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NES FAQ Completion Project, Part 4
| DocDragon | Posted 6/19/2006 11:41:41 PM | message detail |
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Well, I thought the update I posted last week would've tipped you off. --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| strawhat | Posted 6/19/2006 11:43:36 PM | message detail |
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at that point i had already started. I'm certainly not going to leave an unfinished faq unfinished. Why make a big deal out of this anyway? So now the game has two FAQs...better for the readers. --- http://www.passthepotato.com/potato-1.php?potatoid=050715134719-600892 http://whatpulse.org/stats/teams/7664/ - GO KNICKS |
| DocDragon | Posted 6/19/2006 11:48:03 PM | message detail |
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Yeah, but YOU get your name in the completion project. I've seen your Contributor page, and you're on the big Contributor Recognition page 3 times... I want some recognition too... --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| strawhat | Posted 6/19/2006 11:52:37 PM | message detail |
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So take it. If you want your name recognized over mine on the completion project page, go right ahead and tell devin to change it. I only want to help gamers and GameFAQs, not so much recognition. --- http://www.passthepotato.com/potato-1.php?potatoid=050715134719-600892 http://whatpulse.org/stats/teams/7664/ - GO KNICKS |
| DocDragon | Posted 6/19/2006 11:58:55 PM | message detail |
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Thanks man. I really appreciate you doing that. --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| strawhat | Posted 6/20/2006 12:21:06 AM | message detail |
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You're welcome. U reading the devin? Replace my name when the other Bee 52 FAQ gets posted. --- http://www.passthepotato.com/potato-1.php?potatoid=050715134719-600892 http://whatpulse.org/stats/teams/7664/ - GO KNICKS |
| Gemerl | Posted 6/20/2006 12:25:39 AM | message detail |
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(I think it was Gemerl)... I don't recall mentioning either game. --- 585467 Centipede | Complete FAQS: 42 http://ccc.domaindlx.com/CoolZomb/ Zombies! (Warning: Blood, etc) |
| Devin Morgan | Posted 6/20/2006 12:41:39 AM | message detail |
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DocDragon | Posted 6/19/2006 11:41:41 PM | message detail Well, I thought the update I posted last week would've tipped you off. Funny enough, I found it interesting that there were two Bee 52 FAQs being updated recently (when I saw DocDragon's show up on the What's New page). No hard feelings though, this sorta thing isn't worth fighting over. Gemerl - Yeah, my mistake. Turns out it was Andrew, and we chatted earlier about it. --- Devin Morgan | CRP #3579 NES Completion Project: http://faqs.retronintendo.com |
| ASchultz | Posted 6/20/2006 3:15:06 AM | message detail |
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As for reserving stuff...I've still got preliminary work on Banana, and I've been having fun with Smurfs too. They're in my backlog, I guess. But if anyone has clear progress to FAQing these, go for it! --- http://www.livejournal.com/users/bloglecruncheon Backdated since 2003. Y.T.W.S.R. |
| DocDragon | Posted 6/21/2006 6:33:38 AM | message detail |
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Hmm... Now that Bee 52 is done, I'm unsure what to do next. Anyone have any suggestions? --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| adaml | Posted 6/21/2006 6:30:11 PM | message detail |
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Try Magic Johnson's Fast Break. --- American NES games left to beat: 13 Last 3 NES games beaten: Tombs and Treasure, Championship Pool, Wario's Woods [Updated 11/30/05] |
| DocDragon | Posted 6/22/2006 1:00:31 AM | message detail |
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very funny, adaml... --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| DocDragon | Posted 6/22/2006 1:24:02 AM | message detail |
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Has anyone reserved Noah's Ark yet? --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| Devin Morgan | Posted 6/22/2006 1:32:34 AM | message detail |
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According to the site (link is in my sig...), nope. Want it? --- Devin Morgan | CRP #3579 NES Completion Project: http://faqs.retronintendo.com |
| Pluvius | Posted 6/22/2006 2:58:59 AM | message detail |
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http://www.geocities.com/dvdtranslations/portopia.html Rob |
| DocDragon | Posted 6/22/2006 1:29:47 PM | message detail |
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Yes I do. And if this FAQ ends up taking as long as the last one did, and anyone wants to try doing one of their own, then, y'know... e-mail me first? --- I am excellent player! Present me with points! A winner is me! And other badly-translated japanese! |
| sakurajin | Posted 6/22/2006 2:06:00 PM | message detail |
