Contra NES scores thread

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:26 pm

Ruldra wrote:If this is approved, soon enough people will make other unofficial score threads here. It could become a big mess.

Ceph will probably ask you to make your thread at his place.

That was one of the ideas behind creating the 2D Forum for y'all. You could also post speed-run times over there, which seems to make more sense for games that allow infinite milking.

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Thu May 22, 2008 2:48 am

Andi wrote:About a year ago the mods said no to a Robotron 2084 high score thread. Seems like the interpretation of "shoot-em-up" is pretty strict.

Aww I love Robotron! I have an Arcade Machine from Midway that has Robotron on it.

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:09 am

So I wanted to find out if Contra NES really maxed out (I'd never heard that before this thread), and I did it today. 6,553,500 as stated.

Some notes:

It took 9 completed loops to reach it. The real score would have been about 6.8 million after loop 9 if it didn't max out. I killed myself off during the tenth loop.

You stop earning extra lives after loop 4, however I believe I did get an extra life after completing loops 5 and 9.

30 lives is not the max, as I had expected. At some point I had 34.

So now I never need to play Contra ever again.

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:01 pm

cigsthecat wrote: So now I never need to play Contra ever again.

Yes, yes you do. To see if you can get to the 20th loop. Come on, you know you want to. You'll be back in a year or two