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NintendoAge 2015 Weekly Contests Presents: Donkey Kong Contest ends Sunday, 2/15/15 at 11 PM NA time

Feb 9, 2015 at 12:34:20 AM
bimmy_lee (78)
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I have made an update to the rules regarding rolling the score in the event that someone is able to do it this week.

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Feb 9, 2015 at 12:36:40 AM
barrels (149)
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Originally posted by: stinkerhubbin

Finally made a pretty decent run for my third attempt. Sadly, my cheapie USB controller isn't so responsive sometimes and resulted in me jumping straight up rather than to the left, landing me directly onto a barrel on the 7th level/cycle/iteration/whatever ya call it I need a physical copy of this game, think I'll see if I can borrow a copy from my buddy for this competition. Forgot how much fun it is.
Nice score! Still trying to break 100k on an actual setup. Good luck getting a copy!

 

Feb 9, 2015 at 12:41:45 AM
stinkerhubbin (87)
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Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets

Originally posted by: stinkerhubbin

Finally made a pretty decent run for my third attempt. Sadly, my cheapie USB controller isn't so responsive sometimes and resulted in me jumping straight up rather than to the left, landing me directly onto a barrel on the 7th level/cycle/iteration/whatever ya call it I need a physical copy of this game, think I'll see if I can borrow a copy from my buddy for this competition. Forgot how much fun it is.
Nice score! Still trying to break 100k on an actual setup. Good luck getting a copy!

 

Thanks! I used to have a copy of DK Classics, but I ended up trading it away a while back. D'oh!



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Feb 9, 2015 at 12:41:54 AM
acromite53 (21)
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Attempt 5: 149,000
Attempt 4: 146,100

Attempt 3: 143,200

Attempt 2: 109,900

Attempt 1: 100,400



Edited: 02/10/2015 at 12:39 AM by acromite53

Feb 9, 2015 at 6:12:08 AM
rcorporon (34)
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Man... DK has kicked my ass since the early 80s. I find this game to be brutally difficult for some reason (perhaps because I played it after I played SMB1 so Mario's jump physics seem weird to me).

I'll start practicing this week and see what I can do but I'm expecting another participation point.

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Feb 9, 2015 at 7:08:40 AM
ZeldaFreak (36)
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I tried this once and I almost got to 100,000, which made me realise I'm actually not too bad at this game. I'm gonna shoot for the stars, I'm gonna try reaching 350,000.

Edit: Yeah...... I just got a lucky run, I'm not getting 350,000. *sigh*

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Edited: 02/09/2015 at 07:31 AM by ZeldaFreak

Feb 9, 2015 at 7:28:45 AM
bearcat-doug (34)
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Originally posted by: stinkerhubbin

Finally made a pretty decent run for my third attempt. Sadly, my cheapie USB controller isn't so responsive sometimes and resulted in me jumping straight up rather than to the left, landing me directly onto a barrel on the 7th level/cycle/iteration/whatever ya call it I need a physical copy of this game, think I'll see if I can borrow a copy from my buddy for this competition. Forgot how much fun it is.

I tried practicing on my laptop last week using a RetroLink USB NES controller and it's terrible. The buttons are way too stiff and it seems like you have to press them almost twice as much as a real NES controller. I had one of those NES to USB adapters so I could use my original controller and it worked fine at first, but eventually started randomly registering phantom button presses. RetroUSB was sold out of USB modded NES controllers the last time I looked or I'd give that a shot.



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Feb 9, 2015 at 9:19:09 AM
fatalfuryspecial (31)
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111,600

dk1

Feb 9, 2015 at 11:00:34 AM
AstralSoul13 (48)
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I love DK but I'm horrible at this game. I'll still give it a shot to get that participation point!

Feb 9, 2015 at 11:30:49 AM
moobox (5)
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104,400

3rd attempt. Might try again in a day or two. I forgot how fun this game is.



Edited: 02/09/2015 at 11:36 AM by moobox

Feb 9, 2015 at 11:55:11 AM
Czar5 (1)
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CZAR5-78400
Hope this pic is better


Feb 9, 2015 at 12:26:40 PM
tyrantrum85 (4)
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Score of 26000



Ah I remember exactly where in this game I always tanked as a kid. Stage 2 Level 2 with the faster bouncing spring killing me just before I can get all the way up the final ladder. Every time.


