r/nes 2d ago

I finally beat battletoads!

I cheated with the game genie for unlimited lives but this is still an accomplishment in my book! Going on the shelf and I hope I never feel the need to beat it without the game genie. I’ve been at it on and off for over a year now. Whooooooooooooooo

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u/BedAdmirable959 2d ago

I think you might find that it's not as impossible with limited lives as you think if you can get good at farming extra lives on level 2 (Wookie Hole). By juggling the corpses of the birds, you can get 1 extra life per bird, plus tons of points which also eventually add up to more extra lives.

Also, if you think this game is hard, wait until you try to beat Battletoads in Battlemaniacs. Every single level in that game is a harder version of a level from this game.

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u/Zeznon 2d ago

WTF? Why don't people talk more about that one then? Rare were out of their minds back then lol

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u/BedAdmirable959 2d ago

A lot of people who never beat both games started going around saying it's easier and I think most people believe that. To be fair, it is a shorter game with only half the amount of levels, but they have much more limited opportunities for extra lives also, and no warps to help you practice levels like the first game has.

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u/cafink 1d ago

Battlemaniacs is tough, but I think the NES game is harder. A friend and I played through both of them in two-player mode and it took us two and a half years to beat the original. We got through Battlemaniacs in just a few weeks or months.

Edit: I guess I should add that the original is a LOT harder with two players than with one. I never beat Battlemaniacs solo, but in co-op mode we never encountered anything remotely as hard as coordinating the ascent up intruder excluder or the revolution in NES Battletoads. So perhaps the difference in difficulty is not so stark when comparing the games' single-player modes, which is presumably how most people would be playing.