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Donkey Kong Strategy => Basic Donkey Kong Strategy => Topic started by: bradtech519 on August 20, 2018, 10:30:36 am
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I've been going to the point where I am making it to the 3rd elevator stage on Mame & arcade. Today I was playing my best game ever since starting on 8/10/18 which was 10 days ago. I had 85k & 3 men left. I lost all 3 men/lives on the spring. I was taking two steps forward at the top, waiting for a spring to load on the gold squad below Kong, and taking off running. Seems like a 2nd spring killed me each time before I could make it to the gold squad below kong. I've watched youtube videos and read other posts. Seems like I have a mental block going on. I've came a long way in 10 days but this seems to be the hardest road block for me. I made it back to the barrel board before it & got taken out by 2 wild barrels with two lives remaining. What kind of strategies or methods did you guys use when starting out to get past this stage? I had a goal of 100k by this Friday 8/24/18. I guess I could try doing save states on just this level.
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oops, looks like I missed this https://donkeykongforum.net/index.php?topic=492.0
Just saw it after posting.
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Save state for sure until you get comfortable enough with spotting when to go/retreat. Oddly enough once you figure that screen out you should basically never die on it.
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I had enough time to get 3 games in today on an arcade cabinet. I nailed it 3 of 3 times. I still don't think I have the retreat mental/muscle memory down yet. Could be that I got lucky the times I did on the arcade cabinet. I play mostly on a keyboard at home. But when I get on the cabinet I seem to do even better than I do at home on mame. I scored 120,400, 110,700, and 96,600. The speed of the flames on the pie factory kind of caught me off guard. Another time I got nailed twice on the 2nd to top girder trying to get the hammer. Could have done better if some randomized things went more my way.