GBAtemp Arcade Competition #4

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Our sponsor Etcome is offering a new round of free stuff this month: we're going to be shipping out state-of-the-art Nintendo DS flashcards, this is the last competition of 4.

Competition #3 results
Congratulations to Felipe_9595, zackfiles, SilentRevolt, Stratis20, Arras the top 5 scorers for Ten Pin Bowling. Your prizes will be arranged when all 4 competitions are over to facilitate shipping.

What to do
This week, you're required to play Bike Mania 2, a new game we've just set up on our arcade. The top 5 scorers will be getting an R4i Gold Plus Deluxe Edition, one of the best 3DS-compatible DS flashcarts available on the market. You have until April 6th, 23:59 GMT to enter.

Rules
You must be a registered member of GBAtemp to be able to play the game and save your score. Staff is also eligible. We have strong anti-cheat mechanisms in action and anyone trying to bypass them will be severely punished.

R4i Gold Plus Deluxe
This DS flashcard offers some of the most interesting features on the market:
- Nintendo 3DS compatible (won't play 3DS roms, at least not yet)
- Slow motion feature
- Real time save & guide features
- WiFi real-time firmware upgrade
- tons more, check them all out here

Many thanks to our sponsors Etcome for providing tons of gifts again!​


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Check out the official site of the R4i Gold Plus Deluxe
 

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Wow, this game is terrible. I suck at it hard but it's not even fun. Usually I enjoy games that I suck at since I love a challenge, but I can't stand the finicky controls and messed up physics.
 

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Tried 1st level, took 27 seconds (roughly) to get past, tried level 2, RAGE from the beginning after the first jump, that M stone thing was where I screwed up, say 5/6 times before quiting...

edit: restarted level 1, completed in 19 seconds, one try.
 

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This game is pretty damned bad.
I mean there are hundreds of variations of the game but it boils down to this one having the most cumbersome physics engine and a bad control scheme, not worth my wasting my time playing something of such bad quality.

Try something good, like happy wheels instead.

Edit: Actually with some perseverance and practice, this game is entirely surmountable but pretty tough.
Some of the earlier levels seem a bit more bullshit than the later ones though, and it's pretty mean that you can get 0 points for taking too long.
The physics still work against you an awful lot though.

Edit: Balls, I got a score of 3504, but the arcade glitched and did not accept my score.

Edit: I persevered and got the top score of 4152, I'll probably give it another shot because of the levels I got 0 points on.
I guess I couldn't resist the challenge of overcoming something I thought was so flawed, but it really isn't when you get the hang of it.
 

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