Submission #10268: McBobX's NES DuckTales 2 "best ending" in 13:19.999

DuckTales 2 "best ending" in 13:19.999

Game Objectives

• Takes damage to save time
• Luck manipulation
• Abuse death to avoid backtrack
• Best ending
• Difficult mode

Comments

• So this game caught my eyes a while ago, and noticed that the best ending version of this game was not done yet. I decided to make one for this category, though due to my irl stuff (studies and work), I took it a bit slowly. It wasn't that complicated to understand and make, but it was challenging a bit especially with RNG manipulation
• I made use of current Any% run by feos and MESHUGGAH. Their run is fantastic and it was always a reference to return to for tricks and details.
• RNG manipulation seemed horrible at the start, as the first boss REFUSED to give me the pattern I want that's similar to Any% run, with all possible adjustments I could think of, so I had to give up around 11 frames to not good kill height. Thankfully, other bosses were either free of RNG manipulation or easier to handle.
• This game has a big lag problem, which is quite difficult to handle properly. It becomes even worse after purchasing extra two HP slots which are necessary to obtain the remaining treasure map piece. I decided to delay the purchase until before Scotland area so the lag isn't increased in earlier areas.
• Oh, there is also a 4 seconds improvement to Any% in MU. Instead of going all the way to the end of the first screen, you can just get the item that let's pull heavy objects then fall down after to take a quick shortcut. It can be seen at 6:33 in the above encode. (EDIT: Turns out it's not possible as it requires pogo upgrade from Bermuda area. There is a slight chance it's still faster though, but by a marginal amount of frames.)
• All in all, this was a fun little project to work on. I felt it would be cool to showcase this category as well and revive this game (Any% run is from 2013 which is around 13 years ago now.. Time flies!)