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[vdub_bobby]

Get off your bike and get ready to brawl your way through a rescue mission! It's time for Bad Dudes!

Post a score and let's get this thing rolling!

Please post any tips you may have - best tip gets 1 bonus point! Only scores for games played from the beginning will count! No continues!

And if anyone has a link to the manual, please post it. Here it is. Thanks, Blackjack!

This week's competition ends next Tuesday (October 16) morning at approximately 9:00 am PST.

This week's scores:

161,300 PressureCooker2600 (+10 pts +1 pt for best tip)
112,500 gdement (+8 pts)
33,800 LarcenTyler (+6 pts)
33,200 Blackjack (+4 pts)
31,100 vdub_bobby (+2 pts)
5,400 Artlover (+1 pt)



Twin Galaxies High Scores

276,500 Tom Votava
273,700 Daniel C Teixeira
166,500 Mr. Kelly R Flewin


Overall standings:

1. PressureCooker2600 (21 pts)
2. vdub_bobby (20 pts)
3. rjchamp3 (18 pts)
4. gdement (15 pts)
5. LarcenTyler (14 pts)
6. Artlover (13 pts)
7. theKLT (10 pts)
8. Blackjack (6 pts)


Game Info

Coin-op originally released by Data East in 1988; ported to the NES by Data East and released in 1989. I never knew this until just now, but apparently the full name of the game (at least the coin-op version) is "Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja."

Other platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum

Related games: None, I guess. Though Karnov, one of the level bosses, has his own game.


Tips

PressureCooker2600:

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Always stay on the top level....that way you'll see most of the ninjas coming and be able to bust them up while they're in the air.
Best way to beat the first boss and lose no energy.....pop him once and then jump to the next level before he breathes fire. When he jumps, pop him one and then jump back down. Keep using that method and you'll have him beat in no time.
Best way to beat the midget 2nd boss....make sure you keep the nunchuk or dagger you get and you'll be able to whoop his ass quick. Just don't stop wailing on him.

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The trick to the fourth boss is to jump in with a kick and then back up....wait for him to do that spinning kick in the mid-air.....and then go at him with a jump kick again.

All I can say on the 3rd boss is to make sure you have a weapon.

gdement:

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But the bosses on levels 1,2, and 4 all seem to be vulnerable to cheap tactics.

Edited by vdub_bobby, Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:59 AM.

[PressureCooker2600]

67400

First score.....lost 2 lives fighting the damn 3rd boss.

Some tips:
Always stay on the top level....that way you'll see most of the ninjas coming and be able to bust them up while they're in the air.
Best way to beat the first boss and lose no energy.....pop him once and then jump to the next level before he breathes fire. When he jumps, pop him one and then jump back down. Keep using that method and you'll have him beat in no time.
Best way to beat the midget 2nd boss....make sure you keep the nunchuk or dagger you get and you'll be able to whoop his ass quick. Just don't stop wailing on him.
And whenever you beat a level, be sure to bask in the glory of your badness.

[Artlover]

5,400.

[PressureCooker2600]

161300

That train level is a bitch!!

[Blackjack]

Link to the manual in pdf http://www.replaceme...wnload_name.ASC



I just played and I didn't see anywhere to get my score, just continue/end options. Maybe you don't see your score til you get out of the "sucks real bad" category?


Ok, I got 33,200 this time but I had to hit "continue" to see my score.... is that what you guys are doing? I got killed by the guy with the wolverine claws.

Edited by Blackjack, Tue Oct 9, 2007 9:57 PM.

[Blackjack]

BTW....

What's the preferred NES emulator here. I've been using Nestopia, but I've got several.

[vdub_bobby]

Blackjack, on Tue Oct 9, 2007 9:01 PM, said:

BTW....

What's the preferred NES emulator here. I've been using Nestopia, but I've got several.

Use any NES emulator you want. Accuracy is the important factor but, as far as I know, most of the up-to-date emulators are very accurate, at least for most of the games we will likely be playing.

I use Nestopia and FCEU

[vdub_bobby]

31,100

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[PressureCooker2600]

Man, still haven't beaten my hi-score yet.

Got to the train level and got leveled again. Good luck on the boss of the train level......the chain-swinging guy.

[LarcenTyler]

33,800

[rjchamp3]

Games I don't have

not fair mmmm

[PressureCooker2600]

Dang......I thought everyone had Bad Dudes.

It just seems like one of those games I see EVERYWHERE for like 99 cents. So I always imagined it to be like Super Mario Bros., as in everyone had it.

[Blackjack]

rjchamp3, on Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:29 PM, said:

Games I don't have

not fair mmmm

Fire up an emulator, man.

[gdement]

The level 3 boss is hard, I finally got past that only by getting there with lots of lives left. But the bosses on levels 1,2, and 4 all seem to be vulnerable to cheap tactics.
I thought I was going to kill the level 4 boss by hitting him whenever he jumped, but he still got in enough lucky hits to kill me first.


112,500

[PressureCooker2600]

The trick to the fourth boss is to jump in with a kick and then back up....wait for him to do that spinning kick in the mid-air.....and then go at him with a jump kick again.

All I can say on the 3rd boss is to make sure you have a weapon.

[vdub_bobby]

And we're done! Hope you had fun trying to rescue the President!