Cheetahmen II

  • Id: 830
  • Platforms: NES
  • Abbreviation: chetamn2
  • Display Name: Cheetahmen II
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  • Cheetahmen 2
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  • Unlicensed game

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Cheetahmen II is the unfinished sequel to game #52 of Action 52. The game contains 6 of the 10 levels originally proposed, in which the player takes control of Apollo, Hercules, and Aries, switching off every two levels.
This is the first movie to abuse the fact that some games do not initialize their states before reading them, which in this case results in one of the cart registers randomly taking a certain value that can force the game to start from level 5 on power-on.
Since the game really behaves like that on the console, it was decided to allow presetting such truly random bits on the emulator side. Read the submission text and its discussion thread for more details.
We also have an "all levels" TAS for this game, done on the patched ROM due to a bug in the original game preventing the player from progressing past level 4.
Cheetahmen II is the unfinished sequel to game #52 of Action 52. The game contains 6 of the 10 levels originally proposed, in which the player takes control of Apollo, Hercules, and Aries, switching off every two levels.
This run is done with a patched ROM that allows all 6 levels to be played without invoking rare glitches. Here's the run of the original ROM that uses the mapper register glitch to start from level 5.
illayaya saved 00:03.29 seconds over the previous run by using a warp in the third level.
The baseline tab shows the default movie beating the game as fast as possible without any special conditions.

Game Versions

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TypeNameTitle OverrideRegionVersionPlatformHashes
Hack Cheetah Men II - Bugfixed Version 2.1 by PacoChan (Hack).nes U NES SHA1: C32B4A64A5A19AFABB7EBC7E0F0C64876948A1A7
MD5: AD914B8D5D0992AE2E57DB945D439247
Good Cheetah Men II (Active Enterprises) [!p] U NES SHA1: 340DA5FB21BCAA3BCFED17D7D4D8B42CBBDC3BB0
MD5: D513689940C7B656BBAC18D76A35B37E
Hack Cheetah Men II (U) - BUGFIXED v2.1 U Bug Fixed NES SHA1: 73B688A12997EFE0BB505164D67FA4F6049E675E