Can Pcenginefx beat all licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016/2017? (115/135)

[DeshDildo]

Another one down!  Walked through It Came From the Desert last night with my 15 year old watching and mocking me/it the whole time, lol....  He thought it was horrible, but wound up looking up resolutions/walk throughs on his tablet while I was messing around with it.  Took just under 2 hours.  I was playing it here on Magic Engine using a burned CDr on PC.  (Don't actually own a copy)
Another one down!  Walked through It Came From the Desert last night with my 15 year old watching and mocking me/it the whole time, lol....  He thought it was horrible, but wound up looking up resolutions/walk throughs on his tablet while I was messing around with it.  Took just under 2 hours.  I was playing it here on Magic Engine using a burned CDr on PC.  (Don't actually own a copy)

This is likely the biggest accomplishment of all!

[JoshTurboTrollX]

This is likely the biggest accomplishment of all! 

The 4 on 1 final match of Battle Royale was the most stressful gaming moment of my year....

[Bardoly]

Updated today.

Only a few more days...  Let's clear some more!   

[TheClash603]

This is likely the biggest accomplishment of all! 

The 4 on 1 final match of Battle Royale was the most stressful gaming moment of my year....

I played through Battle Royale two years ago and it is something I will never ever do again.

[esteban]

This is likely the biggest accomplishment of all! 

The 4 on 1 final match of Battle Royale was the most stressful gaming moment of my year....

I played through Battle Royale two years ago and it is something I will never ever do again.

Hahahahahhaha.

I recognize that "Master Royalty" screenshot... does it get recycled for multiplayer matches?

Because I have a hard time believing my brothers, or I, actually beat the game back in the day.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Hahahahahhaha.

I recognize that "Master Royalty" screenshot... does it get recycled for multiplayer matches?

Because I have a hard time believing my brothers, or I, actually beat the game back in the day.

I'm actually not sure, it's possible that screen is shown when you win a Battle Royale with 5 participants?  That would be lame if it was the same for 5 player and for the end of the game, but honestly it wouldn't surprise me.  I do remember the victory screen changing every few rounds.



Anyway, cleared another sporty game: TV Sports Football hasn't been claimed yet.  Using the Buzzards I got through a 10 game season just BARELY squeezing into the playoffs at 6-4.

Took out the "Tidal Waves" in the finals 17-3. (Stupid score screen disappeared before I got the phone/camera ready) I still haven't been able to accurately pass the ball at all, but I've gotten alright at delayed handoffs and just running the ball on nearly every play.  Also, playing linebackers on DEF is a good way to get turnovers when they pass the ball. 


Yay, hair ladies with teh trophy


End Credits!  Wow!

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Alright, pulled through Dungeon Master: Theron's Quest tonight.  Over the span of 3 weeks, I managed to snag a few hours a few times a week on this one.  Got that damn Retaliator back in it's place!



Looking over the rest of the list, I'm not sure I have any more Turbo in me for the remaining 48 hours of the year. 

It's been fun!  Maybe we should start another thread for 2017 in regards to playing through the remaining 20+ games. 

[Bardoly]

Great!  Yeah, most of the remaining games are definitely the more difficult ones.  I've been beating my head against the wall, trying to take R-Type down. I've made it up to level 6, but man, my shooter-fu is weak...     I might be able to do Boxy Boy if Desh has given up and is willing to share his current level password.  I know that there are a few other games that were being worked on; hopefully they'll be cleared before the end of 2016.

For 2017, I was thinking of just starting a new thread fresh and try again to beat 'em all, but maybe we need a point system where easier games get less points than the more difficult games.  That would require figuring out difficulty tiers though...  We might be able to do a prize of some sort, something more tangible than simple bragging rights.   . What do y'all think, or does anyone else have any ideas?

[esteban]

Great!  Yeah, most of the remaining games are definitely the more difficult ones.  I've been beating my head against the wall, trying to take R-Type down. I've made it up to level 6, but man, my shooter-fu is weak...     I might be able to do Boxy Boy if Desh has given up and is willing to share his current level password.  I know that there are a few other games that were being worked on; hopefully they'll be cleared before the end of 2016.

For 2017, I was thinking of just starting a new thread fresh and try again to beat 'em all, but maybe we need a point system where easier games get less points than the more difficult games.  That would require figuring out difficulty tiers though...  We might be able to do a prize of some sort, something more tangible than simple bragging rights.   . What do y'all think, or does anyone else have any ideas?

GOAL: We must finish all the games, as soon as possible.

GOAL: We want everyone to participate and be proud they beat *multiple games*, even if they weren't the first to do so.

THEREFORE: The games that are "unbeaten" by the end of the year should automatically become the goal for the next mini-contest...but the mini-contest should not run a year...it should be shorter (a few months?) to encourage folks to play NOW.

