Midway Arcade Origins

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Reality Show-Off

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How to unlock the Reality Show-Off achievement in Midway Arcade Origins - Definitive Guide

MotorexGTR32

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08 Nov 2012 22:50

People, don't fret this notoriously difficulty arcade game. If you get this correct what I'm about to tell you. You will get this achievement in an easy way. All you have to do is press A rapidly when you are about to lose a last life. If done correctly, you will get an extra continue and it give you 6 lives. The catch is you must have 500,000 points or higher in order to get this trick work.

Keep practice collect gifts, money and power ups as much as you can to help you to process first level. Follow the path to the bottom of the map to the boss. Easy way to kill the Muntiod Man Stay on top left and shoot him with power up gun and you will have no problem with it. Personally, doing bottom of the maps is more easier then upper part of the map.

Rapidly A Continue trick credit goes to KTILLA23. He discovered it by an accident and told me about it over XBL. I have his permission to use the trick he discovered. Thank you, KTILLA23.

If you have a trouble with this, please leave the comment. I will leave a comment to help for any more tips. Thank you for positive vote...for those who gave a negative vote, please leave a comment otherwise.

08 Nov 2012 22:50

87 Comments

Help! lol God i hate smash tv. anyways...

Ok, so I can glitch to work. SOMETIMES. sometmes however, it just gives me a game over. my strategy has been to , on my last life, just to pound the a button till i die. like i said, its not 100%. is there a specific time the a button must be pressed exactly?

Also, in testing. when it does work, i will go ahead and just waste all my lives to see if it will also work a second time. never has, so is this glitch just once per game? or have u been able to do it multiple times.

any info would be great. Thanks!

johnnymurder138

By JohnnyMurder138 on 09 Nov 2012 01:47

Okay, like I said in the guide, it has to be over 50,000 points or higher in order to make this work. I ran out of my lives in the tank control arena before the boss room, the Muntiod Man. When you see 1 life left on the top left of your screen, be prepare and expect to die then press A until the game over appears where the lives tab are. If done right, you should get an extra continue that has 5 or 6 lives just like you had when you started the game. If you still have a trouble with it, contact KTILLA23 on xbl. Hes the one that discovered it and tested it a few times to make sure it works. Hope this help and good luck.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Nov 2012 02:00

Tried it 3 times, all 3 times it didn't work.

By capicawl on 09 Nov 2012 04:31

^^ i could only get this to work in early rooms, when i didnt need it.
3 hours later, i ended up just doing this legit lol

By JohnnyMurder138 on 09 Nov 2012 04:51

Ktilla told me over xbl about the trick he discovered and i was skeptical at first. the first time i tried it, it didnt work. maybe i wasnt fast enough to press button A right before hes about to die. so i tried the second time, it worked.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Nov 2012 05:26

You need at least 500,000 points for this to work not 50,000!!!

By on 09 Nov 2012 10:41

thank you for clarified this, badmrfrostyxxx.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Nov 2012 13:56

I had over 500,000 every time. Ill give it another go today.

By capicawl on 09 Nov 2012 14:21

you dont need 500,000/ I tested this in the 2nd room (you can easily get 50k in the first room) in the 2nd room i can get this to work, everytime, but it seems like in later levels when you really need it, it doesnt work. at least for me!

By JohnnyMurder138 on 09 Nov 2012 16:05

you only get 50k once to get it work. not sure if it add up again to make this work. i never had an issue with run out of lives. like i said aboved, conserve your lives and fight all the way to the tank control room which you more likely to die the last one then use button a trick to get extra 6 lives. By the time you have 6 lives, you will finish the tank control room and move to the muntiod man room to face the boss.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Nov 2012 16:22

not sure if it is 50k or 500k but ill ask ktilla about it.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Nov 2012 16:35

