Red

9 hours ago, RH said:

You expect me to play games from my (near) complete set?

 Ok.

Seriously, though, I'll see what I can do.  Do you have to beat these titles, or just show your best scores, cause I suck at games.

Nope, you won't have to beat any of them to participate.

8 hours ago, Splain said:

I'm in. SML will be interesting because you can easily cheese your way to 999999 points. Is it a low-score contest?

High score, but I have a rule set that will prevent that from being a problem.

Contest will start December 1.  Details and schedule here:

Hello and welcome to the VGS Game Boy weekly contest!  It's like the Sega Master System weekly contest from last year, except the games will be on a system you actually care about.  This will be a ten week event.

SCHEDULE:

December 1 to December 8: Super Mario Land (Link)

1. 170,400 (0xDEAFc0DE) +11
2. 169,960 (koifish) +10
3. 167,100 (acromite53) +9
4. 166,540 (arnpoly) +8
5. 146,820 (Bertsampson) +7
6. 141,480 (Link) +6
7. 138,510 (Splain) +5
8. 134,540 (Gloves) +4
9. 122,520 (Ausden) +3
10. 77,110 (Eugene) +3

December 8 to December 15: Bubble Ghost (Link)

1. 268,450 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 263,200 (arnpoly) +10
3. 241,130 (acromite53) +9
4. 205,630 (Splain) +8
5. 194,300 (koifish) +7
6. 93,780 (bertsampson) +6
7. 93,730 (ecmyers) +5
8. 79,640 (barrels) +4
9. 77,550 (Ausden) +3

December 15 to December 22: Battle Unit Zeoth (Link)

1. 2,623,900 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 2,620,800 (bertsampson) +10
3. 2,618,200 (koifish) +9
4. 2,617,200 (arnpoly) +8
5. 2,616,200 (acromite53) +7
6. 718,900 (ecmyers) +6
7. 716,100 (Splain) +5
8. 404,000 (Ausden) +4

December 22 to December 29: Game & Watch Gallery (Link)

1. 2,614 (acromite53) +11
2. 2,233 (koifish) +10
3. 1,903 (arnpoly) +9
4. 1,669 (Splain) +8
5. 1,412 (0xDEAFC0DE) +7
6. 94 (ecmyers) +6
7. 93 (Ausden) +5

December 29 to January 5: Dead Heat Scramble (Link)

1. 1,339,780 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 1,336,880 (BriGuy82) +10
3. 867,300 (arnpoly) +9
4. 790,660 (koifish) +8
5. 676,940 (Splain) +7
6. 229,000 (ecmyers) +6
7. 102,000 (Ausden) +5

January 5 to January 12: Revenge of the Gator (Link)

1. 1,854,740 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 1,162,930 (acromite53) +10
3. 1,106,570 (BriGuy82) +9
4. 606,620 (koifish) +8
5. 538,400 (Splain) +7
6. 472,610 (arnpoly) +6
7. 456,980 (Link) +5
8. 375,010 (ecmyers) +4
9. 341,330 (Ausden) +3

January 12 to January 19: Sneaky Snakes (Link)

1. Game Cleared - 88,350 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. Level 13 - 253,250 (arnpoly) +10
3. Level 7 - 58,150 (ecmyers) +9
4. Level 5 - 41,800 (Splain) +8
5. Level 3 - 23,175 (BriGuy82) +7
6. Level 3 - 34,825 (Ausden) +6

January 19 to January 26: Amazing Penguin (Link)

1. 188,920 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 183,210 (arnpoly) +10
3. 74,010 (BriGuy82) +9
4. 64,070 (Splain) +8
5. 35,890 (ecmyers) +7
6. 21,900 (Ausden) +6

January 26 to February 2: Mercenary Force (Link)

1. 79,550 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 77,550 (arnpoly) +10
3. 76,180 (BriGuy82) +9
4. 72,840 (Philosoraptor) +8
5. 64,380 (Splain) +7
6. 51,180 (Ausden) +6
7. 50,800 (ecmyers) +5

February 2 to February 9: Tetris (Link)

1. 442,109 (arnpoly) +11
2. 323,414 (Splain) +10
3. 293,727 (mbd39) +9
4. 286,360 (0xDEAFC0DE) +8
5. 265,697 (bertsampson) +7
6. 232,805 (BriGuy82) +6
7. 162,895 (Philosoraptor) +5
8. 83,059 (Ausden) +4
9. 12,568 (ecmyers) +3

GENERAL CONTEST RULES

-Contest is open to all members of Video Game Sage.

