Did swift testing on both Fire Mustang & Sol-Deace and was pleasantly surprised to learn that both games incorporated time-outs for their bosses. Additionally, Fire Mustang turns wroth rather quickly, bosses will cease their valuable activity even before their time-out, instead becoming irately ensouled to wipe out the player. Commendable programming, that! It's really interesting in which places you find safety measures like these, I was almost shocked to find out that Spriggan Powered of all games took care of that. The mountebanks over at Micronics thought of it, yet the likes of Undeadline and R-Type III are irreparably broken. Ah, the irony.
6t8k wrote:
Paranoia (PCE HuCard) [...]
Now this is some superb detective work! I wonder how difficult the checkpoint recovery would be - I had one run in the second loop end on the final checkpoint since I couldn't recover at all, not so sure about the first loop.
In a similar vein, if you could somehow get a double K.O. in Daioh Gale on the final boss, you'd boost your score materially and gain a couple of extends as a result. You can also theoretically milk all the bosses bar the fourth, but this is one of those games where it is nigh impossible without either dying or killing the boss eventually. Another case for italics.
I also added Chelnov; we're obviously stretching the boundaries with ZAMN and Chelnov a lot, but it can't hurt in a descriptive thread such as this.
Turrican wrote:
Could they have been referring to 4-2? The pteranodonts/butterflies...
I successfully suppressed the minutiae of this game, I did manage to find a screenshot of the place in question, though:

That is stage 4 if I am not mistaken, no?
Regarding formatting etc., I will eventually try to spruce up the first post a little bit, I thought about using colour coding for the usefulness of the exploits, for example (Dead Moon could receive a
green colour by dint of its extremely tedious/nugatory nature, a moreso pronounced case like Super Star Soldier could be portrayed in
orange whereas an unsalvageable specimen such as Gleylancer would receive a
red hue), I'd like to check out a few more games before doing so, however.