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Posted by SuperStein - 1/9/2003 1:35:44 PM
Distant Spring: 503
Combined Total:
2101
w00ty w00t w0000t!!!
A 32 Pikmin jump on
Distant Spring! I love it!! Where does this put me on the
leaderboards? *checking*
A 12th/13th place on the Distant
Spring board
A 4th/5th place on the Combined Total board.
I've actually got a higher combined total than Snapdragon now..
pliiz come back Snap. I'm sure you can do better on FN and
DS.
Ahh.. that was my first run tonight.. don't think I'll
play more.. It'll probably ruin my great feelig right now!
On
another note.. I finally passed 2100 now! Satisfaction!! next..
2200.. X)
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Rogue7 - 1/9/2003 3:53:39 PM
Forgot to post this earlier - Welcome back
cocoapuffs, and congrats to you and SuperStein on breaking 2100.
Thanks TomatoMan for putting my pic up.
Finally got around to
getting a new account with my name spelled right. Rogue7
lives!
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R7
Posted by robluvsnic - 1/9/2003 9:53:08 PM
Congrats Stein, GG, XquietusX; welcome back
cocoapuffs, and welcome to the boards Rogue7. Hey. Anyone know what
happened to Rouge7? ;-)
Satisfaction for me:
IS --
259
Left the yellow 5 behind, and got everything else in.
The 264 is certainly do-able, given that the last of my pellets were
going in at the hurry-up and I didn't even THINK to quickly grab 10
blues and take them in for that yellow 5 :P. Thing is, though, I've
moved on to FT now to try to break 250, but I think the best that
can be done without tackling the snagret is 240 odd. I'll just have
to wait and see.
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Please don't beat me!
Posted by Ahlyis - 1/10/2003 10:17:32 AM
Ok, for those who have this thread marked and
don't check the rest of the board, I'm creating a new topic to
discuss the 50 total Pikmin challenge. That'll keep us from filling
up the Challenge Mode thread with Main Mode posts.
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I'm
just a pigment of your imagination.
Posted by TomatoMan - 1/11/2003 1:24:23 PM
Stein! Curse you!!! :)
I have to confess
that I've been trying to get more 569s (three 568s recently... all
late MDs... grrr) and 299s lately after becoming ashamed at how some
of you are maxxing your scoreboards out. I've also been playing
Metroid, which I admit I'm starting to understand the hype about,
even though I still think playing an FPS with a joystick instead of
mouse+keyboard feels like driving a forklift around - no quick 180s,
everything feels slow. But it is an interesting game and they paid
attention to the reward structure in the gameplay.
But I've
got to get back and pull a 442 at least on FN, which I'm nowhere
close to, and I'd like to get my DS score up over 550. That's the
eventual goal. Eventual. :P
TM
Posted by SuperStein - 1/11/2003 2:37:13 PM
That was the exact words I needed to hear
before I go back to Pikmin TomatoMan! I'm leading, for now. I'm
quite sure that you're just saying that your're playing
Metroid, however, Pikmin is practically glued into your cube! As I
am typing this post you are probably hitting Distant Spring and
Forest Navel with enormous powers! I'm sure that you willl get your
442, but when you reach this, I'm quite sure that you'll see the
small changes you can do which'll bring your score up to 452. I've
currently taken a break from Forest Navel. I will return to the
level when the 482 has been cleared for download. Wait a minute!!!
You have the tape!! Ah-ha, your plot has been revealed. I'm
sure that you've already converted the tape and are on good way to
achieve your fourth perfecto! But you won't post the score 'til
everyone else here is able to download it. Then you'll print it out
in bold so it'll probably be permanently tatooed on my cornea! LOL!
I don't think this will actually occur, but who knows? I sure hope
that that iDVD 3 or what ever comes out soon, that will atleast pull
you away from Pikmin for awhile.
Anyway, back to Pikmin
scores. No new highs yet. Had a 499 on DS, dunno what I did, but I
probably fumbled away an entire spot on the sun-meter in the last
part of the day. I'm convinced that I could atleast have gotten a
510 or something around that. Hopefully I'll play more tomorrow. But
I've got an essay which is.. well... idiotic.. you would probably
hail my teacher TM. He gives us essays constantly!