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A nice Chack'N Pop FAQ just appeared. Looks like it is one of those older games where the levels loop. I'm interested enough (because of the FAQ) to explore where the game may end, but it more than likely keeps repeating. Will try to find this out. Someone figured it out for me, it does loop. I'll update the FAQ with his info. ...The same author also churned out a Jaws NES FAQ as well. If anyone is looking for a new guide to write, try Jaws. There are only 5 FAQs for the game, including 3 from this year alone. heh, yeah... churned out is definitely the word. i found a 99% done FAQ on an old hd so I thought I'd submit it. I think all the Jaws FAQs mention how you can complete the game in under 15 minutes...highest FAQ-to-minute ratio award? |
| Pluvius | Posted 6/22/2006 4:42:21 PM | message detail |
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BTW, that game is listed under "Portpia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken" if you're looking for it. I tried to change it but I was rejected with "check Google." If I could dispute the rejection I would tell them to search for "Portopia" on Google instead... Rob |
| brian sulpher | Posted 6/22/2006 4:58:57 PM | message detail |
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Current verified world record for Jaws is now under 5 minutes. --- 69 FAQs for games never covered at www.GameFAQs.com. Now with a NES FAQ for each letter of the alphabet! |
| adaml | Posted 6/23/2006 10:03:40 PM | message detail |
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I was surprised to see there was no FAQ for the Famicom game King Kong 2. Not only is it a coveted Konami game, but there are some adventure elements to it. Prime FAQ meat right here. I don't have time for it, but this is a game that truly could use a guide. --- American NES games left to beat: 13 Last 3 NES games beaten: Tombs and Treasure, Championship Pool, Wario's Woods [Updated 11/30/05] |
| Crazyreyn | Posted 6/27/2006 8:16:59 PM | message detail |
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Anyone know of any short and sweet games that need doing? My motivation is down and short games usually help, plus I've been kicking myself for not doing anything to help this project so far. >_< I *might* take Rainbow Islands though now that it's clear. --- 37/54 Full Circle | Y.T.W.S.R. | The FAQer Profiles and History - http://homepages.tesco.net/vicky.reynolds1 |
| adaml | Posted 6/27/2006 8:32:13 PM | message detail |
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Mickey's Adventures in Numberland Short, sweet and extremely easy. --- American NES games left to beat: 13 Last 3 NES games beaten: Tombs and Treasure, Championship Pool, Wario's Woods [Updated 11/30/05] |
| strawhat | Posted 6/27/2006 9:55:26 PM | message detail |
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| strawhat | Posted 6/28/2006 2:10:52 PM | message detail |
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Scratch me off Kung fu heroes, i'm doing secret scout. BTW, all pro basketball is done. --- http://www.passthepotato.com/potato-1.php?potatoid=050715134719-600892 http://whatpulse.org/stats/teams/7664/ - GO KNICKS |
| BoringPoliticianMan | Posted 6/28/2006 8:04:49 PM | message detail |
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I've been gone for sometime, but I'm hoping to get back in the game of FAQ writing so i'm getting this in my message list. Now I got to decide if I really want to finish Mugen Senshi Valis or not... --- Last Three FAQs: Powerslave (PSX), TMNT 2: Battle Nexus (GBA), Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Away to the NewType (SNES) |
| adaml | Posted 6/29/2006 10:57:18 AM | message detail |
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Just noticed that Baby Boomer doesn't have a guide. I wanted to replay it last night after seeing the ending discussed on another messageboard and the only guide for the game is it being part of the NES Zapper FAQ. There isn't much info on it there, just a regurgitation of the game's manual. In all honesty, I couldn't beat the game yesterday. I got to a stage called The Crypt and at the end it kept telling me I took the wrong passageway. I beat this probably 10 years ago and cannot remember how I got by that stage. --- American NES games left to beat: 13 Last 3 NES games beaten: Tombs and Treasure, Championship Pool, Wario's Woods [Updated 11/30/05] |
| CFlames55117 | Posted 6/30/2006 10:27:43 PM | message detail |
| Started on Family Tennis tonight. Will be done tomorrow after I get back from Cincy. |
| Crazyreyn | Posted 7/1/2006 5:32:24 PM | message detail |
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I'll take Mickey's Adventures in Numberland then, and start it in a moment. --- 37/54 Full Circle | Y.T.W.S.R. | The FAQer Profiles and History - http://homepages.tesco.net/vicky.reynolds1 |
| CFlames55117 | Posted 7/2/2006 7:32:51 PM | message detail |
| Finished Family Tennis; its submitted. |
| Crazyreyn | Posted 7/5/2006 2:13:57 PM | message detail |
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Mickey's Adventures in Numberland completed and posted! --- 37/54 Full Circle | Y.T.W.S.R. | The FAQer Profiles and History - http://homepages.tesco.net/vicky.reynolds1 |
