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Posted by DistantSpring54 - 6/10/2003 7:14:40 PM
Top Ten Combined Totals Deja Vu:
1) 2248
(Mikepharvey)
2) 2215 (Rogue7)
3) 2213 (Nathan Ian
Bowers)
4) 2186 (Cocoapuffs999)
5) 2181 (SuperStein)
6)
2120 (Ahlyis)
7) 2096 (SnapDragon)
8) 2095 (XquietusX)
9)
2070 (Grenade Guzzler)
10) 2063 (JimiThingR)
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Current
Pikmin Challenge Mode High Score Total: 1724
(240/513/315/450/216) www.cyberturf.com/ds54
Posted by Corkerpikmin10 - 6/11/2003 9:26:33 PM
These are low scores, but the best I
have.
IS:176
FoH:307
FN:258
DS:267
FT:209
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Cows
have spirit, yes they do!
Cows have spirit, how about you?
Posted by cocoapuffs999 - 6/13/2003 8:08:06 AM
FN-445
Combined Total-2202
I
was amazed at how quickly I improved on this level.
Posted by Corkerpikmin10 - 6/13/2003 9:02:53 AM
I got a couple of new scores.
IS: 191
FN:
274
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Cows have spirit, yes they do!
Cows have spirit,
how about you?
Posted by cocoapuffs999 - 6/13/2003 10:19:30 PM
Ouch,Ouch,Ouch. I had your DS score beat mike if
I would have had a few more seconds. The run was flawless, almost. I
had 1 death and a misfiled 5 pellet. The run was ahead of schedule
on all 3 bells but when the hurry up warning came I was a little
behind. The next thing I know the run has ended and my score was 579
with a 20 pellet, 2 5's, and a bulborb that were inches from the
onion. Just another few seconds it would have all made it and I
would have had a 622.
*Goes off to cry some
more*
Posted by Corkerpikmin10 - 6/15/2003 3:19:54 PM
I got a new DS score that is sorta
low.
DS:306
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Cows have spirit, yes they do!
Cows
have spirit, how about you?
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 6/16/2003 8:41:57 PM
No new scores for me, I haven't been playing
very much Pikmin. I really want that FoH 569, does anyone have any
strategies for getting the yellow 20-pellet?
On a completely
unrelated and off-topic note, I am now a veteran!
Yay!
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Current Pikmin Challenge Mode High Score Total:
1724 (240/513/315/450/216) www.cyberturf.com/ds54
Posted by Rogue7 - 6/17/2003 10:45:42 AM
DS54, hereās how I get the yellow 20 in
FoH:
Early on (before the first bell, probably 8:00 or so), I
have all my reds and yellows build the short bridge and I take my
blues into the water to collect the blue 10 and two blue 1ās near
the yellow 20. While there, I throw two blues up to build the long
bridge. I leave those two for the rest of day, it will take them
nearly the whole day to build the bridge. Towards the end of the
day, after Iāve cleared the ACB pearl area, I pick up yellows and
blues from the onions and collect the blue 10 up on the ledge and
then the yellow 20. If you get the yellow 20 moving with 40+ pikmin
before the countdown starts and add guys to 50 as soon as you can,
it should get in.
My complete walkthrough is in the challenge
mode guide of the FAQās if you want to check it out. There are
several FoH strats and theyāre all pretty different, so you could
get some good pointers there.
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R7
Posted by Ahlyis - 6/17/2003 11:06:52 AM
I do something similar with the blues, but I
leave the short bridge til later. Although there are many different
patterns for FoH, I think pretty much all of them involve leaving a
couple of blues working the back bridge most of the
day.
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I'm just a pigment of your imagination.
Posted by Master Bowser782 - 6/17/2003 2:43:40 PM
nothing 4 me either. congrats
DS54
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"Inflamable means flamable? What country is
this?"~Dr Nick
Posted by Xel23 - 6/18/2003 7:47:33 AM
I think the Challenge Mode Guide is
dead.