Argh!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by XquietusX - 1/11/2003 11:28:45 PM
been playing all the stages and have topped my
scores in every stage except DS, been trying new strategies there
but nothing that worked, and i've passed the 2000 mark,
yay
here's my highs
IS - 269
FOH - 537
FN -
420
DS - 530
FT - 266
so far i've been pretty much
using all my own straties, but i think i might have to pick up some
pointers through some of the guides in the challenge mode faq soon,
as my scores are getting hard for me 2 pass now
Posted by SuperStein - 1/12/2003 11:05:50 AM
Distant Spring: 507
Combined Total:
2105
Ough! Distant Spring is a cruel level. Sometimes
those Wollywogs tend to smash all of my precious Pikmin troopers. I
think I'll have to work that Mamuta into my strat now. but I'd hate
to ruin a good run on that sucker smacking my Pikmin into the ground
again!! But he's worth it! :)
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Beauty lies in the eyes
of the beerholder...!
Posted by Rogue7 - 1/13/2003 11:25:54 AM
Noticed something strange this weekend on DS.
Normally when I collect the pearl that has the two bridges that lead
to it, I put two blues on the short side, seven on the long, break
the pearl and put three blues on that. Never any problems with this,
the bridges finish, the pearl returns and I don’t have to be
anywhere near it. Trying a different approach, I put 12 blues (3 and
9) on the bridges, break the pearl and leave it there, then when I
return to collect the blues who built the bridge, I just put three
blues on the pearl and go on my merry way. The problem is, it seems
as soon as the pearl gets out of view or “off camera”, it stops
moving. When I noticed that the pearl wasn’t back yet, I went over
to see if I threw a guy too far and it didn’t grab it or forgot
about an enemy, but there is was in the middle of the bridge, with
three pikmin carrying it. Once I approached and got it on screen, it
started moving. Has anything similar happened to anyone else?
Anybody know why it does this? I don’t see why this is different
than getting it moving before the bridges finish…
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R7
Posted by SuperStein - 1/13/2003 12:30:46 PM
Rouge! That happened with me once too! Inmy
strat I leave 4 on the short bridge and 10 on the long one very
early in the day. Then later I come back with 16 blue ones. I pop
the PCC and put 3 on the pearl, then i kill the mini borb where the
gate usually is, put three on that as well. And collect the blue 10
where there normally is a ship part. But on one run the pearl was
just going in circles on the middle of the bridge!! But when I
looked closer at it (walking towards it that is), it started to
cross the last part of the bride. Only happened to me once though,
and I have no clue to why it occured!
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Beauty lies in
the eyes of the beerholder...!
Posted by TomatoMan - 1/13/2003 1:43:07 PM
I just got Mike's 620 tape. Now I need to get it
and the 482 run coverted so I can rip them. This will take anywhere
from a few days to a week or so, but it's underway!
No new
scores or anything to report. :(
TM
Posted by SuperStein - 1/13/2003 1:46:17 PM
No new scores or anything to report.
:(
Wooohooooooo!!!!
No new highs for me neither
though!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Master Bowser782 - 1/13/2003 4:48:51 PM
yay
FT- 242
lousy record had
about 3-4 MDs though i was amazed that the 5-pellet from the arena
made it. now im going to use GG's strat(thx Grenade Guzzler) maybe I
might set a new record if i play tonight. See ya all.
:)
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Master Bowser
Posted by Ahlyis - 1/13/2003 6:32:27 PM
I had that pearl stick once. I put 2 on the
short bridge, 3 or 4 on the long and 3 on the pearl. Nothing
different from run to run, but one run the pearl never crossed the
bridges when they finished. When I ran over there, it was doing just
as you all described except that it was circling before the bridges
instead of in the middle. As I approached, it fixed itself and
started back. It looks to be a random glitch that, thankfully,
doesn't happen very often. Too bad MD's aren't as
rare.
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I'm just a pigment of your imagination.
Posted by SuperStein - 1/14/2003 1:34:23 AM
New Distant Spring score:
Distant
Spring: 533
Combined Total: 2131
Ahhhh! That was a
good run! If I do it a little faster I'll get 10-20 more Pikmin
in!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Mikepharvey - 1/14/2003 5:42:33 AM
Congrats on everybodys new scores.
I have
now got 5 278s on IS. On to FT now where i have 3 299s.
I
have never had any problem with the pearl on distant spring,
although i have noticed glitches with the score counter on distant
spring, if, when the puffstool carcass goes in the onion, i am
facing the other way i notice only some of the score goes on, and
the rest goes on when i look back at the onion. Anyone else had
this?
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Incubus rule!