Basically, I think this contest is fun because it can encourage folks to play (1) new games they don't know or (2) try to beat games they never have vanquished before.

SO, with that premise in mind (everyone should play, even games they don't know too well), "points" should be awarded  for "all" completions...

(A) obviously, the first person to beat a game = maximum respect (Gold medal)

(B) however, folks who complete a game before mini-contest is over will still get some love! (2nd = silver, 3rd = Bronze, 4th = Blue ribbon, 5th and beyond = red ribbon)

The Olympics are fun, but we need another slot (or two) to encourage participation. RIBBONS!

QUALITATIVE, not quantitative: If a game requires an inordinate amount of skill/time to beat, we might consider a multiplier (ex. 3 gold coins for ______) — but, even if we don't do this, WE KNOW NOT ALL GAMES are equal.

So, respect is paid to folks based on the quality of their achievement to. Having several gold medals for beating shitty, easy sports games earns you the title QUEEN OF SHITTY SPORTS GAMES. This "honor" has much less weight than KING* OF ________ (R-Type).

I say: keep it easy and simple. Don't worry about determining the "point value" for games. We can worry about that later. Just make a disclaimer that this is not simply about tallying up points, but about rewarding dedication (time and skill)...

EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY.



Personally, I will be really proud of myself if I could earn a red ribbon for every game left. Truth.


*Note: KING OF CASINO is already reserved for _______.

[goldenband]

At Sega-16 we just kept going when we didn't finish the library in a single year. (We still haven't, but it's the journey that counts, ma-a-a-an.)

Continuing into 2017 with this year's unbeaten games as the top priority, rather than restarting from scratch, would be great -- but I'm down for whatever. (And still intend to beat that $#$%@ Hit the Ice...)

[seieienbu]

~80% completed discounting any games that get finished tonight.  I guess a 'B' isn't a bad grade but it definitely isn't stellar.

[Bardoly]

I've made it up to level 7 in R-Type now, but man is this game hard!   


 

Yes!  I took down R-Type!!!

Pics to follow.

[seieienbu]

I've made it up to level 7 in R-Type now, but man is this game hard!   


 

Yes!  I took down R-Type!!!

Pics to follow.

Badass way to close out the year!  Good job!

[DeshDildo]

If you restart the count for 2017 a tule should be if you beat a certain game in 2016 you may NOT beat it again in 2017.

[Psycho Punch]

I didn't manage to beat Rising Sun in time.

[esteban]

I didn't manage to beat Rising Sun in time.

It's not over! We gotta finish them all for 2017. All the remaining ones.

[goldenband]

Agreed, let's finish the library! Then we can try to beat the whole enchilada in 2018. 

[Gentlegamer]

I blame lukester for this failure.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

I've always wanted to play through Impossimole and Yo Bro!  Maybe this will be my year!  ;)

Good job everyone on all the games that were conquered in 2016! 

[blueraven]

I never finished Adam's Family. I'm sorry.

 

[Psycho Punch]

Y's, bro.

[esteban]

Y's, bro.

[blueraven]

Y's, bro.

Your only prolonging the pain.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

 

EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY.

indeed

  1.   Ballistix
  2.   Boxyboy
  3a. Champions Forever Boxing (black label) – duplicate – can beat either this one or the red label variant
  3b. Champions Forever Boxing (red label) – duplicate – can beat either this one or the black label variant
  4.   Drop-Off
  5.   Gunboat
  6.   Hit The Ice
  7.   Impossimole
  8a. Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf (CD) – duplicate – can beat either this release or the HuCard release
  8b. Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf (HuCard) – duplicate – can beat either this release or the CD release
  9.   King of Casino
  10.   Klax
  11.   Lords of the Rising Sun
  12.   Power Golf
  13.   Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Vol. 2
14.   Sim Earth: the Living Planet
15.   Sonic Spike Volleyball
16.   Super Volleyball
17.   Timeball
18.   Tricky Kick
19.   TV Sports Basketball
20.   TV Sports Hockey
21.   World Sports Competition
22.   Yo Bro


Here is the shameful 22 that remain.  For whatever reason these 22 games were left to the wayside by the masses at PCFX?  Can we beat JUST these games in 2017?  Should they be thrown down the shitter?  Should we consider ourselves failures?

Maybe, but I think if we took one or two of these and played through them, mayhaps even MASTER them, we could then have a good chance to beat 'em all in 2018!  Who's with me?!?!?

NOTE: I removed R-Type (Bardoly said he beat it, but hasn't taken pics yet) and my efforts with TV Sports Football and Theron's Quest. 

[Psycho Punch]

Is SimEarth even "beatable"? I mean I never heard about anything about an ending in the PC version, and one of the scenarios is a simplified version of Lovelock's Daisyworld so how do you beat that one?

note about simearth: it is based upon the "gaia hypothesis" which doesn't have all that much credit in the scientific community but at least it makes for an interesting model for a videogame sim.

