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Posted by TomatoMan - 12/23/2002 11:23:07 AM
Thanks, Ahlyis! Mike, if you want to make a copy
of your tape and then mail me one, that would be great; I'll pay for
the conversion and rip it for the DVD/video. (If you pull a 482 a
week later, though, I'll be grumbling! :)
My cube did
something wierd yesterday on a FN run: the screen went black, as if
it had powered off. It was actually still running: I instinctively
paused it, switched the TV off and on again, and it came back where
it was and I was able to resume. I'm pretty sure it wan't the
TV.
I sometimes wonder how well the Cube will age: I've still
got ny NES and SNES (and my Atari 2600 and many other old
consoles!), and with no moving parts they're pretty easy to keep up,
but I'm definitely a collector, and don't want my Cube to be in the
trash after a year or two.
TM
Posted by SuperStein - 12/23/2002 12:10:16 PM
I love my old consoles! They're
great!
Yup Ahlyis, that's what happened to my friend as well.
He had to replace the motherboard or what the hell you guys call it.
It was an expencive repair, so you'd better dig up that receit! I
hate to hear about a wounded Gamecube. :(
Gosh! I haven't
played Pikmin at all today. Just didn't feel like it. However, the
hunger for a higher total combined score still rumbles within! I
have to beat TomatoMan! Let us just hope that I wont get any new
games for x-mas, as they will take my attention away from
Pikmin.*
*TomatoMan: e-mail me if you want my adress, then
you can send me a gift :P Then you'll be the best Pikminer of us
two... for the moment! :)
Greatmagnus: Give a piccie now! If
you just keep up this hoax everyone will hate you!
*cough*Blackmage*cough*
---
Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/23/2002 1:13:40 PM
This may seem like a stupid question, but who or
what is Blackmage? And is there any way to take a pic without a
digital camera? I dont want to go buy one just for video games. And
since I got 452, I have not gotten close to it. ****.
---
"For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
-John 3:16
Posted by TomatoMan - 12/23/2002 1:30:43 PM
I should remind you that you're leading, Stein.
:) I'm trying to "roll my own" with FN and DS, although I did read
over some of the FN strats and have borrowed a few ideas. I think my
current strat has a max of 405, though, and I've been nowhere near
400 since I hit it the other day.
I know that I'm getting
Metroid for xmas, and possibly Animal Crossing - and heck, I'm only
about 1/4 of the way through Mario, and I've been playing Crazy Taxi
a lot too, which I love - quick, wicked fun adrenaline rush!
However, Pikmin always works its way back into the Cube - I play it
now almost as much as I did when I got it last year!
Magnus:
take a regular picture and scan it if you don't have a digital. The
policy on the board is any claim of a top 3 score needs to be
verified. We've had frauds in here spoiling the fun with fake high
scores, so I'm afraid that's that. We don't even mark our OWN scores
as approved until we've got a screenshot with a name and date, even
the regulars here that everybody knows and
trusts.
TM
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/23/2002 2:52:02 PM
Ok, I don't want any of my scores posted unless
their the best. When I beat 472, I will scan it and send it in. Oh,
and who do I send it to again?
---
"For God so loved the world
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by SuperStein - 12/23/2002 2:55:57 PM
I know! And it feels great! I think we'll need
an update of the scoreboard on christmas eve..! Not that there are
any new scores, but I could certainly dig the idea of being ahead of
you on a hi-score list!
greatmagnus: Blackmage was a troll as
Ahlyis so firmly said it. He posted false scores and got all of us
kinda angry. He's now known as Whitemage, but I haven't seen him in
a while. I think TM has the old topics, you could find blackmage,
and you'll know all about him.
I'm afraid I'm getting a few
games for christmas (LOL)!
So I really have to hope for a quick
return to Pikmin, it's the best game so far! And I guess you guys
are as eager as I am when it comes to Pikmin 2? Ohh.... It'll surely
be great!
---
Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Ahlyis - 12/23/2002 4:18:19 PM
Ok, I don't want any of my scores posted
unless their the best.
Not a problem.
