syltefar.com: Jackal

log entries

2014-12-11
• 4860
  My first game of NES Jackal went pretty well. I completed 2/6 levels. Cool version of the awesome arcade game.
2015-02-24
• 5107
  Yeah, Jackal feels great in 60 Hz!
• 5108
  The stage 2 music reminds me a bit of Golden Axe.
• 5109
  Reached level 3/6. You have 3 continues.
2016-10-02
• 7007
  I freakin' love this game. Everything about it. I'm not great at it, though, I am in so much trouble in stage 3, especially the battleship boss.
• 7008
  Reached level 4/6. Combining machine gun and grenades or rockets made short work of the battleship turrets.
• 7009
  Reached level 5/6. It took 7 grenades to take out the big helicopter boss.
• 7010
  Reached level 6/6. The level 5 base boss wasn't difficult at all.
• 7011
  The turreted base in level 6 was too much to deal with. I'm going to get it at some point, though...
• 7017
  After looking at some maps from videogamemaps.net, I think I should avoid the heavily defended base in Stage 6 and just go to the right instead.
• 7018
  Dammit! So close to the end of level 6. Helicopters and spread shot turrets are the main problems for me right now.
2016-10-03
• 7019
  Two times more I made it to level 6, now playing on the mednafen emulator to be able to stream the whole thing to YouTube. The last attempt went well, and I reached the final boss. But it was too much. Maybe tomorrow.
Failure x 2
2016-10-26
• 7128
  Bjørn was visiting, and we played a game of Jackal on the old NES.
2018-05-13
• 8578
  Another good NES game that Thomas and I tried, but it crashed. I wonder if I should buy a top-loader NES or something?
2019-04-17
• 9606
  I bought a new NES on dba.dk and picked it up in Gentofte. I'm currently testing it out, and it seems very stable so far. The guy I bought it from was using it for world record score attempts, so that makes sense. I played the 3 first levels of Jackal, worked perfectly.
2019-09-18
• 10010
  I just made a RetroAchievements account and tried playing Jackal on the RANes emulator. It's a mod of FCEUX with support for achievements. I got 4 achievements from playing through the first level.
2020-07-04
• 10861
  OK, Jackal works on the MiSTer. This is going to work out, I think.