[OldRover]

There are only a few ways I can think of that would classify as "beating" SimEarth:

-Making the sun explode
-Causing the exodus on Venus
-Evolving robots

Soooo... a robot exodus on Venus followed by a supernova... that should do it.

[LostFlunky]

I took on Drop Off, because I was really good at it 20 years ago... I am not good at it anymore.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Sports games are generally not all that popular, however aren't the most difficult to conquer either.

Be not afraid.

[esteban]

For 3-4 years I've been wait no for a former pcefx member to send me Jack Nicklaus CD.

I think it is time for my yearly email.

[MisterCrash]

The only one of the remaining games that I have is Lords of the Rising Sun, and I remember being totally confused the last time I tried playing that game. I'm not sure I will be able to make a contribution this time.

[Psycho Punch]

Reminds me I have a savegame on my DUO with antoku saved. Lords of the Rising sun seems to be very lame and I'll explain why:

-Localization feels rushed and unpolished (using Syscard font, tons of spelling errors, tons of grammar errors, nonsensical text, REMOVED VOICE ACTING)

-Battle mode has zero depth and feels like a minigame (compare it with the original LOTRS which you can tell is way better just by a screenshot)



-Other minigames are nothing more than annoying gimmicks

-Horse pursuit minigame is aggravatingly annoying since you have a 1 in a 100000 chance to actually kill a general with "0 ARMY". More annoying is that sometimes you'll pursue the enemy general for hours on the map doing this minigame over and over and over with no end in sight (my youtube channel has an hour of doing just that in this game).

-Killing generals is POINTLESS aside from retrieving the endgame treasures, since when you kill a general the game literally waits 1 or 2 seconds to show you the message "ASDFGHJ HAS RAISED AN ARMY". Since the army is fully fledged and with max troops, you're basically giving all the troops you killed back to the enemy.

-There is no pause button on the map screen. THERE IS NO PAUSE BUTTON ON THE MAP SCREEN. Important stuff happens every 2 seconds and you take at least 5 to scan through the map so you can't keep track of all your units. THERE IS NO PAUSE. NO PAUSE! (there's the save screen that pauses the game but of course you can't view the map while in it)

This game is very aggravating. Yet I still want to finish it.

[goldenband]

I'm still planning to take another shot at Hit the Ice. Last time I got all the way to the final match and had winning chances.

BTW I like the Hit the Ice "series", such as it is, since different systems got very different ports. The Genesis and TurboGrafx versions of this game both have merit -- the Genesis version looks fancier but adopts a long, eight-match structure with passwords; the Turbo version has simpler graphics but is closer to the arcade game in many ways, with fun little bells & whistles like the octopus. But the SNES version is a disaster -- it looks like a slideshow!

[csgx1]

I'm still halfway through Tricky Kick when I started it last year.  Maybe in 2017 I'll stop playing better games, invest more time in Tricky Kick and finally finish it.

[Bardoly]

I've made it up to level 7 in R-Type now, but man is this game hard!   


 

Yes!  I took down R-Type!!!

Pics to follow.

Sorry for the delay.  Holidays and such...   
I beat the PC Engine version.


Finally updated today.  I double-checked everything, and yes we cleared 113 out of the possible 135, leaving 22 unbeaten in 2016.  Maybe we can beat these 22 this year?

[blueraven]

There are only a few ways I can think of that would classify as "beating" SimEarth:

-Making the sun explode
-Causing the exodus on Venus
-Evolving robots

Soooo... a robot exodus on Venus followed by a supernova... that should do it.

This post is pure gold. I lol'd so hard when I read this.

[NE146]

I can beat King of Casino in an emulator with savestates.. would that be fine. :p  Because screw playing through that normally 

[JoshTurboTrollX]

I can beat King of Casino in an emulator with savestates.. would that be fine. :p  Because screw playing through that normally 

I approve of your methods hacker man.

[mitsuman]

The only one of the remaining games that I have is Lords of the Rising Sun, and I remember being totally confused the last time I tried playing that game. I'm not sure I will be able to make a contribution this time.

I'd be willing to take the game off your hands if you don't want it any more! 

[JoshTurboTrollX]

I think this thread about King of Casino counts as another clear.

https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=22030.0

-EDIT- After a dozen more failed attempts, I realized something and decided to try a VERY RISKY strategy that miraculously paid off. If any CPU opponent gets a large payout in poker, the whole thing crumbles. Luckily (this time), they never got poker payouts big enough to threaten the scheme (although one came excruciatingly close).  Here are some better looking pics of my second triumph over the other 4 CPU opponents.

-The five casinos where I won my five rounds. Some of my favorite fruit in there. 


-The screen where the game crowns the 'King of Casino'.