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Leader of VPL
This guy owes me money!
http://cgi>.gamefaqs.com/boards/user.asp?board=3447&topic=1
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 6/21/2003 6:55:38 AM
For the sake of this topic and for Pikmin
players worldwide, I must BUMP.
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Current Pikmin Challenge
Mode High Score Total: 1724 (240/513/315/450/216)
www.cyberturf.com/ds54
Posted by FFX CRAZY MAN - 6/24/2003 11:34:49 AM
I just started to come here a little while ago
and I have a good DS score. 518
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Turn left at fork in
road.- Homer's new car
In Soviet Russia road forks you!- The
car's translation to Czechoslovakian =Classic Simpsons moment.
Posted by Master Bowser782 - 6/27/2003 2:53:00 PM
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"Who in the ruddy hell are
you?-Hagrid
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 7/2/2003 6:25:59 AM
*is required to bump, again*
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Current
Pikmin Challenge Mode High Score Total: 1724
(240/513/315/450/216) www.cyberturf.com/ds54
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/4/2003 4:35:57 AM
Happy Independance Day to all the Americans out
there.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/7/2003 7:41:52 AM
New High:
DS - 592
Combined Total -
2220
The max for my strat is 598 and this run I had two
deaths, one misfiled 5 and a 1 pellet I couldn't get in. This
followed a couple runs where I had a late disasters, notably once
where I reached the third bell at my fastest pace and then
immediately lost 63 pikmin to a frog mishap.
---
R7
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/7/2003 8:36:13 AM
Congratulations Rogue, good luck in breaking 600
soon.
Also congratulations on your wedding, i hope it went
well.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/7/2003 12:59:22 PM
Thanks for the encouragement, Mike. I canāt
break 600 with my current strat unless I swap a frog and 5 for two
fiery blowhogs and then get crazy lucky to hit 601. Either that or
change the order I get the pearls. Question for you ö do you find
leaf pikmin to be more effective against mamuta? It seems like they
work better, but then I hate taking on frogs with leafs·
The
wedding went great, thanks for asking. A friend put together a video
for us and played it at the wedding, but it did not have a single
mention of my pikmin exploits. How absurd is that? I thought our
cake should have had little candy pikmin looking like they were
carrying the top layer away, but I got
vetoed.
---
R7
Posted by mvidal - 7/7/2003 1:38:30 PM
Does any one know where I can get videos of Impact site 278 runs?
Posted by mvidal - 7/7/2003 1:43:54 PM
Does anyone have a video of an IMPACT SITE 278 run?
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/8/2003 4:54:35 AM
I think that if you have 100 pikmin, then
killing mamuta with flowers is pretty similar too killing him with
leafs. The reason i do it with leafs is because i wanted to save the
closest grass to the onions till the end to flower all the blues
with.
Using the grass patch by the second puffstool to flower
my initial 100 pikmin means taking mamuta and one frog out with
leafs, but 100 leafs is usually quite adaquate to take out the frog,
although i tend to get more md's on that frog than any
other.
I really want to get into distant spring again, but
ocarina of time is too addictive. When ive completed it though, i
will try and impove my distant spring score.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/8/2003 8:04:45 AM
Mike, did you know that there is a grass patch
just before mamuta? It's right around the corner once you leave the
onion area.
I got it in my head that leafs work better
against mamuta, but it seems that getting him to swing at you
instead of the pikmin is the most important thing, especially when
you attack him with only 89 guys like I do. I have too many problems
with MD's on that nearby frog, so I think I'm going to switch back
to using the above grass patch.
---
R7
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 7/8/2003 6:11:38 PM
I really want to get into distant spring
again, but ocarina of time is too addictive. When ive completed it
though, i will try and impove my distant spring
score.
Zelda does that. I'd play Pikmin but I've fallen
into the Wind Waker trap. And trying to do the second time around
with as little help as possible... (really not that
hard).
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Current Pikmin Challenge Mode High Score Total:
1724 (240/513/315/450/216) www.cyberturf.com/ds54
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/9/2003 7:07:09 AM
Mike, did you know that there is a grass
patch just before mamuta? It's right around the corner once you
leave the onion area.
