BeaIank

11 hours ago, Gloves said:

I'm not sure if I've seen you post it elsewhere, but do you have a specific model already picked out? I'd love to read up on the capabilities. Accessibility has been a bit of a passion of mine for a while so I've got a lot of experience with different peripherals specifically for interfacing with computers, but have no experience with limbs.

https://openbionics.com/hero-arm-grips/

This the one I have paid for so it will be a matter of fitting the silicone on the arm to my stump when I cut the useless biologic hand off.

I wanted an esper hand, but those were much more difficult to secure with the Ukranian war ongoing.

Not a lot of games that you can play on this thing with limited left hand movement, sadly. Late 2024 I will have a bionic hand and I will be able to play games with an arcade and I kinda want to beat some games for these threads just to feel that I can still do it.
I will figure out how I can help with the N64 in 2024.

The yearly reset is nice, but I feel that the usual suspects always go for the their usual games at the start of the year, clearing the famous games and never straying into strange waters. There needs to be something to incentivize these people to try new things.

That pattern also hurts new members participation because the famous games everyone plays are gone within hours or days of the thread being posted and they don't get the chance to beat a game they know well and feel part of the whole process because it was cleared right away. And they won't try the unusual games, usually.

I know I was guilty of often beating my favourites right after the bells of midnight, not letting people experience GnG, Ikari Warriors, Punch Out and others.

Would be nice to have something to incentivize or force the usual people into doing games other than their usual suspects.

9 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Just to add background on NA the SNES thread was reset annually, but was pretty lackluster on clears most years.  Other than the two years @BeaIankwent wild.

 

The good ol' days when I still could play them vidja games.
These beat every game threads are tough to complete, specially these days with less participants. Not even the NES one is seeing completion.

7 hours ago, NESfiend said:

I cant stress this enough and have already many times. 

AMERICAN GLADIATORS!!!

I was going with that for the Finals, but I couldn't find a good ruleset to make it work.

Since they all finished last in Gold Medal Challenge Challenge 92, I summed the points for last 5 spots, divided it by 5 and rounded down. So every one of them was awarded 2 points at Gold Medal Challenge.

Final standings posted. With this result, @BlackVega is our 2023 VGS NES WEEKLY CONTEST TOURNAMENT CHAMPION!
@Dr. Morbis  brings home the 2nd place.
And @PII finishes 3rd.
Congratulations for our top 3!

We will be back in 2024 for more weekly contest action!

* Note to self: never use Gold Metal Challenge 92 ever again. No one plays that.

1 minute ago, BlackVega said:

I tried to get clarification for this but either way my 500k submission is still going to be accepted instead right?

Yes, your second score will be accepted.

I will post the final standings this weekend, but your rolled score won't be considered @BlackVega since you didn't get a pre score roll picture. Those are always mandatory when score rolling happens.

1 minute ago, mbd39 said:

Wow. What's the story with your hand? I hope everything goes alright.

 

Kienbocks + completely fucked up nervous system which made surgery for kienbocks not an option.
At the end of the day, you will have to play and bluff your way into success with the cards you were dealt with.

Just now, guillavoie said:

I'm not sure if I should feel sad or relieved about it, the idea of replacing a natural hand for a bionic one seem absolutely uncomfortable, but I know at the same time you're doing it for your own good, so I wish you the best with that my dear Bea!

Shit happens, so you have to deal with it. It will be all good. At this point, the bionic hand will be able to do more than my normal hand. And thanks!

5 minutes ago, guillavoie said:

My God, is this true, you're going the cyborg hand route?

Yep. Even updated my avatar to better represent that since I already shopped around and paid for the prosthetic hand so I just have to claim it and fit the stump weeks after surgery. Made peace with that long ago.

2 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

Speaking of astronomical scores whatever happened to @Tablew/chairs

Moved on with life, most likely. He was insanely good. One of the very best to ever honour this contest we do for fun with his presence.
I hope he is well and still effortlessly crushing games.

