ZeldaFreak

18 minutes ago, Splain said:

Lolll, All I Want for Christmas is You, 8-bit style. ... And Rockin Around the Christmas Tree. Love the soundtrack so far.

I did that once

...Damnit, I'm reminded of how much more I wanted to do with this track. Maybe I should finally finish it, 3 years later, haha.

Gloves: Done

Alriiight, figured I might as well go ahead and get this over with...

Firstly, I know I had the Helping Hand badge (Still quite proud of that one, haha. Only badge I really care about that much.)

Then the proof for several different badges is in my posts in this thread, so I'll do a few at once here:

All the Bingo 2020 badges

Merch buyer badge

VGS subscriber badge in... I believe it would've been the bronze tier? Whichever tier you'd get for The Gear Upgrade subscription, at any rate.

NES Contest 2020 participant badge

Homebrew Leaderboard participant badge

Blogger Badge

Halloween 2021 Bingo participant badge

For these contest badges, I'm not sure if winning means you get both the winner and participant badges, but I'll assume you do:

Valentine's Day 2022 Contest participant & winner badges

Independence Day 2022 Contest participant & winner badges, I was literally the only person who participated in this contest, so does that technically make these the two rarest badges on the site? Food for thought, haha.

Game Night 25+ participation badge, I know this one to be true seeing as how I'm the staff member responsible for managing game nights, haha. In fact I've participated in exactly 43.

I've participated in both of the two games of Survivor hosted here, so the Survivor 1+ participation badge. I'm getting tired of digging through old threads so I'll go ahead and just say refer to my signature, hopefully that's proof enough, haha.

I've also definitely participated in over 10 games of Werewolf, so the Werewolf 10+ participation badge. (Not gonna link to 10 individual games I've participated in, can go check out the Werewolf club if proof for that is really needed.) Haven't done 25 games yet seeing as how we're not at 25 yet, but I'll get there!

Apparently there's not a charm for the 2020 Beat Every Gameboy Game thread but I did participate in that a little so haha.

I also definitely at one point most certainly owned over 25 amiibo, but I don't anymore so eh, badge is whatever, up to you if you'd want to count that. I could probably go back and find some old pics of them for proof but I don't really care that much, haha.

Phew. OK. I THINK that's everything.

5 hours ago, BlackVega said:

I wasn't aware retroUSB was a real user here.

I wasn't aware either until I made that post actually.

14 minutes ago, RH said:

I think I got an old Final Fantasy VII Demake cart off of him years ago, but that was around 2107

19 minutes ago, Nugfish said:

@Jeevan sorry for not responding last week. For whatever reason I didn't notice any alerts. I am out of commission on gaming right now, but keep up the good work everyone. We're so close!

All good, thanks for keeping us posted! And yeah, we've got this in the bag.

I'm about to crash, but I'm thinking I should be able to complete WWF Attitude sometime tomorrow (@ZeldaFan042 just so he's aware. Hopefully you're not too too far in to the game, if you are... sorry man )

OH YES, I forgot to mention by the way that RetroUSB is actually providing the cart prize for this year's Xmas contest themselves, which is incredibly generous of them! So big big shoutout to @retroUSB!

• LEADERBOARD/Tickets Earned

1. ndsnfr - 19,743,710 - 2 Tickets
2. SuperJimtendo - 10,187,430 - 2 Tickets
3. NESfiend - 7,311,710 - 2 Tickets
4. CT - 7,279,310 - 2 Tickets
5. Link - 6,283,470 - 2 Tickets
6. RH - 4,314,460 - 1 Ticket
7. Gloves - 3,990,220 - 1 Ticket
8. DefaultGen - 3,927,480 - 1 Ticket
9. ZeldaFan042 - 3,506,710- 1 Ticket
10. Multiboot - 3,026,770- 1 Ticket
11. BlackVega - 2,094,010- 1 Ticket
12. spacepup - 1,159,520- 1 Ticket
13. JamesRobot - 1,065,480- 1 Ticket
14. Splain - 73,490- 1 Ticket

