As is tradition at this point for every 10th game I master It'll be a Pokemon game (up until I can't be bothered to keep that going) but Yellow was always a bit weird to me. It just feels easier to do everything and I suppose that may be the fact its easier to get every Pokémon you need in one way or another but I did enjoy the ride.

The platinum relics in this game weren’t actually that bad sure I had to try at least 5 times to get them but it was fun

"Mastered over 2 years, 6 months", hah!

Man I remember buying this back in 1990.

After watching a video about underrated Shmups, I found this game and its soundtrack and visuals catched me! And I heard it was, compared to other Shmups at that time, relatively easy, so now I picked it up and finished it as my second Mastery!

Feel free to add me on RA: doktorpiano
I like to see what you all are mastering and see your progress!

Set Stats

Total Achievements: 46

Missable Achievements: 0!!!

Achievements for reaching 100%: 30

Challenge Achievements: 16

Time to master: bruh

The Game

The first game in the fairly well known Ultimate Ninja series, where you can play as your favourite characters of 12 playable characters (up until just before the Sasuke retrieval arc) and duke it out in a 2D fighting game filled to the brim with ninja spirit!

Being the first game in the series, it's definitely lacking polish in various areas, but it was fun to see how the series started out.

Unlike the sequels, the "story mode" in this game is more reminiscent of the arcade mode from Tekken, where you choose a character and go through an amount of stages to unlock the next character. There's not much else to say, since I cannot recommend this particular game over the rest in the series.

The Set

The absolute worst I've ever played

This set taught me to look at the achievements before booting up the game. I played the 2nd and 5th game an awful lot way back when, so I figured this'd be a quick 20 min adventure. But no. That wasn't the case. All due to the two fucking achievements: Hokage's Treasury, and Passionate Battle of Men demanding an unreasonable amount of the player's time.

Passionate Battle of Men can at least be mostly automated with a macro, but Hokage's Treasury demands actively grinding one particular misson over and over in order to make the necessary money.

There are also 6 achievements related to purchasing all 2,151 items from the gacha shop. Oh, and sometimes you get actually nothing from your purchase. Other times you get a useless consumable to use in combat. It makes absolutely no sense to begin buying anything before you reach the cap of 9,999,999 zeni required for Hokage's Treasury, since you'd just be shooting yourself in the foot.

I understand these achievements exist because they are actually for real part of reaching 100% in-game completion, which is complete bonkers. I have no clue how this went through QA back then. If these achievements didn't exist, the achievement for completing every mission also would not exist. There is definitely a way around this though, but that path was clearly not chosen during development of this particular set.

Fun game detail cheevos

On a positive note, Kakashi and Sasuke can actually activate their sharingan by using the correct ultimate, which will make them copy the opponent's moveset entirely for a duration of time. There are 4 achievements related to this gimmick, which I think is super cool.

Tips & Tricks

Hidden Scroll locations: Here's a poorly written guide I found to located each hidden scroll in every stage: https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/07/06/naruto-ultimate-ninja-secret-scroll-locations-faq-716753

Ninja Info Cards: After buying all items from the shop, you'll still be missing 11 Ninja Info Cards. To get these, go visit Naruto's House from the menu after getting all the other cards from the shop.

Hokage's Treasury: There are generally only 2 missions worth grinding to get this, both in A rank: Imagination Training 2 and Gaara's Second Challenge. Both of these missions have more details on the achievement's page: https://retroachievements.org/achievement/262313)

A user also suggests using macros to automate this, but I find it WAY too slow to be a real option personally.

Passionate Battle of Men: Best advice is to use a macro spamming X every 2 frames. Go to vs. battle, select your characters, and make sure to change battle settings so the match time is only 10 counts (the shortest possible) then activate your macro. Each set of characters take 25-30 minutes, so you just gotta make sure to come back and check in once in a while. You'll find more details on the achievement's page: https://retroachievements.org/achievement/262314

The Verdict

Do not touch this set if you value your own time. You can play the sequels just fine though, and I definitely recommend those! Especially Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2. In true Naruto fashion, the events from this game are repeated in the 2nd one anyway.

Links 'n stuff

Shoutouts to RA user Layton I guess, for creating one of the most needlessly time consuming sets on the site!

Check out the set yourself!: https://retroachievements.org/game/21448

My last mastery post from four months ago (jesus christ): Mastery #73 - M&M's Kart Racing [Wii]

Have a look at my RA profile if you want!: https://retroachievements.org/user/Desynch

Would it theoretically be possible for a client application to read hashes and data from a SummerCart with the built in micro USB connected to a PC? I have zero coding experience, but I'd like to maybe mess around with the concept if anyone has ideas or if anything current exists to achieve this. With my research, the SummerCart CAN send data, so maybe there's a way to send hashes. Idk.

I just finished mastering No More Heroes today, and it was a lot of fun overall. The Blood Berry-only Bitter stuff was not simple, but it felt good to get a lot better at the game than I've ever been. I'll probably do No More Heroes 2 before too long, but it's time for Halloween appropriate games.

My profile says eleven masteries, but that's because I got the Shadow Hearts lottery wins subset at the same time as the base set. I don't count that one. I count them as one in my head.

I just mastered CTTR but the PSP version, and I see in my opinion the achievements looks ugly comparing to the Ps2 version. I played the PSP version because it's smoother to emulate.
I wanna play the Ps2 version and start the game all over again to get the achievements, but that gives me an unemployed feeling, while I'm busy already nowadays. I just play games whenever I'm free, and I do achievements because it motivates me to finish the childhood games 100%. Other than that I'm not a gamer person. ( The second picture of the Ps2 version achievements is not mine, it's for the comparison )
Feel free to add me though: Adham10