Game:

Rhythm Heaven (2008)

Duration: 24:20

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A 1-credit clear of the arcade game Wally o Sagase! [wwallyj], played with WolfMAME 0.257. Where's Waldo in arcade game form. Successfully completed 36/40 stages of the first loop - plus one from the second loop for good measure. This is a pretty silly 1cc project because it's simultaneously very easy and very hard. On the easy side of the ledger: Some stages have only 2 possible hiding spots for Waldo (at least in the first loop), and several bonus stages (like the lumberjack) are trivial. On the hard side: You only have so much time, and once it runs out, that's game over. And some of the "Where's Waldo" sections have a lot of decoys: The be-hatted heads popping out of pots are tricky, the Waldo doppelgangers in space are worse, and the deck of cards on the final "memories of waldo" stage is the worst of all. At least Wenda (or is it Wilma?) keeps us well stocked on ice cream cones to refill our TIMER.

Below are some notes on clearing the game:
- For the button-mashing mini-game, you want to press the button at an *accelerating* speed - just mashing as fast as humanly possible doesn't work.
- For the football-tackle mini-game, I turned up the analog sensitivity and used the keyboard. Mouse control is no good for this one, you need to be ceaselessly scrolling up very fast for multiple seconds. (Not sure how hard this would be with the original trackball)
- There is limited (but long) list of possible errors for the "find the mistake" levels. For instance, in the picture of the animals: The NW tree can have an owl with glasses or flowers added. The NNW lion can be wearing an outfit. The N yellow bird can become a brown bird, white chicken, or monkey. The NE zebra can change colors. A little divot can appear in the NE. The antlers in mid-NW can turn silver, have a bird's nest in them, or have a scroll by their side. The mid-SW giraffe can have something tied to their foot. The SE elephant can have a colorful cape. That's 15 options (and maybe there are a couple more). Anyway: Knowing about these differences ahead of time (especially the less obvious ones) gives you a head start on spotting them. I completely missed the color-changing race car in this run!