MaximRecoil
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Is Carnival the hardest classic arcade game ever released?
Has anyone here ever gotten past level 5? I can't get past level 5 even with the cheats enabled in MAME. There is only one cheat for this game, and it is unlimited ammunition. This makes you invincible because the only way to die in Carnival is to run out of ammunition. However, the ducks and other items you have to shoot generate faster than I can shoot them, and there is a constant steam of ducks trying to fly down to eat your ammo (not that it matters with the cheats enabled), and eventually only ducks are being generated and they start moving across the screen at like double speed.
After about 10 minutes of steady firing at the ducks, and not even putting a dent in the swarm, the game more or less crashes (no one would ever get to that point without cheats; they would've either cleared the level or died first). All the ducks stop and turn into stationary jumbled/glitched graphics on the screen. You can shoot the objects on the screen and it chips away at them, kind of like firing at the barricades in Space Invaders. Once you've cleared the screen of all that, nothing else happens. You can still move and fire, and the music continues to play, but no new objects are generated and there is no way to advance to the next level.
Has anyone here ever gotten past level 5? I can't get past level 5 even with the cheats enabled in MAME. There is only one cheat for this game, and it is unlimited ammunition. This makes you invincible because the only way to die in Carnival is to run out of ammunition. However, the ducks and other items you have to shoot generate faster than I can shoot them, and there is a constant steam of ducks trying to fly down to eat your ammo (not that it matters with the cheats enabled), and eventually only ducks are being generated and they start moving across the screen at like double speed.
After about 10 minutes of steady firing at the ducks, and not even putting a dent in the swarm, the game more or less crashes (no one would ever get to that point without cheats; they would've either cleared the level or died first). All the ducks stop and turn into stationary jumbled/glitched graphics on the screen. You can shoot the objects on the screen and it chips away at them, kind of like firing at the barricades in Space Invaders. Once you've cleared the screen of all that, nothing else happens. You can still move and fire, and the music continues to play, but no new objects are generated and there is no way to advance to the next level.



