BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Ladies and gentlemen... WE ARE BACK FOR MORE!!! @guillavoie and I have the pleasure and honour to host the 2024 season of the VGS NES Weekly Contest! And to start this season strong, we bring in Super Mario 3 for our contestants to prove their mettle! The rules for SMB3 are: Play world 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 and 1-4 For each stage, right before the end of the stage, with Mario inside the black area and the end of stage box visible, pause the game and take your picture You can do 1-3 and 1-4 in any order you want You can use the p-wing in 1-3 if you trigger the white mushroom house at 1-4 You must do all stages in one run and in one life. If you die, take a picture and your run ends. You can't collect the same coin twice. You can't use the N spade card to collect more coins. Only coins inside the four worlds listed are valid. Highest sum of coins collected in all 4 worlds wins, with highest sum of time left for all 4 stages used as tie break Genre: Action Now get into the game and show your plumbing skills! Here's to a good 2024 season! The contest ends Sunday, 03/24/24 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 1st PII 226/926 2nd Gaia Gensouki 226/892 3rd NESfiend 226/888 4th JamesRobot 225/898 5th Seppatoni 221/925 6th Jeevan 189/880 7th SuperJimtendo 177/883 8th a3quit4s 172/816 9th Murray 148/903 10th G-type 142/694 11th skinnygrinny 73/764 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,780 Administrator · Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Interesting ruleset, I like the time remaining time break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 2 minutes ago, Gloves said: Interesting ruleset, I like the time remaining time break. I didn't want turtle hopping to make or break a run, so I had to come up with something different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,102 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 I like that the goal is coins and not points 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,482 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,482 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,904 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 If we collect 100+ coins in a stage, should we pause before we 1-up and take a photo? I’m not sure if this is possible, but just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 19 minutes ago, RH said: If we collect 100+ coins in a stage, should we pause before we 1-up and take a photo? I’m not sure if this is possible, but just in case. You will loop the coins number at around world 1-4 or 1-3. There is no stage in that list that has 100+ coins. The coin numbers are below: World 1-1 has 57 coins World 1-2 has 31 coins World 1-3 has over 76 coins (up to 94, I think, from coin blocks). World 1-4 has over 29 coins (up to 47 from coin blocks, I believe, but it is almost impossible to get 10 coins from the last block). If you post the pictures in order, it will be easy to see that you looped it. Don't forget to post the sum of your coins and the sum of your time left at the end of the stages for easier tailing for me. And that only scores posted from tomorrow will be valid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,482 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Guess I’m dumb for only reading the first post and thinking it has started. I don’t think I will be redoing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillavoie | 1,210 Events Team · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 19 minutes ago, G-type said: Guess I’m dumb for only reading the first post and thinking it has started. I don’t think I will be redoing it. Don't say that, who the hell read the rules anyway, haha! You still have a full week to think about it my good man! Also, if you post scores later, make sure to take your pics before jumping on the stage box, we also need to see the time left on the clock for each stage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,780 Administrator · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 6 hours ago, BeaIank said: You will loop the coins number at around world 1-4 or 1-3. There is no stage in that list that has 100+ coins. The coin numbers are below: World 1-1 has 57 coins World 1-2 has 31 coins World 1-3 has over 76 coins (up to 94, I think, from coin blocks). World 1-4 has over 29 coins (up to 47 from coin blocks, I believe, but it is almost impossible to get 10 coins from the last block). If you post the pictures in order, it will be easy to see that you looped it. Don't forget to post the sum of your coins and the sum of your time left at the end of the stages for easier tailing for me. And that only scores posted from tomorrow will be valid. I'm able to get over 130 coins on one of the levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,800 Events Team · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) $225; 898 time remaining Prior to rule change: $536; 282 time remaining 1-1: $59 ; 252 remaining 1-2: +$34 = $93 ; 240 remaining 1-3: +$87 = $180; 187remaining 1-4: +$45 = $225; 219 remaining Final total: $225; 898 remaining Edited March 17 by JamesRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 7 hours ago, BeaIank said: You will loop the coins number at around world 1-4 or 1-3. There is no stage in that list that has 100+ coins. Coins reset after pipes. Unless you feel like amending the rules early, people are going to be needing to post many, many photos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 10 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: Coins reset after pipes. Unless you feel like amending the rules early, people are going to be needing to post many, many photos... Easily fixed by adding a rule that you can't collect the same coin twice. Done. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,904 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 3 hours ago, BeaIank said: Easily fixed by adding a rule that you can't collect the same coin twice. Done. I wasn’t able to experiment but this is what I thought happened and it’s what I was going to try to do. Trading time for coins seemed like a working strategy. If we didn’t have this new rule, it would make it more of a speed run challenge which, personally, I wouldn’t disapprove of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 7 minutes ago, RH said: If we didn’t have this new rule, it would make it more of a speed run challenge which, personally, I wouldn’t disapprove of. It works better as a speed run challenge this way as it is coin count first, time second. So now you have to strategize how to collect all the stage coins in the least time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,911 Events Helper · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 @BeaIank @guillavoie, If I were to partake in this would the name being on screen be sufficient if I were to like stream this instead of taking photos? Just curious, I MIGHT give it a go at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 26 minutes ago, BeaIank said: It works better as a speed run challenge this way as it is coin count first, time second. So now you have to strategize how to collect all the stage coins in the least time. Of course, we can try to make this more fun by using highest sum of coins + time left wins it, allowing for even more strategy during the runs, but this would require more pictures or videos for people who would prefer to record the whole thing. Since it is the first day, we can still tweak the rules a bit more. Up to you guys. What do you prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 6 minutes ago, Jeevan said: @BeaIank @guillavoie, If I were to partake in this would the name being on screen be sufficient if I were to like stream this instead of taking photos? Just curious, I MIGHT give it a go at some point. I will defer the final decision to @guillavoie but if it is a screencap of a stream of yours, it is good on my book. But Gui has the final word here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,911 Events Helper · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 2 minutes ago, BeaIank said: I will defer the final decision to @guillavoie but if it is a screencap of a stream of yours, it is good on my book. But Gui has the final word here. @guillavoie I would probably post the timestamps of each area that would need to be seen and upload the whole vod link here, just for reference. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,102 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 And people ruining the NES weekly contest for casuals the first day of it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,911 Events Helper · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 13 minutes ago, a3quit4s said: And people ruining the NES weekly contest for casuals the first day of it I mean, you knew it was gonna happen with all the NES nerds around here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,123 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Super mario 3: bloodbath Let's be real this is probably the most fun of the mario games. Everyone had it. Just get your requirements out of the way. Post a participation score and enjoy one of the greatest games of all times 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,621 Events Team · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 It would be much worse if we were playing for score with all the turtle hopping going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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