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TrevMUN Internet Wanderer Since: Apr, 2010
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Feb 6th 2015 at 7:52:43 AM •••

So I noticed this was added fairly recently:

24th Dec '14 2:58:18 PM tsstevens
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* The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Even completing all missions, including seeking out all scuds and secondary objectives with high scores railroads you into a bad ending.
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* Unwinnable by Design: Even Save Scumming on an emulator, seeking and destroying all the scud launchers and causing untold damage using the Super A10 cheat to keep all scores up you still get the bad ending. The game may have been based on the first Iraq war but may as well take place in the second as you cannot win no matter what you do.

I've removed both examples. Both of them sound like tsstevens personally had a frustrating time with the game and decided to take it out on the TV Tropes article—but he's wrong about the game being unwinnable.

I know, because I've done it. I can provide proof if need be, but it is not impossible to get the game's best ending. It's just very hard.

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tsstevens Since: Oct, 2010
Feb 23rd 2015 at 3:35:38 AM •••

Even cheating on an emulator, racking up the scores so all three bars are high and save state/load state to make sure I hunt down every single scud launcher, I still get the bad ending (not the fail one, the 'another Vietnam' version. I'd personally love to know how to do it as I'm sure a lot of other fans who had found it impossible would. Is it a rom bug or some form of No Fair Cheating or is there a legitimate way to get a good ending.

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
TrevMUN Internet Wanderer Since: Apr, 2010
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Dec 13th 2011 at 9:19:15 AM •••

Moved this from the main namespace to Video Games. It's weird, though, title customizations don't seem to stick with work subpages ...

TrevMUN Internet Wanderer Since: Apr, 2010
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Feb 10th 2011 at 6:54:17 PM •••

Launched this earlier today, but I'm kind of wishing I had the manual or box handy since I'm sure there's some important stuff missing.

If anyone still has the game manual and box, would you mind fleshing out the details I missed?

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thedragoness Since: Mar, 2011
May 25th 2011 at 5:27:29 PM •••

I've been messing around with this on ZSNES and it looks pretty good, but we've gotta have Harsher in Hindsight up there.

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