When I
beat 472, I will scan it and send it in.
I'll be holding
my breath!
Oh, and who do I send it to
again?
If you don't have a website where you can post it,
just let us know that you have it and someone will provide an email
address for you to send it to. Then they will post it for
you.
---
I'm just a pigment of your imagination.
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/23/2002 4:29:20 PM
Okay, thanks Ahlyis
---
"For God so loved
the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/23/2002 9:44:24 PM
Okay, I'm going to be the first to say it. The
fella known as greatmagnus is, in my opinion,
Blackmage. Yeah, I know. Now we'll be reading post after post
from greatmagnus saying, "I am not Blackmage, who the hell is
Blackmage?" But I've said it. And here's why:
(1)
Blackmage's favorite level to lie about was Forest Navel. Who else
picks the Forest Navel to lie about? No one. Just Blackmage.
And now magnus. Coincidence? It would seem a better plan to lie
about the easier levels, more believable. Blackmage and magnus are
the only ones so far to choose Forest Navel as their kingdom of
lies.
(2) Greatmagnus already said, "who or what is
Blackmage?" I remember a certain person named Whitemage who asked
the very same question quite often. The fact that greatmagnus
immediately responded to Stein's tiny mention of the name Blackmage
is interesting.
(3) Maybe I'm getting stupid now, but
think about this one: Blackmage...greatmagnus. It
could just be another big coincidence, but when you combine this
tidbit with the giant lie on Forest Navel, you'll probably feel the
same as me.
(4) I remember the approximate time when
greatmagnus first started posting on the Pikmin boards. And I have
read every topic about this game in the last few months. Ever since
greatmagnus first began posting, there have been absolutely
ZERO posts from Blackmage and Whitemage. That's the kicker. I
know I am correct.
Greatmagnus, you do not have that score.
In fact, I highly doubt you've even broken 400 on Forest
Navel. The others here are humoring you because they know that you
won't be able to provide any proof of the score anyway. But I don't
feel comfortable letting someone feel he has gotten away with a lie.
So that's all I'll say. I'm done with you.
Mike, you deserve
the crown now. *Passes Mike the Pikmin Challenge Mode crown*
Congratulations on your 472. Believe me, a 472 on Forest Navel is
the most difficult achievement in Pikmin to date. Our scores on
Distant Spring don't even compare. I have a strat right now that can
yield a 472. I thought of it the day before you posted the score. I
was going to pursue it but you got there first. I'm not sure if it's
worth spending the amount of time it takes to get that score now
since I would be only the second to do it.
I think I am
retiring from Pikmin. Not for good - I'm sure I'll be playing it
again in the not-so-distant future. But I cannot take it any longer.
I've had a couple of 620+ runs on the Distant Spring ruined by freak
mishaps at the end of the runs. Those are disheartening. It's not
worth pouring so much energy into such an unreliable level. And then
there's Forest Navel...I've already explained that situation. By the
way, I have not doubt that Mike will get the 482. It has to
be possible. Just one more ten-pellet and it's in the bank. Mike
will do it. I'm bowing out of the race.
Congratulations to
Stein, Tomato, Ahlyis, and everyone else who have been putting up
new scores. It seems funny that there is a full-on Challenge Mode
revival going on, something I had been really hoping for, and I am
dropping out of the excitement in the midst of it. I won't be
pulling a SnapDragon, however. I'll be hanging around the boards for
a long time, rooting for you guys. You can't rid of me easily.
Heh.
That's all for now.
---
Captain
Nathanian Nibbles of the U.S.S. Awesome
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/23/2002 10:18:53 PM
One, I dont care what his fovorite level was or
is. What I do care about is people like you who accuse others that
are better then them of cheating. Two, so I saw the post and was
curiose, that does not mean anything. Look in the context it was in.
If someone wasnt here when he was, say, someone like me, that person
might want to know what other people were going to accuse them of.
