http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
(or for the terminally lazy, http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=5137 has a prepatched download)
Play. Discuss.
This game is awesome.
It's too bad you don't see these kinds of games available anymore commercially.
Played it already. Stuck at Balfrog at the moment. ._.
What a wonderful game, though!
How many endings does this game have?! How many times must I replay it? Argh!
Only three, I thought... The bad ending, the normal one, and the secret stage one.
Can't believe no one has made a thread about this before!
Eh, lol.
I don't quite understand how the professor/jetpack thing is supposed to work. That's just odd.
I never found the jetpack much use though. I always found the machinegun better for flying around.
Haven't tried it yet... but I believe if you don't get the jetpack, it's possible to get a better jetpack later, and you can find the Tow Rope and save Curly (which eventually leads to the secret stage.)
Ah fuck, the Mac version doesn't run under Tiger. :(
spoilers
Don't go after the prof. when you see him fall down and he'll come later with BOOSTER 2 OMG
Hell level is frustrating. >:(
Those two hearts at the start of B3 reappear if you fly back up to B2 and go down again. Easy way to recharge your health.
Runs extremly slowly for me and the tips in the manual don't help...
that begs the question, what kind of comp are you running it on? gimme some specs.
The game can run at full speed in 320x240 windowed mode on a P200
My specs are:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
1.79 GHz
512MB RAM
And the damn thing won't run under any resolution with any sensible speed....
Athlon XP? Is that a frequency scaling version?
If yes, try locking the frequency with a utility before starting the game. I doubt this is the cause, but it's worth a try.
Yeah, it's a desktop PC.
I can't beat the damn robot thing in the labyrinth. Yeah, I know how to disable it... but I'm nearly dead by the time it's disabled.
The one that goes back and forth??
There's a fast way, and a slow way. I used the slow way: bubble gun. At level 3 it's a great defensive weapon.
As long as you avoid the treads, it's hard to lose. Enemy projectiles keep dropping health and powerups.
So I gave Cave Story another shot and it does get a lot more fun after a while. It really needed a better beginning, though.
Now, a question: Is there some key to skip the goddamn annoying click-fest text messages?
Great game! (´_ゝ｀)
You can tell a huge amount of effort went in to it. Nicely thought out gameplay (you can see the metroid influence), and I love the music... hehe.
>Now, a question: Is there some key to skip the goddamn annoying click-fest text messages?
I know this isn't what you're looking for, but I hope you have noticed that clicking while lines are printing will further speed up the printing? And yes, this only makes the description 'click-fest' more accurate.
When I was stuck at that one boss battle that has the endless cutscene before it, somehow either the game felt pity on me, or I accidentially enabled some hidden option that turned off the text printing, massively cutting down on the clicking needed.
I never got that to work again, though.
Now I've played it a lot more......<3 Curly Brace.
Age for I need HALP!
By the way, at NDK this year I saw a dude cosplaying as Quote. He should've dragged a Curly cosplayer along with a rope or somethin'.
think that guy was posting in /v/
did anyone get pics?
I just finished this with the secret ending, great game. Runs almost perfectly on Linux using Wine, only missing the area transition effect and a few minor audio glitches.
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Just finished the game, and it was a little to easy, but fun...i guess. It wasn't as great as people have made it out to be, but i still was able to enjoy it.
Cave Story is the best platform game ever :)
I just found out that I had to use this "Robot Claw" thing to save the girl, and now I have to start over because I won't get the good ending.
That's so goddamn gay.
I like leaving the girl to die !!!
Dear Cave Story
RE: Final Cave (Hard Mode)
Why do you hate me? What did I ever do to you?!?
After having played through the Hell stage and dying a few hundred times I've noticed that if you die, the text printing stops for text that you've seen before. But the first time you see the text, there's no way to skip it.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
this game is so fun, such a worthwhile game, we should write an appreciation letter to the creator! lol
music is really cool too! like mooon song and mischevious robot, now i need to replay it to not save curly brace
Has anyone tried moding the game? Theres some information about it on http://gameflaws.com/cavestory (reposting the link so people won't have scroll around looking for it.) Theres also a forum about it at http://www.miraigamer.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=37 . I tried making an account but it says I'm not allowed to post, MODD disalowed my account or something (fucking phpbb.) The account name is Toshiaki and the pasword is qwerty, if anyone else wants to try posting there.
Someone on world4ch was developing a mod for a while. Apparently the game is not amenable to modding, but he managed change a few things and make it harder.