Edited: 02/09/2015 at 12:27 PM by tyrantrum85

Feb 9, 2015 at 1:52:07 PM
moobox (5)
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169,900

Starting to think I'm actually good at an arcade game, never would have thought lol.


Feb 9, 2015 at 2:01:25 PM
Czar5 (1)
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CZAR5-New Score-109800...did it work?




Edited: 02/09/2015 at 02:07 PM by Czar5

Feb 9, 2015 at 2:09:54 PM
Commander Santa (178)
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Originally posted by: Czar5

CZAR5-New Score-109800...did it work?

 
YES!

Score is now valid!



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Feb 9, 2015 at 2:13:15 PM
Czar5 (1)
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Thanks for the help man. Computers and I have a hard time with each other.

Feb 9, 2015 at 2:36:03 PM
TriHart (59)
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Lol, I though I was on a roll last night! Looks like I'll have my work cut out for me on this one if I want to be a contender.
Anybody have any tips you could throw my way?

I cant seem to get past level 3!

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Feb 9, 2015 at 2:39:25 PM
moobox (5)
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To survive the barrel levels I just play it safe and make sure not to be standing under any ladders at any time. When you get the hammer that little tune loops 8 times I'm pretty sure, so I always time it so I don't run out of the hammer powerup while near any barrels. The rivet level is just patience, and I try to rack up a couple thousand points by using the hammer on the enemies, not much to that level. The bouncing spring level is my hardest I find, I have a hard time getting past it starting on level 5. At this point I just consider it luck lol. The first 90% of this stage though is just timing your jumps so you don't fall too far.

Feb 9, 2015 at 2:58:32 PM
guillavoie (125)
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Originally posted by: moobox

To survive the barrel levels I just play it safe and make sure not to be standing under any ladders at any time. When you get the hammer that little tune loops 8 times I'm pretty sure, so I always time it so I don't run out of the hammer powerup while near any barrels. The rivet level is just patience, and I try to rack up a couple thousand points by using the hammer on the enemies, not much to that level. The bouncing spring level is my hardest I find, I have a hard time getting past it starting on level 5. At this point I just consider it luck lol. The first 90% of this stage though is just timing your jumps so you don't fall too far.
Indeed, the spring level is the make it or break it point once you reach level 5. The trick to not get hit by that spring gives me headache personally. You need to watch carefully from where the spring spawn from the left of the screen, and when it spawn from the tip of DK's left foot you can go safely.



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Edited: 02/09/2015 at 02:58 PM by guillavoie

Feb 9, 2015 at 4:21:10 PM
Fluffy (11)
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Score- 147,900
Having a hard time with these images...




New score on page 8.


Edited: 02/14/2015 at 09:37 AM by Fluffy

Feb 9, 2015 at 4:48:54 PM
USFLegend (63)
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35500

This game is much harder then I thought.

Feb 9, 2015 at 6:10:28 PM
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Update! - Proud to join the 100K club. Bumped my score up a bit to 106,500



Edited: 02/14/2015 at 06:30 PM by alpenanews0506

Feb 9, 2015 at 7:22:15 PM
ninjistar (29)
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96,900

Updated Score 2/15/2015

80,600

74,800

58,800


My second or third attempt. I'm not sure if/when I've played this game before, but I like it! This one is for participation. I definitely expect to post a higher score.


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Edited: 02/15/2015 at 07:48 PM by ninjistar

Feb 9, 2015 at 8:07:06 PM
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I got a quick run in and managed to bump my score up, but I'm still playing rough.

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Feb 9, 2015 at 9:19:31 PM
erizisto (0)

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1,360,800

This is where I died on Level "Bottom Half of Girder".


The score rolled due to the bonus for finishing the elevator stage on Level "B with a weird line".
After taking the picture, I unpaused and took a bit of time to get up the final ladder, so the bonus shown in the picture isn't what was added.




Edited: 02/13/2015 at 06:43 PM by erizisto