ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 @Aguy @spacepup @Gloves @drxandy @Mega Tank @Splain @nesmaster14 @RegularGuyGamer @Gaia Gensouki @JamesRobot @Jicsan @ZeldaFan042 @darkchylde28 @DefaultGen @RH @Brickman @Red @NESfiend@the_wizard_666@Bearcat-Doug @FireHazard51 @DoctorEncore @SuperJimtendo @Dr. Morbis @mideast @Deadeye @JVOSS @koifish @acromite53 @KokiriChild @Jeevan @G-type @Bonanza125 @Lago @PII @BlackVega @Avgn Gamer @CT @Link @captmorgandrinker @Nugfish @North @Vaosu 1ST PLACE WINNERdarkchylde28 - 508,665 2ND PLACE WINNERWasg13 - 406,190 3RD PLACE WINNERBlackVega - 403,110 ------------------------ (If any of you would like to be removed from this ping list for future events, please let me know and I'll take your name off the list! Or, likewise, if you'd like to be added to the list, let me know as well! For these events, I ping people who have participated in previous events, and/or people who I think would be generally interested in future events.) Heya there everyone! It's that time of year, a holiday entirely dedicated to my favorite color! ...That's what St. Patrick's Day is about right, the color green...? For this year's St. Patrick's Day contest, we're going to be playing some Leprechaun! For those who haven't heard of it, this is actually an arcade game from all the way back in 1982! This game is nearly twice as old as I am! For those who haven't played it, here's how it works: You play as a sleuth, trying to steal the Leprechaun's pot of gold. The Leprechaun chases you around the whole game. If you get caught by him, you lose a life. Touching the trees all over the screen will increase the point value of the pot of gold. Touching the houses will allow you to teleport to another part of the screen. Touching the pot of gold gives you however many points it's worth at that time, and progresses you to the next stage. Very simple, very easy, very fun! With that said, the rules for this contest are very simple: Boot up the game, insert some coins so you can play it (again, arcade game! Your emulator of choice, if emulating, should have a hotkey to insert a coin,) try to get the highest score you can before losing all your lives, then submit your score! There is of course an in-game leaderboard, this being an arcade game, so that would likely be the most convenient time to take a photo/screenshot of your final score. Prizes will be dealt out to those who end up with the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd highest scores, respectively. As per usual, the prizes up for grabs are as follows: 1st Place: $25 Amazon gift card or cash equivalent2nd Place: $20 Amazon gift card or cash equivalent3rd Place: $15 Amazon gift card or cash equivalent The only further stipulations to the contest are as follows: Make sure to play the original Arcade version of Leprechaun, as only submissions for that particular version of the game will be accepted. I don't know if there are other versions of the game, but if there are, don't play 'em, play the original! As you would expect, no save states, cheat codes, slow motion, turbo controllers, etc. are allowed. Anything that would give you any kind of advantage over playing the base game on real hardware is not allowed. If it feels like cheating, consider it not allowed. When you submit your score, make sure your VGS username is visible somewhere within view of the photo/screenshot of your score. It could be a slip of paper with your VGS username written down on it, or a text document displaying your VGS username. Use whatever method you like, so long as your username is clearly visible alongside your score. In the event you roll the score over, take a pic of your score once you hit around 900k, before the score rolls over. Continue as normal until you game over, then take a pic of your final score as well, and submit both pics. If you roll the score over multiple times, take pics every 900k or so until you game over, then submit all of those pics in addition to your final score pic. I don't actually know if the score does roll over at 999,999 for this game, but for now let's play it safe and assume it does. Feel free to prove me wrong though! If it rolls over at a higher number I'll update this rule accordingly! Only scores that have been achieved after this contest has started will be accepted. If you've already submitted a score, and you end up getting a better score, you may of course submit the better score, and it will simply replace your previous score. This event will last from now until 3/25/2023 at 11:59 PM EST, a little over 1 week from now. Once we make it past that deadline, that'll be the cutoff point for new score submissions. I'll tally everyone's final scores up, and deal out prizes accordingly! Good luck, and I hope you all have fun! Remember that there are real prizes on the line here, so try your best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 LEADERBOARD darkchylde28 - 508,665 Wasg13 - 406,190 BlackVega - 403,110 RH - 386,050 G-type - 377,680 Jeevan - 362,810 JVOSS - 338,940 KokiriChild - 277,740 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 Phew, just barely in the nick of time. Still technically counts as St. Patrick's Day! Haha. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,820 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackVega | 583 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Are we supposed to play this? You don't expect everyone to play on the original arcades and shoot photos of it right? I guarantee 99% of people here, including me will use emulators so you might as well give instructions how to set it up because MAME is never trivial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,895 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 (edited) It was suppose to say "RLH". I played this on an online MAME emuliator. Let me know if that doesn't work. It's been a while since I did one of these events but the last time, playing one of those emulators was fine. I also didn't see a way to change dip switches, so this was the default settings. SCORE: 324,945 Edited March 21, 2023 by RH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 2 hours ago, BlackVega said: Are we supposed to play this? You don't expect everyone to play on the original arcades and shoot photos of it right? I guarantee 99% of people here, including me will use emulators so you might as well give instructions how to set it up because MAME is never trivial No, I definitely don't expect ANYONE to play on an original arcade honestly, but figured there might be a very slim chance there's some Leprechaun super fan out there that might own the original arcade for... whatever reason, haha. For emulating it, I would likely just use RetroArch, that does streamline the whole process quite a bit and there's plenty of tutorials out there on how to get MAME games up and running using RetroArch. That's what I did to playtest the game and it was as easy as running any other game on RetroArch. Just gotta launch RetroArch > Load Core, download the MAME core, create a "MAME" playlist in the Desktop Menu for RetroArch, drag and drop the game in to the playlist, go BACK to the RetroArch main menu, scroll down to "MAME" and there you go. ...I'm very tired