>games that are impossible to finish without save states

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>>4183913
S&S is quiet doable without save states. Once you realize that all the maps are 16x16, even the ones that warp around, you can make your own maps easily enough with standard graph paper. None of the riddles are too difficult to figure out either. And there's only like one place that can trap you forever and the game does fucking warn you about it.

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>>4183913

>>4183941
stop

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>>4183939
I was more referring to the shitty password system.

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>>4183942
How the FUCK am I supposed to know you're meant to throw mechakoopas upwards? They don't communicate this at any point in the entire game.

>>4183948
Oh, in that case, yeah I fucking agree. A password for each of your characters and a game password for your progress. I fucked up one character on my game password once and lost a good chunk of progress. I vowed from then on to make sure I write my shit clearly and double check each character twice. Should've learned my lesson from Metriod, but that wasn't as punishing a loss and was still only one pasword.

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>>4183953
Uh, try the manual? It even depicts Mario throwing a Koopa shell upwards.

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>>4183975
You don't need the manual, he is retarded.

I never had a fucking manual in my life, maybe I didn't figure it out the first time, but you do after a few attempts.

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>>4183953
......you didn't find the 2nd exit out of the Donut Plains Lake Ghost House, did you....
>keep practicing!

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>>4184034
How the FUCK am I supposed to know you're meant to hit the Big Boo with a block?

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>>4184050
That's literally the only resource you are given in that fight...

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>>4184050
>you rlack thw will of the WARLRIAH!!!

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>>4184081
>But, you see, I have the will of the warrior. Therefore, the battle is already over. The winner? Me! Rematch? You lose again! Had enough? I thought so!

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THIS fuckin game was the most frustrating one from back then. Pretty much the only PC game I actually had time to get into.
Except Doom and Wolfenshteen, of course.

>>4183948
There were two separate versions of the game developed for the NES. The first port was handled and published by Jaleco only in Japan. Released on June 23, 1988, it featured characters redrawn in a cute art style and generally shrunken rooms. No scrolling is present, leading to rooms larger than a single screen to be displayed via flip-screens. Many of the background details are missing, and instead of a save feature an over 100 character long password is required to save progress.[31]

Maniac Mansion

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>>4184120
>Maniac Mansion

Put Hamster in Microwave

>>4183913
Rygar

Actually it's not impossible, just not recommended. I don't recall it having permadeath, but it's probably longer than what most people could comfortably sit through for a play session unless you've already beat it a few times and know what you're doing.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rygar

>>4183913
>cheating thread

>>4185259
game genie

>>4184142
In day of the tenticle, it is revealed that this is canon.

>>4184142
And not to mention there's two versions of THIS version. One with hamster-nuking, one sans.

>>4185310
I don't remember, but if you play MM on the computer in his room in DotT, can you microwave his hamster in that version, and if you can, does he react to it in the main game? Because that would be am awesome Easter Egg if they programed that in.

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>>4183913

This fucking game. The RNG is bullshit.

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This is a great port of Doom on the PSX.
But it's fucking retarded that it doesn't use the memory card for saves, and gives you a code for the level instead. No way to save collected weapons when you die. And you start the level over with only the pistol.
And no analog movement either.

>>4186948

My girlfriend LOVES ps1 doom. No matter how many times I try to get her to play it on pc, she always goes back to playing that fucking version.
I dont get it. The only thing I genuinely think is good about that port is the music.

>>4186620

American version has it,
European version doesn't

I've heard/read people claim that there is a censored American version without the hamster-nuke and that is absolutely false.

>>4184101
Eh its an adventure game though, you can always just click around like a monkey and eventually you'll get somewhere

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>>4187434
Notwithstanding, its a Lucas Arts adventure game, much more forgiving than their Sierra competitors at the time.

>>4183953
You can't fucking hit him with anything but what he throws at you, how hard is that shit to figure out?

>>4186948
The worst part is that I can't find a fucking ISO for it that isn't split into a thousand tracks

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>>4183913
I play this with zsnes. No password system, no saves, no nothing apparently, so the only way to advance while also having a job is to use save states.

>>4189935
You're supposed to merge them into a bin/cue pair, try isobuster or something similar.

>>4189945
>playing SNES Doom
whyyyy

That's probably the worst console port of Doom.

GBA Doom is pretty good though :)

>>4189973
Probably
But thanks to the Snes' sound chip, it has the best soundtrack, after Pc.
>>4189945
the ONLY reason to use save states

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>>4189973
I agree that it's a decent port, but GBA Doom looks like this on my 1920x1080 monitor. SNES at least looks good enough to understand what I'm looking at

>>4189986
>>4189945
>emulating doom
>on a pc
>when you could be playing the PC version
Seriously goyim?

>>4189995
For some reason it doesn't like DOS emulators.

>>4186948
>No way to save collected weapons when you die. And you start the level over with only the pistol.

How it should be you filthy casual. Never played Doom on PSX but forced pistol starts have me intrigued

>>4190007
Use DOSbox, or change the settings that could make it run Doom... Or use alternative methods like a launcher.

>>4190007
Your PC can't run Dosbox?

Well, the best way to play Doom in 2017 is through a source port like PrBoom or ZDoom.

>>4183913
Deadly towers.

>>4189945
>zsnes
>console port of doom
>playing doom with anything other than m+k
JUST

>>4184101
You can't die in it or get into a dead end

That puts it in the top 1% of pnc
People tend to forget just how god awful the entire genre was before Lucasarts saved it

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>>4190007
Look, if you own anything with a screen, it can run Doom

>>4186886
It ain't called Mildly Uncomfortable Labyrinth.

>>4183941
I know this is bait but it's easier to 96 exit SMW than it is to even beat SMB3.

Shinobi , even level select wont save you, you lose all health upgrades, weapon upgrades when you die. Making the last level near impossible.

>>4190117
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPWi5yJK3zo

>>4186948
Uh, all Doom levels are designed to be beatable from pistol start. In fact, if I recall, didn't original shareware Doom didn't have weapon collection either or something?

>>4190007
Use a sourceport. It's as easy as typing "GZDoom" into google, downloading it, and selecting the WAD file for Doom in the launcher.

Boom, no emulators necessary.

>>4191878
>>4190052
Thanks yall. DLing now, hopefully it works

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>>4191878
>>4190052
Thank you chums, ZDoom is running more smoothly than presidential hooker pee. I'm quite impressed.

Can I just chuck all the WADs in the same folder or can I only have one in there at a time?

>>4190117
That looks pretty fucking great for that screen.

>>4184120
Good thing you can beat MM in 30 minutes.

>>4193801
>>4193801
A lot of people here try to talk shit on it, but seriously consider playing the Brutal Doom mod. It breathes new life in the game without changing any of the core aspects that made it fun initially.

>>4193801

Get the Smooth Doom mod for extra animation frames.

>>4183913
? I beat it on a real NES when I was like 7. Not even a Game Genie.