Submission #5614: link_7777's NES Super Glove Ball in 02:08.24

Super Glove Ball

Emulator Used

Game Objectives

• Beat the game

Mechanics

• Left/Right Move left and right.
• Up/Down Move up and down.
• "A" Hold to move in (Z direction) release to move out.
• "B" Grab the ball (if near the ball), or make a fist. Note that the hit detection is different while making a fist.
• "B" Hold to hold on to the ball, release to release the ball. Note that when you release there is a cool down on the next grab. Also there is a time out on holding the ball, it will release automatically if you try to hold it too long.
• Select Fire robo-bullets. Move to the next room.
• Start Pause the game.
• You lose a ball if you let it come out the front of the screen or it goes into a hole.
• You lose a life if you run out of balls or take too much damage.
• Normally once you break all the blocks on the back wall or one of the four sides you can travel to another room in that direction.
• Some rooms have warps triggered by breaking a specific block
• Puzzle rooms have solid walls and each panel on the back wall will flip between square, circle, and triangle. You must make a row or column all one shape to move through. Note that grab is disabled in puzzle rooms.

Power-Ups

• Row - Break a full row or column at a time
• Robo-bullets - Ammunition
• Bomb - Gives your ball explosive properties
• Life - Extra life
• Extra - Extra Ball
• Super - The ball(s) fly around the screen quickly, but they bounce when they hit the front of the screen (you don't lose balls).
• Triple - Three balls at once
• Pinball - The tiles along the back wall flash one at a time (left to right, top to bottom). If you hit one as it flashes it will open a path to the next room.
• Ice - Slows enemies down
• Power - Refills your energy
• Bonus - Bonus points

Route

• Area 1 rooms: 1 right, 2 down, 43 warp, 24 in, 28 in, puzzle room
• Area 2 rooms: 30 left, 29 left, 28 warp, 55 right, 56 up, 60 up, puzzle room
• Area 3 rooms: 6 up, 11 up, 14 warp, 7 down, 3 left, puzzle room, 21 right, 22, right, 23, up, 27 warp, 31 down, 26 puzzle, 43 down, 38 down, 35 left, 34 left, 33 puzzle

Stage by Stage Commentary

Area 1

• Destroy the wall with bullets

• Destroy the floor with bullets, pick up ammunition

• Shoot the warp tile

• Get the row power-up and destroy the back wall one column at a time

• Get the pinball power-up (only avaliable in this room or the previous one) and shoot the lit up tile
• First boss Wizard. Ignore.

• Make a column of circles

Area 2

• I hit one block with the ball, but the rest was destroyed with bullets, but taking a break to get more ammunition

• Same strategy as the previous room

• Shoot the warp tile

• Destroy most of the wall with bullets, but finish off the last few columns with a row power-up

• Started by breaking columns with the row power-up, but did grab some more ammunition to help finish up

• Use the row power-up
• Second boss Stone Shark. Ignore

• Make a column of triangles

Area 3

• Use the row power-up

• Use the row power-up

• Shoot the warp tile

• Use the row power-up

• Destroy most of the wall with bullets, but finish off the last few columns with a row power-up

• Make a column of triangles

• Use the row power-up

• Use the row power-up

• Use the row power-up

• Shoot the warp tile

• Use the row power-up

• Make a column of circles

• Use the row power-up

• Use the row power-up

• Use the row power-up

• Use the row power-up

• Make a column of squares
• Final boss Iron Lion. Ignore

Improvements

• The power-ups are random and seem to be event based. The RNG is not reset on each screen so changes early in the run would desync later portions of the run. I imagine a more complete planning of power-up would yield some small improvements probably.
• My strategy in later puzzle rooms was an improvement over my strategy in the first one. Based on the luck getting power-ups later in the run a few frames of improvement early may or may not be an overall benefit, but you'd have to redo most of the run to find out.
• I doubt there are improvements in the route, I mapped all of the rooms and created a route a little better than the one in Adam's faq.

Thanks to:

• Adam Lamontagne for his faq
• My Twitch chat for the ideas and encouragement
• The TASMania team

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