Three. There is a game called Magi-Nation for the gameboy, and I
really do like that game, and the main character is Great Magnus
Kyros. And guess what my AIM name is...could it be..Great Magnus
Kyros? And if I do not own some piece of equipment that lets me put
stuuf on the web, it is really not your buisness. Four. So they left
and I came. I got the game after all of yal. And until you search
every single board, post, topic, or anything, I do not think that
you have the right to accuse anyine of anything. And here is a
brainbuster for ya. I am 13, white, 8th grade, Austin Tx, 78758. Go
accuse someone else who cares. Later.
---
"For God so loved
the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/23/2002 10:24:40 PM
Oh, now that I read his post a little more
clearly, I see that he accused me then he left. Wow, what a great
person, accuseing someone then leaving. And how do we know that he
wasnt Blackmug or whatever, we dont. We dont know who any of us are,
or anything. And did blackslug do anything like pikmin wars? I want
to know this. No one else has the right to accuse me until they have
searched every board there is. I know that this is a little harsh,
but I dont want to be called a cheater when I am not.
Later.
---
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/23/2002 10:35:59 PM
Better than me? I have a verified 452 on Forest
Navel, not to mention the current top score for Distant Spring and
the second highest overall score on GameFAQs.
What does it
matter how old you are, what race you are, or where you live and the
zip code of that state? I can't understand why you felt the need to
post such information...nor why you labeled it a
"brainbuster."
And you don't have that score. If you insist
on pretending you do, post a strategy for us to examine. That's as
good as a picture on this thread.
Even if you aren't
Blackmage, and you will never fully convince me you aren't, you are
as poor a liar as he was. So you two are the same in essence even if
you are different in reality.
And remember, we do have the
right to accuse someone of lying. We've kept this thread going for a
whole year now - nearly 1800 posts. We've seen dozens of people come
and go and have confronted several frauds. Our dedication is what
warrants us to expose fraud.
If I were to go into one of your
topics, such as "Pikmin Wars," and pull an Ultramind stunt on you,
you would be angry with me. Likewise, your thoughtlessness on our
board offends me, especially when you claim to have a score I worked
very hard to achieve. Mike and Rogue should be chewing you out as
well.
Stick to your RPG boards.
---
Captain
Nathanian Nibbles of the U.S.S. Awesome
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/23/2002 10:40:48 PM
We know that I am not an impostor (a.k.a.
Blackmage with another handle) because I have verified all of my
scores with photos, posted a video of the FN 452, and have been here
long enough to have full credibility. I also have a completely
different (and, I might add, far more refined) writing style than
Blackmage did. None of these things can be said for you.
---
Captain Nathanian Nibbles of the U.S.S.
Awesome
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/23/2002 10:45:52 PM
Actually, you dont.
1.Offensive Posting:
Sexually explicit/racist/hate speech and threats
2.Censor Bypass:
Not completely obscuring offensive/banned words (only suffixes are
okay)
3.Flaming (Insulting Other Users): Clear insults of other
board users
4.Trolling (Inciting Flames): Intending solely to
annoy and/or offend other posters
5.Illegal Activities:
ROM/Warez/MP3/Cracks Begging and/or Providing
6.Spam: Advertising
Web Sites, Other Boards, For Sale/Rent/Trade
7.Off-Topic Posting:
Posting outside of the board description
8.Spoilers without
Warning: Revealing critical plot details with no
warning
9.Disruptive Posting: ALL CAPS, large blank posts,
multiple hard-to-read posts, mass bumping, etc.
You broke 3, 4,
and 7. I said before, you have no right. How do we know that you did
or can do anything you say/said?
I bet there are hundreds if not
thousands of websites that have pictures/movies of achieving this. I
will say it again, back off. Later.
---
"For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/23/2002 10:58:13 PM
Well, I see you've got your little rulebook
handy to assist you in your fight. This is not an off-topic debate
we are having. It concerns a Challenge Mode score. The topic says
"Challenge Mode Scores." So I am not breaking rule 7 of the TOS. I
am also not flaming you. However, one could easily mark me for
trolling. I knew my thoughts would annoy you before I posted them.
You may mark me if you wish, I don't really care. I've been a
GameFAQs user for a year now and have never been modified, so one or
two little trolling incidents aren't going to hurt me much. That
said, please post a strategy for your remarkable FN 452. I'd love to
read it.