Ok i see some people having problems getting this glitch to work, so I'll just get everything cleared. Yes you do need 500,000 to do it, i must of looked at it wrong but just tested it and it's 500,000 score you need. Like Motorex said once you get the the Tank Control room is when you should use this continue glitch. It works 99% of the time for me. And yes you can only do this once a game, I've tried to do it at 1,000,000 to see if it's every 500,000 but it's not . If you have any other question about getting it to work just ask here. :)

By KTILLA23 on 09 Nov 2012 18:12

Thank you, Ktilla23. hope this cleared up the misunderstanding, the original guide i said was 50,000 which i was wrong. so now its 500,000 points so thanks again, ktilla.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Nov 2012 23:22

Thumbs up from me! Also in case you guys wanted to know, I used this trick in the room directly before Mutoid Man and I got it to work first try. My total score was close to 1,000,000.

By johnnyjohnathan on 18 Dec 2012 15:06

Yup, that's where I did the trick, too. I believe the room you referring to the tank control room. Thanks for the thumb up, johnnyjonathan!

By MotorexGTR32 on 18 Dec 2012 19:19

I cant get this Glitch to work, I even borrowed a friends turbo controller and taped down A on turbo and after 10 times it has never worked. WHY?!?!?

By The Dauntless on 22 Dec 2012 18:25

Nevermind, took like 2 hours but did it without the glitch.

By The Dauntless on 22 Dec 2012 19:28

Ok, to be clear. You need to press A button when you are about to die. I suggests you to press A button before you die. Not after. When you did it correctly, it will says continue? where your life icon tab are, press A again.

By MotorexGTR32 on 25 Dec 2012 18:05

Ive tryed every method mentioned and only managed to get the glitch to work ONCE. are you sure its A your suposed to press becuase im sure the time it worked for y i was twiddeling the right stick.......

By Twits Funeral on 29 Dec 2012 17:36

Yes, Im positive. You need to press A button rapidly BEFORE you about to die. Its better than too late. I got it worked twice in a row to make sure.

By MotorexGTR32 on 30 Dec 2012 02:19

Score is irrelevant. I did this with 362K.

By Ibanez V7 on 09 Jan 2013 11:46

Massive thumbs up from me. Got it 4th attempt with this trick, although I only needed 1 of the extra lives to get me through Mutoid Man.

You just have to be tapping the button really rapidly. Worked every time.

By Rabbs on 16 Jan 2013 20:35

Thanks for the thumb up and the comment, Rabbska. Glad you got it.

By MotorexGTR32 on 17 Jan 2013 02:46

Hmmm... I've failed to get this to work eight times in a row. When I'm getting to my last life I'm not even playing the game, just tapping A as fast as I can (which is pretty fast). I've had well over 500,000 each time, too.

By PaulEMoz on 20 Jan 2013 20:46

I had given up all hope for this to work, I tried it at least 20 times, but I FINALLY had it work in the boss room, after that it was easy. The glitch is obviously quite random, I don't think you can really count on it always working, at least I couldn't.

By RadiantViper on 24 Jan 2013 05:40

Thanks for the comments, people. I cant quite figured out why it doesnt work for some people here. As I recalled, Killa told me he got it work a several times no problem and same for me except for the first time that I didnt get it right.

RadiantViper, again thanks for the comment and glad you got the achievement. At least, thats all it matters.

By MotorexGTR32 on 24 Jan 2013 09:13

There must be some weird random circumstance necessary for this to happen. I've tried it tens of times without any luck. I'm at the point where I might get it legitimately soon, as I've just had my best game, getting to Mutoid Man with two lives left (and not a single extra life pickup). When I was down to my last life I just stood there and hammered A for all I was worth, and absolutely nothing happened.

By PaulEMoz on 24 Jan 2013 22:15

Works! Tried it a dozen times an it worked only 3 times, but it worked! Thanks a lot for your help!

By Tormentor75 on 25 Jan 2013 17:22

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I do feel bad for some people who reported it that it doesn't work for them and had to do it in a legit way which is why I provided a youtube video to get an idea.