No i didnt know this, this could
save a few seconds but i cant see it being a major help timewise. If
it means less mds on the frog though then its definitely worth
using.
Zelda does that. I'd play Pikmin but I've fallen
into the Wind Waker trap. And trying to do the second time around
with as little help as possible
The last zelda game i
played before i bought windwaker was Link to the past on the snes
since i never had an n64, so getting the bonus disk free was amazing
since i got two new games, both lasting 20+ hours at least, although
windwaker lasted 8 weeks since i didnt play my cube much last term
because of exams etc. Windwaker was pretty easy though, although i
loved the graphics.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/9/2003 8:20:08 AM
I played a little last night using the different
grass patch. It didn't make a difference in time, but out of four
runs I didn't have a single MD on that first frog. The only thing is
that since I don't flower my group a second time, those two extra
enemies seemed to knock a lot of petals off my flowers and made
things slow at the end. If I could get quicker, then I could just
use two patches...
---
R7
Posted by Ahlyis - 7/9/2003 10:09:25 AM
Here's a thought. Perhaps you can work it in,
perhaps not...
Past Mamuta, turn right past the sleeping borb
and down by the water where the two frogs and the pearl are. There
is a grass patch on the opposite side of the small lake where that
first frog is.
When I go to get the pearl and frogs, I drop
everyone, then grab the blues. Then I toss 2 blues onto that grass
patch before heading to battle the frogs and clamclamp. When I come
back, that grass patch is completely picked and I can quickly flower
anyone who needs it without waiting for them to pull up the
nectar.
It's not a great help since most are flowered already
anyway, but occasionally I end up with a lot of buds from frog
bucking.
Anyway, I was just thinking it might be of some help
to someone. :-)
---
I'm just a pigment of your
imagination.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/10/2003 9:50:27 AM
New high:
DS - 596
Combined Total -
2224
One death, one misfiled 1 pellet. Not the best run
from a time standpoint, but I got lucky that three of the last five
frogs dropped blue 5's and reduced the amount of switching for me.
Four agonizing points to go...
---
R7
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/11/2003 8:26:31 AM
Heartbreaking DS run last night. I decided it
wasnāt worth continuing with my exact strat just to squeeze a final
two points out and still be under 600, so I started thinking about
how I could tweak it. I got an idea that would reach 607-613, the
six point range because there would be three frog 5ās that I would
not be able to change if they were non-blue. After a few tries, Iām
on a run that is fast and lucky. Two of the three frogs I mentioned
dropped blue 5ās, Iāve had no deaths, I had hit the flint beetle
right by the blue onion and flowered my group a second time, and
reached the third bell as fast as I ever had. Iām thinking about
611, but then, the frog by the bridge, the same frog that Iāve
killed probably 20 times in a row without a MD, gives me 6 MDās! I
continue because I know I can still break 600, but in this mess I
forget that a key change I made for this strat was to leave this
frogās pellet even if itās blue (which it was). I collect the
pellet, meaning 5 less pikmin work on the bridge and I donāt realize
what Iāve done until itās too late. I get everything I need moving,
but the bridge finishes too late and because Iām at the bridge
instead of the onions at the end, a traffic jam keeps the blue 20
and other assorted goodies from getting in. I get a woeful 512. I
could have gone to sleep, but that would only have meant a night of
pikmin nightmares, so·
New high:
DS ö
608
Combined Total ö 2236
One MD, two misfiled 5ās.
This happened a few runs after the above screw up and was equally
fast and lucky, the only thing was I misfiled a 5 somewhere at the
end (I think I left one too close to the blue onion and some idle
ones grabbed it). I might continue with this just to see if I can
squeeze any of those last 5 points out, but I think 613 is the
ceiling for the order I get the pearls. So glad to break 600,
especially after that mishap·
Side note ö Am I the only one
still playing? Curse you, Zelda!
