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Trojan time!
Trojan is a kinda simple game. You play as this great warrior who has faboulus powers. Basically this means he can walk forward and strike enemies with his sword. He also has a shield and the power to jump. Despite the fact that it is simple I really like this game. It's sort of hard because you are limited to a few movements but it's still not that hard to control.
It's been more or less a year now since I started with time attacking. I really sucked back then ;)
This run is almost a minute faster than my previous run which I thought was pretty good. It was not apparently.
The improved time is basically from better boss fights. I used new strategys against every boss and also manipulated some of them to act like I wanted.
The second last boss, King Shriek, is a bit different than the others because before he/they appear they toss small stones all over the place. I didn't want to get hit by the stones but I made sure I could strike the boss/es as soon as possible, thus it resulted in some necessary waiting there. Also, they are not vulnerable before they come out from the wall so the waiting is necessary anyway.
I make two stops to pick up power upgrades. This is good because it allows me to spank bosses really fast and it's worth it. Where I pick up the second I also gets a speed upgrade for the rest of that stage.
Oh, in stage 1-2, where I pick up the first power icon you might see a small delay. This is caused bu an invisible wall. However, any other thing that I tested was slower than this and also it's good for avoiding that mini-boss.
I made some notes of the time units, comparing my old one with this:
Old run/New run:
1-1: 181/ 181
1-2: 153/ 157
2-1: 156/ 174
2-2: 132/ 151
3-1: 170/ 171
3-2: 140/ 142
4-1: 162/ 169
4-2: 122/ 142
5: 170/ 174
6-1: 183/ 183
6-2: 148/ 150
7: 196/ 197
That's it I think.
  • As fast as possible
  • Manipulating luck
  • Takes no damage
Enjoy it!
Walker_Boh; Edit: Back to work. This can be improved further.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #577: Walker_Boh's NES Trojan in 06:49.20
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Whoa...that was odd. The graphics were totally glitched the entire movie, and then it desynced during the second "guy breaks out of wall" battle.
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Woo. The graphic thing is most probably the ROM. I had this problem with my first run but then I got a better ROM and everything worked out fine. The desynch shouldn't be there though.. Edit: It works fine for me. It should be the ROM that is the problem then.
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Although it's not a particularly impressive game, this movie looks clearly much better than the previous version. Looks like you found a way to slash without delay without jumping.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Although it's not a particularly impressive game, this movie looks clearly much better than the previous version. Looks like you found a way to slash without delay without jumping.
Yes. It's not slower to jump and slash if done properly but this looks better anyhows. I think I noticed a few flaws in my previous run where I stopped for a frame or two after landing. This is gone now though ;)
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Yeah, I guess it was my ROM, even though the checksums matched. So I got a new one from not-my-usual place and it worked much better. I praise your love and courage.
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Did it fix the desynch aswell? Other than that I hope you like it.
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I had the same problem as feitclub, even though the checksums matched perfectly. I'll try another version later. I thought the checksum was sort of failsafe but I guess it isn't.
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I also had desync and graphics problems just like above. Though I saw the movie almost to very end and it looked impressive. :)
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I need to try a few things more.. So I might cancel this version.
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Sorry, I should have said. When I changed ROMs the graphics cleared up and the movie played correctly to the end. The "love and courage" line is taken from the end text, a little joke. Very little, it seems.
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I had the same problem as feitclub and Truncated, so I tried to finish it myself. MY GOD. How the hell was anyone able beat the final boss of this game legitimately? I could get maybe one shot on him, but then I died about .01 seconds afterwards.
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Just give a little tiny delay on your attacks, and corner him. Anyway I also had the problems with graphics and whatnot, but it turns out the japanese rom played through just fine (tried 5 usa versions, none worked)
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That's odd, my ROM says it is the USA version, but maybe it's not?
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Ouzo wrote:
I had the same problem as feitclub and Truncated, so I tried to finish it myself.
Both ROMs that I used were labelled "Trojan (U).nes" and matched checksums. However, I downloaded them from two different sources and I left the working one zipped up.
Ouzo wrote:
MY GOD. How the hell was anyone able beat the final boss of this game legitimately? I could get maybe one shot on him, but then I died about .01 seconds afterwards.
Yeah, this is a very hard game. One of the reasons I voted YES.
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