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

Decided to upload this one with the raw recording, since it’s one I decided to frame count to confirm the decimal. I’ve been intermittently throwing attempts at Tyson over the past several months, with struggles all along the way, but during the last couple of streams, things are finally starting to click for me again, and I got my first 2:06 since the stroke I suffered in May of last year.

The exact time for this fight is a 2:06 on the 2nd frame of the .25 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.

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).

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 got one delay at the end of phase 2 that put me out of contention of my real PB, but I could still get a /”seasonal PB/” with this, since I was still looking for anything under 2:07, since it was my previous /”seasonal PB/” since what happened to me. If you’d like to watch that fight, and gather more context for why I’m uploading this, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vqOf-RrC9UPM

Phase 3 will start 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 1:29, I can safely do a buffer strategy to hit his first hook frame perfectly 100% of the time. It requires you to buffer a left dodge as the phase starts, then wait until Mac fully centers, then do a right quick dodge, into a jab by holding up and punch.

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 real PB of 2:05.82 on Tyson. That fight got a 2:05.82 on the middle frame of the increment, meaning this fight was a mere 11 frames from my true PB, which is exciting to see!

I wanted to upload this here since this is also my best recorded Tyson fight with my new RGB setup! 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v1_La7FOsMfk

I also streamed this attempt live, and you can check it out here if you’d like: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2127254490

Anyways, thanks for watching!

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