By MotorexGTR32 on 25 Jan 2013 20:15

Does it work in Multiplayer too?

By Vossey van Joss on 26 Jan 2013 18:27

Nope, all achievements only works on single player (arcade). For Smash TV, you must do solo for this achievement.

By MotorexGTR32 on 26 Jan 2013 21:57

I got the cheat code to work in the last room and 2nd to last room before the boss. I did not pound the A button as fast as I could.

By FAR QZ on 04 Feb 2013 04:53

This is very frustrating!

By PaulEMoz on 12 Feb 2013 22:11

I got the continue to work several times but managed to get the achievement without it in the end.

By Beanpotter on 17 Feb 2013 13:15

I love the whole premise of this solution is to use a "cheat code" that doesn't actually work. I guess this is what passes for guides these days.

By Flik Nightshade on 19 Feb 2013 01:35

Spamming A at last life worked for me. I was two rooms away from the boss so on my last guy, i just stood still and hammered A for a couple seconds before I died and received 7 extra lives.

By vSully on 19 Feb 2013 04:41

I must say, I haven't downvoted it even though I can't get it to work, because obviously plenty of others have. I'll keep trying every time I get close so that if I can't get this legitimately I might finally manage it one way or the other one day.

By PaulEMoz on 09 Mar 2013 10:45

Paul, it is indeed frustrating doing a legit way. Wish I could help you somehow...keep trying in a legit way or my solution way. You eventually will get it regardless. Good luck.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Mar 2013 22:59

i've had the continue on about 450.000 so there goes the 500k theory... Last night I had this happening pretty frequently, while other nights i only get the continue once or twice...

I was thinking, could it have something to do with the date or something? as this happened to me earlier... one day i got loads of continues and other days i got only a few.

By NeoSm0ke on 11 Mar 2013 14:54

Very interesting, NeoSmoke. I may try it out at my friend's later on and find out the result.

By MotorexGTR32 on 12 Mar 2013 02:13

I unlocked the achievement today. Once you know how to deal with the boss it'll be alot easier to get the achievement. Think I'll put a solution up for the tactics on the boss :) 1k'ed this game with ease except for this achievement. But I like a challenge! :D

By NeoSm0ke on 12 Mar 2013 03:06

I got the rapid a trick to work without the rapid fire. I'm not sure if the trick just doesnt work if you don't tap fast enough or if it's just random, but it didn't work on every attempt. Make sure that you aren't completely reliant on the second chance though. I was able to keep myself alive until just before I entered the boss fight

By I am Mindslave on 20 Jun 2013 03:32

I'll up vote because this did work a couple times for me, but I ended up doing it legit because I couldn't rely on it. The 3 times it did work, I got murdered by the boss.

By Snowsux on 17 Sep 2013 19:07

Thanks for the "type A Gltich" very helpfull

By xEndriux on 11 Oct 2013 07:44

Thanks, Snowsux and xEndriux!

By MotorexGTR32 on 18 Nov 2013 02:09

got this to work with only 100,000 score too bad the games so hard that continue doesn't help :( oh and if the solution creator still checks this the video no longer exists.

By Jay Insomniak on 06 Jan 2014 18:51

Oh it isn't? Thanks for the head up.

By MotorexGTR32 on 14 Jan 2014 03:10

I tried it many times, and it did not work.

By rooee on 03 Mar 2014 22:26

Rooee, I'm sorry to hear that. I do not know what caused not to work. What I did was killing all the way to the last room before the boss room, this room what most people tends to die at....as soon as you know you are about to die, tapping "A" button as fast as you can. This should work for you as I tested it at friend's. Please read I am Mindslave's comment a few posts above. Good luck.

By MotorexGTR32 on 09 Mar 2014 04:26

took me 2 hours. tried glitch like 15times but didn't work. I died so many times trying to get all score for glitch. I stopped trying glitch and went legit. not that hard. Got to boss with 1 extra life and managed fine

By DarkyDan on 04 May 2014 19:32

I can confirm using a turbo controller works 99% of the time getting the glitch continue.

