Today, I played the SBTC since 6.30am! And now, it's did: 19.940 points after the ship
It wasn't as hard as I thought to combo the green gem for 9000 points, it was even harder to make a combo of 3000+ with the cannons. @MandM: Congratulations! All though I got 80 points more than you. Was my extended shoe-combo too hard for you? Well, good job, and great achievement!
Cut: I play LS part 1 a bit different from you. I don't use the extended shoe combo. However, my problem is lack of patience with this shoe. I'm always overpowered with an urge to speed up and ram into the other shoe.
Well done at the ship. I never reached more than 19.680 points myself.
Raywiz: I would save LS as the last level to improve upon. First of all you can relatively easy get 40.000+ points, but you have to work very hard to get more than 41.000 points. You can get so much more points in other levels.
Stacey: It's cool you play for points and The Summit is a good level for that.
I know I'm not gonna get into the top 5 but I'm confident that I'll get a better score than I did when I first beat the game in 2003. How a score as low as the 333,000 mark got me into third place in the UK/PS2 category of the HoF and won me that tshirt I don't know. :p
Now let's actually remember where half of the secrets are.
@ Cut and possibly Stacey: In TSBTC you need to get as higher score as possible in the first part because the following parts are hell. 19940 is good, but you can rack up a massive 20500 (I did this!) using a different technique with the canons. Might seem stupid but 500 points extra makes part 2 considerably easier.
@ MandM: Still no luck with the secret room. I don't think there would be enough treasure in it to create a new maximum score, but still I'd really like to satisfy my mind. I'll take one more look and if I still can't find anything I'll continue on so that I can improve my current score.
Congratulations with 853k by the way. It's a real milestone. Especially so after playing such a difficult level. Your TLS score is like 250 points more than mine now.
Xenon: Thanks! It took me about a year to get from 852k points to 853k points, so it's really something for me.
What we need in this secret room is five yellow gems, five red gems and two green gems. In that case we can add another 10.000 points to the maximum score. But maybe it's too much to ask for anyway.
Have you really got 20.500 points on the ship and lived to write about it? Cool!
Raywiz: Great score in LS. I can see you probably hit the wall a few times with the Shoe.
Part 2 is working very well, but the Balloon-Combo is a hard job, I have to fly terminal velocity to the balloons, or the combo will run out^^ And it's hard enough to reach this balloon, every time I reach this f*cking ballon, I just think: Phew! And after this moment, the combo is run out
Anyway, I bring news with regards to the possibility of there being a secret room in part 3 TDOTK. And the news is... there isn't one. I can say without a shadow of a doubt there is nothing behind the stone with the Teensie engravings on it. The following video should finally prove this:
It's just blank space. I was more curious about the area underneath the Knaaren - I noticed a strangely illuminated slab there and found its positioning fishy. But there's nothing there either.
I did part 2. Close Call, but now I got around 88000 points. Now I have to do this f*cking green gem combo, because I want to combo this gem for 7500-combo-points, and if I struggle at ONLY comboeing this gem for 4500 points, how would it be to combo it for 7500? Hard work ahead!
How a score as low as the 333,000 mark got me into third place in the UK/PS2 category of the HoF and won me that tshirt I don't know. :p
