T. Alex Is At It Again. This Time It Is Bubble Bobble

I think T. Alex entertains me more than anyone else on MARP of late. His submitted recordings have been exhibiting outrageous tricks in games that I have never seen before - and I've been around a bit. His latest surprise is in the Bubble Bobble series of games, in particular boblbobl and sboblbob where he maxes the scores.

Below I have extracted an email I sent to him querying him on what tricks he is using. Basically he has found a way of getting infinite lives with player 1 and always gets the 1 Million pts and good end at level 100 even though he is playing as 1 player.

-start email-

Now I've watched your boblbobl and your sbobble recordings and I am amazed. I know a lot of things about this game but you have surprised me again. Here are my questions.

1. You seem to have infinite lives with the first player - how do you do this?

2. In the boblbobl version the 1st player is getting EXTEND's and free lives from score which doesn't normally happen - how?

3. In stage 50 did you deliberately die before going through the 20 level warp gate to stage 70? You did it in both recordings so it looks deliberate. Maybe it is part of the trick.

4. How did you get the Happy End + 1000000 points when you only had one player - again not supposed to be possible? Looks like you join the 2nd player in after bottling the last boss then you do something (some magic keypresses) while the end credits are rolling.

-end email-

I would be grateful if anyone on MARP could shed some light on T. Alex's peculiar recordings. I think both recordings need to be moved to the 'weird' section because he is definitely using some unknown cheats that give him an advantage (infinite lives). Also, unlike his solomon and pitfall2 recordings where he is clearly a master of the games, his Bubble Bobble recordings aren't in the same skill class as other MARP submissions (he loses too many lives and doesn't double up etc). What do others think.

I'd like to add that T. Alex is a very likeable person when he gets around to answering his emails. He is an extremely good gamer and is not trying to cheat anyone on MARP. Just thought I'd set the record straight just in case anyone gets the wrong idea with all my board items of late.

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