---
Captain Nathanian Nibbles of the
U.S.S. Awesome
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/23/2002 11:25:20 PM
I'm not even done yet. You suggest that there
are probably plenty of sites on the net where one could find
videos/pictures of Pikmin Challenge Mode feats. I suggest you try
running a search for one of these sites. I love the game so much
that I have looked for more places on the net to see what others
have done. All I can find are reviews and posts on other message
board sites. So far, this is the only place I have found people
talking about scores of this caliber.
Plus, look at the
picture of my
scoreboard:
http://www.geocities.com/lennonsapprentice
You'll
notice that there is a gigantic and highly legible piece of paper on
the television screen with my name on it. Yes, I could have taken
someone else's screen shot and edited it with a program to make it
look like I had put that note up there. But where would I have found
that screen shot in the first place? I dare you to find one with
those exact scores.
---
Captain Nathanian Nibbles of
the U.S.S. Awesome
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/24/2002 12:20:44 AM
Well, about the rulebook, all you have to do is
hit someones message detail, copy, an then back up. And as for you
saying it is not off topic, here is a quote from the very first
page, first post, and that decides what the topic is. "Anyone is
welcome to post their scores here and get some recognition, even if
they're not in the running for the high-score charts. Don't be
intimidated by the scores here; many of us have played each
individual level hundreds of times, and there's no shame in not
reaching that level of hardcoreness. :)" It says that we can post
our scores, not have to verify them, and it does not say that we can
accuse others about what they have said. And as for flaming, lets go
to the term..Posts clearly insulting other board members,
individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed.
Accusing someone of being a cheater is an insult. And as for the
website thing, your right, you probably did do all that stuff, but a
few of us 13 year old dont have cameras or scanners. We also cant
write a paper to save our lives. A FAQ about the game is one thing,
but a challege mode guide, down to the second, making it so that you
have to write as you play, I cannot do. So I had one really good
run, something that I wont do for a long time to come. I didnt ask
for me to be in the top scores, I personally do not care. I just
wanted to say something that I had done. But, if you wish to go
spreading rumors about others being some guy who always posted stuff
that wasnt true, messing with others, and ruining good topics, that
makes you no better than the person you are accusing them of
being.
---
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/24/2002 12:35:52 AM
Oh and by the way, since you alread know my age,
you know that I will now give up until you believe me or back down.
I have plenty of time on my hands.....
---
"For God so loved
the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/24/2002 12:39:58 AM
A note on posting strategies for Challenge
Mode:
I doubt that any of us who have posted such strategies
actually wrote as we played. When I achieve a great score, it is
because I have spent many hours trying over and over again to tweak
my strat enough to yield some extra points. After this much practice
with my strategy, I remember every single detail of it in my head
for a long time afterwards. In other words, if you really did get an
FN 452, you would remember the details of it almost perfectly
without having to replay it. Yes, I am serious.
So I had
one really good run, something that I wont do for a long time to
come.
Ha! I laugh at that quote. So you were just
playing Forest Navel one day and BLAMMO, you got a 452, huh? I can
honestly say that such a "lucky" feat is impossible. Forest Navel
takes hundreds of runs to get a 452 on, even if you are borrowing
someone else's strategy. And there is very, very little room for
error. Just admit you didn't achieve the score and I will stop
hounding you. All I ask is that people have some RESPECT (or
pity if you prefer) for the people on this thread who have poured so
much time and energy into achieving these scores. Can't you see why
I'm angry with you, greatmagnus? You're right, I was out of line
insisting you were Blackmage. You're probably not...my whole
argument was based on speculation and I apologize for that. But I
ask now that you confess that you...fabricated...your score. I'll
shut up if you do that much. It's very obvious that you don't have
the score.
I seem to remember another incident earlier in
this thread where you posted a FoH 501. Then, a couple of days
later, you posted a FoH 400 and wrote that you were "doing the
cabbagepatch" in celebration. Would you care to explain that
incident as well?