Anyway, while life batters me away, work is being super busy due to holidays season, left hand pretty much gave up and will be replaced with a bionic one late 2024, I still managed to get this done:

48 minutes ago, PII said:

Rolling Thunder - Da Boyds - 17,900

Gold Medal Challenge:

100K - 7.77

Javelin - 107M68

Triple Jump - 20M01

Weight Lifting - 260KG

In the interest of Fair Play / Full Disclosure and so on I'd like to point out that I Modified a Jig-Saw and used it to press the A/B buttons for the Gold Medal Challenge Events.  I didn't see anything in the rules against playing smarter in this fashion so I figured why not go for it.  But of course I will concur with whatever ruling our two Benefactors feel is appropriate.......

While this was very cleaver to spare hand fatigue, your scores won't be accepted. You can still redo them playing normally without a physical apparatus to help you,

Beat it TWICE, since there is story 1 and story 2.

It is super fun.

And no one seems to be very sporty this week. Not a single score for Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge '92 posted so far.

People surely are holding on their scores...

59 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

My guess is you had a hard time choosing between this or deathless first level of Ikari Warriors.

I wanted Adventure Island 7-1 to 8-4 pacifist, but there was no way to start at later stages.

1 hour ago, RH said:

@BeaIank  Just when I started  trusting you, you give us Rolling Thunder.

 

Of course. I had to pick something at least slightly challenging that is also an unanimously acclaimed game for the grand final!

What game better than Rolling Thunder?
 

Final standings posted. We go into the final round with 20 points left on the table and a fierce battle between 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

This will be exciting!

I will post the final results tonight.
I hope y'all had fun with these two games. Commando pacifist looks super interesting to do!

Namco or Tengen are both acceptable as there are no changes between them other than an extra sound chip.

And it is progress then highest score.

1 hour ago, mbd39 said:

Rolling Thunder

I had been dying to put it in the weekly contest, and now I had not only the chance to do so, but to also make people play 3 of the hardest stages in the game! Feels so nice!

Gold Medal Challenge 92

Rolling Thunder

TOURNAMENT SCOREBOARD

Ladies and gentlemen, we bring the FINAL ROUND OF THE TOURNAMENT, where our 8 players will finally prove their mettle!

It has been my and @guillavoie pleasure to host you all through this!

Our 8 brave warriors below proved that they have the shooting skills and are a one man army last round. Let's see how they will fare at the finals!

@PII
@mbd39
@Richardhead
@Dr. Morbis
@NESfiend
@BlackVega
@SuperJimtendo
@RH

For this round, they will have to show their detective skills at ROLLING THUNDER and their feats in sports at Golden Medal '92!!!

For this tournament round, each game will award points in the following fashion:

1st: 10
2nd: 8
3rd: 7
4th: 5
5th: 3
6th: 2
7th and 8th: 1

The rules for Rolling Thunder are as follow:

• Enter the pass code 6127306 to start at Story Two - Area Eight
• Play till you die the first time or till you beat the game
• Highest progress wins, with highest score as tie breaker
• Genre: Action

And the rules for Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge '92 are:

• Play 100 metres dash, Triple Jump, Javelin Throw and Weight Lifting.
• Take a picture of your best 3 attempts in each event. Your best result will count
• For each event, you will be awarded points in the following fashion:
  • 1st place out of the 8 in the event - 8 points
  • 2nd place out of 8 in the event - 7 points
  • 3rd place out of the 8 in the event - 6 points
  • 4th place out of 8 in the event - 5 points
  • 5th place out of the 8 in the event - 4 points
  • 6th place out of 8 in the event - 3 points
  • 7th place out of the 8 in the event - 2 points
  • 8th place out of 8 in the event - 1 points
• In case of a tie in an event, the tie breaker will be the best of your 2nd and if needed 3rd attempt. If a tie persists, the player position in the Geral scoreboard of the 2023 VGS NES WEEKLY CONTEST will be used to break the tie.
• The player with the highest sum of points wins.

This final round will show us who deserves the 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest tournament laurels! 

The contest ends Sunday, 12/10/23 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 and temporary tournament standings posted.