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A few remarks about point pressing and how I performed in that run : I completely messed up the 4th stage point pressing because I only remembered an important thing when I was going through the 4th loop. After you get through the butterflies thingy phase, you should have your kill count at 4. Then, you have to get to 10 kills, and not kill anyone else before a knife thrower appears. You kill him for your 11th kill, and only then the next tall guy is your 12th 5000 points kill. After that you can go for the boss, and resume point pressing. My 5th stage 4th loop shows the reward of successfully point press the 5th stage in general, cause if you manage to beat the boss and still have the 5000 points bonus on for every 12 kills, there's no more knife thrower showing up once you beat the boss (except if you left a knife thrower behind, which would be the only one left to beat, as it is the case in my run).

Thanks man! I'm sure you'll find a way to get a higher score before the end of the week. Sometimes it is annoying how doing a score that matters can affect our performance, but there's usually always one run, at the very least, to save it all for the whole week.

Okay, vids of me playing from 3rd loop, no life lost, trying to go aggressive on point pressing, all along. part 1 : part 2 : part 3, short finish :

Sorry to skinny for being a share bear here, but the strat for 3rd boss is you go directly at him with a jump kick, you try to land as close to him as possible in the process, and you finish him with low punches (or kicks?). You must have more than half your health to make it a sure shot, as if he kicks you in the process you will lose half+ of your total health bar.

Here's a 51k 1st stage as a teaser!

I could try to record a video! I'm not saying that I'll get a run where I succeed to point press in all stages of the first 3 loops, but it would definitely show that I'm trying somehow to do it. 1 life rule make it harder for survival as well, I only played 4 lives contest in the past. Oh, and as we all know, stage 2 point pressing is not with the 12th enemy but by exploiting the dragons / balls in the air / snake vases phase. I use to burn my extra lives at the stage 2 of 4th loop IIRC, and then just hope I survive the most stages after that.

I wouldn't be surprised as it is what I do I always try to jump kick the 12th enemy I kill, and if I don't mess up (shit happens, and sometimes you get fucked with two knife throwers on the 12th count), I beat the boss ASAP and use all the time left to get more 5000 bonus by jump kicking the 12th enemy. As the loops add up it gets harder and harder to do it consistently, especially on the 4th and 5th stage, but in the 3 first loops I try to point press the 5000 bonus in all stages, if everything goes well naturally.

It is only worth running down the clock if you kept jump kicking every 12th enemies for a bonus 5000 points. If you missed one of them, you can't get the bonus anymore and it is best to just go straight to the end once the boss is out of the way.

An extra digit would make wonder here. At the least, it is easy to track rolled scores with progression by seeing the loop you're in (thanks to that dragon icon).

Skinny is following his own 'only post on Sunday' rule. And by Sunday, he means by 22:40 EST when nobody can use his video to better their run.

I think that de-spawning enemies on purpose should be allowed IMO, I'm not sure what you guys think but this sounds like a great tactic for a speedrun to me. Using start to either dodge a bullet, advancing the character, or using no ammo on bubble/metal/boomerangs should all be ruled out only if a player clearly abuse of it. Stuff like : Casually pressing start button while in the air to change weapons and such = Allowed Using the start button many times in a row to avoid falling into a hole = invalidate your run Abusing start button to dodge bullets in order to stay alive = invalidate your run Dodge a bullet accidentally by pressing start at the right moment = Tolerated Strategically pressing start numerous times in your run to avoid using ammo = invalidate your run Thoughts?

No zipping No using menu screen to extend your jump Do you have anything else to mention in that kind of stuff?

HAHAHA, yes, and for me, that kid was the closest friend I could have fun with, right next door!

This is literally my childhood in a nutshell. It also reminds me how my neighbor friend liked to combine firesteel from lighters to make a small explosion. Man, that kid was so silly and reckless, one time I saw him using a vice in order to hit bullets with a hammer to make them explode. That and making gasoline fire circles in his father's garage, getting the gasoline can catch on fire many times. First time I was sure as hell that the whole place was going to explode, learnt that it does not explode if the can is already open, lol. By any means, not kid stuff to recreate with your kids

The 2020 and 2021 Charms are on their way my good man, we've been on this thing since January. The icons are all made up and ready, we're just waiting for them to be actually implemented in the Charms distribution bank so we can hand them out. I'll try to haste things up with the other staff members involved, as it is just awfully true that they're long overdue at this point.

That's my bad, I forgot there was a US release of this game. I played it and the sequel entirely on multicartridges when I was young, which often makes me forget that the first one is part of the US set.

I don't think it is an appropriate statement for this thread either, at least without further explanations to demonstrate how one would come to this conclusion, be it a reasonable statement or not. I'd also add that criticizing or praising Fauci's statements/policies here is definitely allowed, as long as it is not just blanket statements and it comes with developed arguments. Not agreeing 100 % with Fauci is not a stance exclusive to Fox News or right wing propaganda, you can criticize Fauci from a progressive point of view just as well (and vice versa). But, Ideally, leaving alone any political affiliations is the way to argue opinions and ideas in this thread, even though I recognize that it is hard to do sometimes as these subjects are usually served to us politically charged by mainstream medias (but we are better than them, aren't we ). Anyway, the point of my post was really about reminding you, but also everyone else at the same time, that this was not the political thread, cause you were literally saying that it was (while I fully understand that it was just a fair error from you saying so).

Actually Corey, this is not the political thread, this is the coronavirus thread. There's a nuance to grasp here, I think.

Hey everyone! It's already this time of the year, when Bea and I get our old bones at work and try to organize another year of VGS NES Weekly Contest for everyone to enjoy! As always, we want to give the chance to everyone to say their piece about what they'd expect for this season. Any kind of discussions are fully welcome, be it to make games/rules suggestions, offer any kind of idea about the structure of the season, the tournament, the point system and ranking etc., criticisms of whatever you feel could be better for the contest, anything you feel like getting off your chest before Bea's reign of discipline comes into play! So let's put our collective brains at work and see what kind of juice we can squeeze out of this thread for the glory of the 2022 season!

Beer > Plastic bag Easy win for you!

Yeah, especially when a bunch of them are still very young, going to work would almost feel like vacation VS being the stay at home parent.

Best year long recap ever!

Wow, the top three entries are crazy close! Good job guys, those are awesome times!

True, just like GnG, Ninja_Gaiden. etc. It is how it should be ruled.,

Yes, that's what I think too, I just think Bea forgot to mention the sub-stages in the rules, hence why I'm not taking any chance for now and asked NesFiend to post both of his runs.