---
Captain Nathanian Nibbles of
the U.S.S. Awesome
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/24/2002 12:45:36 AM
Actually, I'm going to go ahead and say that my
Blackmage theory was completely wrong. He posted on this thread on
December 9, I just forgot about it. My apology on that issue
is due to greatmagnus. But the other issue is still unresolved.
---
Captain Nathanian Nibbles of the U.S.S.
Awesome
Posted by Rouge7 - 12/24/2002 3:12:18 AM
New High:
DS - 522
Combined
Total - 2120
My, my... I go offline for a week or so and
all heck breaks loose.
Congrats to all the new scores: Ahlyis
on 515 (sorry to hear about the 'Cube troubles), Tomatoman on
getting three perfects and breaking 400 on FN, Superstein on FN 440,
robluvnic on takin' FN 360 down, I hope I didn't forget anyone (a
lot to read at once).
Mike... truly amazing. I was pretty
sure that 462 was possible, I have an untested strat for 457, but
never did I think that anything above 462 was possible, not even
463. I should thank you, your score probably saved me from hours of
playing and planning for 457. You are the man, but you still
stink...
Nathan, I hear you on retirement. I think I'll push
DS a little, but the end has to be near.
I'll get that
screenshot when I return to work after the new year.
Happy
Holidays everyone.
---
R7
Posted by Rouge7 - 12/24/2002 3:30:50 AM
greatmagnus, please provide a walkthrough for
your FN score or it will not be acknowledged. This is a very
reasonable request by some players who have invested a great deal of
time on a complicated level. I don't need a novel, an outline that
shows a grasp of the level will do. I think this is very fair,
regardless of age or writing skills. If you disagree, this is
probably not the thread for you.
With high scores comes the
burden of proof.
---
R7
Posted by SuperStein - 12/24/2002 5:15:25 AM
We actually demand a verification when it comes
to scores in a top 3 position.
I'm just curious. Is this
what your FN scoreboard looks like?
1. 452
2. 282
3.
234
4. 190
5. 000
?
</sarc>
Merry
Christmas to everyone, even you greatmagnus! I fear for a new game..
think it's Mario Party 4! Luckily, this is a party game (well..
duh!), so I'll only play it with friends around! Pikmin is still
the game for me.
See you later guys, I'll be opening my
present this evening, lovely Norwegian
traditions!
---
Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by GasMan - 12/24/2002 6:06:58 AM
Thanks robluvsnic and Mike. I've been playing
Pikmin but no great improvement at all. If I finally managed to get
onto the tail end of the high score lists then I'd post my scores
gladly, but alas, the Poor wee GasMan has no news to report. Lots of
250s at Impact Site and not much else worthy of note to be honest. I
think I've hit a skill barrier or something which is hindering my
progress. :)
Nice to see everyone again. I hope everyone has
a Merry Christmas and a good time over the coming week or two.
Posted by TomatoMan - 12/24/2002 10:04:05 AM
All I'm going to say on the current furor is
this:
NOBODY scores a 452 on FN by "accident". You might get
350 on an accidentally good run. Not 452. That happens with an
insane, phenomenal, meticulously-tuned plan or not at
all.
Now then:
Nathan! Don't stop! C'mon man, push
that 620! Take a break and come back to it. :)
I don't know
about the rest of you, but I'm not retiring! (Of course, if
anybody's going to retire, Nathan and Mike are both truly scraping
the heavens now and have the best excuses!) I know I'm getting
Metroid tomorrow, and one of these days I've got to tackle Mario
Sunshine eventually, but none of them seem to grip me the way Pikmin
continues to. Guess I've just got that anal perfectionist thing
going on, I always want to do it just a LITTLE more efficiently,
find a time-saving trick... I never get enough of seeing armies of
pellets marching into the onions in nice neat rows... order out of
chaos. And so forth. :)
TM
Posted by Dragorn - 12/24/2002 10:47:29 AM
After a few days work on FT...
FT -
287
Everything returned except a yellow 10 and two deaths
on BLL. And this was on a run with lots of errors. Like, I wasted
tons of time on the pellets in the back area. I had to keep calling
back pikmin that grabbed the wrong pellets.
