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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.

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 1st Dr. Morbis 32 2nd BlackVega 28 3rd SuperJimtendo 24 4th PII 4 4th mbd39 4 4th Richardhead 4 4th Nesfiend 4 4th RH 4 Rolling Thunder 1st BlackVega 554,030 2nd Dr. Morbis 80,980 3rd mbd39 20,400 4th PII 17,900 5th SuperJimtendo 6,400 6th RH 2,000 7th Richardhead 1,700 8th Nesfiend 0 TOURNAMENT SCOREBOARD 1st BlackVega 42 2nd Dr. Morbis 37 3rd PII 21 4th mbd39 12 4th SuperJimtendo 12 6th Richardhead 10 7th Nesfiend 9 8th RH 5

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.

A score of zero is most impressive indeed, but remember, it is progress first, lowest score second.

Would be even better if we could start at 4-1, but alas. This will do.

Commando is now progress then lowest score. Have fun with not point pressing it.

I am inclined to allow unlimited use of double ships since we are playing till stage 31 and there is some risk involved in getting it. We will be playing till game over or stage 31 since on death the enemies don't respawn on death and you can't burn lives to point press. I will add a score bonus for each extra ship (including double ship) you have at stage 31 on the rules.

Losing both and respawning is when you stop and take your picture. You have to die and pause after the "ready" for your next life,

You can get the double ship. You need to stop playing after you die for the first time.

Commando 1st Dr. Morbis 2-1 - 19650 2nd BlackVega 2-1 - 21300 3rd PII 2-1 - 22150 4th Richardhead 2-1 - 38950 5th NESfiend 1-4 - 26250 6th mbd39 1-2 - 6800 7th RH 1-1 - 0 8th SuperJimtendo 1-1 - 2100 Galaga 1st BlackVega Stage 31 - 400170 2nd Dr. Morbis Stage 31 - 296020 3rd NESfiend Stage 24 - 226900 4th PII Stage 21 - 200330 5th mbd39 Stage 16 - 130560 6th RH Stage 13 - 101650 7th SuperJimtendo Stage 5 - 26380 8th Richardhead Stage 5 - 25100 TOURNAMENT SCOREBOARD 1st BlackVega 24 2nd Dr. Morbis 19 3rd PII 14 4th Richardhead 7 5th NESfiend 6 6th mbd39 3 7th SuperJimtendo 2 8th RH 1

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with pleasure that we present you the SECOND ROUND OF THE 2023 VGS NES WEEKLY CONTEST TOURNAMENT!!! @guillavoie and I will be your host through this round! Our 8 brave warriors below proved that they have the smarts for puzzle and the mettle to beat opponents to a puddle in our first round. @PII @mbd39 @Richardhead @Dr. Morbis @NESfiend @BlackVega @SuperJimtendo @RH For this round, they will have to show their flying skills at GALAGA and shooting skills at COMMANDO!!! For this tournament round, each game will award points in the following fashion: 1st: 7 2nd: 5 3rd: 4 4th: 3 5th: 2 6th: 1 7th and 8th: 0 The rules for Galaga are as follow: Play till stage 31 or till game over Pause the game when you game over or when you reach stage 31 to take your picture If you reached stage 31, add 30,000 points to your score for every extra life you have, and 30,000 for the double ship if you have it. Getting the double ship is allowed Highest progress wins. Highest score will be the tie breaker Highest progress will be defined by stage number. Genre: Shooter And the rules for Commando are: Play 1 player mode Play till stage 2-1 or till you lose your first life Pause the game when you lose your first life Highest progress wins. Lowest score will be the tie breaker Highest progress will be determined using the following maps: https://nesmaps.com/maps/Commando/Commando.html Genre: Arcade Best luck to our valiant competitors! The contest ends Sunday, 12/03/23 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.

I will put the thread on later today. I will let you guys decide if you want do 4-1 to 4-4 with continue and code or 1-1 to 1-4 without code. Either will be one life only.

With or without the GG codes, the stage select code only sends you to the stage you picked if you had a game over and selected the 1P cont option on the title screen, not the 1P option. Whence I added the 1 life only code. So you can game over faster. But if even that doesn't work for you, we will do stage 1-1 to stage 1-4 only then.

OK, you can patch your rom with the following codes so that the cheat is always activated. OZTGVS PATGNI SATKES EGTKOS GATKXI ATTKUI Also add the 1 life game genie code to speed things up as the level select only works when 1P cont is selected: AEKKIILA For people playing on an NES or emulator that have access to a game genie, I recommend using the following codes: AEKKIILA - 1 life only to be able to select 1P cont faster SKAGNS - changes the cheat code from Left, Right, A, B, A, Down, Up on the second controller to Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left on the second controller I will post this code on the rules this weekend.

SKAGNS This game genie code changes the cheat code from Left, Right, A, B, A, Down, Up on the second controller to Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left. I am trying to come up with codes that make the first controller being read instead of the second one. I have found most of where that happens, but I am yet to find where in the code the first left input is triggered to branch to the cheat code to run.

So, I found the address that is set when the cheatcode is inputted, so now I am looking to find the code that checks for that cheatcode in rom so I can change it to only be up in the P1 pad and generate a gamegenie code for that. I will have updates through the week.

Of course you can. Also, I just found out that the most that you can go on the NES version is stage 4-4, so I will provide a code to start at 4-1.

Iirc, there isn't, but there should be a game genie code to start at stage 7. I will check it and post here.

I will update the final standings later today. Next round will be posted on the 26th so the US folk can enjoy Thanksgiving. The games for it will be Commando and Galaga if you want to start practising.

Current standings posted.

I am uglier than Godzilla, so your assessment is correct. Have fun mastering Boulder Dash through the week to find an edge over your other opponents!

Toxic Crusader 1st BlackVega 99,900 2nd Dr. Morbis 24,500 3rd PII 4,400 4th Richardhead 2,300 5th SuperJimtendo 1,900 6th mbd39 1,700 7th RH 800 Boulder Dash 1st BlackVega 14,319 2nd PII 4,440 3rd Dr. Morbis 3,840 4th Richardhead 3,645 5th SuperJimtendo 1,570 6th mbd39 1,320 7th RH 630 TOURNAMENT SCOREBOARD 1st BlackVega 12 2nd PII 7 2nd Dr. Morbis 7 4th Richardhead 4 5th SuperJimtendo 2 6th mbd39 0 6th RH 0

After a whole year of fierce battles, bantering, mad gaming skills, we have reached the 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest TOURNAMENT! @guillavoie and I will be your host through this incredible journey! 8 brave warriors stood up to the challenge that is ahead: @PII @mbd39 @Richardhead @Dr. Morbis @NESfiend @BlackVega @SuperJimtendo @RH They will have to prove their mettle in 2 rounds of tournament and at the grand final to prove who is the gamest player of them all here! For the tournament round, each game will award points in the following fashion: 1st: 6 2nd: 4 3rd: 3 4th: 2 5th: 1 6th and over: 0 points. On the final round, there will be more points to be gained. For this week, our players will prove their skills at two games: Representing the beat'em up genre, we have TOXIC CRUSADER! The rules are as follow: Start on stage 5 using the password 7011 or a game genie code Play till you die the first time or you reach stage 6 Point pressing is allowed Highest score wins. And for the Puzzle genre, we have Boulder Dash! The rules are: Play the Volcano World on quest 02 using the password 827100 Play till you lose a life or beat Volcano World Highest score wins For thanksgiving weekend, there will be no tournament round. Round 02 will start on the 26th of November. May the gamest gamer win! The contest ends Sunday, 11/19/23 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.