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Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (1996)

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A 1-credit clear of the arcade game Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo [spf2t], played with WolfMAME 0.273. I've cleared this on Easy difficulty before (including a game on cab), now the clear has been upgraded to a run on Normal. Score: 271,230.

Here I'm copying some strategies I saw ‪@jacob-spring‬ using. The first trick is to stack things on the left as fast as possible, rushing to get the diamond. (This stacking trick is really strong on the HD remix version, where you can press up to insta-drop a piece, so stacking can go very fast indeed). The other trick is: Drop the piece with the diamond down a narrow 1-square chimney (so it can't rotate, just flip top+bottom), and just as the piece hits the ground, do a flip - that causes the diamond to send more junk over to the other side than it would normally.

With those two tricks in hand, the game is...still not that easy! I lost several earlier attempts to Akuma, and I was absolutely fighting for my life during the Ken mirror match. But eventually I had a run where enough skill and luck came together to scrape out a clear.