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R7
Posted by Ahlyis - 7/11/2003 10:26:58 AM
[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]
Posted by Ahlyis - 7/11/2003 10:28:37 AM
I still play once in a while, but recently
mostly just from the Golf tournaments. Now that those seem to be
dead, I might not play too much. I still have a lot of room to
improve on both DS and FN though, so one day I may sit down and work
on this again. :-)
Congrats on breaking 600!
This
deserves a reward. Let me think... Ah yes, you get the 'honor' of
updating the high score list. It hasn't been done in quite a while
and it needs it. Congrats! ;-)
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I'm just a pigment of your
imagination.
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/11/2003 10:29:41 AM
Congratulations Rogue, another person to break
600 and now your only 12 points from my score. If you do beat it you
can be sure that i will drop zelda and straight to distant spring. I
have a few ideas for a 630+ which i would like to try.
Good
luck going even higher:)
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/11/2003 12:40:14 PM
Challenge Mode High Scores as of
7-11-2003
Impact Site:
1. 278 (TomatoMan, SuperStein,
cocoapuffs999, Mikepharvey, Rogue7, Nathan Ian Bowers, Ahlyis,
*Dragorn)
Other Top Scores:
9. 273 (Snapdragon,
JimiThingR, Ferret5317, spenser, Cork)
14. 272 (Grenade
Guzzler)
15. 270 (Xel23)
16. 269 (XquietusX)
17. 266
(Secrano)
18. 264 (topotheclass, robluvsnic)
20. 263
(GasMan)
21. 256 (i luv pikmin)
22. 253 (jakemrjr)
23. 246
(Lewellyn)
24. 242 (redpichead)
25. 240
(DistantSpring54)
Forest of Hope:
1. 569
(Snapdragon, SuperStein, Nathan Ian Bowers, cocoapuffs999, Rogue7,
Mikepharvey, Ahlyis, *Grenade Guzzler, *JimiThingR, TomatoMan,
*Dragorn, *Secrano)
Other Top Scores:
13. 568
(topotheclass)
14. 557 (XquietusX)
15. 544 (spenser)
16.
532 (QYN)
17. 528 (redpichead)
18. 524 (Xel23)
19. 513
(DistantSpring54)
20. 490 (Lewellyn)
21. 477 (Ice Man)
22.
469 (Ferret5317)
23. 466 (Kingfisher)
24. 450 (jakemrjr, smoky
progg)
26. 444 (robluvsnic)
Forest Navel:
1. 482
(Mikepharvey, *Rogue7)
Other Top Scores:
3. 460
(*SuperStein)
3. 452 (Nathan Ian Bowers)
5. 451
(Dragorn)
6. 445 (cocoapuffs999)
7. 439 (Snapdragon)
8. 421
(JimiThingR)
9. 420 (XquietusX)
10. 412 (Ahlyis)
11. 400
(TomatoMan)
12. 397 (redpichead, Ferret5317)
14. 389
(Xel23)
15. 388 (Grenade Guzzler, Master Bowser782)
17. 379
(robluvsnic)
18. 377 (Nai)
19. 375 (topotheclass,
Kingfisher)
21. 364 (PatricSim)
22. 349 (jakemrjr,
shyunein)
24. 335 (shortyschlosser08)
25. 332 (smoky
progg)
Distant Spring:
1. 620 (Mikepharvey)
2.
615 (Nathan Ian Bowers)
3. 611 (*cocoapuffs999)
4. 608
(*Rogue7)
5. 582 (Ferret5317)
6. 575 (SuperStein)
7. 562
(Ahlyis)
8. 554 (XquietusX)
9. 542 (GrenadeGuzzler)
10.
516 (Snapdragon)
11. 514 (TomatoMan)
12. 507
(redpichead)
13. 501 (JimiThingR)
14. 482 (Nai)
15. 469
(Master Bowser782)
16. 450 (DistantSpring54)
17. 443
(topotheclass)
18. 441 (Xel23)
19. 439 (jakemrjr)
20. 437
(robluvsnic)
21. 402 (whitemage 200)
22. 399
(soulja246)
23. 397 (yoshifan18)
24. 370 (smoky progg)
25.
