Has anyone - EVER - beaten Demonhead on a real NES? Hell, or emulated, for that matter. O.o Bang's general wimpiness combined with the insanity of bosses and the fact that exploding enemies would need to be manipulated to drop health-restoring items alot so you could walk on through the explosions with little consequence... ><
Personally, I'm jonesin' for a Legacy of the Wizard run right now. Playing in real-time seems to actually be easier than in slow-motion... mainly due to the fact that you'd be holding left/right about 90% of the time and it makes your (at least my) hands really sore after awhile.
Pochi's area is no problem. Go into the dungeon, get the glove, get a crystal (optional? If you go item collecting FIRST, it'd get you out of the dungeon quicker), get the crown, fight the boss, and go to Xemn.
Trouble is, Xemn's area is a royal crown bitch. So many inane glove screens. The whole of his area is almost nothing but block manipulation.
For some reason, I always did Xemn's area after Pochi's... possibly because I know the general area his section's in. The mother and daughter's areas are totally unknown to me. I've BEEN to some of their areas before, but... x.x;
http://www.rpgclassics.com/shrines/nes/lotw/
It's fairly good, even if the 'walkthrough' doesn't cover a whole lot. If the links still work and people feel like dealing with the dumb thing, there are NESticle movies showing, mainly, Xemn's area, along with bosses and such.
Again, the main trouble is the insipid way items are dropped. Magic takes top priority... so if you're running down on it, you'll get almost nothing but pickups for refilling your magic meter. Poison seems to drop regularly, no matter what you're low on. Keys are dropped most often at the very beginning when you first start out. Your totals are all relatively high and enemies will drop them at a decent rate.
The mother's section would probably prove EASIEST (next to Pochi's) since you have an item that lets you fly and a magic key... both use magic. So basically you just need to keep money up and stay at certain inns along your way... or manage keys and the magic key use well.
When you get the boots and can stomp on enemies, that at least offers a way to keep from spending so much magic at any given time. Some items are out of the way and that's what's going to eat up the most time, I think. Maybe going into the dungeon with a character faster than Pochi to grab the Glove at the start would be good. That page up there has an item hunt section, I believe... so whichever way is fastest.
I've stared at maps and I've played the game so often I've grown sick of it... but I just can't get the girls' crowns. >< I'm totally lost in their sections and I'm not entirely sure why that is.
So anyway, there's MY longass post about a game that would be fun to see. c.c Though Demonhead's vying for position with Legacy at the moment. I dunno if there are any differences between US and Japanese versions (Dragonslayer 4 - Drasle Family) but...