- In order to submit a score for the contest, take a picture of your score with your Video Game Sage user name written or typed on a piece of paper, which must be present in the picture. Your Video Game Sage user name MUST be in the picture or the score will be invalid.  The entire Game Boy or TV screen MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.

- Previously obtained scores are not acceptable as submissions.  You must play the game during the week it has been selected.

- When posting a new score, please begin your post by typing out your score.  Larger font (18pt) is preferred.

- If you are posting an updated score, please create a new post with your new score and delete the picture from your previous post with the old score.  You may also edit your initial post with the new photo and score.

- It is highly encouraged to play with original software on original hardware, if possible.

- This is a contest of skill, so using any sort of device or feature that would give you an advantage over another player is prohibited.  Examples include, but not limited to, cheat devices, save states, altered ROMs, remapped controllers, and turbo functions.  The use of glitches to alter your score is also not allowed.  Any other glitches will be examined on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not they will be permitted.  Any glitches discovered by participants must be reported and approved for use before submitting a score using them.

-Although not required, I would encourage participants not to practice a game in advance.

- Points will be awarded each week as follows:

1st – 11 points
2nd – 10 points
3rd – 9 points
4th – 8 points
5th – 7 points
6th – 6 points
7th – 5 points
8th – 4 points
9th and lower – 3 points

LEADERBOARD:

1. 0xDEAFc0DE (103 points)
2. arnpoly (91 points)
3. Splain (73 points)
4. ecmyers (54 points)
5. koifish (52 points)
6. BriGuy82 (50 points)
7. acromite53 (46 points)
8. Ausden (45 points)
9. Bertsampson (30 points)
10. Philosoraptor (14 points)
11. Link (11 points)
12. mbd (9 points)
13. Gloves (4 points)
13. barrels (4 points)

3 hours ago, Splain said:

Ok, Hunchback of Notre Dame is done. I've now gotten a Funfair passcode from all 5 minigames, and beaten the corresponding challenges in the Funfair (all within the same play session.) I didn't see any special ending screen or anything, so unless the manual says otherwise, I'm calling this one beaten.

Overall it's really not a bad game. Not "phoned in" like I expected from a Disney movie game. Chiseler even has its own standalone password system, and Catch the Fool plays like one of the modern Game and Watch games from G&W Gallery. (I mean that in a good way heh) The Funfair is an interesting meta-game. I beat Casper for the first time last week (it was already beaten for the thread) which attempts a similar mini-game collection idea. Night and day. I never want to play Casper again, while I'd be fine coming back to Hunchback. It's not 100% polished, but some parts are really pretty good, like the fluid animations in Catch the Fool.

Thanks for the manual info Red.

No problem.  Unless you feel the need to complete every stage of Chiseler and Catch the Fool, completing the Funfair should be enough.  Here's exactly what the manual says about it:

"If you attain a ticket for one event, you will only be allowed to compete in that event in the Funfair.  In order to play the wheel of fortune in full, you will have to collect a ticket for all events in one play session!  'Tis truly something to aspire to!  Good luck, my friend!"

I couldn't really get into the game.  Chiseler seemed to be a competent enough breakout clone, but I'm not really into those kind of games, so it didn't hold my interest very long.  Bowling took maybe a minute or two to master and I didn't find the other 3 very interesting either.  I would agree there was a decent amount of effort put into it though.  I played it on Super Game Boy and they made good use of the color in the menus and bowling game.

I wound up beating a bunch of games while looking for good ones for the contest.  While I'm not done yet, here are the ones I finished so far that haven't been beaten yet:

Dead Heat Scramble
Maru's Mission
Sneaky Snakes
Trax

I think you could count Serpent as done too.  You have the win condition as beat the CPU in all 4 modes.  There are only 2 modes with 4 levels of difficulty in each.  I beat both modes on the highest difficulty.