| CFlames55117 | Posted 7/5/2006 4:36:46 PM | message detail |
| Family Tennis was accepted and posted. |
| Devin Morgan | Posted 7/5/2006 5:51:37 PM | message detail |
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Already saw them both, thanks! :) --- Devin Morgan | CRP #3579 NES Completion Project: http://faqs.retronintendo.com |
| Wlokos | Posted 7/5/2006 7:58:35 PM | message detail |
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Anybody know of a (reasonably) easy game that still needs a guide? --- We're putting a man on the moon! How about putting a man in an apartment? |
| Devin Morgan | Posted 7/5/2006 8:13:37 PM | message detail |
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Check the list and do some research on your own... Who knows what you might find. --- Devin Morgan | CRP #3579 NES Completion Project: http://faqs.retronintendo.com |
| adaml | Posted 7/11/2006 7:24:19 PM | message detail |
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Gentle "cutting to the front of the line" bump. --- American NES games left to beat: 13 Last 3 NES games beaten: Tombs and Treasure, Championship Pool, Wario's Woods [Updated 11/30/05] |
| pseudo | Posted 7/11/2006 8:29:14 PM | message detail |
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Hey, AdamL, do you still have those codes for Ninja Kid? I've been meaning to email you but I lost your email address. --- |
| A I e x | Posted 7/12/2006 3:18:37 PM | message detail |
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After a grueling time with what may be the worst game ever created, you can scratch Dragon Buster off the list ;) --- In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces. |
| Pluvius | Posted 7/12/2006 5:13:45 PM | message detail |
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A l e x: You missed the second quest. You play it by putting in that code you get at the end of the first quest (RDULRAB Start). It's about impossible to beat without cheats since you don't "gain levels" like you do in the first quest and the monsters are a lot harder, but the levels are all the same. The ending is different, though, which makes it worth mentioning. The FAQ also doesn't cover all of the branches of each level, but that doesn't really matter because of how repetitive the game is. You also didn't explain what the pick-ups from the major enemies do, some of which isn't self-evident. This really goes to show that a filled circle doesn't really tell you too much about how much of a game a FAQ covers, especially if the game is obscure like this one is. It makes the methodology of the FAQ Completion Project somewhat questionable, but trying to get filled-circle FAQs for every NES/Famicom game is at least a good start. Rob |
| A I e x | Posted 7/12/2006 5:31:02 PM | message detail |
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| A I e x | Posted 7/12/2006 6:03:35 PM | message detail |
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Regarding Dragon Buster, I've been thinking about it, and on second thought (and in retrospect) I made an error in judgement trying to make a "walkthrough" out of a game that with absolutely no use for one. Given that virtually every level, enemy and boss is identical all that really matters are the fundamentals. I'm going to give it a bit of an overhaul just to make it a little more practical. On a somewhat related note, has anyone here actually played through Transformers: Convoy no Nazo? I've been trying to see if they even bothered to give this game an ending, but as far as I can tell, stage 9 just... loops indefinitely. --- In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces. |
| Devin Morgan | Posted 7/12/2006 6:26:31 PM | message detail |
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Rob, at least there would be a complete (to some degree) FAQ for every game. If there are FAQs currently posted (only one for the game in question) you feel could be improved upon, by all means go for it. But that's another story. :) --- Devin Morgan | CRP #3579 NES Completion Project: http://faqs.retronintendo.com |
| A I e x | Posted 7/13/2006 12:36:34 AM | message detail |
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That's true. It would be a phenomenal achievement just to have anything posted for every single NES game in existence. Regardless, it was good advice. Dragon Buster has been updated and it's as done as it's going to be. The guide is quite a bit better now as a full circle basic FAQ. Of course, there's still the sequel... --- In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces. |
| adaml | Posted 7/13/2006 3:22:47 PM | message detail |
