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Silver Surfer will require some further testing on my part before I define the final rule sets for it, since it is months away, but once I have it decided, I will let you know. 1 life only is a must there, though.

I was considering "Record 20 minutes of play time and your score will be what you had at the end of those 20 minutes" but this will be used for a famous puzzle game who is busted for scoring in the future.

Game A, unlimited loops, one life only.

1st Gloves 290,000 2nd docile tapeworm 166,900 3rd Jeevan 165,700 4th Dr. Morbis 117,300 5th nesmaster14 58,600 6th PII 16,800 7th mbd39 14,200 8th RH 10,900 9th the_wizard_666 9,500

Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rumble! This week our contestants will prove their mettle and their shooting skills by playing an amazing shoot'em up game! It is time for PARODIUS DA! Without further ado, here's the rules: Pick 1 player Pick the power meter of your preference Pick manual or auto power up, by your preference Play on hard Play till you lose your first life After you lose your first life, pause the game and take your picture If you beat the game without dying, pause the game after the second loop starts and take your picture Participation: 5,000 Highest score wins Genre: Shooter The contest ends Sunday, 04/03/22 at 11 pm EST. Your user name should be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. For speed runs that require video, that is not required. 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.

Final standings posted. Thank you all for participating! I hope it was fun.

It is much harder for me to tally the results when people post several scores all scattered around the thread.

Keep all the bloody scores in your first score post. Otherwise I can end up tallying it all wrong when I am doing the scoreboard.

All the speed run ones will be like this, so yeah, there will be more weeks this year were videos will be required and it will be nifty to see how people around here play.

Imagine being such a sad, weak, frail ego person to decide willingly to not play the amazing shmup that Parodious is because it is on Famicom. That game is AMAZING!

Stop talking, start posting speed runs! We have 5 scores so fa! FIVE!

Current standings posted.

1st PII 263,880 2nd Krunch 175,250 3rd Dr. Morbis 175,010 4th Jeevan 143,220 5th NESfiend 102,850 6th the_wizard_666 32,600 7th Gloves 14,900 8th mbd39 12,750

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, welcome! It is time for some sweet, sweet arcade action in our beloved contest! Our contestants will pick their bikes, gather a bunch of papers and go fulfil their danger filled delivery route to prove who is the best paperboy/papergirl of VGS! The rules are as follow: 1 player only Choose to be either a Paperboy or Papergirl Start on the default route. You are not allowed to put in a code to play further in the game Play until you are fired (Game Over) Take your picture on the Top 5 Scores screen Highest score wins Participation: 10,000 GENRE: Arcade Ride and deliver! Glory awaits you! The contest ends Sunday, 03/27/22 at 11 pm EST. Your user name should be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. For speed runs that require video, that is not required. 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.

Quitting is for weaklings.

De-spawning enemies is a speed run staple so it should of course be allowed. Pause tricks that don't do clipping or zipping make your run actually slower, so why would we ban those? Why would someone go out of their way to make their run slower on a speed run? The only one that would be troubling would be abusing the start button to avoid a bullet that would kill you. And since there's video, we can easily see it being done and invalidate the run.

We loosely enforce that rule anyway since we already know what the players setup look like, and video makes it even more clear, but I think I can adjust the rules to cite that.

This is exactly what I expect you all to post for this week's context.

That is what I expect you lot to do. Post an youtube video!

1st PII 23:28 2nd JamesRobot 23:43 3rd Dr. Morbis 24:06 4th Link 26:20 5th docile tapeworm 28:26 6th Gloves 29:44 7th nesmaster14 34:51

Ladies and Gentlemen, time finally has come! It is the time everyone was waiting for! @guillavoie and I proudly present... the 2022 VGS NES Weekly Contest! And we will start with a BANG! For the first time ever in the NES Weekly Contest, we will be playing one of the most beloved games of all time, Megaman 2! Get ready for some fast paced action, for our contestants will have to prove they have THE SPEED to beat the 8 robot masters as fast as they can! Here's the rules: Play difficult mode Start the timer when you pick the difficult setting. Stop the timer and finish your run when you spawn at the first Willy castle level Post the video recording of your run along with the total time you took to reach the first Willy castle level Timed runs without video proof will only be accepted in very specific situations, with the contestant providing proof for me or Guil that they have absolutely no means to record video of their run for this round. No glitches are allowed for your run Lowest time wins Participation: Make it to the Willy Castle in less than 2 hours. Genre: Action Game on, ladies and gentlemen. GAME ON! The contest ends Sunday, 03/20/22 at 11 pm EST. Your user name should be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. For speed runs that require video, that is not required. 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.

We will deal with code debugging on a game per game basis. The rules regarding code diving and debugging, when applicable, will be posted on the week before, along with the rules for the current week game. Megaman 2 being a speed run, with all the speed run strats and manipulations already properly documented, will have no code debugging rules. But it will be a no glitch speed run.

You even have to lose a game on the second half to unlock a super special shot for Ryuuga (no idea of his name on Tecmo Cup). I will do that on the password to allow you all to have access to the best stuff in the game to play those last matches. The week of this game will be so much fun. It is a very distinct game.

The rules will likely be playing the "TECMO CUP TOURNAMENT" and the winner will be the one with the highest goal differential in those 3 matches. I will get a proper password to let the players start there, with the team properly leveled up. Otherwise, it will be progress, aka play till you lose the first match.