By AKA Swede on 20 May 2014 05:17

pure crap didn't work

By on 13 Jun 2014 07:38

It does work though... Maybe you're just pure crap at trying it

By Jay Insomniak on 13 Jun 2014 08:09

The continue worked for me with turbo controller on a fresh game. Just continuing after a game over did not work after the second time. Thumbs up!

By LausDomini on 09 Jul 2014 02:20

This, helped thank you. Took a few goes, but I managed to get it to work on the boss room.

By OhOneOneOh on 24 Oct 2014 10:47

Thanks for this tip. If you've got a turbo controller, the continue exploit is a huge advantage.

By The Wesker on 18 May 2015 21:41

Worked on the 2nd try for me (both run ended in the boss room, was pumped when the second attempt gave me 7 bonus lives). I was using a Hori turbo controller with auto-turbo functionality.

By JORAX on 27 Aug 2015 23:57

I got it to work, but a solution on how to actually play the game and which doors are the best to go through would have been nice.

While I got this glitch to work, it still wasn't enough to get me through the game.

By Wanderer128 on 01 Sep 2015 20:52

Haha litterally the next time I tried after my previous post I did it. 7 lives in the room right before mutinoid. I probably tried this achievement 5 or 6 times each session being a couple hours.
Patience is key, try the glitch every time even though it doesn't work all the time, and hope to get lucky with the right weapon drops. I wouldn't have done this without everyones advice thanks!

By The Eyeless on 22 Dec 2015 20:06

This one was pretty brutal, struggled with this one more then any other in the collection. I didn't have any prior experience with Smash TV so it took me most of the day practicing. It seemed like drops were pretty random, so it took the right series of drops for me to get to the boss with a few lives left.

I ended up in the boss zone with 3 lives remaining, and defeated him on my last life.

As far as the glitch, I didn't have my turbo controller handy and rammed A as fast as I could and in a few instances hit all the buttons as a few people mentioned it on various forums. I never got it to work, but I got there legit in the end :).

Good Luck! Just keep trying until you get the right drop order.

By ModernViking on 29 Apr 2018 18:17

I managed to get the glitch to work only once, but I ended up doing it legit. I wouldn't recommend going through all the top rooms, but instead follow the solution with the video guide (currently the bottom one). I found that sequence of rooms much easier to go through than across the top in the money room.

By iTz Canada Ehh on 26 Apr 2021 17:32

Wow thanks so much

By Leap Of Faith77 on 17 Jul 2021 19:14

Dumb question regarding the glitch: how do I know when I'm about to die? Is there something on the screen to use as a cue? Or do I just predict, "uh, oh, I'm gonna be toast in half a second, better try the glitch"? I tried pressing A then immediately walking into a bomb - I was "about to die," right? But that didn't work.

By Lt Davo on 23 Jul 2021 05:05

If you're on your last life, and then get hit, just start spamming A straight away and hope you get it. If you pull it off at any point you should succeed on that run getting this achievement easily. I got it to work on my second run and was just hopeful more than anything, was surprised when I got the continue.

By Leap Of Faith77 on 23 Jul 2021 05:16

The top left thing is the timer/usage of the current weapon pick up I believe, such as tri-shot or rpg etc. Have a look next time you play to see if it's that.
And the blue orb copies your attacks for its duration. So if you have an rpg for example, you'll be firing two lines of rockets. Works with them all even just the normal machine gun, have you not noticed the bullets coming from it when you pick it up?
Think maybe the buzzer is the red balls about to spawn in maybe??