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pseudo, I will look for those Ninja Kid codes when I get home later tonight. Dragon Buster...I will have to get that game and add it to the NES Game Finishes FAQ simply because it has a 2nd Quest different ending. Is the game really that bad? Alex, I like how your FAQ has a 2007 copyright date. As for Transformers, the level that loops actually is finishable. There is a certain path you have to take through the level that unlocks the end of the level, kind of like the later castle stages in Super Mario Brothers. I had a website bookmarked years ago that showed the exact path but it is long gone. That would be a very useful "map" to have here on gamefaqs, a solve for that particular level. --- American NES games left to beat: 13 Last 3 NES games beaten: Tombs and Treasure, Championship Pool, Wario's Woods [Updated 11/30/05] |
| Pluvius | Posted 7/13/2006 3:43:45 PM | message detail |
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Dragon Buster is pretty bad, mainly because it's based on an ancient arcade game. The second quest is a lot worse than the first due to its cheap difficulty. The sequel is quite a bit less annoying, and should be a lot easier to write a FAQ for. Rob |
| A I e x | Posted 7/13/2006 4:34:29 PM | message detail |
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As for Transformers, the level that loops actually is finishable. There is a certain path you have to take through the level that unlocks the end of the level, kind of like the later castle stages in Super Mario Brothers. I had a website bookmarked years ago that showed the exact path but it is long gone. That would be a very useful "map" to have here on gamefaqs, a solve for that particular level. I knew it! As I'm playing through that level over and over again, just looping every time it finishes, I'm thinking "Either this really is the crappiest game in existence, or these awkwardly branching paths were just lifted directly from Super Mario Bros." Actually, the two aren't mutually exclusive since the game really does suck hard. I've been through that stage at least five times with different paths and it just won't stop looping. I'll keep at it, and if I can figure it out, then I can probably knock that game off the list. That aside, I ended up randomly pulling another exceedingly atrocious game from the list of incomplete titles. Fortunately it wasn't very long, so Moon Ranger is no longer devoid of guides. Highlights from this game include one stage with three adjacent doors, two of which drop you onto a spike pit (killing you instantly) with no way of discerning which door is correct. It also features a "The end... or is it?" after the game is beaten, and follows that by just returning you to the title screen. --- In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces. |
| Gemerl | Posted 7/13/2006 6:23:04 PM | message detail |
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Ah, foreboding ending text. Always a pleasure. --- 585467 Centipede | Complete FAQS: 43 http://ccc.domaindlx.com/CoolZomb/ Zombies! (Warning: Blood, etc) |
| DarkstarRipclaw | Posted 7/14/2006 3:38:23 PM | message detail |
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adaml, I am unsure as to whether you play shooters or not, but have you by chance played Twin Eagles? It's a pretty short game (25 minutes probably, five levels with five minutes each), but quite difficult even by shmup standards. I have no problem beating it (thanks to some fast reflexes), but I am confused as to what the mother ship that you hook up to at the end of every level does. If you die, you have to start all the way back at level one, and it doesn't restore any extra lives/add to your score. --- When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. - Cersei Lannister to Eddard Stark, A Game of Thrones |
| DarkstarRipclaw | Posted 7/14/2006 3:59:19 PM | message detail |
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By the way, Pluvius, both Portpia and Portopia would be correct. As can be seen here (tinyurled so as not to stretch the page); http://tinyurl.com/jqdp6 There is no official English name for the game, and no English title on the box art either (and no menu screen in the game). The Romanization of it doesn't matter either way, as in that specific word, the second o can be taken out or added in and Japanese doesn't distinguish it. Whomever did the data entry on this site probably either never noticed that an o could be put in to make it easier for English users, or else wanted it to be more literal. Now shiroi, I guess she took a few liberties with it, but nothing wrong with that. On a side note, I have to appreciate some of the reviews that you do up on TFO. --- When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. - Cersei Lannister to Eddard Stark, A Game of Thrones |
| Pluvius | Posted 7/14/2006 4:33:33 PM | message detail |
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I wasn't aware that anyone outside of the forums read those. Thanks. I'll probably post most of them on GameFAQs soon now that I'm almost done with NES/Famicom games. Rob |
| DarkstarRipclaw | Posted 7/14/2006 4:53:45 PM | message detail |
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I have to admit, I myself did a double take when I saw you posting here. Does not matter too much, but it would be nice having your reviews here, so I don't have to do plenty of cross-referencing to look for a review to find out how craptastic an NES game is. --- When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. - Cersei Lannister to Eddard Stark, A Game of Thrones |
