Can Pcenginefx beat all licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016/2017? (115/135)

[Carparama]

Only three months left...

...is this doable?  There is maybe one game on here I can beat.  Furthest I've ever got on Yo'Bro is the giant ants...

[goldenband]

Only three months left...

...is this doable?

I don't know if any of the games left are insanely hard, have never been beaten by any known player, or have some other obscure barrier to victory. At Sega-16 -- where we're also trying to beat the full Genesis library, albeit not in a single year anymore -- there was one game that required that you watch a TV broadcast on a specific date (!!!) to get the final password, and no one had ever sussed that out until we had some help from an expert ROM hacker.

That said, quite a few games on that list are easy wins or popular games. Both Sherlock Holmes games are trivial with a walkthrough, and everyone raves about Cosmic Fantasy 2 and Nectaris/Military Madness. (Then again everyone raves about Master of Monsters, and we still haven't found someone to beat that at Sega-16.)

Sports games are tough; most people aren't willing to play those. I've tried out Davis Cup Tennis and Sonic Spike Volleyball over the weekend, but the former game is pretty rough and the latter infuriating.

But is it doable? Absolutely, with enough help. I'll do what I can, but I'm a newbie to the system so I can't promise much!

[MisterCrash]

I just got through World Class Baseball. Hadn't played that in a decade or more, but I vaguely remembered my techniques for striking out opponents and neutralizing the running game. Having trouble uploading a picture, though: it says the upload folder is full.

I am also working on Military Madness (stage 11 right now), and will probably get through Beyond Shadowgate in the next month or so.

[crazydean]

Looks like it's mostly just puzzle and sports games. I might go for Cosmic Fantasy 2, R-type, or Sinistron.
I've gotten to level 6 on R-type, but it is a difficult game. You just have to memorize the whole thing. I haven't played the other two, but they seem more interesting than anything else left.

[Necromancer]

Having trouble uploading a picture, though: it says the upload folder is full.

It's forum file host thing is borked and not worth trying to use (very limited).  You're best off using a third party host like imgur, flickr, etc.

[goldenband]

What's the win condition for Moto Roader -- is it "get 1st place in one course and get the credits", or "get 1st place in all courses (and get the credits each time)"? It seems like each course (and all its heats) is self-contained.

[esteban]

What's the win condition for Moto Roader -- is it "get 1st place in one course and get the credits", or "get 1st place in all courses (and get the credits each time)"? It seems like each course (and all its heats) is self-contained.

Win the championship in first place.

[csgx1]

I was working on Tricky Kick a few months ago and so far got about half way.  I kind of lost interest after playing other games, but I'll try to get back on it and finish it.     

[esteban]

I was working on Tricky Kick a few months ago and so far got about half way.  I kind of lost interest after playing other games, but I'll try to get back on it and finish it.   

The story mode is INTERESTING

[MisterCrash]

Necromancer: Thanks for the tip.

OK, here is my picture of the end screen of pennant mode in World Class Baseball. Go Stars!

photo uploading

[goldenband]

Win the championship in first place.

Well, sure! But the problem with Moto Roader is, there are seven different courses (each of which has eight different tracks, though the game calls them "heats" for some reason), and they're completely self-contained:



That said, the usual standard I've seen with games with multiple self-contained things -- e.g. the different campaigns in a wargame -- is that if you get a victory screen + credits with any of the individual scenarios, you've beaten the game. And I figure the credits are likely to be identical for every course (if not, someone let me know).

So behold, my victory on the Normal course! -- which, again, is really a set of eight different "heats" or tracks:





This next one is very blurry (cheap cell phone camera) but the image at top shows my racer popping champagne with a stupid grin on his face, while the bottom is the credits starting to roll:



So, is Moto Roader done now? (Or do I need to get seven identical credit sequences? )

[goldenband]

In Davis Cup Tennis, I won the "Great Britain" tournament (a clear stand-in for Wimbledon) in Tournament mode and got a credits roll. Is this sufficient to call the game beaten for our purposes?





If not, I can take on the Championship mode (which may well give the exact same credits roll!), but I'll need to buy some sort of save backup unit -- I only have a CoreGrafx II -- and may not get to it this year. (I bought a Tennokoe 2 on Ebay but it arrived with severe battery corrosion...)

[esteban]

goldenband: I accept MotoRoader, even if it technically isn't 100% complete. I'm sure some other folks (myself included) could beat the other races if we really wanted to be "thorough"

[crazydean]

Does R-type Complete work in place of R-type? The gameplay is the same but continues are unlimited and there is an easy option. Using normal seems to make sense because there was no difficulty option in the US version. However, my argument for unlimited continues is that the game is an arcade port. In the arcade, you would have unlimited continues if you had unlimited quarters or playing on "free play". Just saying..

[goldenband]

goldenband: I accept MotoRoader, even if it technically isn't 100% complete. I'm sure some other folks (myself included) could beat the other races if we really wanted to be "thorough"

Cool. I'm definitely going to beat the other races on my own, of course, but usually in these sorts of projects if you get the same credits for every game mode, you only have to do one. I figured it'd be more help to this project if I could move on to a different game.