Posted by SuperStein - 1/14/2003 7:38:23 AM
That was a new glitch I've never heard of. I'll
test it later!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Rogue7 - 1/14/2003 12:56:27 PM
Nice work on DS Superstein, I’ll need to bump my
score up to make you work a little harder…
Mike, haven’t noticed
that puffstool glitch, but DS seems to be a popular place for
glitches. I’ve seen a pikmin grab a 1 pellet, just start shaking and
never move it, my counter show I have 100 pikmin with me but 99 in
the field, and MD’s so late that a frog is on it’s side and I’ve got
my whole crowd moving on and then the counter goes down. I seem to
remember Ferret having a run where his score just stopped going up,
but the final analysis screen had the correct score.
I’ve
also noticed, on all levels, that enemies like frogs and puffstools
seem to “freeze” when they are off camera and neither you nor pikmin
are within range. I’ve even heard a frog jump, leave the area, and
saw it drop when I returned a few minutes later. The time that flint
beetles are up also seems to be camera time. My guess is that this
is not a glitch, but intentional, a way to possibly save action for
when it is seen…
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R7
Posted by TomatoMan - 1/14/2003 1:10:44 PM
I agree, Rogue. A key part of my Impact Site
strategy involved immediately turning the camera AWAY from the
breadbug so that he's off-camera, which prevents him from grabbing
the red by the firespout, and gives me time to pick the blues and
knock down the blue flowers so he pops up and grabs those
instead.
One of my favorite visual oddities in the game is
when the pikmin periodically manage to lift a 5-pellet and carry it
on its edge like a balanced coin, with a couple hanging off the
top... don't see it that often, but it's always
funny.
TM
Posted by Ahlyis - 1/14/2003 6:45:16 PM
I think it's a matter of saving processing
power. The game keeps Pikmin and Olimar as active entities. Enemies
and other things around them stay active as well. That takes a lot
of CPU to handle. In order not to overload things, anything which is
not near Olimar or a Pikmin gets suspended in whatever state it was
last in. It resumes when Olimar or a Pikmin comes near it again.
that's my guess anyway.
There are some exceptions of course.
The breadbug on FN during the main game for example. He stays active
and moves about on his own regardles of Olimar or the Pikmin's
presence.
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I'm just a pigment of your imagination.
Posted by XquietusX - 1/15/2003 8:02:11 AM
yay, i beat my score on distant spring by
11
Distant Spring - 541
had a couple slow parts
and like 6 deaths, but i sped up at the end with having 97 blues out
and cleaned up the water as best i could, but didn't think it'd be
pikmin worthy to change some of the pellets to other colors, so i
misfiled a red 10, a red 5, and a yellow 5(if either of those frogs
would of dropped a blue 5, my score woulda went up more) and i still
have worked mamuta into my strategy, he just doesn't seem worth it
to me anymore, i also ignored the big bulborb near the bridge cause
i never had enough pikmin at the same time to kill him in the last
1/4 of the level, i hope this score keeps me in the top 10 cause it
takes me 2 many tries to get any good runs, later
Posted by Rogue7 - 1/15/2003 8:28:46 AM
XquietusX, do you mean the bulborb by the bridge
to the beach with the pearl? If so, doesn't it wake up when the
pearl passes?
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R7
Posted by SuperStein - 1/15/2003 2:46:46 PM
Ohhh! Distant Spring is too cruel! Lateast
score: 531, had 8 MDs and 4 regular deaths. Those Puffstools are the
devils henchmen!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by Master Bowser782 - 1/15/2003 3:57:57 PM
[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]
Posted by Master Bowser782 - 1/15/2003 3:59:37 PM
oooooooooohhhhh!!! so close!
FT-
268
I crushed my record!! (it took me a few tries but i didnt
bother to post them) Unfortunetly 1 pikmin got a MD and i misfiled a
10 pellet but what the heck??!?! BTW thx again
GG!
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Master Bowser
Posted by XquietusX - 1/15/2003 5:03:43 PM
rogue7 - yeah, that's the one i mean but i never
had him wake up on me, and i've had the pearl(and the blue 1 pellet)
just go past him without waking him up every time(although i have
never watched the pearl go past him, maybe it does wake him up and
he goes back to sleep by the time i see him again, but i've never
lost the pearl to him), i think this saves a lot of time for me to
do other things at first, but i need to work him into my strategy
near the end yet
and i got a new high with finally clearing
everything in the level with 12 deaths
Final Trial -
287
and i think i can make the 10th spot on combined
scores now and push off grenade guzzler, unless his score went up
more than i thought
Combined Total - 2054
Posted by Master Bowser782 - 1/17/2003 5:35:12 PM
*hears crickets* wow sure is quiet
here....