361 (Kingfisher, Ice Man)
Final Trial:
1. 299
(Snapdragon, Ahlyis, SuperStein, Rogue7, Mikepharvey, cocoapuffs999,
Nathan Ian Bowers, *JimiThingR, TomatoMan, *Dragorn, Grenade
Guzzler)
Other Top Scores:
12. 295 (XquietusX)
13. 286
(Master Bowser782)
14. 281 (redpichead)
15. 278 (jakemrjr,
robluvsnic)
17. 267 (Ferret5317)
18. 266 (Lewellyn)
19. 262
(Secrano)
20. 260 (Ice Man)
21. 253 (supersonicfan)
22. 248
(Xel23)
23. 233 (shyunein)
24. 218 (Kingfisher)
25. 217
(RockMFR 5)
Top Ten Combined Totals:
1) 2248
(Mikepharvey)
2) 2236 (Rogue7)
3) 2213 (Nathan Ian
Bowers)
4) 2202 (cocoapuffs999)
5) 2181 (SuperStein)
6)
2120 (Ahlyis)
7) 2096 (SnapDragon)
8) 2095 (XquietusX)
9)
2070 (Grenade Guzzler)
10) 2063 (JimiThingR)
Some
notes:
-Last time the board was updated it was expanded to a top
25, which I thought was a good idea, so I'll expand it also. Thanks
go out to DS54. Maybe the extra spots will spark some
competition.
-I put an asterisk on my DS 608 even though it's not
a top 3, I think all 600+ scores should require some
verification.
-Since Secrano's 569 is unverified, rob stays on
the leaderboard until the asterisk is removed.
-No offense, FFX
CRAZY MAN, I did not include your DS 518 only because it's a little
high for a debut and I would feel better if you could provide a
walkthrough or screenshot.
-I also removed The Champ's IS 253. It
was disputed when he first posted it, to no response, so I'm not
going to bump DS54 for that score.
-I am not the final say, so if
anyone disagrees, we'll vote or something...
---
R7
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/11/2003 12:52:43 PM
Ah, the spoils of my efforts, an updated
leaderboard. Thanks, Ahlyis. I hope all goes well for the reception,
the only advice I have is to try to enjoy it (easy for the
guys).
Mike, 630+? You're crazy. I've bounced around an idea
to add a red 10 at the end of my 613 strat, which would work, but
I'd need some blue pellets to keep the re-IDing down.
Thanks
for the props, guys and I'm still pluggin'...
---
R7
Posted by DistantSpring54 - 7/11/2003 3:39:57 PM
I updated to top 25 partly because I wanted to;
partly because of the high # of perfects on IS, FoH, FT; and partly
to see if it will still fit. I just hope we don't get an influx of
Pikmin players with really long usernames...
On a side note,
I will probably be back to Pikmin soon as I'm already on the Earth
Temple in the second quest. I wonder if the strategic thinking
required by Zelda games can assist in playing Challenge
Mode...
Wait, "strategic thinking"? This is GameFAQs. If I
want help with Wind Waker OR Pikmin, I'd just go here...
Oh
yeah, I didn't update the top 10 to a top anything more, too much of
a hassle to add everyone's scores up and see what they made. It's
not even on my website. Maybe I'll do that
later...
