Submission #769: adelikat's NES Cobra Triangle in 17:10.93

Nintendo Entertainment System
baseline
FCEU 0.98.12
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60
9465
Unknown
Cobra Triangle (U) [!].nes
Submitted by adelikat on 8/3/2005 3:05:48 AM
Submission Comments
This game a very unusual boat game where you race to the finish, rescue swimmers from being abducted, dispose of bombs, kill sea monsters and shoot targets.
This movie aims for the fastest time and is 44 seconds faster than Walkerboh's published movie.
Every level except for the pod collecting levels was improved by at least 10-30 frames. The major improvements are as follows:
  • Level 1: 4 seconds improved from faster handling
  • Level 2: collect more pods upgrade more ammo
  • Level 5: Killed monster faster with upgraded weapons and moved to the edge of the screen to exit faster
  • Level 6: Intentionally missed a target to avoid 1-up (72 frames)
  • Level 7: Saved only 1 person (120 frames saved)
  • Level 9: Most of the savings were a result from this level. When the road forked I went right instead of left, cost 22 frames but allowed a different route later on
  • Level 20: The better route allowed the icebergs to be replaced with logs, this allowed for an 8 second improvment. also the timer was :50 instead of 1:20 allowing another 90 frames saved after it counted down the timer at the end of the level. In addition I did not need to use the "force" saving it for the red dragon boss
  • Level 21:Used the whirlpools to proplel me around faster, saving 3 seconds
  • Level 23:Used the "force" to defeat the red dragon instead of waiting for the timer to expire saving over 10 seconds!
  • Also, on all boss fights holding A before the fight will allow you to get in a cheap shot, knocking one bar off of their life. This allowed me to beat all the bosses slightly faster.
Also, their are places where a shoot that seemingly hits nothing. Those are to manipulate luck. Turrets usually don't fire if you fire just before they appear on the screen.
Well that's it In summary:
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Manipulates luck

adelikat: Cancelled my submission due to finding a way to manipulate pods in level 1; allowing the ability to get speed upgrades and complete the stage several seconds faster. This will also result in upgrading sooner, saving more time later.
Last Edited by adelikat on 1/2/2022 9:01 PM
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