-Game developer, Victor Musical Industries, Inc. at the end of the credit roll.


-One final affirmation from the game. It felt even MORE deserved this time.


Oh, just in case anyone wants to get the $10 million without doing any of the work, here's a code for $9.999M:
EYOY UZSZ GYPA JEHW

[mitsuman]

I started playing Lords of the Rising Sun again last night, as Kiyomori. I killed Yoritomo pretty much right off the bat. Now I just need to start knocking off the other generals, and I'll finish that campaign.

But will that count? Or is beating all three campaigns needed to count as beating the game?

[Psycho Punch]

I started playing Lords of the Rising Sun again last night, as Kiyomori. I killed Yoritomo pretty much right off the bat. Now I just need to start knocking off the other generals, and I'll finish that campaign.

But will that count? Or is beating all three campaigns needed to count as beating the game?

Let's coop and beat the game together, what do you say? A scenario for each.

ps: if you have the secret to killing a warlord in mounted combat please share

[mitsuman]

I started playing Lords of the Rising Sun again last night, as Kiyomori. I killed Yoritomo pretty much right off the bat. Now I just need to start knocking off the other generals, and I'll finish that campaign.

But will that count? Or is beating all three campaigns needed to count as beating the game?

Let's coop and beat the game together, what do you say? A scenario for each.

ps: if you have the secret to killing a warlord in mounted combat please share

I'd be willing to share the glory of beating it with someone else. (Wait, not like that)

As far as killing the generals on the horse, all it takes is patience, practice, timing, speed, and luck. 

Honestly though, I generally try to be behind and to their left. Then when you get kind of close, move toward them quickly swing the sword.
There have been times I've spent 15 minutes trying to kill one, and other times I get a whole bunch of kills that way right off the bat.

[Psycho Punch]

Excellent, I started Yoshitsune.

Now to kill Yoritomo.

[Psycho Punch]

LOTRS update: got the emperor, basically wiped out the light green army (I killed 3 generals in a row and made sure they had no castles so the "raised an army" event made a new warlord for another clan), neutered Genji clan. Now to (finally) fight yoritomo himself to see if I can kill him.

About horseback: I feel like the "difficulty" of killing generals might be scripted (ie don't kill someone before you're supposed to!) since the Heike warlords went down very easily yet I could not finish off generals from other clans. I hope the game doesn't force me to hunt for an invisible objective before being able to kill Yoritomo.

edit: latest gameplay video:

next video will be epic or a complete fail since I'll join all 4 warlords to attack Yoritomo all at once. I'd try some shurikens but I'm afraid to fail the assassination and have to commit sudoku (the game DELETES THE GODDAMN SAVE when you die )

[MisterCrash]

I'd try some shurikens but I'm afraid to fail the assassination and have to commit sudoku (the game DELETES THE GODDAMN SAVE when you die )

I think that's seppuku. Although the prospect of being forced to play sudoku until you die is fascinating.

[esteban]

I'd try some shurikens but I'm afraid to fail the assassination and have to commit sudoku (the game DELETES THE GODDAMN SAVE when you die )

I think that's seppuku. Although the prospect of being forced to play sudoku until you die is fascinating.

I think Punch intentionally used "sudoku" because, personally, seppuku is far more enjoyable than sudoku.

[Psycho Punch]

I'd try some shurikens but I'm afraid to fail the assassination and have to commit sudoku (the game DELETES THE GODDAMN SAVE when you die )

I think that's seppuku. Although the prospect of being forced to play sudoku until you die is fascinating.

I think Punch intentionally used "sudoku" because, personally, seppuku is far more enjoyable than sudoku.

I need to stop playing this game and commit sudoku once and for all... my kingdom for a horse(back pursuit). I can't kill Kiyomori, not to mention the severe setback I just had with someone going rogue in a campaign where you have the least amount of warlords out of all campaigns... this is very aggravating.

I need to create my own thread for this game to get some fresh advice. Anyone here ever managed to win at this game? Please tell me because I'm starting to think it's impossible in the literal sense of the word.

At least sudoku is winnable.

[mitsuman]

I've been  slacking on my Kiyomori game.


I just watched one of your horse back attacks. Some advice, you are going at them way too fast and crazy. I stay in a straight line, and let them fall back to you. Then try and attack at a diagonal direction.

[esteban]

CONFESSION: I have never really made much progress in this game. I am fascinated by it though.

But, since I stubbornly refuse to read FAQs and guides and stuff, this game is on my "nemesis" list along with Camp California (I just suck at Camp California).

[mitsuman]

You should give it another shot. It really is a good game. I get sucked in and next thing I know I've been playing for two or more hours.

Honestly I didn't know anything about it when I started. And I'm probably missing things from not reading the manual.
Like every time I attacked by ninjas, I'm dead. I know I am to block the sharokens, but I'm not 100% sure how.