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    November 2017 Game of the Month: Kid Dracula

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    • ?
      A Former User
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      Definitely stock up on coins in stage 1. The best place to do this is the room where you pick up the extra heart. Stay to the right of where you get the heart and just go back and forth, grinding on bats, zombies, and those floating / jumping guys.

      If you need coins again, stage 3 is the place to do it. You can grind a lot of coins on the little swimming guys doing the backstroke rather easily.

      The first 3 stages of this game are a breeze. The difficulty ramps up on stage 4, which is an ice stage(CURSE THE PERSON WHO EVER INVENTED ICE STAGES IN PLATFORMERS).

      This is an overall tip: DO NOT JUMP UNTIL YOU'VE TRULY REACHED THE END OF THE PLATFORM. You will short jump yourself, minimum, 3 times while playing. Kid Dracula is a bit fatter than we'd all like him to be. His jumping range is limited.

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        meleu @A Former User
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        @livefastcyyoung said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

        The difficulty ramps up on stage 4, which is an ice stage(CURSE THE PERSON WHO EVER INVENTED ICE STAGES IN PLATFORMERS).

        I have a tip for ice stages in platformers (including Kid Dracula): small jumps! If you are sliding on ice, just perform a small jump and you'll stop sliding!. ;-)

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        • ?
          A Former User
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          THE SLOWDOWN ON LVL 7 IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING EVER GAHHHHHHHH

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          • lilbudL
            lilbud @A Former User
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            @livefastcyyoung Did you turn on overclocking in the retroarch menu?

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            • PokeEngineerP
              PokeEngineer @A Former User
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              @livefastcyyoung

              Well, that's the sad part about retro consoles... Extremely limited resources means lots 'o lag.

              Don't sweat it.
              When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.

              😎

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              • lilbudL
                lilbud
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                Something I found

                On the King Tut boss, use the homing attack and constantly fire it, the boss will have no time to fire the bubbles which knock you off of the platforms

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                  lilbud
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                  Just beat the game. I didn't get the No Passwords or Continues (died once) but maybe this will suffice
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                  Beat him with only one heart

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                    meleu @lilbud
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                    @lilbud The Kid Dracula's achievements set was made by a very talented and meticulous cheevos developer. Probably she protected some cheevos against save/load states (which looks fair enough for me).

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                    • lilbudL
                      lilbud @meleu
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                      @meleu Yeah, kinda abused savestates in my run. But I did beat the game with no help (cheats, hacks, etc.)

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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost
                        last edited by cyperghost

                        @lilbud
                        But it was the toughness (or even spirit) of the games in those days.
                        Like a memory puzzle to remeber the levels one by one....

                        So a typcial jump'n'run in these days gots not a straight level toughness development.

                        Think about a game with 5 levels....
                        So level 1 was very easy to master to make the game just enjoyable.
                        Level 2 was a bit more difficult to master and level 3 was really really tough.
                        After you mastered level 3 level 4 and 5 were not soooo difficult. It was harder to just overcome level 3 with all lives and continous ....

                        You can give Probotector/Contra on the GameBoy system a test or "Super Mario Land" ond the same system. Kirby's Dreamland is also a good example for this ;)

                        To be short: Using emu-savestates is a way of "cheating" and this is punished by a disabled hardcore mode in RA-system :)

                        I also use emu-savestates not because I'm bungling ... it's just a matter of investment-time.

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                          lilbud @cyperghost
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                          @cyperghost said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

                          You can give Probotector/Contra on the GameBoy system a test or "Super Mario Land" ond the same system. Kirby's Dreamland is also a good example for this ;)

                          I found Contra somewhat easy and enjoyable. As well as Kirby's Dreamland. They we're both pretty easy.

                          To be short: Using emu-savestates is a way of "cheating" and this is punished by a disabled hardcore mode in RA-system :)

                          Well then call me a cheater, I've used savestates on almost every game I have played, mainly just to get through the game without having a controller in my wall.

                          Only ever beat one game with no savestates for the most part, Aladdin (SNES)

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                          • cyperghostC
                            cyperghost @lilbud
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                            @lilbud Yes Contra and Kirby is enjoyable (and easy) but the middle game levels are the hardest imho. Well if you want to use emu-savestates then use them. I think without this I never mastered Sonic 1 - that's a damn hard game.

                            Btw:


                            The guy activated extra menues and just cutted the settings part out. So sound and video aren't syncron ;)

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                              meleu @lilbud
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                              @lilbud said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

                              The challenge this month will be Frozen Half's Challenge You have to beat the game without using passwords or continues.

                              Challenge done!! 😎

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                                I also didn't hear about Kid Dracula?

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                                  meleu @Ryan_Stevens
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                                  @ryan_stevens better late than never. Play it!!!

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                                    lilbud
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                                    Not sure if anyone is a vinylophile like I am, but here is something.
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                                    The whole Famicom Kid Dracula soundtrack is being released on vinyl.

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                                      PokeEngineer @lilbud
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                                      @lilbud said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

                                      The whole Famicom Kid Dracula soundtrack is being released on vinyl.

                                      Well that is very coincidental.

                                      Don't sweat it.
                                      When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.

                                      😎

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                                      • meleuM
                                        meleu
                                        last edited by meleu

                                        can we start collecting suggestions for December?

                                        I thought that it would be cool to have a game with a Xmas ambience. Like these ones:

                                        • Daze Before Christmas (MegaDrive)
                                        • Daze Before Christmas (SNES)
                                        • Home Alone 2 (NES)
                                        • Home Alone 2 (SNES)
                                        • Batman Returns (NES)
                                        • Batman Returns (SNES)
                                        • Batman Returns (MegaDrive)

                                        Any other suggestions?

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                                        • lilbudL
                                          lilbud @meleu
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                                          @meleu said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

                                          Daze Before Christmas (MegaDrive)
                                          Daze Before Christmas (SNES)
                                          Home Alone 2 (NES)
                                          Home Alone 2 (SNES)

                                          I get how these tie into christmas, but how does Batman Returns tie in?

                                          Also, doing a quick search pretty much shows that most, if not all xmas games were just the worst. So maybe let not make xmas a requirement?

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                                            meleu @lilbud
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                                            @lilbud said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

                                            I get how these tie into christmas, but how does Batman Returns tie in?

                                            Have you watched the movie? It has a Christmas ambiance, and so are the games.

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