so it's possible I explained all that very poorly, but as I said, plenty of tutorials out there on how to get games working on RetroArch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, RH said: It was suppose to say "RLH". I played this on an online MAME emuliator. Let me know if that doesn't work. It's been a while since I did one of these events but the last time, playing one of those emulators was fine. I also didn't see a way to change dip switches, so this was the default settings. SCORE: 324,845 That should be fine, yeah! I'd only be careful since in my experience, the online ones can sometimes be a little finicky compared to just emulating it on your PC. Also, I actually didn't think about it until now, but seeing as how this game does have an in-game leaderboard, I'll allow screenshots like this in which you enter your initials/name in to the leaderboard alongside your score, so long as there's no mistaking that it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,895 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said: No, I definitely don't expect ANYONE to play on an original arcade honestly, but figured there might be a very slim chance there's some Leprechaun super fan out there that might own the original arcade for... whatever reason, haha. For emulating it, I would likely just use RetroArch, that does streamline the whole process quite a bit and there's plenty of tutorials out there on how to get MAME games up and running using RetroArch. That's what I did to playtest the game and it was as easy as running any other game on RetroArch. Just gotta launch RetroArch > Load Core, download the MAME core, create a "MAME" playlist in the Desktop Menu for RetroArch, drag and drop the game in to the playlist, go BACK to the RetroArch main menu, scroll down to "MAME" and there you go. ...I'm very tired so it's possible I explained all that very poorly, but as I said, plenty of tutorials out there on how to get games working on RetroArch. ...or, @BlackVega, just play it online... in a browser... which might be as easy as one Google search away. EDIT Sorry, @ZeldaFreak, I saw your last post after I posted this one. The online emulator worked fine for me. It felt a tad slow, but when I compared it to video footage online, well, it looks like this game just isn't blazing fast. Edited March 18, 2023 by RH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 Just now, RH said: ...or, @BlackVega, just play it online... in a browser... which might be as easy as one Google search away. The possibilities are endless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,397 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Funspot has one of these if anyone's in New Hampshire. I remember it being very easy and games taking absolutely forever, but it was in a child-sized cabinet so maybe was just set to super easy settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackVega | 583 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 13 minutes ago, RH said: ...or, @BlackVega, just play it online... in a browser... which might be as easy as one Google search away. Yes this is also a possibility. That online emulator functionality is somehow a new concept and I always forget it exists. I'm still an old school user of local emulators tho I checked it out myself and it looks like this game doesn't need any extra steps to set up. It doesn't even look like it needs any special treatment. Either way here are the instructions: MAME emulator setup: -Download MAME emulator -Download Leprechaun ROM (it will probably be named leprechn.zip and it should stay that way) -Move leprechn.zip into MAME "roms" directory -Launch "Leprechaun" from the MAME menu and there you go (you press 5 to insert coin and 1 to start the game) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVOSS | 1,762 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 @ZeldaFreak where do i go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 19, 2023 Author Share Posted March 19, 2023 4 minutes ago, JVOSS said: @ZeldaFreak where do i go You mean, like, where can you play the game? @RH If you want you can direct JVOSS to wherever you played it, that'd probably be easiest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVOSS | 1,762 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 yep looked and searched but no hits... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,759 Administrator · Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 This? Leprechaun : Tong Electronic (Pacific Polytechnical license) : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,895 Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 36 minutes ago, JVOSS said: @ZeldaFreak where do i go 7 minutes ago, Gloves said: This? Leprechaun : Tong Electronic (Pacific Polytechnical license) : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive This isn’t where I found it, but if it works it works. I think most of those MAME sites use the same tool to run the emu in a browser. If @Gloves post doesn’t help, just let me know and I’ll find the site I used when I’m back at my desk tomorrow morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 20, 2023 Author Share Posted March 20, 2023 18 minutes ago, Gloves said: This? Leprechaun : Tong Electronic (Pacific Polytechnical license) : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive Yup, tried that one for a bit and it seems to work fine. That should work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVOSS | 1,762 Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 here that starting on for me. i sure it will be the best.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 555 Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 I'm interested, but I might not have time this week. Game seems fun though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 20, 2023 Author Share Posted March 20, 2023 53 minutes ago, koifish said: I'm interested, but I might not have time this week. Game seems fun though! Might as well submit a score and see what happens! You could do a 30 second long run and still get a score you could at least submit if nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,759 Administrator · Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Just now, ZeldaFreak said: Doesn't help to submit a score and see what happens! You could do a 30 second long run and still get a score you could at least submit if nothing else. kekw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 20, 2023 Author Share Posted March 20, 2023 Just now, Gloves said: kekw My brain is fried right now OK, haha. I'm not even sure what I was actually trying to say there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted March 21, 2023 Author Share Posted March 21, 2023 19 hours ago, Gloves said: kekw Doesn't huuuuurt to submit a score, thaaaat's what I was trying to say, not doesn't help. Sorry, I was just now staring at my typo for like 5 minutes thinking "...What WAS I trying to say there?" Hahaha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVOSS | 1,762 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 UPDATE SCORE. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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