Nope, I got totally stuck there. I'm playing on an NES using an N8 Pro. I made a savestate on the cart, I'm not sure how/if the game has battery save. If it does, I can see what happens when I start it up tonight.
I'll report back later tonight (like 10-12 hours from now) and let you know what I can find. I can send the savestate and battery save files as well, if you'd like.
Interesting. I’m aware of a glitch that won’t trigger the fight if you spam the buttons during the dialogue (which I’m in the process of fixing), but to get around that, all you have to do is just talk to him again and you’re good to go.
…But I’ve never heard of the dialogue just failing to trigger altogether! That’s a new one. I’ll dig into it and see what I can find.
in the interest of finishing the game, what happens if you kill yourself on the spikes?
I tried spamming [A] inputs all over around/on the Bobson sprite and couldn't trigger dialogue. Dying in the spikes didn't fix it.
If you ever want somebody to break a game in new and creative ways, I'm your guy 🤣
I'm gonna go live on Twitch in a bit, I'm a super quiet channel, so feel free to drop in if you're around. We can try some stuff and see if we can figure out how I managed to break it so well - I have the same username over there, I don't want to come off as trying to shamelessly plug my stream lol. I can also send you my Everdrive saves, I'm not sure how universal they are, though.
I went back several savestates. The earliest one I have in the castle has one key, and I was about to get the key off the right-hand side, and even at that point the dialogue was broken. One save back from that was at the "weird room". If I restore from there I'm able to clear the castle and get the dialogue no problem... so I honestly have no idea what I did to break it. I tried a few things and couldn't replicate the issue... I really want to figure this out now 🤣
Either way, I was able to beat the game. The first time I got the bad ending, but decided to load state to get the good ending first b/c I had NO idea where the game was going the other way. The bad ending is hilarious. Was there any point to the Lizards?
haha, apparently being able to break games is valuable!
Yeah actually… if you get all the lizards (5, I think?) you’ll be able to talk to the guy outside the castle by the gate. He’ll let you in the back door and you’ll end up in the hallway with the key/skeleton (skipping the first half of the castle)
there’s also a weird passage to get straight to the castle from the beginning of the game, but you won’t have a weapon (unless you get the taser before going to the passage)
And there’s a way to go straight from Rocktown to the mountain cave (skipping the snow)
