Lunar Pool

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Lunar Pool, also known as Lunar Ball in Japan, is a billiards simulation game for the NES. Taking aspects from mini golf, the game has you play billiards on a variety of different-shaped pool tables, The goal in each table is to pocket all the numbered balls by hitting them with the cue ball. There is also a friction setting that determines how fast the ball decelerates as it travels, with a friction setting of 0 making it so that a ball will only slow down if it hits another ball.
eien86 in this run improves on the previous run by 54 seconds thanks to an improved brute force script and better hardware used to find more optimized solutions to each pool table.
Lunar Pool, also known as Lunar Ball in Japan, is a billiards simulation game for the NES. Taking aspects from mini golf, the game has you play billiards on a variety of different-shaped pool tables, The goal in each table is to pocket all the numbered balls by hitting them with the cue ball. There is also a friction setting that determines how fast the ball decelerates as it travels, with a friction setting of 0 making it so that a ball will only slow down if it hits another ball.
eien86 here improves on the previous "frictionless" run by almost 5 minutes thanks to an improved brute force script and better hardware used to find more optimized solutions to each pool table.
Lunar Pool, also known as Lunar Ball in Japan, is a billiards simulation game for the NES. Taking aspects from mini golf, the game has you play billiards on a variety of different-shaped pool tables, The goal in each table is to pocket all the numbered balls by hitting them with the cue ball. There is also a friction setting that determines how fast the ball decelerates as it travels, with a friction setting of 0 making it so that a ball will only slow down if it hits another ball.
This time, eien86 clears all 60 boards with as few cue ball strikes as possible on the default friction setting.
Lunar Pool, also known as Lunar Ball in Japan, is a billiards simulation game for the NES. Taking aspects from mini golf, the game has you play billiards on a variety of different-shaped pool tables, The goal in each table is to pocket all the numbered balls by hitting them with the cue ball. There is also a friction setting that determines how fast the ball decelerates as it travels, with a friction setting of 0 making it so that a ball will only slow down if it hits another ball.
eien86 here sets the friction value of the game from 32 to 255 and completes all 60 stages on the stickiest, roughest pool tables the game can provide in record time.
Lunar Pool, also known as Lunar Ball in Japan, is a billiards simulation game for the NES. Taking aspects from mini golf, the game has you play billiards on a variety of different-shaped pool tables, The goal in each table is to pocket all the numbered balls by hitting them with the cue ball. There is also a friction setting that determines how fast the ball decelerates as it travels, with a friction setting of 0 making it so that a ball will only slow down if it hits another ball.
For this run, eien86 plays the whole game with the friction set to zero and by striking the cue ball as little as possible, effectively making multiple perfect one-strike plays in the process despite how lengthy some of them are.
The baseline tab shows the default movie beating the game as fast as possible without any special conditions.

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