Washington, USAI'm not sure if this is already known, and it doesn't seem like a huge exploit since you are still locked in the machine's room, but I found that if you trash an item in your inventory it will be replaced with Erase-99, before interacting with the machine.
Just curious if anyone knows who originally found this bug where you can exploit the engine to get a ton of money using the Kustera switch glitch?
Seems like a fun exploit that might have some potential for further exploiting if it touches any other part of the code in the game, or if it can effect other death warp/hardware reset exploits.
Not sure myself, just throwing it out there.
I haven't read up on strategies, but from what I've been noticing myself after a few weeks of play are the following.
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Only 2 enemies can be spawned at the same time in any room. I can't verify this for sure, but I'm sure somewhere in a strategy guide, this is mentioned.
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There seems to be some random element to which the enemies are spawned. I had a few funs where I had 4+ critters spawn all in nearly the same x coordinate on the screen.
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The player's gun sprite flashes at different speeds and different colors. On the surface, this appears to only be an artifact of the game engine's sprite rendering logic, but may be tied to something else non-trivial. It appears to have some significance in relation to enemy spawns. Still need to do some research on this.
My suspicion is that the emulator may even lag behind a little bit (maybe not noticeably) but I haven't been able to prove this. It may be best to have the PC set up as a streaming station with a video feed in from the NES hardware. I also assume this has been talked about before at length in the general speedrun forums/discord, but again I haven't spent time looking for comments on this which is my next task.
I have a few other observations that I'll post in a follow-up.
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Very pleased to see more Xenophobe speedrunners.
That is all. :)
-slimehunter
Hello. I'm relatively new to speed running, but I've been playing games since about 1989, and I think this scene is awesome. I'm a somewhat private person, but I'm willing to branch out for something fun like streaming run attempts.
