I recently knocked out a TAS for this game ( ) and I may have solved the chopper dilemma.

Memory value 0x0019 displays the chopper's health starting at 18. (If anyone has video evidence of them getting 17 or 16 kills to beat the boss, please let me know.) I tried numerous things and it always started at 18. It decrements by 1 each time an enemy has killed, but not all kills count.

It seems like if you hit the enemy twice (either from a standalone double hit or like, kick them in mid air then hit them again on the ground) that it doesn't decrement the counter for that kill. This was consistent across all my tests.

Janky game is janky.

Thank you for doing this Chard!