13 hours ago, Tanooki said:

You can tick off this evening Parodius and The Getaway Highspeed II, and I noticed Ninja Gaiden Shadow wasn't done and it is now too.

What did you think of The Getaway?  It doesn't seem very well liked.  When I first played it, I didn't like it either, but I gave it another chance last week while testing games for the contest.  At first, I still didn't like it, but I kept playing and it started to grow on me.  I wouldn't say it's a great pinball game, but it's certainly playable.

21 hours ago, Splain said:

Ah ok, this is good info. I thought I had gotten pretty far in Catch the Fool, and I quit because it didn't seem like anything was changing. Helps to have the actual baselines for each game. I'm going to try a few of these.

Edit: I managed to finish a Picture Puzzle in under 20 seconds, which is tough when the tiles move so slowly, lol. It indeed gave me a passcode, I entered it into the funfair, and it "spun the wheel of chance" that landed on Picture Puzzle. I had to do a puzzle in under 35 seconds. I did it, it gave me a congratulations screen, and asked if I wanted to challenge again. I said yes and the same wheel spin landed on Picture Puzzle again, I assume it's all for show. I'll try and get some more passwords to see if anything changes.

Yeah, I got the bowling passcode and the wheel of chance always landed on bowling.  The bowling challenge is to get an exact number of points in a certain number of frames.  I found it very easy to bowl a perfect game.  Start slightly to the right of the center and bowl with a left curve at full/close to full power and it will be a strike every time.

On 10/24/2019 at 2:23 PM, Splain said:

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The 4               Various/Minigame P ?? I'm looking for a manual to this game. The more I play it the more questions I have.

I have the manual for this game.  It says that there are 100 levels in Chiseler and 50 levels in Catch the Fool.  The other 3 mini games don't have levels and it seems you just do the same thing over and over.

The Funfair requires you to enter a ticket number earned by playing each of the mini games.  Here are the requirements for each game:

Chiseler - Reach level 25 or higher
Djali Bowling - Score at least 150 in one game
Catch the Fool - Reach level 32 or higher
Upsy Daisy - Win 5 games
Picture Puzzle - Complete in 20 seconds or less.

When you get the tickets, you're given a special challenge.  If you complete a challenge, you get a Congratulations screen and it indicates how many of the challenges you have completed.  I'm not sure what happens if you complete all 5.

I was all set to run a Sega Master System one of these early this year.  I assigned point values to all the US released games based on my experiences with them.  I was going to post the thread after the Sega Master System weekly contest ended, but the lack of participation in that made me think it wouldn't get much attention.  I wouldn't mind running it here if there's interest.

I'd also likely participate in a Genesis or PlayStation one.  If a Genesis one is started, I'd like to see Sega CD and 32X games included as well.

Just an update, I've been testing out games for this contest and everything is progressing smoothly. I have 4 games picked out and 10 more that seem like they would work (as well as a bunch more I still need to try out).  The contest should be starting on November 24 or December 1.  I plan to post the schedule a week in advance.

I like Xexyz.  It's part platformer and part horizontal shooter.  It's almost like a side-scrolling version of The Guardian Legend.

You're missing these three:

Star Versus
Cowlitz Gamers' 2nd Adventure
Vegetablet's Go

Mostly Paladins on Switch.  I played a bit of Shadow Madness on PlayStation a few days ago.  I'm having trouble getting into it.  I did play it once before back when it came out and remember it being average as best, but I wanted to see what I'd think of it today.  I'll probably give it another try, but I doubt I'll play it to the end again.

Chronos Twin seems underappreciated to me.  It was originally a European exclusive, but was eventually release in North America as a DSi downloadable game.  It's a 2D platformer/shooter where you control the movement of two characters at the same time, one on each screen.  It takes some getting used to, but it's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrpkatqwHFo

Okay, there seems to be a decent amount of interest, so I'll start putting this together.  It will likely start late November or early December.  I'll post an update in this thread when the start date has been decided.

For the past couple years I ran a Sega Master System weekly contest in December/January over at that other site.  I was thinking about running a Game Boy one this year.  I could do Sega Master System again, but since participation was so low last year, I think it would be best to try a different system.  It would run for 10 weeks and the rules would be similar to the NES ones.  Any interest in this?