• THE GRINCH'S FINAL SCORE/Tickets Stolen:
• 6,220,090 - 9 Tickets

@PII @Gloves @Bearcat-Doug @mbd39 @Richardhead @Dr. Morbis @NESfiend @docile tapeworm @BlackVega @SuperJimtendo @G-type @RH @Red @8bitdontquit  @wongojack @a3quit4s @Murray @Krunch @TriHart @Abner Stomps @TWarwick07 @Kguillemette @Scrobins @Deadeye @Aguy @spacepup @drxandy @TDIRunner @Mega Tank @Splain @nesmaster14 @RegularGuyGamer @Gaia Gensouki @Jicsan @ZeldaFan042 @darkchylde28 @DefaultGen @Brickman @the_wizard_666 @JVOSS @koifish @acromite53 @KokiriChild @Jeevan @Bonanza125 @Lago @Avgn Gamer @CT @multiboot

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(If any of you would like to be removed from this ping list for future events, please let me know and I'll take your name off the list! Or, likewise, if you'd like to be added to the list, let me know as well! For these events, I ping people who have participated in previous events, and/or people who I think would be generally interested in future events.)

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8-BIT XMAS 2023 CART WINNER

ndsnfr

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1ST PLACE WINNER
ndsnfr - 19,743,710

2ND PLACE WINNER
SuperJimtendo - 10,187,430

3RD PLACE WINNER
NESfiend - 7,311,710

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Heya there everyone, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all once again! For this year's Christmas contest, we're going to be playing 8-bit Xmas 2023 on NES!

If you don't already have it, you can download the ROM for free here!

For those of you who haven't played it... it's pinball! The D-pad controls the left bumpers, the B & A buttons control the right bumpers, and the start & select buttons control the... according to Google it's apparently called the "plunger," but, y'know, the thing that propels the ball on to the playing field over on the far right. I think it's a fairly safe assumption to make that we're all familiar with pinball, yes?

With that said, the rules for this contest are very simple: Boot up the game, try to get the highest score you can, then submit your score! Doesn't get any simpler than that!

Or... so I thought, until I was once again contacted by... sigh... @The Grinch. Yup, he's back yet again, rambling about his usual nonsense about ruining Christmas for all of us! Here's the deal this time around:

In addition to the standard 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes, everyone who participates and submits any score at all will automatically be granted two entries in to a raffle to win a physical copy of 8-bit Xmas 2023, very kindly donated by RetroUSB for the contest! @The Grinch will be submitting his own scores for the event as well. He will update his currently submitted score if and when he improves it, just like all of you. By the end of the contest, should your score be lower than that of @The Grinch's final score, he'll steal one of your entries to the raffle and use it himself to try and get his own green, greedy, grubby little mitts on the cartridge, leaving you with only one entry in to the raffle, cutting your chances of winning the cart in half! This goes for every participant who doesn't manage to surpass his final score, so he could really rack up a lot of entries if you all don't fare so well against him!

This will have no bearing on the standard 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes, this is simply a bonus prize in addition to those other prizes, same as last year.

So, with all that said, here are all the prizes up for grabs:

1st Place:  $25 Amazon gift card or cash equivalent
2nd Place:  $20 Amazon gift card or cash equivalent
3rd Place:  $15 Amazon gift card or cash equivalent
Participation: 8-bit Xmas 2023 cartridge raffle entry x1
Participation + Surpass The Grinch's Final Score: 8-bit Xmas 2023 cartridge raffle entry x2

The only further stipulations to the contest are as follows:

1. As you would expect, no save states, cheat codes, slow motion, turbo controllers, etc. are allowed. Anything that would give you any kind of advantage over playing the base game on real hardware is not allowed. If it feels like cheating, consider it not allowed.
2. In-game exploits/glitches which allow you to increase your score in a way that wasn't intended are not allowed. If you're unsure about whether or not something would count as an exploit, feel free to PM me and ask about it.
3. When you submit your score, make sure your VGS username is visible somewhere within view of the photo/screenshot of your score. It could be a slip of paper with your VGS username written down on it, or a text document displaying your VGS username. Use whatever method you like, so long as your username is clearly visible alongside your score.
4. In the event you roll the score over, take a pic of your score once you hit around 90 million, before the score rolls over. Best time to do this would be after losing a ball. Continue as normal until you game over, then take a pic of your final score as well, and submit both pics. If you roll the score over multiple times, take pics every 90 million or so until you game over, then submit all of those pics in addition to your final score pic. I don't actually know if the score does roll over, but for now let's play it safe and assume it does. If it rolls over at a higher number (or if it doesn't roll over at all) let me know and I'll update this rule accordingly!
5. Only scores that have been achieved after this contest has started will be accepted.
6. If you've already submitted a score, and you end up getting a better score, you may of course submit the better score, and it will simply replace your previous score.

