/vr/ - Retro Games

>insert 99 or 100 credits
>take note of how many you have left at the end of the playthrough
>try to do better on your next play

If you didn't beat the game with 99 credits on your first play, either you seriously need to get good, or the game is shit

All you need to do is like to yourself that it doesn't count as cheating because

>it's only fair the game was made bullshit on purpose to sell strategy guides and because of the big bad rental, because you see this makes total sense, the entire industry's way to get people to buy their games was to do things that the players and reviewers disliked.
>you were only ""practicing""
>modern standards even regarding re-releases lets you save anywhere, rewind, and max out your stats with the click of a button, so why should this gameshark count as cheating?

It's what others do all the time.

Why yes, for me it's classic Mega Man.

Try to convince me that savestates are bad BUT without childish analogies or zoomer posting. Pro-tip: you can't.

>when you map dash to the L button in Mega Man X