and all, but in what kind of bizarro world do we live that fan games and romhacks in a series are actually better than the official releases? I can't think of any other series that is that way! The only things off the top of my head I can think of are the Brawl hacks that balance the game so it's fair. Also Counter Strike and Team Fortress were both originally mods so maybe those?
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Dr. Notadoctor posted:Also I am very upset that Punch Donkey doesn't make the horrible Wily saucer noise anymore. Very. Upset. Yes, I noticed that too. You guys have to fix that for the final version!
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Does anyone plan to play Pid? Apparently it's a very hard game, though I didn't find it that challenging myself, and I was considering doing something for it when its three months are up.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Yes, I noticed that too. You guys have to fix that for the final version!
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Simply Simon posted:Nah, that was my fault - you might notice that the boss intro scene doesn't play? It's because I had to rerecord, which normally isn't possible so far, but with a little trick I could warp to the stage directly. Loses the intro, though. It plays there. Oh, okay. Everything is forgiven, then.
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No, that's not what I mean. Compare: http://bd.baldurk.org/1905 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhyGioVJqSw
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:No, that's not what I mean. Compare: Whoa it sounds like they lowered it by a few octaves for some reason. Was there a problem extracting the audio file? Then again maybe they didn't want to actually kill players' ears. Which is not a valid reason.  hearing that noise should be part of the challenge of the stage. Speaking of sadomasochism, I played Mighty Jill Off, and it is literally the opposite of bullshit. Like, it's pretty much the prime example of a difficult yet incredibly fair game. It's very short but pretty drat fun and would pass Simply Simon's difficulty test. I'd give it a play especially seeing as it's free.
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Dr. Notadoctor posted:Have you tried Mighty Jill Off at all? It's a remake/homage to Mighty Bomb Jack except instead of a superhero you play a submissive leather-wearing lesbian with a foot fetish who has been commanded by her mistress to get to the top of her tower. Yeah. It might be less of a bullshit simulator than Mighty Bomb Jack is. I was wondering what Mighty Jill Off was referencing to. It would explain her powers alot. Hell I think she's a secret character in Super Meat Boy. Also Frost, never stop man. Goddamn Mighty Bomb Jack is like almost La Mulana levels solving type bullshit here. (except more bullshit) 
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Shindragon posted:I was wondering what Mighty Jill Off was referencing to. It would explain her powers alot. Hell I think she's a secret character in Super Meat Boy. La Mulana at least gives you cryptic bullshit 3 levels away from where you need it if you can figure it out. This doesn't give you anything. Mighty Bombjack makes Bubble Bobble's true ending seem tame by comparison.
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Bellmaker posted:Mighty Bombjack makes Bubble Bobble's true ending seem tame by comparison. Bubble Bobble had built in secret screens that gave you hints, in a relatively easy code, as to what to do. You had to not die for 20, 30, and 40 levels straight, but if you were good at the game and played it often, that wasn't impossible. Even without the hints, you can stumble on the true ending easily. I'm pretty sure it gave you a hint in the bad ending too. Plenty of arrows pointing the right way. Mighty Bombjack has no indication, beyond that number that seems randomly generated at the end.
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Wrestling sucks.   Episode 1 on Spiteland has been reuploaded and has better sound quality now. I'm not sure how; I think Mr. Swoon might be a wizard.
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Came across an odd bug in MMDongs. I was playing Megamanatee's stage and I died in the minefield. When I came back to life, it was like this: The music was also completely gone, and when I died, it would play the death sound and visual effect multiple times in rapid succession.  When I reached the Megamanatee boss fight, the background was still hosed up, the music was still missing, and there was no water in the area, making the fight impossible. When I went to a different stage, the background returned to normal. However, the music was still gone.
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So what is the device you're building? Is it Galactus' world-eater thingy? I'm assuming Galactus is the final boss, simply because it's a video game with Galactus in it.
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Dectilon posted:So what is the device you're building? Is it Galactus' world-eater thingy? I'm assuming Galactus is the final boss, simply because it's a video game with Galactus in it. I thought the Surfer was working for Galactus. I'm so confused, every time I think I have things figured out, they beat a stage and my memory is erased by The Package Cosmic.
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KingEffingFrost posted:I thought the Surfer was working for Galactus. I'm so confused, every time I think I have things figured out, they beat a stage and my memory is erased by The Package Cosmic.
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Dectilon posted:So what is the device you're building? Is it Galactus' world-eater thingy? I'm assuming Galactus is the final boss, simply because it's a video game with Galactus in it. It's never even remotely explained what the device is. You never find out what it does or what it was going to be used for. Galactus is just trying to get Silver Surfer out of the house or something.
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I'm pretty sure the parts are actually for a cosmic weather vane.
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Mr. Swoon posted:I'm pretty sure the parts are actually for a cosmic weather vane. Hey if you have a better way of figuring out the direction of space wind, I'd love to hear it.
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I'm digging this thread thus far, anticipating the last few videos of Mighty Bomb Jack because I'm eager to see the endgame nonsense, and further Gradius V because each video brings us closer to the brilliance that is Stage 5, and I can't wait to see all the stuff I never knew about in that level and its boss.
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So I just finished all 8 levels of MMD, and I must say it's very well done. Bravo. Infinite lives was a very, very good idea, but it's tough to use special weapons when they don't refill (the game over never comes). By the way, what was the music at the beginning of Brightman's stage? It's very cool and atmospheric. Are Wily stages in the works? I can't wait to see what horrors they would entail! That is, if the villain is indeed him. Perhaps megaman defeats Wily at the end of the fortress, only for him to pull off a mask revealing...Wily. And then we chase him to another fortress (right next door) because why the gently caress not.
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