FT-274
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Master Bowser
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/17/2003 5:43:08 PM
My scores...
IS: 183
FoH: 377
FN:
238
DS: 298
FT: 155
Is 377 a semi-good score on Forest
of Hope?
Not a big Final Trial fan.
How do I make
stuff bold?
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/17/2003 5:43:38 PM
My scores...
IS: 183
FoH: 377
FN:
238
DS: 298
FT: 155. Not a big Final Trial fan.
Is 377
a semi-good score on Forest of Hope?
How do I make stuff
bold?
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/17/2003 5:52:48 PM
[apology for the double post]
Okay, I have
298 on Distant Spring. I'm only getting 2 of the Pearly Clamclamps:
the one in the back where the Chronos Reactor is in the main game
and the one where the Gluon Drive is. There's no time left for me to
get the third one (where the Massage Machine was).
I'm going to
alter my strategy and try to get all 3 pearls. Or maybe I'll just
play Forest Navel.
Posted by Mikepharvey - 1/18/2003 7:34:34 AM
welcome DistantSpring54, your score for forest
of hope is a good score, i myself was stuck at 408 for ages. Dont
feel downhearted at some of the scores we have here, as snapdragon
said, many of us have played each individual level hundreds of
times, i know i have.
To do bold then do <.b>forest of
hope-377</.b> without the full stops. replace the b with i to
do italics.
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Incubus rule!
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/18/2003 8:56:48 AM
Thanks.
That 298 on Distant Spring bugged
me. Although it was 31 higher than my previous record I got it with
a 10-pellet coming in that would have put me above 300.
My
total score: 1251.
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/18/2003 7:01:40 PM
New high scores -
IS: 197
FoH:
387
FN: 247
[no high scores for DS or
FT]
Combined Total: 1284
Posted by SuperStein - 1/19/2003 8:30:50 AM
Here's the proof for mikepharvey's
scores:
http://ftp.home.no/mariokart/pics/mikeallscores.jpg
*Impressed*
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Beauty
lies in the eyes of the beerholder...!
Posted by Mikepharvey - 1/19/2003 1:28:58 PM
thanx stein.
My mate has brought a ps2
back with him this term but he has no telly so i let him set it up
in my room, so my days are now filled with vice city. Had a couple
of rounds of pikmin today to test my new wavebird and got my 4th 299
on ft just before i took the pic. i was going to wait until i got
the 5th but the guy i borrow the camera from was around at the time
so i thought i would get it done right away.
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Incubus
rule!
Posted by Ahlyis - 1/19/2003 4:05:21 PM
*bows to the God of Pikmin*
This thread
is getting relatively close to the end now. I vote for Mike to
create the next one when this one fills up. Anyone else have any
thoughts on this?
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I'm just a pigment of your
imagination.
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/19/2003 5:11:16 PM
Finally, after some number of tries between 3
and 8 . . .
Distant Spring: 300
A
slight modification to my strategy got me time to bring in
additional Pikmin. Instead of waiting until later in the day to
battle the Puffstool near the landing site, I battled it at about 8
AM using the Pikmin I had grown with the pellets and Dwarf Bulborbs
around the landing site.
Posted by robluvsnic - 1/19/2003 6:50:25 PM
Welcome DistantSpring54. Glad to see you here,
considering things seem to have really quietened down here lately. I
blame the lack of posts on the fact that Mike has now virtually
perfected the entire Challenge Mode. Nothing left for him to do,
see?
Anyway, I've got a report of my own:
FT --
247
I'm really aiming for 257 (or 259, if I've calculated
correctly). That's the max I can get without tackling the snagret.
I've come so close a number of times now, but either that frog
stuffs me up (restart) or the BLL drops three yellow 10s, which
completely throws out the numbers.
Despite the fact that it's
quiet at the moment, it has been a while since there's been a top20
update. Anyone?
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Please don't beat me!
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/19/2003 7:11:57 PM
I tried FT challenge only 3 times. The third
time, I battled the wollywog with only 15 blue Pikmin. Well, I
started with 15. Beat it with 4. But that was the run I got
155 on. My FT scoreboard looks EXACTLY like this:
1.
155
2. 133
3. 120
4. 000
5. 000
Not kidding
here.
By the way, I got my FoH 387 without having anymore
than 10 yellows ever grown. Part of my FoH, FN, and DS strategies is
to minimize use of yellows. I don't implement this strat in the
Impact Site because the misfilings cost me too much and I could only
manage about 160 without yellows.
