I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

I was under the impression this was general knowledge.

I can understand that to an extent...games such as Gradius and Ghosts n' Goblins were ridiculously hard, to the point of insanity. But Contra on the other hand, while a fun game...was one of the easier ones Konami made. The only way Contra was made hard was when you'd fight your brothers to the death when they'd steal you spread upgrade while you ended up with the shiatty rapid fire.

unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

In 1996 while I was living on campus at Virginia Tech, there were two guys in West AJ who would beat Contra without cheating when they got up. Every day. For a year.

Satanic_Hamster: unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

In 1996 while I was living on campus at Virginia Tech, there were two guys in West AJ who would beat Contra without cheating when they got up. Every day. For a year.

My cousin and I were pretty decent on the side scrolling missions, but once we got to the 1st persony mode we'd always die screwing up jumps trying to avoid enemy fire.

Ah gradius...

Satanic_Hamster: unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

In 1996 while I was living on campus at Virginia Tech, there were two guys in West AJ who would beat Contra without cheating when they got up. Every day. For a year.

Polaroids or it didn't happen.


/polaroids were *in* when you went to college right?

sirbissel: I was under the impression this was general knowledge.

Next they'll be telling us Harrison Ford wasn't the original choice for Han Solo.

Old news is old.

I blame that son of a biatch who missed the fieldgoal yesterday.

unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

It's not actually all that hard if you put a little dedication towards it. Back in my prime, I once played through twice (after you beat the game it starts over but gets harder) without a continue. It was finals in college, and I made a deal with myself that I could take a break from studying to play Contra until a continue. I got good enough at Contra that I could beat the game without a continue, and I ended up with a lot of B's.

/Laser ftw
//Spread = nub cannon
///2 player is impossible since someone always falls behind, dies, and steals your lives

unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

I would lose my 1st life on the waterful......

Always played 2 player, 2nd person would lose there 1st and 2nd life shortly after the waterfull.

It's called "DEBUG MODE" for a reason, subby.

2 megabits of ROM? Luxury.

Back in the Atari 2600 days, you were lucky if they let you have 32 kilobits.

No frame buffer, only 2 3/8 single-color sprites to work with, and father used to beat you with his belt whilst you were debugging.

RogermcAllen: unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

It's not actually all that hard if you put a little dedication towards it. Back in my prime, I once played through twice (after you beat the game it starts over but gets harder) without a continue. It was finals in college, and I made a deal with myself that I could take a break from studying to play Contra until a continue. I got good enough at Contra that I could beat the game without a continue, and I ended up with a lot of B's.

/Laser ftw
//Spread = nub cannon
///2 player is impossible since someone always falls behind, dies, and steals your lives

Yeah, well I got to level 31, the secret level. I bet you didn't.

unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

See, I never had any problems with Contra. Super C on the other hand required the game genie.

And here I was thinking this was obvious. Silly me.

sirbissel: I was under the impression this was general knowledge.

Right. Duh.

you have to be a masochist to enjoy super Ghouls and Ghosts.

bingethinker: Nerd people problems.

Says the inveterate Apple defender on Fark.

EyeBallStu: Yeah, well I got to level 31, the secret level. I bet you didn't.

I beat Ikari Warriors.

/not mine
//Jesus got extra lives

I Heart Old News

grimlock1972: you have to be a masochist to enjoy super Ghouls and Ghosts.

My brother "beat" that game (only the first time though) with no cheats or using an emulator.

I thought he was hardcore for that.

Battletoads, yeah...try to beat that without codes.

unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

Solo, I could beat Contra only dying once.
One of my friends and I could play through together without dying once.
It's all about pattern memorization.
/fark Battletoads
//and TMNT

Well, duh.

Anyone who's ever programmed a game or done QA on one could tell you that the cheats were adding for them and NOT the customers.

unicron702: I've never known anyone that can beat Contra with 3 lives, ever in my life. Don't really blame the devs.

I've never had a problem beating it in one try. Dunno what your problem is.

/not trolling

I haven't read the comments but I'm sure I'm simply repeating:

No. shiat.

Cyno01: I just got this padlock.

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Guess what my combo is.

I don't see a B, A, or Start button, so who the hell knows? And if it really is your padlock, that's the worst possibly combo you could choose.

MrEricSir:
Anyone who's ever programmed a game or done QA on one could tell you that the cheats were adding for them and NOT the customers.

Got it in one. I've put so many codes in to let them do so many things. Always leave them in as long as multi isnt affected. Of course the code half the time is stopping the testing be meaningful but oh well.

there was a time when codes would form words, sometimes it was obvious but sometimes we needed a full chart like in the first Gex where the up arrow would mean Up or North and we should 'type' RUNNER and other things

MrEricSir: Well, duh.

Anyone who's ever programmed a game or done QA on one could tell you that the cheats were adding for them and NOT the customers.

Yep.

Had to hack together a game for school once for a school project. Was a blatant Pacman ripoff (we prefer the phrase "inspired by"). 15*15 maze. 5 enemies. Except that the final level had a 3*3 boss who could ignore walls, and on the highest difficulty could move faster than you. And since I sucked at AI, the AI was "Charge directly towards the player". Yep, cheat codes are awesome.

/Ended up being about 6000 lines that we threw together over a semester.
//Our CMOA was when the alpha was due on Friday, and we had a presentation on Monday, so we threw together all of multiplayer over the weekend and demoed it. Teacher was "WTF?"
///Of course, since we were flat-out done with 5 weeks left of the 8 week dev time, we just threw together random stuff for LOL's for the next 5 weeks. Like the aforementioned boss.

*mumbles something about GMs and God-complexes*

envirovore: //and TMNT

WATER LEVEL! FARK YOU DAM!

/goes to find cubicle

TMNT was way tougher than Contra. To hell with that underwater seaweed.

But I guess the absolute hardest game I ever beat without any cheat codes was Jackal. I was so proud of that accomplishment.

/And then I was ticked off at the crappy ending
//Probably could never do it again

Oh, look! Old news and crappy video game theorycrafting in a Fark thread.

This doesn't just happen everyday, y'know!

bingethinker: Doesn't that make me a hipster douchebag?

Only if you don't work in IT.

meyerkev: Had to hack together a game for school once for a school project. Was a blatant Pacman ripoff (we prefer the phrase "inspired by"). 15*15 maze. 5 enemies.

I wrote a Pac-Man knockoff myself back in high school. It's called CerealMan! and you can still find the demo on Google.

Each level had unique pixel art and a new maze. I wanted to test it all in order which was challenging since Pac Mac isn't an easy game. But instead of adding cheats I added a secret flag to the configuration file.

To this day, I'm fairly certain that no one has ever beaten the full version of the game without cheating.