Only 4 people have the achievement because it is bugged and doesn't work atm. It's a known issue. I read an email exchange about a year ago with the developers and said they knew about the issue and "couldn't fix it".  I don't know how true that is but it might just be that it isn't worth the time to them, I dunno.

Yes there is a cheat too. I've tried it myself and it works. Go to xbox360achievements and you will find it. People have gotten the level 1, 2 & 3 master achievements from using the cheat but it will not unlock the game master achievement for whatever reason. There's a huge thread there of people who've gone through the game there and it won't unlock that last achievement.

So it was fine long enough for some people to get it but then now it's messed up?


I think developers or play testers should have a rule that they have to achieve an achievement before they ship it in the final game. If that was the case though Final Fantasy XI wouldn't have half the achievements it does.

Banjo Kazooie coming free with a preorder of Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts at $39.99 has now challenged and probably surpassed Orange Box as the best deal in a long time.

As good as Orange Box was, it was basically 18 hours of single player content spread over 3 Half life games and Portal with Team Fortress for multiplayer. Not bad for 60 bucks. The original Banjo was a 20+ hour game alone and who knows how long this new game will be plus it has multiplayer. If the new game ends up with AAA ratings this is some deal since the arcade game will undoubtedly be either $10 or $15.

To be honest I'm not sure how those 4 people got it.  Maybe it was early on, maybe blind luck, I have no idea.  It just seems to be messed up now.  There are tons of people stuck at 150 and only those lone 4 at 200.  It would be interesting to see the dates on when they unlocked those achievements.

EDIT: I just looked at the 4's gamercards on xbox.com for the game.  Two of those for whatever reason show no record of the game being played on Xbox.com.  The other 2 have dates that show up for all of the achievements except for the game master.  Which means they were gotten offline.  Maybe they were gotten illegitimately maybe not.  One may never know lol.

That achievement you guys were talking about, the 50G one, is it harder than beating contra without continues?

It's pretty much the same.  There are achievements for:

Beating Level 1 w/o continue (Level 1 master)
Beating Level 2 w/o continue (Level 2 master)
Beating Level 3 w/o continue (Level 3 master)

Beating the entire game w/o continue (Game master)

The one that seems to be broken is the game master achievement.  Contra is a hard game but I would say Smash TV is even harder.  I think it was specifically designed to eat people's quarters back in the day.

I'm not sure if this is really the place to post this, but congrats Onyxmeth on modship (and makingmusic)!

And here I was, a couple of days ago, trying to teach him how to play Bionic Commando Rearmed... Kids grow up so fast! ^^

got frusterated with dead rising, stopped saving people if they are hard to save, now I'm 2/5 done with the game.

Fun game, now that I'm not tearing my hair out and going out of my way to rescue whiny people.
Also; I beat leve 3 in frogger, woohoo!

and also, congratz onyxmeth.

Can these be platinum award ones?

lego star wars: the complete saga
enchanted arms
overlord
Two Worlds

Well, I can say that I won't have to worry about buying Castle Crashers now. My system just died and it should be back around September 10th right before Rock Band comes out.

My first system lasted from February 2006 to November 2007. 20 months

Second lasted from November 2007 to August 2008. 9 months

Stupid assholes trying to get me to provide my own box to send it and saying I'll get a month of live like that does anything. They should give me a 120gb hard drive, so I can prolong my 3rd one from dying by installing all the games onto the hard drive so the fan isn't blowing 100 degree air out the whole time.