FT has a pretty
big margin for error, so progress on this level came pretty fast.
But, maybe it just seems easy after all the time I spent on the
Forest of Hell...
Anyway, I look forward to attaining another
perfect for Christmas...
---
Why is it called Tourist Season
if we can't shoot them?
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/24/2002 11:14:02 AM
Well, actually Super, its looks kinda like that
but my second score is somewhere in the three hundreds, like I said
befoe, I had one really good run I probably wont have again. Sucks,
dont it?
---
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by TomatoMan - 12/24/2002 11:17:21 AM
Dragorn - FWIW, it sounds like we had similar
experiences. I spent ages on FoH before getting the perfect, and
picked up FT next and saw dramatic improvements immediately. Must
have learned something key in all the FoH thrashing!
I do
think I got the perfect on FT with a bit of luck - you just plain
need luck not to have ANY deaths against the frog, beady, and the
snagret - but I'm not complaining! I probably should have had to
work harder, but I feel like I paid my dues on FoH.
:)
TM
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/24/2002 11:37:02 AM
I have a question for all of you, how long have
you had this game? I mean, I can barely get half of what most of you
are getting, I have one lone score. Sniff.
---
"For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." -John
3:16
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/24/2002 2:19:15 PM
Um, is anyone there? This guy over here is
wanting to know how to get good scores repeatedly....
---
"For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
-John 3:16
Posted by Grenade Guzzler - 12/24/2002 9:46:11 PM
Impact Site: 272
Dear god! I
misfiled that stupid red 1 pellet in the water! I put a blue on it,
and I was so occupied with the blue 20 and the pellet posies that I
totally forgot about that stinking 1 pellet!
Argh!!! Maybe
next time.
---
What are you trying to do, wrinkle it???
Bugs Bunny, episode "Bully for Bugs"
Posted by SuperStein - 12/25/2002 4:54:16 AM
How to get better scores? Well.. either you
devote your total spare time to it.. or you can check out the FAQs
or videos here...!
---
Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Mikepharvey - 12/25/2002 1:36:07 PM
well, all hell has broken loose on this board.
GreatMagnus, i do not think you have the right to come on this board
and insult one of the greatest pikminers ever. Nathan was the first
to get 452 on forest navel, has three other perfects and a 600+
score on distant spring. To say you are better than him makes me
want to cry with laughter.
If you can take the time to write
us a valid strategy for this level on how to get a 452 then maybe we
will believe you. But forest navel is much harder than foh,ft, or
is. To post a score of 452 on fn is going to sound unbelievable if
you dont have perfects on these levels.
New score for
me
Forest Navel-480-on tape
This was a practice
run and the breadbug dropped a blue and a red pellet so i misfiled
the red pellet to the blue onion and carried on. After a shaky
start, perfection followed and my new strat kicked in beautifully
and everything was in with 4 on the counter. Perfection is
possible!!
Even more tragic, i had a run where the breadbug
dropped two blue pellets and everything was going ok but near the
end, i was getting the last few 5 pellets i accidentally threw some
yellows on a blue 5 without realising and back at the onion it
starting going towards the yellow onion. i realised the mistake and
quickly put blues on, but just never got back and ended in a 477.
Thanx for the crown nath, but please give fn a few more
tries, you never know when inspiration will hit you. I was going to
give it up and declare 472 the maximum until i realised how to get
the last pellet in. You never know. you could get to 482 before
me.
Merry Christmas everyone.
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Incubus rule!
Posted by SuperStein - 12/25/2002 3:05:00 PM
Mike! That settles it! Bring in that 482 and
send me a copy of the tape! I wanna see! Or.. send it to TM and
he'll make sure it'll get on the web.. but anyway! I want to see
this brilliant strat!!!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by TomatoMan - 12/25/2002 3:24:21 PM
FN is perfectable?!?!
That's huge
news!
Oh, man. Gotta see that tape. Keep firing,
Mike!
