Submission #8950: Pepper-Color's Arcade GunForce "2 players" in 05:45.97

Arcade
(Submitted: Gunforce - Battle Fire Engulfed Terror Island)
2 players
(Submitted: 2 players)
(Submitted: gunforce.zip World)
Bizhawk 2.9.1
20758
60
3051
PowerOn
Submitted by Pepper-Color on 3/20/2024 1:06 PM
Submission Comments
Gunforce - Battle Fire Engulfed Terror Island to defeating core and Alien invasion.
Game Objective:
  • 2 Players
  • Uses hardest difficulty

Mission 1 - Front Base

She riding the Helicopter to partner Player 1 (him) and They have Bazooka defeating the core.

Mission 2 - Supply Depot

Together a riding the cart and She has 13 ammos left with bazooka, because to change weapon later...

Mission 3 - Communication Tower

2 player Out of ammo with bazooka, she pickup the laser defeating the core.

Mission 4 - Command Base

They Strong a bazooka with the armed jeep, and she get a bazooka.

Mission 5 - Fortress

Double Bazooka defeating the Core more.

Final Mission - Underground Base

Finally, the final battle of Bazooka defeating the Alien invasion.

eien86: Claiming for judging.

eien86: Gunforce is a nice Contra Arcade lookalike. Here, Pepper-Color beats the game in 5:45.97, around 15 seconds faster than the current RTA record.
We have tried some quick ideas to improve on the movie but did not immediately succeed:
  • I thought the orange player lost time by climbing the stairs before the first boss. However this was necessary to get the bazooka.
  • Spike mentioned several possible improvements. However, it is not evident that all of these are implementable (e.g., they have checked the first point but did not come to an improvement).
  • CoolHandMike noticed that there are several unnecessary jumps, which pause movement for a couple frames. This is so far the only clear time loss we've found, but is not evident to a casual movie watcher.
All in all, the movie seems to meet our criteria for optimization. Personally, I found it pretty entertaining.
Accepting to Standard, "2 Players" category

despoa: Processing...
Last Edited by eien86 on 4/1/2024 3:21 AM
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