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Hello everyone. We're ready for some shooting action this week. This week we revisit a great shmup on the NES, Isolated Warrior. The rules for this week are as follow: Play until you die for the first time One loop only. If you loop the game, take a picture when the game loops back to the beginning. If anyone is suspected of playing beyond the first loop, their score will be disqualified. To get your score, Pause then game as you die. You can't point press the bosses. Highest score wins Participation: 51,000 GENRE: Shooter/Shoot ‘Em Up The contest ends Sunday, 04/23/23 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.

Current standings posted.

Geral and genre scoreboard updated. We have a nice 2nd place tie between @PII and @Dr. Morbis right now.

Final standings posted. Sorry it took so long to post it. Life caught up with me real fast. I will need surgery on my hand soon. Hopefully it will be during a break week or I will have to ask @guillavoieto handle the thread for the week I will be out.

Current standings posted.

1st Gloves 2,512,970 2nd mbd39 1,014,830 3rd Dr. Morbis 914,260 4th NESfiend 820,290 5th 8bitdontquit 724,760 6th PII 408,110 7th G-type 402,280 8th Richardhead 351,780 9th a3quit4s 321,510 10th SuperJimtendo 268,120 11th JamesRobot 242,500 12th RH 132,100

Welcome, welcome. It is a week for some PUZZINGLY action for our skilled players. Watch as they work hard to solve the mysteries of MENDEL PALACE! The rules for this week are as follow: 1 player only Play until Game Over Play the stages in any order To get your score, continue your game after getting a Game Over and take your picture on the stage select screen Highest score wins Participation score : 100,000 GENRE: Puzzle The contest ends Sunday, 04/16/23 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.

Yeah, that would be point pressing and I will add a rule nerfing it. I think I will allow at most 3 minutes of farming the millipede on each round. Thoughts about it?

Genre and geral scoreboards posted.

Final standings posted.

I am glad you all had fun this week. The idea was to make it fast to do so no large time commitment was needed, and to spice things up so people could find spots and mechanics they could exploit to achieve a higher score. I will work on keeping things like that in many of the games we will be running this year.

Current standings posted.

1st Gloves 129,073 2nd Dr. Morbis 117,406 3rd nesmaster14 109,248 4th NESfiend 79,479 5th Richardhead 60,766 6th PII 59,858 7th BlackVega 50,246 8th mbd39 50,038 9th RH 45,047 10th docile tapeworm 43,753 11th G-type 39,407 12th 8bitdontquit 32,685 13th JamesRobot 29,309 14th SuperJimtendo 22,210 15th Krunch 19,668 16th a3quit4s 15,318

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2nd round of the 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest! This week we visit the Arcade genre with a very classic Arcade game! Coming all the way back from the year 1982, we have Millipede!!! This week our players are in for another round of fast and furious action. The rules they will have to follow are belo: Player 1 player mode B Play till you lose your first life You can't point press the millipede by not killing it for more than 3 minutes per round till round 10. After round 10 you can farm it freely... if you can. When you die, pause the game and take your picture as you respawn Participation: 5,000 points Genre: Arcade May the best insect killer win! The contest ends Sunday, 04/09/23 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.

Current standings posted. I hope everyone is having fun with this rules set!

Eh, it is bearable. But ain't no dead bone nor cracked bones that will get in the way of my vroom vroom time. I have the driving line on so I can take "looking for the braking marks" out of my mental stack while I learn how to do this.

That is correct and I cracked the scaphoid and the triquerium while working out because I was an idiot that thought my left hand would be able to handle the same weights my right hand even with the lunate bone dead at this point. Now I am operating with only one arm for pretty much the rest of the year because after the two bones heal I will have surgery to excise the dead lunate bone before it becomes and even larger problem! Fun times!

Fun times ahead.

Because you can kick it, wait for it bounce and kick it backwards. I won't mind if you end up kicking it forward once more during that.

This' why I am focusing on rules set like this this year for most games. Even if you are short on time, you can put in a quick run for a score.

You can hop the turtle two, three times without a worry. You can't stop there and keep hoping on the poor thing.

This is correct. You can't hop on a turtle or beetle continuously. Doing it twice or thrice is fine, but you can't keep killing the clock while racking points with the hop. Without that ruling, this week would become a hop bore fest.

Always great to have new blood join us here. Welcome aboard and have fun!

If I don't ban the turtle hoping loop, then this week will become a bore fest of turtle hoping instead of level optimization that tries to achieve lightning fast completion while maximizing point scoring opportunities.

Nay. If you die your run is invalid. You MUST make it to 2-1 for your score to be valid.