---
Current GameFAQs Character Battle Score: 6
out of 10
www.cyberturf.com/ds54
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/14/2003 8:04:31 AM
ok, i finished ocarina of time on saturday
night, so as promised, i spent a few hours yesterday and a few hours
today playing distant spring. No new scores to report yet, but ive
been mighty close to 625-633 a few times. I always seem to mess up
somewhere near the end and ruin all my previous good work. For
example, on my third run of the day yesterday, i was having an
absolute scorcher of a run. I was well ahead of schedule on all 3
bells, the third one ringing when i had flowered my pikmin for the
second time, i had had no deaths, no misfilings and it was as
perfect as it possibly could be. I decided instead of going for an
easy 625, as long as the last frog didnt give mds or a freak
accident and no accidental misfilings, i decided to kill a fiery and
get the 8 extra points. So i went to one, threw a pikmin on him,
waited for him to buck it off, then swarmed him, unfortunately i
absolutely cocked it up and he flamed about 20 of them, so i reset
and went to cry in a corner ;)
Going to carry on pluggin
today
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/14/2003 8:39:04 AM
oh, i forgot to mention that im using the grass patch by mamuta instead of the one by puffstool. Im having mixed results. It seems more difficult and risky to kill mamuta but i usually get less mds on the frog, except the first time which i got 7.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/14/2003 2:09:22 PM
Mike, thatās rough and I certainly know how it
felt, but it sounds like youāre back in the groove and maybe weāll
see a new high soon. I played around with my strat the last few days
and I think I found a reasonable way to add a red 10 to it. Problem
is, I get streaky, both hot and cold, on DS. Iāve had times where
Iām lights out lucky/fast and stretches where I canāt get past the
first or second bell without something going wrong. Anyway, Iāve
been cold and havenāt even gotten one run where I can see for sure
if this tweak has a chance.
Hereās a question, Mike. When do
you collect the extra fiery blowhog? Iām guessing itās after you get
mamuta and the red 10, when you collect the frog and pellet by the
bridge. Along those lines, what do you think is a reasonable max for
DS?
---
R7
Posted by robluvsnic - 7/14/2003 6:43:41 PM
Congrats, Rogue, on breaking the 600. That's a
fantastic result, and you certainly deserve it, for your unswerving
loyalty to Pikmin (even though it's getting close to two years' old
now), if for no other reason.
Thanks for keeping me in the
FoH list, too (despite it being a terribly embarrassing score).
Obviously, I haven't been playing Pikmin lately (first Zelda, then
SuperMonkeyBall 2), and I'm about to send my copy to my
Brother-in-law who lives on the other side of the country, so I
guess I won't be playing again any time soon.
But I am
still visiting the boards almost everyday, just so that I can
vicariously enjoy Pikmin success! I'm really looking forward to
seeing where Mike and Rogue (and cocoapuffs too) can take DS. We may
well have another top score battle (a la Forest Navel) on our hands.
I can't wait.
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Please don't beat me!
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/15/2003 6:24:45 AM
Hereās a question, Mike. When do you collect
the extra fiery blowhog? Iām guessing itās after you get mamuta and
the red 10, when you collect the frog and pellet by the bridge.
Along those lines, what do you think is a reasonable max for
DS?
Actually i collect it as soon as i kill it. I have
been getting good at the 3rd quater to make sure that i can transfer
as many reds and yellows to blues as possible and i have been doing
the last quater with 75-80 blues, which is just enough to collect
the fiery with everything else.
I could easily kill the other
fiery as well, but i would have trouble collecting it, but im sure a
way could be found, so im guessing a reasonable max of 641. You
would have to be extremely lucky to get that, like all frogs drop
blues since you wont have enough time to change, no deaths, pikmin
which will grab the pellets/carcasses and not walk around and say
aahhh.
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/15/2003 8:50:46 AM
The Distant Spring-627
No deaths,
misfiled the red 10 pellet and yellow 5 pellet by mistake. I was so
excited at the end of the run i didnt realise they were back already
until it was just too late.
This was my fastesr run ever,
even beating the one i was doing the other day which i messed up on.
I had about 5 seconds left at the end, and i definitely feel i could
collect the other fiery blowhog. Unfortunately i didnt tape this
run, so when i start playing again the tape will be recording,
hoping for an even better run.
Im going to cry now knowing
this would have been a 633 if i hadnt been so stupid.
Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/15/2003 8:51:43 AM
Sorry forgot this
Combined Total -
2255
19 points ahead of you now Rogue.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/15/2003 9:57:02 AM
Holy crap, the king is alive and well! Excellent
work, Mike, that's uncanny and now even a perfect run of my untested
623 strat cannot top you.