By Leap Of Faith77 on 24 Jul 2021 01:50

Any other tips? I'm on attempt 173 and I'm raging lol

By Alpha Wolf#4670 on 25 Jul 2021 23:12

I genuinely had more trouble with the Joust 2 achievement than this. Joust 2 took me 20+ attempts whereas this was only 5/6. If you get the glitch, that run should be a win, 7 lives + another 7 lives with the continue is plenty. If it's true that it doesn't work on tank trouble than I suggest purposely dying on crowd control to get the extra 7 lives. 7 should be enough to get through tank trouble, and as long as you kill the red balls in the boss room you shouldn't lose a live at all for the boss. Just stay top left, I never got hit once there.

By Leap Of Faith77 on 26 Jul 2021 04:03

Ahhhhhhh!!!? I mash A so hard at last death and get no extra lives! Lol. Def have 500k but no life's pop. I will smash u TV!!!!!!

By BILB0 FR4GGINS on 29 Jul 2021 00:38

I tried this about a hundred times and could not get the glitch to work. However all that practice did mean I was eventually good enough to get the achievement legit lol

By VeryMetalChewie on 19 Aug 2021 20:37

the trick only worked once when I had 1 million points knowing that every time I died I pressed A.

By Flitsune on 25 Sep 2021 01:14

It actually is all luck based guys spent a good 6 hours trying to complete just this and I ended up with 6 life’s with mutoid man and finished off with 4 life’s left just gotta pick up all the life’s possible and stay around the middle and then with mutoid man knock the gunners out and then the robots aim is really bad so I just stuck a few metres away and on the left side and all the spawns dropped right in front of me basically hope this helps hell of a achievement

By NinjaDeathStorm on 16 Jun 2022 11:51

When something is "all luck," it isn't possible to get better at it.

By Lt Davo on 16 Jun 2022 13:08

This rapid pushing "A" guide is fake news lmao, don't let it distract you in the most critical part of your game

By I K1LL U G00D on 07 Oct 2022 03:11

The rapidly A trick does work. Not everytime, but it does.

By iAccountAlive on 24 Nov 2022 19:54

My God this was difficult. I couldn't get the extra life thing to work so I had to do it legit. Beat the boss while on my very last life. Took me at least 2 hours of attempting this until I finally got lucky enough to win

By DJBringa on 07 Jan 2023 19:22

Glitch works, just not all the time

By wildwest08 on 02 Jan 2024 06:38

yall who grew up in the 80s were down bad being forced to play this garbage

By Based Cooper on 03 May 2024 03:01

@Based Cooper
When you had to put another quarter in when you died, that made you a lot more invested in it. Also, getting to put your initials on the leaderboard was SWEET.

By Lt Davo on 03 May 2024 21:36

I had a better luck with the glitch if I paused the game rapidly along with hitting the A button. Sometimes I would purposely kill myself so I could start doing it before I died. This was working well for me but when I finally got this achievement I got lucky and did it without the glitch. I got good item drops and 3 extra lives and beat the first stage on my last life. This game can just be random, anyway good luck guys!!!

By RockMan Respect on 27 Dec 2012 20:45

Jeez, Flik Nightshade...I would have not put up a solution if it doesn't work. It indeed works as I described. 15 people voted it positive which clearly tells you that it worked for them as well. 3 do not for whatever the reason, unfortunately. I felt that it's my duty to help people out in an easy and possible way to do. Or people chosen not to, it's their choice to do a legit way which is fine with me. I have no problem with that at all.

Good, vSully. I'm glad it worked out well for you. Thanks for your comment.

By MotorexGTR32 on 19 Feb 2013 05:36

I just unlocked it using a turbo controller with auto-fire. As soon as I started playing I set the "A" button to auto-fire and had it at the highest speed setting. With it on rapid auto-fire I could just concentrate on playing and as soon as I lost my last life, the game gave me the continue. The auto-fire feature makes it easier since I didn't have to worry about when to hit the "A" button and how fast.