I was actually impressed that
I got 198 in the Impact Site WITHOUT getting the blue 20 or ANYTHING
behind the stone gate (with the exception of the yellow 5 you can
reach without bombing)! That shocked me. I must be close to
perfecting the part of the level that doesn't require bomb-rocks.
I need to find some way to get all 3 Distant Spring pearls,
though, and preferably both puffstools. I can only get a maximum of
2 pearls and 1 puffstool. (sighs) That will be strategy #004. But
I'll first try to improve/speed up in strategy #003.
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/19/2003 7:15:19 PM
i mean 197 in impact site
Posted by robluvsnic - 1/19/2003 10:33:22 PM
I think you can get around 221 in Impact Site
without going through the gate. At least, I'm pretty certain that's
what my wife used to get, back when we first got the
game.
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Please don't beat me!
Posted by XquietusX - 1/20/2003 6:46:30 AM
welcome to the board distantspring54
i
agree with robluvsnic, i think we do need to update the top 20 list,
it has been a while
i just got 1 new high, but keep getting
really close to beating my distant spring score of 541 and tied it
once in a run where i lost 9 pikmin to a bulborb cause of stupidity,
if i can get a good couple runs where nothing stupid happens, i
think i'll have it
Forest of Hope - 557
Total
Combined Score - 2074
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/20/2003 6:52:27 AM
Yeah, 221 seems to be pretty accurate.
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/20/2003 6:59:07 AM
I almost forgot something:
Forest of Hope
- 391
and I had a red 10-pellet IN THE PROCESS of beaming up;
if I had just had a few more seconds I would have broken
400.
Final Trial - 203
A 44-point improvement. I
decided to battle Beady Long Legs this time.
against the wollywog
as well I had 20 Pikmin but I only lost 4 this time instead of
leaving with 4.
Posted by Rogue7 - 1/20/2003 8:37:44 AM
Welcome DistantSpring54.
New
high:
DS - 552
Combined Total - 2150
This
was a strange run, I was a little unlucky, made good time and tried
to mess it up as much as I could (not intentionally of course). The
frog by the bridge to the beach pearl dropped a red 5, so I
collected the frog carcass and left the pellet to collect later. As
I returned I saw the pellet under the bridge, but when I got closer
it disappeared. I threw some guys close to where it was but none of
them moved. Either it actually disappeared or it was directly in the
middle bridge, out of range and I just couldn't see it because I
rotated the camera. Anyway, I had 8 deaths, only a few MD's, the
rest were my mistakes and misfiled a 5, so still some room for
improvement...
Another note: I hate mamuta. This was the
first run I killed him and he only pounded a few pikmin into the
ground.
---
R7
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/20/2003 9:11:49 AM
IS - 201
But I did go beyond the stone
gate.
I also hate Mamuta. Too much trouble to go through for
only 15 Pikmin. It should at least give 25.
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Challenge Mode
High Score Total:
1342 as of 9:10 AM CST, 01/20/03
Posted by Mikepharvey - 1/20/2003 1:28:54 PM
I had one more go on final trial last nite, and
guess what, i got my 5th 299, just half a day after taking the
photo.
DistantSpring54, i have to disagree with you about
mamuta, he is easy to kill, only takes 8 pikmin to carry, is close
to base and is worth 15 pikmin. Sounds like a great enemy to
me.
Rogue, keep plugging away at ds.
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Incubus
rule!
Posted by SuperStein - 1/20/2003 3:28:57 PM
The time I tried to kill the mamuta he slammed
50 of my Pikmin down in the ground. *Power off*
Couldn't be
bothered to pick all of them up again!! How should I kill that
sob?
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the
beerholder...!
Posted by robluvsnic - 1/20/2003 4:01:32 PM
I used to leave Mamuta right until the very end,
if I had time left over after bringing in everything else in my
strat. That way I figured that it didn't matter if your pikmin got
pounded into the ground, so long as you had 8 to carry him back to
base.
After a while, though, I just dropped him altogether
from my strategy, and tried to incorporate other enemies/pellets.
But the thing is, I never thought to kill him by swarming him :P
(Sometimes I wonder whether I'm really cut out for this
game...)
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Please don't beat me!
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 1/20/2003 7:45:58 PM
New score:
Forest Navel - 271
Total
Score - 1366
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Challenge Mode High Score
Total:
1366 as of 7:50 PM CST, 01/20/03
