In Cheetahmen II the player again assumes the role of one of the three Cheetahmen (Aries, Apollo and Hercules); after defeating a boss at the end of the second level, they switch to the next Cheetahman for the following two levels, as in the Action 52 version. Due to a bug, it is impossible to get to the levels in which one plays Cheetahman Aries without altering the ROM image or experiencing a glitch that very rarely starts the game on these two levels. Though PacoChan released fix patch in order to able to play other 2 levels. You have to download the patch from here to play this movie.

Game Objectives

  • Bizhawk v1.4.0
  • Applied IPS patch
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Takes damage to save time

Trick/Glitch

Stop Walking: Enemy spawns are determined by frames or your character x position. So you should stop walking to manipulate enemy spawn. This is used in Level 4~6.
Infinite Jump: Physical attack can be cancelled with jump then you can do attack, cancel repeatedly. Apollo can't use this glitch.

Comments

114 frames faster than my previous run (you need nico account). I switched FCEUX to Bizhawk but there were no extra/reduced frames as far as I looked.

Improvements in Stage by stage

Level 1

Reduced lag from killing enemies in frames: 400~420. (1 frame saved)

Level 2

Better Dr. Morbis fight. (1 frame saved)

Level 3

Reduced lags with changing jump frame. jumped at 4454. (4 frames saved, 6 frames in total)

Level 4

Better Ape-Man fight. (2 frames saved, 8 frames in total)

Level 5

Using walking trick in some places. This allowed me not to kill or jump over enemies later. (68 frames saved, 76 frames in total)

Level 6

Walk tricks could reduce waiting frames and jump to cancel attack in Dr. Morbis fight. (38 frames saved, 114 frames in total)

Noxxa: Judging.
FractalFusion: Added Nicovideo module.
Noxxa: As stated in the previous submission's comments, the hack that allows completing the full game can be used to obsolete it. Therefore, accepting this run to obsolete the previous publication.

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I can't believe I just watched this again. If the AVGN were to see this I think he could kill himself. God action 52 games were bad, I just can't thing why I wouldn't give a yes to a horrible game like this!
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As epic as fresh Guga meat. Voting yes.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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I find it so appropriate that the last level has the Cheetahmen kill the Action Gamemaster (shut up, it's personal canon), and then immediately get a game over. Yes vote.
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This is the best game ever made, A+ 10/10. Yes vote from me.
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Nice run. I thought it was entertaining, so yes vote. I'm glad you decided to run the patched version too; it's interesting to finally see the fifth and sixth levels.
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this game is a joke, but nice run vote yes
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voting no, the game is boring as hell and the run didn’t even look optimized
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It's good to see a run on the bugfixed version. The health bar looks a lot better, and the Aries stages are fairly interesting since they have so many enemies. However, those stages do feel pretty sloppy too. I can't say anything about whether the run is optimized. With a game this clumsy, even optimal play is going to look bad. I'd say this gets a Meh for entertainment. It has novelty, but ultimately the run has fairly few ways to show off.
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I vote meh for good execution of a lousy game. Decent Vault submission, though. Ugh, if I paid money for this I would probably never have played another video game again. How can the "you can't get past level 4" bug make it onto a cartridge? Did they not have QA or beta test teams?
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This is probably the worst game I've ever seen (I mean, even E.T. can at least be finished). It definitely had a "so-bad-it's-good" vibe to it, but that doesn't prevent the movie from being monotonous. Besides that, I agree that it doesn't look completely optimized. If the run was faster, I could easier accept the uninteresting gameplay. Guess that's a meh vote for me.
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I vote meh for good execution of a lousy game. Decent Vault submission, though. Ugh, if I paid money for this I would probably never have played another video game again. How can the "you can't get past level 4" bug make it onto a cartridge? Did they not have QA or beta test teams?
In this case the game was not intended to be released. But someone found some box-load of copies and sold them, then the game got dumped and here we are.
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Game made no sense to begin with taking the broken pixels come from the patch. Makes this the perfect image.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [2345] NES Cheetahmen II "all levels" by illayaya in 03:31.14