This event will last from now until 12/26/2023 at 11:59 PM EST, a little over 1 week and 1 day from now. Same as last year, I decided to give you all an extra day over the usual 1 week length, since I imagine many of you are going to be quite busy over this next week, so I figured you all might be able to use the extra time. Once we make it past that deadline, that'll be the cutoff point for new score submissions. I'll tally everyone's final scores up, and deal out prizes accordingly!

Good luck, and I hope you all have fun! Remember that there are real prizes on the line here, so try your best!

Oh shit I didn't know badges were back too, nice!

...I'm just now realizing I should've kept better track of what badges I had with the old system, haha. Ah well, I'll get around to it, I think I remember most of 'em.

19 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

aight, I just know I'm basically done this year, my 50+ games get me a month's worth of retirement   so I hope u all can help us finish.  

Oh yeah there's only like 5 games left with two weeks to spare, we got this.

14 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

@ZeldaFreak bowling??

Splain's working on that one.

The only one that isn't being actively worked on by someone as far as I can recall is PGA European Tour, since @RetroMichel said they'll get to it after the 20th.

And I figure Attitude makes sense for me to do next since like I said, basically identical to ECW.

Just now, Jeevan said:

isn't @ZeldaFan042 doing that one?

I want that $20

...But also by this point someone is working on all/will soon be working on all of the remaining games and I don't want to just sit around and do nothing.

ECW done. Next I'm gonna do Attitude since from what I've heard it's basically identical to ECW.

The title defenses are endless once you get the final belt, but since you do technically unlock a cheat for beating 5 title defenses like the previous belts, I went ahead and did the first 5 just for good measure since they were all 1v1s which are piss easy in this game. Or, well, either that or Big Sal is one powerful guy, haha. Either way, done.

Not a bad game honestly, but it definitely does get VERY repetitive pretty quick.

Just now, NostalgicMachine said:

Doom on the SNES is an ambitious nightmare, and not in the good sense LOL.

Yeah, they get my respect for even trying to make it work, but consoles just weren't ready for that type of game yet.

At least the SNES port nailed the soundtrack, which is pretty damn impressive given that the SNES's soundchip wasn't really the best for replicating that type of heavy metal sound

3 minutes ago, Link said:

There was already Doom on Super Nintendo.

Well yeah but it sucked, the N64 was a console that would've been more than capable of an actually good port.

...Also, you say that about it not being like today with ports, but there really were quite a substantial amount of DOOM ports honestly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_ports

It really is a bit strange that stuff like the 3DO got DOOM ports, but the console that had an entire new DOOM game on it never got the original 2.

2 minutes ago, NostalgicMachine said:

I remember when Doom 64 came out, it was looked down upon as an out of date FPS; most assumed it was just a port of the OG. It has really held its own against Goldeneye and Perfect Dark for me.

Honestly they probably should've ported the first 2 games as well, kind of a missed opportunity if you ask me, haha.

Kind of a similar situation to Sonic 3 & Knuckles, do you consider Sonic & Knuckles its own separate entry, or as an addition to Sonic 3?

3 minutes ago, Link said:

So you guys don't count Final Doom?

Personally I think of TNT and Plutonia as add-ons for DOOM II rather than their own separate entry in the franchise, but that might just be me. You could definitely make an argument for Final DOOM being its own unique entry.

29 minutes ago, BlackVega said:

Doom 64 IS THE REAL DOOM 3

I really dunno why they called it DOOM 3, should've just called it DOOM 4 given the existence of 64

I love this thread being raised from the dead once every few months

Honestly rice in general kicks ass.

I wish everyone put that much effort in to their lyric videos, haha.