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NintendoAge 2013 Weekly Contest Presents: Super Mario Bros. 3 Contest ends Sunday, 2/10/13 at 10 PM NA time

Feb 4, 2013 at 4:04:49 AM

Vectrex28 (130)

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Originally posted by: guillavoie

Originally posted by: Vectrex280996

No PAL?!? Even when the game is optimized?!? >

Well, explain what you mean exactly by 'optimized' and we may reconsider the situation.

Optimized means that the game is sped up so the PAL version runs at the same speed as the NTSC version.
Most of the games by the big companies are optimized, but several of them still run slower (Especially early Konami releases). An easy way to check if those games are optimized is to download an NTSC ROM and a PAL ROM and compare the speed.
If there's no difference between PAL and NTSC, then it's optimized

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Edited: 02/04/2013 at 04:05 AM by Vectrex28

Feb 4, 2013 at 4:51:32 AM

guillavoie (125)

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Originally posted by: Vectrex280996

Originally posted by: guillavoie

Originally posted by: Vectrex280996

No PAL?!? Even when the game is optimized?!? >

Well, explain what you mean exactly by 'optimized' and we may reconsider the situation.

Thanks for your explanation!

If there's no difference in speed, then the 'no pal system rule' can be void for this game, and all other 'optimized' pal games.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 9:13:28 AM

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Are we aloud to use a warp wistle to redo levels we've already beaten?

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Feb 4, 2013 at 9:26:51 AM

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Is the Virtual Console version acceptable? I ask because I have it, otherwise it'll be run through an emulator which I have on my Wii anyway.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 11:15:15 AM

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It's along time since I played this for the last time, and the game did a über cheap kill in the pyramid level (Sled down a hill and fell in a stupid little hole

Score:292950

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Edited: 02/05/2013 at 02:16 AM by Vectrex28

Feb 4, 2013 at 12:15:38 PM

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Oh crap I'm going to get destroyed, last night my high score was just over 65K!

Edited: 02/04/2013 at 12:16 PM by Shane

Feb 4, 2013 at 12:38:10 PM

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Nice! I'm glad this has started again.

I can't wait to put some effort into getting a good score.

But I have a feeling that I will get trounced this round.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 1:06:34 PM

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First run. Pretty sad, but it's been 10+ years and I tried to spam extra points on the canonballs. Bad idea.

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Edited: 02/04/2013 at 09:39 PM by SwiftFrost

Feb 4, 2013 at 1:18:41 PM

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Just a reminder: Please type out your score with your submission. Makes it easier to reference later. Thanks!

Feb 4, 2013 at 1:20:01 PM

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Hmm, looks like this'll be tougher than I thought. Also, forgot to give my TV a "name tag", I'll have it up in the next score, OK?

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Feb 4, 2013 at 2:41:59 PM

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Originally posted by: Crabmaster2000

Are we aloud to use a warp wistle to redo levels we've already beaten?

I actually would also like to know the answer to this question.

Feb 4, 2013 at 3:19:46 PM

guillavoie (125)

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Originally posted by: Rooster

Originally posted by: Crabmaster2000

Are we aloud to use a warp wistle to redo levels we've already beaten?

I actually would also like to know the answer to this question.

That's an excellent question, indeed.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 3:43:30 PM

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To answer some questions:

- It will be forbidden to use a warp whistle to repeat levels. I will add this to the rules on the first post.

- It is ok to use Virtual Console games as long as they are not different from the NES versions.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 3:48:47 PM

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Originally posted by: eCockpit

Hmm, looks like this'll be tougher than I thought. Also, forgot to give my TV a "name tag", I'll have it up in the next score, OK?

Sounds good.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 4:43:44 PM

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see new score on post 64

Edited: 02/05/2013 at 03:40 PM by grayworld

Feb 4, 2013 at 5:40:54 PM

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Originally posted by: bimmy_lee
- It is ok to use Virtual Console games as long as they are not different from the NES versions.

I guess that brings up the question as to if the Virtual Console version of Mario 3 is functionally any different than the NES version. To the best of my knowledge, it's not any different, other than running on the Wii.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 6:41:56 PM

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My first few attempts were dismally low. I'll admit I didn't even finish the first world. I'll have to get into it again.

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Feb 4, 2013 at 7:13:59 PM

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Wait, so we're NOT playing Yo! Noid?
Boooo!!

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Feb 4, 2013 at 7:18:52 PM

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First attempt. I'll be back...

Edited: 02/04/2013 at 07:21 PM by retrokidd89

Feb 4, 2013 at 8:32:28 PM

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this is going to be so much fun! ...... for some reason saying that in my head reminded me of the movie Nutty Professor, oh lawd

Feb 4, 2013 at 9:28:20 PM

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Okay, last time for this game. I have been playing this stupid thing for like ten hours straight, trying to replicate the magic that is the leaderboard, but I got very frustrated with the point accumulation thing. I figured maybe if I concentrated hard on just beating the game that the points would come, and I guess to a certain extent I was correct. Still didn't crack the top five, though. Oh well, bedtime for me.

Attempt #3: 1,159,750

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Feb 4, 2013 at 9:35:15 PM

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Edited: 02/10/2013 at 08:52 PM by milesp1

Feb 4, 2013 at 11:54:43 PM

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I know I'm in the minority here,but I never really liked this game that much. Slogging through the game anyway. Put up a few decent scores,but nothing I feel like worthy of a post. I'll try again tomorrow after I get out of jury duty. (ugh)

Feb 5, 2013 at 12:02:36 AM

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Originally posted by: gutsman004

I know I'm in the minority here,but I never really liked this game that much. Slogging through the game anyway. Put up a few decent scores,but nothing I feel like worthy of a post. I'll try again tomorrow after I get out of jury duty. (ugh)

You're not alone... it was never one of my favorites either.
I mean, it's a good game, but for me, not the best NES game of all time or anything like some people think.

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Feb 5, 2013 at 1:17:42 AM

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Originally posted by: WashYourFace

You're not alone... it was never one of my favorites either.
I mean, it's a good game, but for me, not the best NES game of all time or anything like some people think.

I'm definitely in this boat too. In fact, I don't even think it is the best SMB game on the NES (SMB2 takes that for me). In any case, my first few runs have been pathetic, scoring less that 100K, so this probably won't be a strong attempt at my first try in the weekly contests.