Game #1: Super Mario World
Rules

• Goal -> High score
• Bonus Point -> Beat the game
• 1 life only
• You may use each of the 96 level exits one time each.  If you #$%@ up and re-use one your run immediately ends
• The same goes for the bonus area in Donut Plains.  You can "clear" it one time
• You cannot back out of completed levels
• You cannot use the item switching trick to boost your score.  Having to do that a thousand times every level would be lame
• Take a picture of your score before you fight Bowser as you will not be able to see it once you enter the castle roof

Game #2: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Rules

• Goal -> Progress
• Bonus Point -> Beat the game with no deaths
• Tiebreaker #1 -> Low deaths
• Tiebreaker #2 -> Low hearts
• Tiebreaker #3 -> Low sword
• Tiebreaker #4 -> Low tunic
• Tiebreaker #5 -> Low bottles
• Tiebreaker #6 -> No magic upgrade
• Tiebreaker #7 -> Earliest submission date
• Again, all tiebreakers are low to high.  By that I mean they reward less hearts, low armor, no bottles, etc.  This is rewarding minimalist runs, not completionist
• You can use and reload saves, including reseting if you die
• No glitches allowed

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January - Super Mario World + The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mod
1	1,977,110			+1	Gloves			Cleared - Perfect			+1	Gloves
2	1,180,710				quest4nes			Cleared - No deaths			+1	MrPeaPod
3	802,100				Bert			Dark World - 6 cleared				TheFinder
4	469,500				MrPeaPod			Dark World - 2 cleared				bimmy_lee
5	414,220				Ausden			Dark World - 1 cleared				Loxx O)))
6	343,260				TheFinder			Dark World - E. Palace				Richardhead
7	321,110				Krunch			Entered Dark World				quest4nes
8	308,950				bimmy_lee			1st Dungeon				Krunch
9	282,200				Murray			Nearly reached the menu				skinnygrinny
10	211,800				Richardhead
11	179,990				Loxx O)))
12	200				skinnygrinny

Getting it up early while I'm in the office, and locking until the new year

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Game completed
#1- No deaths
#2- 14 hearts
#3- Gold Sword but first got the Tempered Sword
#4- Red Armour. Also grabbed the mirror shield if you take that into account.
#5- Two Bottles
#6- 1/2 Magic
#7- Submitted Jan 1, 2018


I did this in one sitting and reset my console while the credits were rolling before taking a picture of my inventory. If I'm required to replay the game to get more pictures I probably could sometime later in the month but hopefully won't need to seeing I didn't go for a full minimalist run. I tried learning the speedrun route for this game by following Fruitbats beginner speedrun tutorial on youtube. My submission has the exact inventory he did after killing Ganon.

Super Mario World - 469,500


I finally had a chance to play some super mario world. I had a good time going for high score. It gave a different way to play which is nice with a game I've played many times before.

Just to clarify,

"You may use each of the 96 level exits one time each."

So if a level has two exits you can go through twice, just using both exits?

Correct

interesting.
I'm going to try a 3 heart alttp run just for this  

edit: you can't do a 3 heart run.
I'll do a minimum heart run, also i'm about halfway done lol

Super Mario World - 1,180,710


Zelda A Link to the Past - Entered Dark World after beating Aganihm(sp?)

Died and Saved Many Times(Dont know how to tell how many)
8 Hearts
Master Sword
Green Regular Tunic
Dont believe I had magic upgrade. Dont know what that is. Never beaten a zelda game. Played this too long and should have played mario world which Im actually good at.





 

some levels have 3   though the last exit I ever found to 100 percent this game is something you have one shot at in the level. If you screw it up youll have to end your run if youd already used the other exit.

 

Super Mario World - 308,950




Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past - Dark World 3rd Dungeon (have Map and Compass) (no deaths, 13 hearts, Master Sword, Green Tunic, 3 bottles, Magic Upgrade)

Did a run though of Link to the Past. It could be approved upon but I wanted to get something up there quickly. This month will be busy for me and I won't have any time to put a real effort in.

Just to clarify, to beat PeaPod you'll need to, at minimum, no death the game. Higher tiebreaker takes precedent.

Brock what are the rules regarding smw top secret area usage?

I haven't played the game in 20 years so perhaps I'm forgetting things, but there is there some reason those levels shouldn't be fair game?

top secret area is the area in donut plains with infinite mushrooms, feathers flowers yoshi/1up  

First part of this video 

I see. We'll say you can do it one time, as I interpret it to have one "exit". Ditto for Yoshi's house (if you want to do it for some reason)

lol then im definitely saving that shit for when i know ill need a yoshi

Just about to start Smw, so stoked

Holy shit! Haven't played this Zelda game in who knows how long and that damn snake boss in the mountain dungeon is as unpredictable as I remember! I can no death/minimalist run this game until that fucker comes along.

Goal for 2018 Participate every month! Started comp last year and had a couple of months with no time and I just fell off.

Also Brock thanks for compiling the past contest winners archives!

For me it's the turtle rock boss.
Been trying for a couple of days
 

Super Nintendo

Is the snes classic allowed?
I'm real good at nintender. Thanks!

I dont see why it wouldnt. The fact that there are easy save state situations on it really pushes the honor system though where id be sceptical of any post with it. Pretty much already the same thing with emulators though to me. Just my opinion. I assume if those are allowed then the snes classic would be. Just gotta hope people arent below cheating in a contest for fun lol.


really hard to believe someone not owning these 2 titles though lol.

If someone is sad enough to cheat in one of these contest.... well, they probably need it more than me lol! 

I think I might own 10 SNES games. I do have SMW but not LTTP.