Here's a thought - what about
swapping the fiery blowhog for that last frog and 5 pellet in the
smoky progg area? You would be looking at 636-638 instead of 641,
but you'd have the pikmin to collect those two, provided you head
out from the onions with 80 pikmin. Again, great work continuing to
do the impossible.
rob, good to know you still check the
board, but sending pikmin away simply will not do. Your
brother-in-law will no doubt get hooked and you may never see it
again, so I suggest you buy another copy...
---
R7
Posted by Ahlyis - 7/15/2003 10:08:10 AM
Congrats Mike... and I expect to say the same
thing again tomorrow when you post another impossible score! You da
man!!! :-)
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Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/15/2003 1:52:48 PM
Thanx guys :)
I have you both to thank
for my new score, Rogue for showing me the grass patch by mamuta
which was very helpful as well as other useful hints, and Ahlyis for
showing me that i can kill the 3 dwarfs by swarming saving a lot of
time and for other hints as well.
I have been on fire today,
my run of 627 has been followed by runs of 622,606,617. The 606 was
using your advise rogue and ignoring the fierys and getting the
extra frog, it was great advice and i shall experiment a bit more
with it. I still have a few hours tonight to play to try and
increase my score.
Posted by Ahlyis - 7/15/2003 5:49:09 PM
Mike, out of curiosity, are you using my version
of the beginning? Or are you still using the one you used on the 620
video?
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Posted by DistantSpring54 - 7/15/2003 5:54:10 PM
Mike! 627! Fantastic.
This is just great.
It's wonderful to see this topic firing again, with yet another high
score surge. Good on ya, Rogue, for putting the heat on Mike. Now
all you need to do is turn it up a notch by pipping his 627 (and you
just might be right about having to buy another
copy...).
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Posted by Mikepharvey - 7/16/2003 4:49:48 AM
Thanx Rob and DS54 :):)
The answer to
your question Ahlyis is im using my 620 strat almost exactly, except
just killing a fiery and putting pikmin on it straight away. I only
need the same speed as my 620 run to do this so i didnt see the need
to rework my strat too much. I do prefer your first quarter, its
just that it would require too much change in the rest of my strat
too fit it in seamlessly.
Having watched my 620 run on the
dvd yesterday, my first half on the 627 was much faster, but i was
only just ahead at the three-quarter bell, but i think thats more to
do with me having an absolutely perfect third quarter in my
620.
I got a 610 last nite, and after the day finished and
the score came up on the screen, there was a red sun in the
background i cant remember seeing before. I seem to remember rogue
saying something about it in his 442 run, has anyone else seen
it?
Anyway rogue, I think i might revise that potential
maximum to 646, i think i could kill one fiery and leave it, then
kill and collect the frog and five pellet in the smoky progg area,
and collect the fiery after getting mamuta and the red 10. Also with
one fiery out the way i might be able to collect the yellow and red
1 pellets in the fiery blowhog area, so i might be able to squeeze
out 650. That would be my finest achievement ever if i managed that
though, and would require a tremendous amount of luck.
Posted by Rogue7 - 7/16/2003 7:09:10 AM
Mike, that red sun shows up from time to time
and Iām pretty sure itās just a random thing. The first time I saw
it was when I got 442 on FN and the second time I saw it was when I
got 299 on FT, so at the time I thought it was a signal of a perfect
score, but we know now that canāt be right.
650 sounds about
right, and would be a tremendous feat. Like you said, you would have
to get lucky with the frog pellets since the extra time to kill
collect the added stuff would cut into your switching time. Ever
thought of getting a 1 pellet out of one of the flint
beetles?
I wish I could push you more, but my luck has
turned. Last night I had two full runs in a row where out of 18
total frogs I got one blue 5. The whole night I think I saw a total
of 5 or 6 blues 5ās, granted, it was only a half dozen or so full
and partial runs, but itās still frustrating. Iām still going
though·
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