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So you're saying you're going to win this week? I like that confidence! Go and get them!

Reserved for scoreboard

Geral and genre scoreboards updated.

Well, standings were already final, it seems.

Welcome back, my fellow VGS NES WEEKLY CONTEST enthusiasts! After a break week, we ARE BACK and with a classic! This week, our skilled players will tackle and prove their skills at Qix! The rules are simple: Play till you reach stage 13 or die for the first time Pause the game as you lose your first life or reach stage 13 and take your picture Highest progress win, with highest score used as tie breaker Genre: Arcade Game on, players! Game on! The contest ends Sunday, 05/12/24 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.

Geral and genre scoreboards for the round 1 have been posted.

Final standings posted. Welcome back @Tablew/chairs, we missed you!

Championship Pool may be doable one handed since it is a matter of taps and input timing. I will take a look at it this weekend.

It does indeed. And as Gui said, sometimes we take some liberties with the genres to bring in games that are more fun to the contest. And this one is plenty of fun!

Current standings posted

Current standings posted.

Final standings posted. I would have loved to just let people go as far as they can, but this game is entirely too long so I had to come up with a ruleset that would allow for fast attempts. If TMNT2 shows up, I may adapt these rules to use there, but allowing for going for longer, or maybe starting at a later stage using a cheat code.

Perfect! Thank you!

We will use the NTSC version, not the famicom one. And it is fine about the bonus levels. You will still pause at the end of stage 16, which is a bonus level.

1st BriGuy82 16 - 129370 2nd Tablew/chairs 16 - 126570 3rd Gaia Gensouki 16 - 120040 4th PII 16 - 117630 5th Seppatoni 14 - 87490 6th G-type 5 - 28280 7th mbd39 5 - 23720 8th a3quit4s 3 - 9710

Ladies, gentlemen, squids, welcome for the final round of phase 1 of the 2024 VGS NES Weekly Contest! To challenge our players in such an important round and to represent the Puzzle Genre, we bring forth... CLU CLU LAND! The rules for this week are: Play till you beat stage 16 (the first bonus stage) or till game over, whichever comes first Pause the game on the score screen after all the bonus have been computed and take your picture Highest stage progress wins, with highest score used as tie breaker Genre: Puzzle The contest ends Sunday, 04/28/24 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.

Picture isn't showing up for me. I remember seeing it last Sunday, so I will temporarily accept your score. Will be nice if you can try to post the picture again.

Final standings posted.

The extra points are added when the door starts to open. I can see and invalidate the score. The rules have also been covering that.

As long as you pause before the door starts opening, all is good.

The game awards you extra points during the cut scene. We need the picture as you defeated the boss for the score to count.

It is intended to be the final score..

So you died to max the health bar. Clever. I will have to change that so lives have more weight. There. Now a life is worth more than a full health bar and thus managing to conserve it will play a bigger part on the challenge!

This ought to be a very fun challenge since the points from extra live and remaining health can tip the scale a lot. Thought this would be more fun than have you guys beat the game.

1st Gaia Gensouki 189,800 2nd PII 175,600 3rd mbd39 171,300 4th NESfiend 144,000 5th Jeevan 137,300 6th JamesRobot 124,600 7th a3quit4s 115,000 8th SuperJimtendo 107,500 9th Seppatoni 102,600