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Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus

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264 points colejohnson66 | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.313s | source
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pipes ◴[30 Jun 25 15:47 UTC] No.44424698[source]▶
Whenever I'm playing a game via emulation and I get stuck, I do end up wondering if it's a bug in the emulator. This particular issue, I would have assumed the game was designed this way it and is just difficult.

Not quite related, but i get a similar feeling if the game seems really tough: "is this due to emulation latency". I went down a rabbit hole on this one and built myself a mister FPGA!

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1. aidenn0 ◴[30 Jun 25 16:04 UTC] No.44424880[source]▶
I played a lot of bionic commando as a kid. When I loaded it up in an emulator in the early 2000's it was way harder than I rememberd. Then I realized there was an emulation bug where the enemies didn't disappear when you blew up the base, but Ladd still froze; that meant I needed roughly 2 extra life points when clearing a level. Just to see if I could, I did beat it that way once, but never again.