BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Greetings, valiant players. This week your mettle shall be tested through a challenge that requires puzzle solving and shooting skills! Bring forth PALAMEDES, which shall be mastered through the following rules: Choose 1 player Start on Level 5 Play until you lose To get your score after you lose, select 1 player mode, Level 5, and immediately pause the game. Your score will be in the high score spot. Highest score wins The contest ends Sunday, 06/04/23 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted May 28, 2023 Author Share Posted May 28, 2023 1st mbd39 559,080 2nd Dr. Morbis 460,840 3rd Bearcat-Doug 442,470 4th Richardhead 358,970 5th G-type 126,600 6th PII 125,960 7th SuperJimtendo 64,090 8th RH 5,710 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 @mbd39 Looks like you called the rule set this week. Level 5 should be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 (edited) 559,080 Edited June 1, 2023 by mbd39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 That was with 7 perfects. I think i reached stage 16. I played it safe only going for easy combos when I had to. No pausing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,121 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 (edited) Score: 64090 Edited May 31, 2023 by SuperJimtendo Score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 (edited) Score Edit - This is actually a great game - I wish I had had more time this week: 460,840 Edited June 3, 2023 by Dr. Morbis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 3 hours ago, mbd39 said: That was with 7 perfects. I think i reached stage 16. I played it safe only going for easy combos when I had to. No pausing. Does pausing help I thought it made the board invisible when you pause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Just now, docile tapeworm said: Does pausing help I thought it made the board invisible when you pause. No it doesn't. It _should_. I try not to pause because it's kind of cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Just now, mbd39 said: No it doesn't. It _should_. I try not to pause because it's kind of cheap. Aaaahhh “pause abuse” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 (edited) 442,470 Edited June 4, 2023 by Bearcat-Doug 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Hopefully I have my stuff this week. Reserved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,516 Editorials Team · Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 3 hours ago, docile tapeworm said: Does pausing help I thought it made the board invisible when you pause. Seven years later, Skinny realizes how I brought home the podium and got him eliminated in the semis. Now we know which of us was truly the evil one all this time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 26 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said: Seven years later, Skinny realizes how I brought home the podium and got him eliminated in the semis. Now we know which of us was truly the evil one all this time. Son of a… rotfl my guy. touche haha man I feel like I had a shot in the finals that year too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 42 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said: Seven years later, Skinny realizes how I brought home the podium and got him eliminated in the semis. Now we know which of us was truly the evil one all this time. You sat on that for seven years and then he just tees it up like that for your reveal. Insanely well played 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 1 hour ago, NESfiend said: You sat on that for seven years and then he just tees it up like that for your reveal. Insanely well played Not really. He revealed it in the 2018 Palamedes contest. I can't believe that was five years ago. Time flies much too fast. https://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageview32f2.html?catid=31&threadid=181101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,516 Editorials Team · Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 21 minutes ago, mbd39 said: Not really. He revealed it in the 2018 Palamedes contest. I can't believe that was five years ago. Time flies much too fast. https://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageview32f2.html?catid=31&threadid=181101 Well, clearly skinny and I cannot remember shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 17 hours ago, mbd39 said: That was with 7 perfects. I think i reached stage 16. I played it safe only going for easy combos when I had to. No pausing. I'll try to get a score up today, but I don't know if I'll even be able to make the top 5 this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Bearcat-Doug said: I'll try to get a score up today, but I don't know if I'll even be able to make the top 5 this week. You'll find that level 5 difficulty is much more fun. It takes way too long for the game to get hard on level 1 making it a real slog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, mbd39 said: You'll find that level 5 difficulty is much more fun. It takes way too long for the game to get hard on level 1 making it a real slog. Level 1 is really slow, but level 5 is really tough so it will definitely make for shorter attempts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 (edited) 358,970 Edited June 3, 2023 by Richardhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 I got a score, but I'm not sure how much better I can do. I might just take a break until next week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Looks like I won't be able to play this week. Just got notice that our stuff will be arriving next Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,898 Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 (edited) Score: 5,710 Well, I'm going to have to read the manual on this one. I've never played this game. I tried to figure it out and all I could do was cycle through the numbers on the dice and then clear two at a time. There has to be more to this game than that, right? Riiiight???? Edited June 4, 2023 by RH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, RH said: Reserved. Well, I'm going to have to read the manual on this one. I've never played this game. I tried to figure it out and all I could do was cycle through the numbers on the dice and then clear two at a time. There has to be more to this game than that, right? Riiiight???? There's a 50k bonus for perfect clears which is clearing all the dice in a level without doing any combos. For big points you want to get as many perfects as you can. When the game gets too fast for perfects switch to making combos on the bottom of the screen and press down to clear rows of dice. All the different dice combinations are listed in the manual. The most lucrative is 123456 which clears five rows of dice. Six of a kind clears four rows. Three pair clears three rows. Etc. Edited May 30, 2023 by mbd39 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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