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Nesrulers Contest Presents: Silver Surfer MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Ends Next Sunday At 9 Pm central time!

Sep 12, 2010 at 9:30:39 PM

nesruler22 (94)

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MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
This weeks game is Silver Surfer!
Hope you guys have fun with this one!!!

Ends Next Sunday at 9 PM central Time!

Play until you lose all your lives
Right as you lose your last life, pause the game to take the picture
Start on any stage you want
Participation: 10,000

Good Luck Everyone!!!

If anyone has anything to Donate that would still be awesome I really only have 1st-5th for prizes right now and I would Love to give people more prizes!
Thanks Everyone!
Jeremy

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Sep 12, 2010 at 10:17:59 PM

Tanooki (185)

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Crap I used to be able to roll this game over. My brother is mailing me his copy he kept all these years (has the book too which is cool) but it won't be for another week or more. Emulation is allowed right?

Sep 12, 2010 at 10:20:41 PM

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^Yes, emulation is allowed, but no save states can be used.

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Sep 12, 2010 at 10:33:44 PM

Tanooki (185)

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Ahh save states are for pussies. I hated then years ago when people started to add them, refused outright to ever use or test them out (same goes with Wii quicksaves, I reset the titles.)

Sep 13, 2010 at 11:33:58 PM

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lol, almost missed this challange...looking forward to see what Jeff^^^Can post on this one!

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Sep 13, 2010 at 11:35:40 PM

SasoriVader (58)

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It's been a couple months since I did my last no-death run of this game... Sure, I'll give it shot.

Sep 13, 2010 at 11:50:40 PM

Tanooki (185)

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I dunno what I'll post. I'm limited to using a keyboard and knowledge of something I haven't touched in over a decade.

Sep 13, 2010 at 11:53:35 PM

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The problem is gonna be taking a picture of the screen, I don't have a camera or anything, but I'm going to try to use my webcam.

Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04:51 AM

Tanooki (185)

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Well that's the first time I tried it, 121050, nailed Reptile w/out a problem, but the collision seems broken on the emulator in firelords, kept saying I hit walls when clearly I wasn't which is why I'm not screen capping it. This game also has no continue, and when you eat it, there's a high score screen you can snap a pic of and type a bit of a long name in, nice proof thing I suppose too.

Sep 14, 2010 at 12:08:22 AM

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Oh, I'm going to use an actual console. I would never be able to beat it using a emulator, I'm terrible at video games using a keyboard. =/

Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:41 AM

Tanooki (185)

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Yeah as am I, but I won't have the real cart for at least another couple weeks or longer whenever the hell he mails it out around real life so that would be too late or I'd go about it that way.

Sep 14, 2010 at 1:28:37 PM

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Originally posted by: Tanooki

Well that's the first time I tried it, 121050, nailed Reptile w/out a problem, but the collision seems broken on the emulator in firelords, kept saying I hit walls when clearly I wasn't which is why I'm not screen capping it. This game also has no continue, and when you eat it, there's a high score screen you can snap a pic of and type a bit of a long name in, nice proof thing I suppose too.

which emulator are you using?

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Sep 14, 2010 at 2:13:27 PM

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nestopia, not sure what else would be a good idea as I tried out fceux and for some lame reason it would randomly stutter a bit here and there while going which is murder for timing. Odd too as I run stuff more intense than that emulator on this mini notebook for snes and n64 and they're fine. That and really keyboard sucks for fast shooting and moving about.

Sep 15, 2010 at 8:34:47 PM

Lincoln (138)

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do you have a recent version of fceux? try running it in full screen and see if your performance improves. also try vblank syncing in video options. you could also try nintendulator which has a good reputation for accuracy.

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Sep 15, 2010 at 10:13:23 PM

Tanooki (185)

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Yeah I tried using the latest released some few weeks ago. NEStopia has always been my one of choice, in earlier days when the author cared jabones as it was crazy accurate but it's out of date now.

Sep 15, 2010 at 11:18:24 PM

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735,050

couldn't quite finish the game. :\ it's too bad the mechanics are so f'ed up, this is a pretty decent game otherwise. I still don't understand how a being capable of traveling through space can't handle grazing a wall without taking a dive.

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Edited: 09/19/2010 at 06:04 PM by Lincoln

Sep 16, 2010 at 2:21:01 AM

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347,700

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Did really well on this game tonight. Started on Reptyl's level and beat that. Went to Mephisto's level after that and beat it as well. Went to Firelord's level next, beat stage 1 with relative ease and got all the way to the end of stage 2 before I lost all my lives. That pumpkin boss is impossible unless you're fully powered up. I probably could've beat him when I first got to him when I was fully powered up, but some spiraling pumpkin flew up and hit me without warning. I'll see if I can do better than this by Sunday night.

Oh yeah, and the bottom picture sums up my feelings about the difficulty of this game

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Edited: 09/17/2010 at 02:55 AM by bimmy_lee

Sep 16, 2010 at 2:44:05 PM

Tanooki (185)

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Yeah Silver Surfer is a whore. Most the stages you're just done for if you lose the power ups once you got them. That's the problem with it more than anything else, because if you just had a life bar, or just lost a level of power boost it would be more in the catagory of fair than f'd up aggravatingly hard.

Sep 16, 2010 at 4:51:03 PM

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The good thing is that once you have all the power ups, it's so easy to not die, and keep them.

Sep 16, 2010 at 7:47:38 PM

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I've been fucking with this game for weeks, and finally I'll be able to prove myself worthy.

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Sep 17, 2010 at 12:25:41 AM

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What are you guys thinking about racking points in boss fight? This is quite easy, so I don't know if it's a good idea to permit it, considering the game itself is hard to fight through?

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Sep 17, 2010 at 12:36:43 AM

Tanooki (185)

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How are you going to avoid it? If someone wanted to be calculating they could abuse it well and die before the last stage with a damn fine score and no one would be the wiser. Probably would have been best had you not explained that little loophole.

Sep 17, 2010 at 1:28:40 AM

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I think intentional point racking at the boss fights should be forbidden. It would be too easy for someone to get to a boss fight and rack up their score without actually trying to play through the game.

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Sep 17, 2010 at 1:56:55 AM

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Originally posted by: Tanooki

How are you going to avoid it? If someone wanted to be calculating they could abuse it well and die before the last stage with a damn fine score and no one would be the wiser. Probably would have been best had you not explained that little loophole.

I'm going to avoid it by establishing a rule against it. If anyone is posting a score here that goes against the rule, then screw him, he's a deliberate cheater, and that's just lame for him. That's how this contest work, on honor. By pointing out this 'little loophole', I'm only asking the community to judge if it should be forbidden or allowed. Then, it is said, and honest player will follow, and understand the rule.

As a first time player of this game, it is just normal that I'm trying to get as much points as I can, and encounter that kind of cheap ways to rack points. I'm just trying to make the contest fair and competitive.

Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

I think intentional point racking at the boss fights should be forbidden. It would be too easy for someone to get to a boss fight and rack up their score without actually trying to play through the game.

Exactly what I think about it, and we should definitely restrain ourselves to take any advantage of that technique.

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Sep 17, 2010 at 2:14:17 AM

Tanooki (185)

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I know you're trying to keep it fair, but I suppose I would have PMd the contest maker to warn them of it and see if they wanted to modify their rules if possible is all.