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V-12/Tropyx · Member Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 41 Location: Poland

Back in 2010 I played with No One's Boulder 9 for the first time and realised that cave C is impossible to finish. If both stones were moved one position to the left, it would be possible...

What'ya think guys about this cave?
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Arno · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:24 am Post subject:

I've tried this cave in Krissz' BD remake and succeeded to blast both walls.
With good timing it is possible to pass a firefly right above it, from left to right, without dying.
I haven't tried on the C64 version yet, but I would expect it is also possible in the original BD engine.
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V-12/Tropyx · Member Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 41 Location: Poland

Would be cool to see recorded video of solution from C64. Smile

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Zulder Dash (2009)
Power Dash (2012)

LogicDeLuxe · Member Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 603

There are a lot of caves out there with boulders placed like that. It is not that hard to do. You have to wait under the boulder while a firefly is on its way and move to the right in a correct moment. There are two moments which will work. Moving inbetween, and you will fail. Moving to early or too late, you would fail too, obviously.

Boulder Dash clones with inaccurate physics most likely would make this impossible to do. GDash should be very accurate with this, though.

V-12/Tropyx · Member Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 41 Location: Poland

Thank you for a hint. I'll try my best in next days Smile

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Boulder Dash XII (1999) [own reverse engineering of BDI]
Boulder Dash 2000 (2000)
Fantasy Boulder Dash I (2001)
Zulder Dash (2009)
Power Dash (2012)

V-12/Tropyx · Member Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 41 Location: Poland

It works! With a proper timing it works. Amazing. Smile

So I can confirm - cave C in this game is playable! Smile

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Boulder Dash XII (1999) [own reverse engineering of BDI]
Boulder Dash 2000 (2000)
Fantasy Boulder Dash I (2001)
Zulder Dash (2009)
Power Dash (2012)

Arno · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:17 pm Post subject:

Congrat!

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V-12/Tropyx · Member Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 41 Location: Poland