PS. I did get Metroid for X-mas. It is pretty complex,
and graphically stunning - I'm going to give it its chance to grip
me. However, my first impressions are still that I'm basically
walking a prepared path. This makes me realize that one of the key
things that makes Pikmin just work for me is the freedom of movement
- you can do whatever you want to in the time allowed. This is what
gives it its incredible depth, for me. I'm kicking it in Metroid and
will definitely play it, but it takes a lot of discipline to keep
Pikmin in its box. I won't resist for long. :)
TM
Posted by SuperStein - 12/25/2002 3:45:24 PM
I did get Mario Party 4! and I've ordered
Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion.. I'll have 'em for my Panasonic Q!
:D
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Mikepharvey - 12/25/2002 4:23:42 PM
you have metroid prime. I am so jealous, i have
to wait till march. Well that gives me plenty of time to get some
better scores on pikmin. Plus you will get pikmin 2 before me when
that comes out. it is really annoying to live in a pal region.
Stein: Metroid fusion is amazing, but a bit short,
especially if you played super metroid.
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Incubus
rule!
Posted by Nathan Ian Bowers - 12/25/2002 9:44:02 PM
Mike, I knew you could do it! That's the most
brilliant score ever posted to date. Excellent, inconceivable work!
I have to admit, when you first got 462 I was rather upset and a
touch bitter. But now that you're proving how sickeningly good you
are I find that it's actually a lot of fun waiting to see if you can
push the limits more. Absolutely brilliant!
As I said before,
my retirement will be a temporary thing. I'll be like the Michael
Jordan of Pikmin...every now and again I'll step away from the game,
hiding behind an auspice of exhaustion, only to suit up again later
when I feel the itch to play. I'll go for that 482 eventually, but
right now I'm enjoying not having to fall asleep dreaming of new
strategies. Pikmin was consuming too much of my thoughts. I need a
break.
Rogue, glad to hear you know where I'm coming from on
the "retirement" thing. I'm also glad you're planning to improve
your DS score considerably before you take your next
break.
Rob, I forgot to congratulate you earlier on your work
in the Forest Navel. Just keep setting up realistic goals and slowly
knocking them down. It sounds like you play Pikmin a lot like I do -
I just play to beat myself. If you keep beating yourself, over time
you end up with some pretty attractive scores. Keep up the good
work, man.
That's all for now. Merry Christmas,
everybody.
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Captain Nathanian Nibbles of the
U.S.S. Awesome
Posted by Jimithingr - 12/25/2002 10:32:32 PM
Wow! A Christmas present to everyone today! Well
Since I don't want to feel so left out I might as well let you know
that I have just done a 421 in FoH . This is great new to say
the least because as you can tell from the leader board my last
highest was a 390. That's 31 over baby! How great it is on
Christmas day to have such a outburst of scores. That's all for now,
I'll post my strat a little later during the week. Good luck to all
and Merry Christmas
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"Are you ready for Pikviiiival!?" -
Said the Southern Baptist Church Preacher.
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/25/2002 10:40:49 PM
I just read about what you said for the 402 400,
thing, I had just gotton all my scores over 400. SIMPLE.
:)
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only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by angelswraith - 12/26/2002 12:02:26 AM
Um...just got this game for X-mas and....what is
challenge mode? I think it is in the manual, but I am to lazy to
look.
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Posted by XquietusX - 12/26/2002 4:05:53 AM
I've been playing pikmin a lot lately, but i'm
gonna start playing metroid now, yay, i'll probably be switching
between the games and try and beat my challenge scores again, but
for now, i'll post all my new high scores
The Impact
Site - 252
The Forest of Hope - 478
The Forest Naval -
357
The Distant Spring - 471
The Final Trial -
260
yay, i'm moving up little by little
Posted by SuperStein - 12/26/2002 8:44:26 AM
Oh my god!
Forest Navel -
442
Combined Total - 2016
I'm so embarresed right now,
that's the reason for the "Oh my god!" statement. This was my
absolute best run ever! I got everything but the yellow 20 and the
yellow 10 in the water behind the onions in. Now you're probably
thinking. "Well, that should be a 452?". And you are absolutely
right. But I misfiled the last pellet, the red 20 from BLL's lair.