By BrutalGuitar on 26 Apr 2013 00:59

I got the trick to work a bunch yesterday. But now i keep making it to the room before mutinoid and dying, and I can't get it to work.
I kind of felt that the x button was playing a part in getting the glitch to happen, when i tried the button mashing technique. I've also tried hammering just "A" without success (which is quite fast).
I have a feeling getting some lucky drops near the end will end up making this happen without the glitch, although it doesn't hurt to try I guess.
Finishing this is proving to be a chore, but for how easy the rest of the game was it seems fitting ending it with a real challenge.

By The Eyeless on 22 Dec 2015 19:18

Got it! The Mutoid Man was on his last phase and then I lost my last life. I was about to get absolutely livid, but then I pressed the A button three times after my death not expecting it to work, and got seven extra lives.. So no one really knows how to get this to reliably work or what is needed. Just have to keep trying and you will get it eventually!

By SincereSeeker6 on 21 Jul 2021 20:50

Thanks for that. I've managed to get it to work a very low percentage of the time. I know I will get this eventually. I've managed to make it to the boss a few times, but never with more than 2 extra lives. The onslaught of red balls at the start always claims one, giving me very little margin for the rest.

If anyone is feeling helpful, there are a few more things I haven't figured out:
1. The meaning of the segmented red/green indicator at the top left. It starts at all green, "depletes" to red over time, and refills all at once to green. I can't tell what makes it deplete, what makes it refill, or why it matters.
2. The function of the pickup that causes one blueish orb to spin around the player sprite.
3. The meaning of the sound that sounds like a warning buzzer.
4. Why the extra life marker looks like Paul McCartney circa 1964.

By Lt Davo on 24 Jul 2021 01:42

I agree with Leap of Faith77, the Joust 2 achievement is was harder.

For this one I went the "lower path" since I would die more frequently on the "upper path". There is also lot of luck required to have a "good run" for this achievement. I had several additional lives spawn on my way to the boss so I did not take advantage of the "secret continue". What caused me most of the trouble where enemies entering the room while I was standing next to a door and killing me and getting killed while going for a weapon or a bonus. BTW the best bonus is probably the shield. In the end I was lucky enough to enter the boss room with a rocket launcher and get a shield right away and additional heavy weapons before any of the shrapnel enemies could spawn. I think the boss got even stuck in my constant attack.

All in all it took me around 1 hour/5-6 proper attempts to get the achievement.

By Fejer on 26 Jul 2021 07:36

I'm shocked this worked, I was at the last room fighting the boss with one life left and I had about 1.2 million points. I rapidly pressed 'A' and was able to continue with another 6 or 7 lives. I finished the boss with a single life left.

By RagnarokSOTU on 17 Nov 2022 15:24

OK, I took close to that many attempts, but did get it, so I'll share my thoughts:
1. When the path splits, go down.
2. Power-ups, power-ups, power-ups. Look for them to appear and get all of them that you can. The movement boost and blue companion orb are decent, and all the rest are awesome.
3. You're less likely than you'd think to get hit when moving and shooting in the same direction. Remember that when going for power-ups. Point your feet and gun in the same direction and go get it, especially if it's a carpet bomb or invincibility!
4. It sounds obvious, but don't run into landmines. Remember where they are, so that when stuff covers them, you won't hit one. During your typical playthrough, how many landmines do you hit? If your answer isn't ZERO, you really need to work on that.
5. Don't underestimate the shrapnel guys that lurk around the edges. Pay attention to them and take them out quickly.
6. I never got the extra lives glitch to work on the penultimate level ("Tank Trouble"), but it worked pretty reliably for me on the preceding one ("Crowd Control"). The playthrough where I got the achievement was one where I got the glitch to work on that level and finished it without losing another life. I had six extra lives for the last two levels, which was enough.

By Lt Davo on 26 Jul 2021 03:53

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AutomaticOcelot

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09 Feb 2013 16:51

I have played a lot of Smash TV, so getting this achievement on my second try was what I expected.

