MilitiaMan
Well-known member
So ... I have had my DL for a little over a year now and I play it about once a week. I love this machine!
I promised myself I wouldn't look at the cheats over at dragons-lair project.com.
Well ... time went by and I slowly re-learned the screens. Even my daughter helped me learn a few of them again ... memory has faded a bit since the game came out in my arcade back in '83.
So I am getting pretty good and I seem to be clearing all of the screens with some regularity ... except one ... the mudmen. Eventually, I got so frustrated because I felt like I had tried every different possible combination. I went to the cheat page and looked up the moves (I know ... lame, right?) and went back to the machine to conquer the mudmen and rescue the fair princess.
Well eff me if the moves on the cheat page don't work for me either ...
I can successfully press sword. Then, I patiently wait for Dirk to sheath his sword and I press UP. Instant Death! I have tried every variation and combination of timing and moves here and everything results in the exact same thing - Instant Death!
What the frack! What can I possibly be doing wrong?
So ... next step, I download Dragon's Lair app for the iPhone and I play the hell out of that in "cheat" mode. What do you know, I can get past the mudmen every time. Great, now I know the exact moves, so I head back to my upright and try the newly memorized moves on my machine. Again, Instant Death.
This is ridiculous. I am never going to see the Dragon!
I have the Special Edition laserdisk. Could that be the culrpit? I find it hard to believe that every other screen kept the same moves, but for some reason someone decided to play a practical joke with my laserdisk and make the mudmen screen unbeatable.
As you can probably tell from my incessant rambling, this is driving me insane. On the flip side, the machine is still challenging me daily.
Any tips? What could I be doing wrong?
Steve
MM
I promised myself I wouldn't look at the cheats over at dragons-lair project.com.
Well ... time went by and I slowly re-learned the screens. Even my daughter helped me learn a few of them again ... memory has faded a bit since the game came out in my arcade back in '83.
So I am getting pretty good and I seem to be clearing all of the screens with some regularity ... except one ... the mudmen. Eventually, I got so frustrated because I felt like I had tried every different possible combination. I went to the cheat page and looked up the moves (I know ... lame, right?) and went back to the machine to conquer the mudmen and rescue the fair princess.
Well eff me if the moves on the cheat page don't work for me either ...
I can successfully press sword. Then, I patiently wait for Dirk to sheath his sword and I press UP. Instant Death! I have tried every variation and combination of timing and moves here and everything results in the exact same thing - Instant Death!
What the frack! What can I possibly be doing wrong?
So ... next step, I download Dragon's Lair app for the iPhone and I play the hell out of that in "cheat" mode. What do you know, I can get past the mudmen every time. Great, now I know the exact moves, so I head back to my upright and try the newly memorized moves on my machine. Again, Instant Death.
This is ridiculous. I am never going to see the Dragon!
I have the Special Edition laserdisk. Could that be the culrpit? I find it hard to believe that every other screen kept the same moves, but for some reason someone decided to play a practical joke with my laserdisk and make the mudmen screen unbeatable.
As you can probably tell from my incessant rambling, this is driving me insane. On the flip side, the machine is still challenging me daily.
Any tips? What could I be doing wrong?
Steve
MM
