ThunderBlade on the SMS... is it possible to finish round 3?

[Alex Kidd]

I've been playing ThunderBlade on the SMS for years, and have never beaten the 3D portion of round 3, and now after so many wrecked helicopters I've decided to use save states on an emulator just so I could see round 4.

But lo and behold even using save states I can't beat it.
There are so many instances where you have helicopters diving in shooting vertically, planes strafing and shooting horizontally, while boats are firing their 'homing' shots that come at you, there is just NO WHERE safe to be.

My only theory is if you can some how earn enough extra lives and not use any up to that point just so you can sacrifice yourself X number of times that these seemingly impossible attack patterns occur.

It kind of frightens me, if I DO make it round 4, how freakin' hard is THAT gonna be?

Is anybody here a good enough ThunderBlade player to pass round 3? emulated or real deal?

Alex Kidd

[ahamilton0953]

I haven't played that one in freaking ages, but, when I was playing it, all I did was lose enough time's to learn the pattern and then just work out of it. Usually I get x distance through, and get killed and just keep plugging away.

[Wavelflack]

Yeah, it's possible. You can't use any patterns by that point, though (clockwise circles, etc.) If I remember right, I would try to start in a corner, watch for one of the boats to start firing it's stream of nerf balls, then slowly work my way around the screen, so that the shots tracked me, but i didn't go fast enough to overlap. Does that make sense?

I made it to the 4th stage 3D section (pipes), and died there. Never beat it.