Two words: airplane genocide.
- Uses FCEU 0.98.12 (blip)
- All enemies are killed
- No shots missed
- Takes no damage
- Always uses the default weapon
- Manipulates luck
- Does "not" aim for fastest time.
- Does "not" aim for 100% completion.
1943 is a classic shooter for the NES. You're the pilot of a red plane armed with some sort of a laser gun, and it's your job to single-handedly fly through 24 stages filled with thousands of enemy planes and destroy the battleship "Totaku".
Whose side are you on, and who are you fighting? Well, we don't really know. Consider something that tool32 said in the thread:
"Just from the strange English like 'Sink a ship!' it seems like it would have come out in Japan first and was translated later. I was wondering if the Japanese version of this game is framed as the enemy being the US, because it seems to me like it wouldn't be very popular in Japan if it were sold over there as the enemy being Japan."
Heh.
I don't want to write a novel, so I'll try to be brief...
At first, I was not planning to submit this. I just wanted to see what it would look like if someone destroyed every enemy without missing a shot or taking a hit. However, since I got some support from a few people in the thread, and since this has taken so much time and effort to make, I figure it's worth a shot (hopefully not a missed shot...)
Of the game's 24 levels, 19 are original and 5 are repeats. I've tried to destroy stuff in entertaining ways, making many shots that you'd "swear" would miss but don't, killing enemies at the last second, playing with all the different types of plane formations that the game throws at me, etc...
Technicalities:
- There are 2 places in this movie where I take a hit. These are at the end of the stages where I have the sideplanes, and I get hit to get rid of them. Note that I still don't take damage.
- On the aircraft carrier bosses, sometimes you (rarely) might see one of my shots sail off the top of the screen. This is because of a strange cheeze I only realized later: The hangars which spawn planes don't absorb the last shot that destroys them, instead, it just flies right on through. I don't consider these misses since they "did" destroy their target, but I made a point of using that extra shot for the rest of the movie.
- The planes which fly out of those plane hangars and straight up can't be killed. However, some of them reappear as real planes a few seconds later, and some don't.
- I did not collect 100% items. I decided not to aim for 100% items, not only because I could find no FAQ on where they all were, but because I knew that if I aimed to get them all, I'd miss one or two and someone would call me on it. So, I simply decided to not worry about it: I'd just collect those I happen to find. Pay close attention to the powerups that pause the game- Most of the time I tried to make very surprising freeze-frames when getting these.
- I did not aim for fastest time. Although I destroyed most of the bosses as fast as possible, time was not my main priority. A few of the bosses could be killed at most two seconds faster. I also collected a bunch of game-pausing upgrades I never used, and didn't really care much about preventing lag.
Despite being so long, I hope I've made it exciting, nail-biting, and all around enjoyable.
Truncated: The masses have spoken and most of them weren't too thrilled about this submission. I have to agree, the movie is 75 minutes but offers very little variation after the two first levels. The movie is just too long and repetitive for it's kind of content.
Therefore, rejecting this movie. Better luck next time.