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Ristar (1995)

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https://www.patreon.com/ulillillia --- It's a classic technique that works in a lot of video games that have more than 1 life. Ristar has no game clock, and the score gives extra lives every 30,000 points. You'd think of just grinding score, but that takes an incredibly long time. Although I didn't start in the optimal location for decent speed, because I went too far in, I'm still getting 1 extra life every 85 seconds with this.
The key is that, upon death, everything replenishes, except the bonus stage. It just so happens that the first level has 2 extra lives. Get the 2 extra lives, then intentionally die and those lives will come back again. Get the 2 extra lives, then die again. You gain 2 but lose 1, a net difference of a gain of 1. The score also helps in this, speeding it up a little, but it's only slightly.
Ristar uses a ton of 32-scale backgrounds (for the vertical). The most distant mountains are 32 and the next closer ones are 16. The trees across the lake are 4, the pink plants are 2, and the green plants are 1 1/3 (divisor 96).

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