Hardest levels/screens in both real world and cartridges?

[Doctor Fetus]

For "real" world it is imo The Future 8 (the Last Iron cart). Took me more than 30 mins to beat it and I don't remember cursing that badly when playing a pc game before lol. The Future 1 comes second, rudiculously hard too and you are also on timer that makes it even worse.

For cartridges it must be some of The End Is Nigh prologue cartridges levels, never tried it myself but it looks rudiculous.

[HalvedDead]

If you are looking for the hardest individual screens, then the Scab or Die cartridge contains the most difficult set of levels. If you want to talk about unbreakable achievements however, the hardest one has got to be the Super Mega Cart, hands down.

[ekisacik]

the secret Anguish room that does nothing is a great practice map if you try to get to the end and back

[x-calibar]

How about this one...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1788922587

[eenox]

Spike Tales 8 (top) is the hardest screen in the game imo

honorable hentions are:
The End Is Nigh (cart) 3
Scab or Die! 6
Anguish Cart Secret 4th Screen (only because of the first jump really)

and there are plenty others I could list as being very hard, but they aren't quite on the same tier as these

[ekisacik]

Scab or Die! 4 is harder than 6

[baf]

scab lv6, 10-6, 10-9 (both for anxiety when you do smc deathless) ruin 19 (hardest jump in the game) tein cart 3 and 8

[ekisacik]

ruin 20 has that jump
also, 8 has a strat that lets you get it almost every time once you get up there - just before you stop moving right on that top left platform, make a full jump right and then turn at the last moment

[Jarvis]

I recall tein glitched screen 3 being either frame perfect or close to it for the strat I used. I would say that is the most tight, scab or die gets a lot of hate, but i really don't think any of the screens were that bad after practice. When I was going for the unbreakable I actually kept making silly mistakes on screen 10 instead of 4 or 6.

[Freak O' Nature]

The mega tumor secret in the Arid Flats that requires a key was the hardest key secret for me.

[TheNinthAlly]

Getting the fourth Iron Cart took three hours, all on the last screen. I’m not sure why - many levels were harder, but I had such a terrible time on that level.

I want to kill myself for the fact I did Scab or Die. Specifically Level 6. That one kept me stuck for two hours individually. What a nightmare.

I haven’t reached TEIN yet but I bet it’ll be the hardest Cart in the game.

[baf]

do scrab or die 6 in a deathless

[ekisacik]

Originally posted by TheNinthAlly:

I want to kill myself for the fact I did Scab or Die. Specifically Level 6. That one kept me stuck for two hours individually. What a nightmare.

I haven’t reached TEIN yet but I bet it’ll be the hardest Cart in the game.

I see people complain about level 6 all the time, but level 4 is the one that kills me more often in a deathless run. Also, I'd consider Scab or Die to be harder than TEiN in a deathless run, but I can see blind TEiN taking longer to finish overall.

[Sunwave]

TEIN cart 3 (and for some reason I can't keep a fixed pattern on 8). Scab or die 6.

All of tombs and torture get honor points for hurting my eyes and ears, even though it's not that same level of difficult.

Actually all of acceptance was underwhelming for me. I got it in about 5 tries. It's not that pixel perfect at all. Just stay calm and don't be an idiot. The glitch carts are SO much harder.

SMC is hell only because it's so long, and you're bound to make mistakes aplenty. It's stressing near the end as well, because you don't wanna waste all your progress, even though the individual levels are not that hard after a while.

[NW/RL]

Imo the 2nd screen in The Future in the SS Exodus it's the hardest. Not even because it's actually hard, but because the charger thing is hella inconsistent and will send to you a restart more times than not

[ekisacik]

Originally posted by NW/RL:

Imo the 2nd screen in The Future in the SS Exodus it's the hardest. Not even because it's actually hard, but because the charger thing is hella inconsistent and will send to you a restart more times than not

That level has a few consistent tricks for it, but it mostly amounts to "keep moving".