Oh.. inches from a splatted Wavebird! It should have been a 452! I
just flung a couple, of blues extra som it would make it in, but
heck. They made it go to the blue onion... Sooo close.. but now I
atleast know that I'm capable of getting the 452 on Forest Navel.
That was my goal when I restarted Pikmin. But now when Mike
has brought up the score by 28... (soon 30), I think I'll have to
stick with Forest Navel for a while.
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Beauty lies in
the eyes of the beerholder...!
Posted by TomatoMan - 12/26/2002 9:48:22 AM
what is challenge mode? I think it is in the
manual, but I am to lazy to look.
You're kidding, right?
You're too lazy to look in the manual, so you'll just have one of us
do it for you?
Read the manual. Sheesh.
TM
Posted by Ahlyis - 12/26/2002 11:31:45 AM
It says that we can post our scores, not have
to verify them
Actually, it say you do have to verify
them for scores in the top 3. You posted a 452 on FN, which is a top
3 score.
I agree with Nathan, and everyone else who has
voiced on this so far, your 452 is a fraud. There is absolutely NO
way that you got a 452 out of the blue. Apparently you missed the
sarcasm in my previous post. I said it would be no problem to leave
your scores off the high score board. What I meant was that we'll
leave them off the same way we left Blackmage's off.
So far,
you have posted a few highly questionable scores and a whole lot of
rants/excuses/accusations. Please stop posting on this topic until
you mature enough to treat this topic and those of us who post here
with the respect we deserve. Like some have already mentioned, many
of us have put in MANY hours of play to achieve the scores we have.
To have some little punk come in and start making absurd claims is
naturally going to upset us. NOBODY achieves a top 3 score on ANY of
the levels by 'accident'. Especially not on FN which is one of the
toughest Challenge Mode levels in the game.
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I'm just a
pigment of your imagination.
Posted by Ahlyis - 12/26/2002 11:39:40 AM
Mike, please please please post a walkthrough
for a 482 FN run. It's not that I doubt you. Not at all. But I'd
really like to give it a try! :-)
Of course, that means I'll
have to get my cube fixed first. Actually, I can turn on the cube
and get into Challenge Mode and start a level. Once the level is
started, the cube doesn't need to access the disk again until you
finish/quit the level. At that point, it fails to read the disk for
me and I have to shut the cube down for a couple of hours and let it
cool.
Unfortunately, this means that even if I get a high
score, I can't save it. I've tried a couple of DS runs this way, but
it's impossible to get any sort of rhythm when you can only do one
run! lol
I've found a repair shop, but I can't find the
receipt (I bought it back in February or so), so I will have to pay
for the repairs. I've got a wedding I've got to save for along with
all the rest of the bills, so finding an extra $80 for repairs is
gonna take some time unless something comes up.
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I'm just a
pigment of your imagination.
Posted by Ahlyis - 12/26/2002 11:41:12 AM
lol, I see that GreatMagnus has closed his
account. Wonder who he'll come back as!
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I'm just a pigment
of your imagination.
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/26/2002 1:06:11 PM
Um...actually, I just clicked on the wrong thing
and then didnt come here for awhile.....
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"For God so loved
the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
Posted by SuperStein - 12/26/2002 3:21:38 PM
Your getting married Ahlyis?
Congratulations!
I'm going away for a few days now. I'm
leaving tomorrow. So don't you go and bring up your scores
TomatoMan! Since where I'm headed there is no electricity, so no
cubing for me. I think I have to thank the person which gave you
metroid for christmas! Probably it'll keep Pikmin in its box for a
couple of days!
Mike: I expect FN to be perfected when I get
home again! :P
Maybe I'll drop by early tomorrow if I've got
the time for it. Anyway! Later guys!
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Beauty lies in the
eyes of the beerholder...!
Posted by greatmagnus - 12/26/2002 6:25:19 PM
Well, I suck at his thing so see you guys when I
can hold my own. Later much.
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"For God so loved the world
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life." -John 3:16
