Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! - Mike Tyson [

This run was done on an original cartridge of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! on a top loading NES that was modded with the Tim Worthington NESRGB kit. For some more in depth information about my RGB setup, you can check out this pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/m7tzR5Cq

I've been intermittently throwing attempts at Tyson over the past year, with struggles all along the way, but during the last couple of months, I've been on fire with my Tyson execution. I really truly feel like I've gotten to the point where I now match my Tyson consistency that I had before the stroke, and this fight is the hard, confirmable proof that we're so back.

The exact time for this fight is a 2:05.82 on the middle frame of the .82 increment, according to the Tyson Finder spreadsheet created by Omnigamer, which is a 100% accurate reading since I record my console footage at the exact NES framerate of 60.09 FPS. This is completely identical to my original 2:05.82 PB that I set 5+ years ago to the frame, and the second time I've ever gotten a 2:05. To check out the results of the Tyson Finder spreadsheet, you can take a look at it here: https://i.imgur.com/WtMsV86.png

Despite the difficulty of this fight, it's actually pretty simple to explain. To deal maximum damage on Tyson in the uppercut phase, you need to mirror what side he throws his punch on when you throw a jab to stun him. Each time you do this, it deals 5 damage to his 96HP health bar, as opposed to 1 damage if you stunned him with the opposite fist. The 2nd punch for each of these also needs to be delayed to the very last frame of the stun. If you land it, it'll also deal 5 damage, otherwise you'll be blocked or deal 1 damage. Phase 1 requires you to hit 9 out of 10 of these, while getting decent enough luck to get past phase 1 at 56 seconds or below (or below 1:00 if you just care about him throwing 6 uppercuts in phase 2). This run got a 55, which is acceptable, but I need decent luck in phase 2 as well.

Phase 2 is pretty much the same as phase 1, except you won't see the 8 second delay from Tyson. You only have to hit 5 of 6 frame perfect punches here, due to his 56HP health refill, which he gets if you have full health when he's knocked down. For being in contention of the best non-phase-3-uppercut time, you need Tyson down by 1:28 or earlier. I thankfully only got 1 delay, which let me get to the end of phase 2 fast enough to where Tyson will just stand there for a couple of frames in phase 3 before he naturally transitions to throwing hooks, meaning I got there just in time to not lose any unnecessary frames.

Phase 3 starts with Tyson going into his hook phase at 1:30, and you need to hit 8 hooks frame perfectly in order to get a perfectly executed fight. Since I start the phase at 1:28, I cannot safely do the buffer strategy to hit his first hook frame perfectly, so I am forced to hit it manually instead.

His health refill is 40HP this time, and dodging/punching will get you 2 damage per punch, whereas if you wait until the very end of Tyson's hook, and punch on the very last frame, you'll land 1 punch that deals 5 damage. As long as you get to the start of this phase at an early enough time, your final time is completely dictated by what pattern you get from Tyson, with the very best phase 3 pattern netting you a 2:05.25. This phase 3 pattern, plus any frames lost against a 1:28 phase 2, are the only differences between this fight, and my original PB of 2:05.82 on Tyson from 2019, and this fight loses frames on neither.

I still wanted to upload this since this is now my best recorded Tyson fight with my new RGB setup, as well as my true PB this time! I put a great deal of effort in making sure that my captures off of original hardware are as clean as possible these days, which is a great improvement over my original 2:05.82's video quality. To see that video out to compare, you can check it out here:    • Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! - Mike Tyson [2:0...  

I also had a weirdly horrible time getting this recording out of my capture PC, because when I plugged my portable hard drive into a USB port to back the file up and get it ready for processing for youtube, the entire PC suddenly shut down while refusing to boot again, and the hard drive wouldn't be recognized by the PC at all, which really really scared me. I had tried for hours to get it to boot or recognize the drive, and ended up basically thinking my entire drive was wiped. I tried again today and finally got some life out of it, so I backed up the entire drive, replaced the SATA cable, and hopefully that should solve my issues?

I also streamed this attempt live, and you can check it out along with the live reaction here if you'd like:   / 2157171695  

Anyways, thanks for watching!