VGLongplays 20 Mar 2021 23:28

Not getting the 100m achievement and mastering this before the onslaught of new achievements hurts now

Kinglink 14 Jun 2021 21:30

The demo gives you an achievement for escaping from the the level 1 beast. Otherwise this is awesome. Also an awesome title.

MGNS8M 17 Jun 2021 01:50

I did fix that as I mentioned.

TindalosKeeper 31 Jul 2021 22:16

Sorry, but games that rely on randomness over skill are going down on my list of games that need completion. Do better next time. Specially when you want people to complete the whole game without dying once, and seeing reports of people not being awarded the achievements while using Level Select makes it even crazier.

Kinglink 1 Aug 2021 01:32

This list is perfectly fine dude. If you don't like randomness don't play games heavy with it. It's not the achievement list issue that you don't see the skill in the title.

TindalosKeeper 1 Aug 2021 02:02

I never said I wasn't going to play on it, I'll have a look at it eventually, but I find this type of games on the bottom of my list of to-do achievements because I'll take a lot of energy when I could do something more fun and manageable and within my control, with little bullshit in the middle, the type of bullshit that I'd say "Oh, that was my own fault, I did a mistake and was punished for it", not "Oh, you hit your character in the exact same kill spot but didn't registered? And you reached this far? That's too bad, try again next game!". There's a limit in how my skills come to play when it comes to randomness, and worse of all, you gotta pass the entirety of the game again for a certain achievement since Level Select makes maybe ALL achievements void (Not a peep in the description says it's disabled, even one achievement mentions that Level Select, so one would assume it's ok with the rest, right? Wrong!).Still, going to the bottom of my list. The very, VERY bottom, the abysmal one.

Alexdatadestroyer 11 Aug 2021 04:42

Whoa! Retro Achievements is really evolving! Now the character limitation is gone from game/user walls. Gonna read that above xD

TindalosKeeper 11 Aug 2021 04:45

Yeeeeeah, let's say I wasn't very "gitting gud" when I did that wall of text... :PI guess some practice and you can do the impossible, right? :)

Alexdatadestroyer 11 Aug 2021 04:48

This game is a pinball and it's a fact that pinball are a lucky based game in real life, but Sonic Spinball doesn't rely totally on randomness. Maybe on 3 Bonus Stages and on 4 Multiballs. However you can use the TILT feature to try to control your playthrough on it. For normal gameplay, it doesn't involve too much of luck and some situations can be completely manipulated. The game is indeed hard, but not impossible at all xD

Alexdatadestroyer 11 Aug 2021 04:53

Yep, practice leads to perfection. I used to play this game a lot in my childhood and even recently I used to die on Showdown. After this set revision, I kinda evolved my skills to the point to compete on its leaderboard at that time. Now, I was overwhelmed there, but made my best... At least, I don't die by bogus reasons there anymore :v

TindalosKeeper 11 Aug 2021 05:01

I still die a lot on Showdown, I guess I got really, REALLY lucky with that golden run I did!So grateful it happened, lifted a giant weight off me!

TindalosKeeper 12 Aug 2021 00:32

And that's that! Mastered at last! Wow! Can't believe I pulled it off, lmao. Truly a pretty hard set for the non-pinball savvy.

cannon9009 13 Aug 2021 16:40

Damn, and I thought Mario Pinball's achievements were a trial. This is like a trial TIMES TEN!

MusicalMinerdude 23 Aug 2021 07:51

I'll say! I gotta say though, I'm proud enough just for getting so close to the top of the Fast leaderboard. For many years I've been DREAMING of clearing the game on both speeds... That day is here. Whew.

sittaman 26 Nov 2021 14:22

PRO TIP #1 - Use the Fast setting always. It's better and most achievements here required this option to be on. Also make sure your emulator clock setting is not set higher than default as it would render the game so fast it's unplayable.

sittaman 26 Nov 2021 14:23

PRO TIP #2 - No Level Select code. No achievements will unlock if you do the level select code, so don't waste your time trying it.

MGNS8M 24 Dec 2021 00:05

Well, a few legacy achievements allowed level-select for years, so I went ahead and allowed those to continue(but at lower points). Otherwise yes, the others will remain locked against cheat-codes.

Stixil 12 Jan 2022 02:59

Challenging game but very fun once you get the hang of it, worth a try at the very least, but don't expect free points from this one

Revel90 14 Feb 2022 00:28

Having played this game for 25 years, going through this set has been a blast. You always have a surprising amount of influence in Sonics air movement with the D-Pad, use it constantly and youll find a lot of the randomness is taken away.

Enagonius 7 Dec 2022 15:20

If there's already an achievement for beating the game without Level Select, then why lock out the other progression achievements when using Level Select?