When choosing your path through the first level, I have always found it easier to go up at the first junction. It is shorter (or at least the rooms go faster) and the cash room will boost your score as well, which is the point of Score Attack anyway. ;) You will avoid the longer Shrapnel rooms, and the upper route has the lowest occurrence of the swarming spheres that I noticed.

Extra lives and nukes spawn randomly, and it's possible to get up to 8 lives after the first 3 rooms. Another tip is that you can slip through crowds of melee enemies as long as you have enough speed to avoid their swings.

09 Feb 2013 16:51

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I tried the upper area, but to be honest it felt a lot more difficult and I would lose more lives than going the lower path.

By Fejer on 26 Jul 2021 07:24

I went upwards since I was losing almost all of my lives going downwards. Did it first try going upwards! I did get super lucky with the shields though; I had multiple times where I was getting back-back-back shields so I was staying alive for more than 40+ seconds just cause of the shields.

If you're struggling going either upwards or downwards, do the opposite. Upwards is more difficult, but because of the shields I breezed past the levels. Went into the boss fight with 3 lives, the most I had going into the boss fight.

In the boss fight. After you destroy the turrets, just stay in the top-left corner and ONLY get powerups you're able to get safely. The fight took me about 10 minutes because I wasn't getting lucky with powerups spawning on the left side of the room. Whenever I got the shield, I was always being aggressive trying to find a weapon on the other side of room, then I would bring it back to the top-left and rinse and repeat.

By GrowShah on 28 Jul 2021 03:15

mongrominet

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02 Dec 2015 07:55

very very hard achievement "" REALITY SHOW OFF "" = i find this - YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK = achievement unlocked at 5 ' 29 " (( 5 minutes and 29 seconds of this youtube video )) =

youtube video - credits = "" deNNis5Hopp ""
youtube - channel of this video =
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfcMf5bHNJmYYpvSWJSYjfQ

02 Dec 2015 07:55

NeoSm0ke

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12 Mar 2013 03:41

In addition to the video solution, I'd like to explain this boss fight a little more. Understanding the fight is key to victory!

- You'll most likely get a couple of red balls at first, destroy these and then the boss will be there.

- When the boss spawns, kill the 2 little guys in front of his "feet" for them to stop shooting these red balls at you .

- When you're done with those 2 little fellas, focus on grabbing a powerup, and then stay in the upperleft corner like in the video.

- If you do it right, at some point the boss will loose its arms, and after that the head. At this point the boss can't fire at you anymore and blue fat guys will appear. If you can finish 'em off but the boss is a bigger priority here!

- At this point, he will be immune to regular bullets, so pickup the powerups again to kill off his armor, turning him into an egg sitting in a tank.

- Pickup rocket launcher/grenade launchers?? and keep hitting him, you can even hit him from any side now.

When you pass this stage, he will explode. Just walk into the exit and the achievement is yours.

I hope this helps!

12 Mar 2013 03:41

Scorpionxx0

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29 Jul 2021 18:58

After a lot of trial & error I’ve found the best route is to go down, I tried the up route multiple times & ended up losing alot more lives then I needed to. Plus the up route has a bonus round that is very long & constantly sends tons of enemies at you.

Now for the boss fight you need to remember one thing: their is no time limit so don’t try to rush through it or you will lose. Try to stay at the top left & wait for a power-up to spawn, if it spawns to close to the boss or looks like you may die getting it then just ignore it & wait for the next one. Your standard gun doesn’t affect the boss but will destroy the projectiles he sends your way. Also beware of the sharpness guys that spawn in.

Good luck, you’ll need it for this achievement.

29 Jul 2021 18:58

h4mm32

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This will be the pain of the game. The first try it took me 7-8 attempts but in order to practice the method it took another 30+ until I beat it again. It has to be done in score attack without continues available

The pick-ups I had spawn meant everything, I wasn't the greatest at this game and needed at least 2 extra lives and some good luck with the barrier blades and spread shots. Invincibility can prove extremely useful as well if they drop for you. The usage left on a pickup weapon is displayed under the score.

