Red | 435 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 (edited) Hello and welcome to the first round of the Virtual Boy Weekly Contest! This week's game is Mario Clash. Enjoy this 3D update of the classic Mario Bros. arcade game. Can you conquer all 99 levels? You won't have to for this contest if you can rack up enough bonus points! Rules: - Start at Level 1 - Play until you max out the score or Game Over - Highest score wins - If more than one participant maxes out the score, the winner will be the one who accomplished it in the earliest stage (don't continue playing if you max out the score) - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 20, 2020 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: https://www.videogamesage.com/topic/5999-virtual-boy-weekly-contest-leaderboard-rules-20202021/ Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. 267,760 (koifish) 2. 84,430 (ZeldaFan042) 3. 81,100 (Splain) Edited December 21, 2020 by Red 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 555 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Nice GIF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,690 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 (edited) I'll have to look into unlocking the additional cores on my Nt Mini. Anyone know if Virtual Boy is supported? UPDATE: No VB core for Nt Mini as far as I can tell. Edited December 13, 2020 by DoctorEncore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Almost got all the visual glitches worked out on my VB, almost Mario Clash time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 555 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) Okay, first submission. Score was 119360. I'm bummed because I was on a roll, paused it for dinner, then came back and kind of forgot where I was, and proceeded to fail all over. I think I can push way further next score, just putting this on the board in the event I don't get back to it. Edited December 14, 2020 by koifish typed score out from screenshot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 555 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 New submission: 267760. Sorry it's crooked. I would have done better, but for some reason I was flubbing every bonus stage. That's several extra lives just left on the table! Hoping to give it one more go and maybe crack 400k. I think playing on VB has really reinvented my experience. In the past, it was difficult to get comfortable and play virtual boy for long periods of time. Here, I feel it's much easier to do so. I wish there was a way to make a VB HMD that was as comfortable as a modern VR headset. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Finally got both displays all fixed up, crystal clear! Got a quick game in before going to bed. It's not easy to get a good picture of the screen. I promise my next pic will be better. 28290 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFan042 | 1,181 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 37410 Played a couple games. It's hard getting used to B to jump. Hopefully I'll have time to improve my score this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 38 minutes ago, ZeldaFan042 said: 37410 Played a couple games. It's hard getting used to B to jump. Hopefully I'll have time to improve my score this weekend I recommend using the right trigger to jump and the right d-pad to throw. I stopped getting confused between jump/throw when I started using that. Unless you're emulating. I can't tell because that image link is broken for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 new score: 78920 It'll take me a while before I reach koifish levels of competence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I was thinking of attempting this, but having forgot how to play and getting ticked off like 11 stages and 65k into it, I flipped it off. Good luck for anyone with the patience on this one. Maybe next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 435 Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 About 30.5 hours to go. On 12/13/2020 at 4:10 PM, koifish said: Nice GIF Thanks! On 12/18/2020 at 11:31 AM, ZeldaFan042 said: 37410 Played a couple games. It's hard getting used to B to jump. Hopefully I'll have time to improve my score this weekend Could you try posting your picture again? I can't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFan042 | 1,181 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Red said: Could you try posting your picture again? I can't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFan042 | 1,181 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 59960 Tried the different controls, and getting better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 555 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 A pro-tip for advanced play: Use the two D-Pads for movement and for throwing. Use the shoulder buttons to run and to jump. It works fantastically, and is really how you do higher-end play of Mario Clash. Strongly recommend doing this to achieve high scores. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Hmm maybe that's what I forgot to do as it has been a LONG time. I was just using B and A to throw and jump and still went as far as I did before I got tired of it feeling lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFan042 | 1,181 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 72030 Those stupid snakes always get me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 1 hour ago, ZeldaFan042 said: 72030 Those stupid snakes always get me I hate the snakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFan042 | 1,181 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 84430 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 You punk. If I had time for one more try I coulda done great things. But the same is probably true of you lol. 81100 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 435 Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 That's it for week one! Congratulations to @koifish for taking first place. Please remember to include in your picture a piece of paper with your user name on it in the future if you are not using original hardware. The week two thread can be found here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 hey, third place! Not bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 I definitely feel like I was stretching my amateur strategies as far as they could go. I should have devoted more time to experimentation, I might have started perfecting more advanced stuff like jump-throws, stunning multiple enemies and taking them all out to get technical bonuses, and probably get some patterns down, at least for earlier levels, for better time bonuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 555 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 @Red Sorry that I forgot that element. Unfortunately, that may be difficult for me, as my screenshots so far have been taken from an oculus quest headset, and are thus not exactly capable of having a direct note/otherwise in the pic. Should I just cut in a second pic of the headset and UN on the outside via sticky note? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 435 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 1 hour ago, koifish said: @Red Sorry that I forgot that element. Unfortunately, that may be difficult for me, as my screenshots so far have been taken from an oculus quest headset, and are thus not exactly capable of having a direct note/otherwise in the pic. Should I just cut in a second pic of the headset and UN on the outside via sticky note? Ah, so that's what you were using. I didn't think of that possibility. Don't worry about the name in the picture then. Since you (or anyone else playing like that) would have similar difficulties getting a picture as someone playing on a real Virtual Boy, I'll waive the name in picture requirement for those cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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