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This week's challenge (though a bit late) is for Balloon Fight on the NES.

The normal 1-player mode.

The NES ROM can be found

Good luck!

14250. I suck.

For now, I'll try harder

39,950. I won't bother uploading the pic yet because I'm sure I can do better.

D:! How?

How long did it take you??

I'm not sure... but I think around 30 minutes.


You know the little bonus round you play. After the fourth time you play it when the balloons are red if you get a perfect you get 14,000 + a 30,000 bonus = 44,000. So it really isn't that hard to get your score higher and higher.

I missed getting a "perfect" on at least 3 bonus stages, otherwise I would have gotton an extra 80,000-90,000 points.
Poo is right. It's all about the "bonuses".


Now the rest of you need to get with it.
K.

Now the rest of you need to get with it.
K.

Some of us suck at it... ok, I suck at it. ;D
RockNES doesn't seem to emulate Balloon Fight, sadly, and I don't have a cart of it. Anyone know any emulators that are better than RockNES for mac OSX?

I'm not too sure OSG, as I've never used a Mac. On there is an emulator called Ines that you may want to try. I'm not really sure how good of an emu it is though.

That page has a pile of 'em. Nestopia is my emulator of choice on the PC, so I assume the Mac port should be able to keep up.

I wonder if the score goes any higher than 6 digits?

???!

I wonder if the score goes any higher than 6 digits?

???!


Maybe It'll have a Symbol or a Letter

Eg:*99990
A99990

Maybe It'll have a Symbol or a Letter

Eg:*99990
A99990
I thought maybe the max score was "655,350" (like in 'Contra') because "65535" is the highest 5 digit number in hex code (or something) - plus the unchanging "0".
But alas... I surpassed that!





I recorded about the last 8 minutes of that performance for anyone who wants to see.
(8.5 MB)

The "lightning bolt thingies" become hard to dodge after a while.

Man, that OWNED. Practically flawless for the first little bit..

Looks like ZEN got this challenge. I think this makes him the first to retain the title for more than a week. Congratulations!

There may or may not be a challenge posted for this week, I've been forgetful

Congrats ZEN.

That was flawless.