I did this without the continue glitch, it never worked for me. For the most part learning the game will be the deciding factor in you netting this achievement, roughly being able to make it to the fourth room without dying is the first key. Once you have mastered this making it further will be mostly dependent on your drops or if you have a history of being a NG: black S rank master (skill). As you progress through each room stay to center as much as possible, it allows for the most versatility on pickups and the longest amount of time versus enemies, Focus on getting wall snipers down as quick as possible as they only add to the pain of things. Invincibility can be used to destroy large groups of enemies by simply walking through them but monitor your item Usage left as to not waste lives.

If you can make it to the Mutoid man boss room your relatively in the clear, he is a giant tank that will bounce back and forth near the bottom of the screen allowing you to get past on the northern most wall, hug it closely. Clear out the bad guys watch out for the occasionally shrapnel spawn and play smart, he will drop required special weapons to destroy him. I focused on only getting the rocket launcher to maintain great distance as to not risk deaths. Just focus on destroying the sections of tread and his body he will blow up a couple of times and then you will get this.

Mayadome

TrueTrophies

02 Jan 2018 13:17

There's a little trick to making this trophy way easier. When you're on the last life and die which would otherwise result in a game over, mash X as fast as you can as you die and the game should continue with another 7 lives. You must also have 500,000 points for this to work. I found dying on purpose in the 2nd last or last room before the boss to refill all your lives is best, that way you should have 500,000 by then and go into the boss room with 7 lives.

02 Jan 2018 13:17

kakihara301

PlaystationTrophies

Well. Here it is. Your punishment for easy trophies in this collection. Smash TV. An excellent twin-stick shooter that also happens to be crazy challenging - especially in Score Attack mode. Definitely the hardest trophy in the game. The premise is simple enough. Think "Running Man" with a MUCH higher body count. You just have to get through 6 increasingly difficult rooms with 100's of bad guys before facing off with the boss of the first level, Mutoid Man.

This will definitely test your skill and patience. Here is what I found helps -

Take the bottom path when given the choice. The bonus money round up top is way too tough to consistently have a chance.
Luck is very important. How well you do is based off of what the game gives you for power-ups.
The best power-ups? Extra lives. The invincibility shield. The spread gun.
You have an invincibility shield after each death for a few seconds. USE IT!
You don't have to take out the big exploding shrapnel guys, but be aware of their shrapnel.
When you get into a room with Wall-Mounted turret guys, try to take them out before baddies start to spawn.
Take out Tank guys, Wall-Mounted turret guys and the bouncing red orbs ASAP!
Conserve power-up ammo when you can, especially good stuff like spread gun, RPG's, etc.
It's a given, but try to conserve your lives. It's safe to have around 4 or 5 lives left when you get to second to last room - Tank Control.
When you get to Mutoid Man's room, prepare for bouncing red orbs first, then focus as much as you can on his left turret. After that, get behind him. He can't hit you from the left behind him. Just be wary of his turrets, if they remain. Cautiously grab power-ups and spam him from behind him (keeping in mind your regular gun doesn't hurt him) - NEVER GET IN FRONT OF HIM! Also, be wary of the big exploding guys that come in and their shrapnel.

Be forewarned. This may take hours to defeat. But keep at it. Eventually you'll know patterns and get a good run with killer power-ups! Once Mutoid Man is defeated, that sweet, sweet gold is all yours!

yosiking

stratege.ru

24 May 2015 09:36

This guide was translated automatically.

you can cheat when you lose all your lives, quickly press the button

then you will still live

this can only be done once per game

24 May 2015 09:36

T1tan

stratege.ru

04 Jan 2013 01:35

This guide was translated automatically.

the boss in the first level is VERY tenacious, so the tactic “keep moving slowly will continue” works best, don’t get into trouble, stay in the upper corners of the room, kill the blue kamikazes and wait for weapons and power-ups to appear and only with their help deal damage to the boss.

04 Jan 2013 01:35