NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2019-01-20T13:36:29 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: skinnygrinny
 
Originally posted by: Bea_Iank

Very nice score there, Skinny.  

Also, we will be posting news about the 2019 contest in the next 2 weeks or so. Stay tuned!  

Thank you bea! I wasn’t going to play any other nes game until I no death that thing. Awesome game. 

Im excited for the 2019 season. Thank you for all your help. 
 
Good job. It looks like the fire shield is the best weapon to have for the final bosses. You made short work of them. I recall getting to the bosses with more time than what you had, but I choked.

I reached stage 13 in Bump n Jump today. I'm getting closer. I also hope that we play it this year.



  ]]> 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2019-01-19T19:50:35 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: Bea_Iank

Very nice score there, Skinny.  

Also, we will be posting news about the 2019 contest in the next 2 weeks or so. Stay tuned!  
Thank you bea! I wasn’t going to play any other nes game until I no death that thing. Awesome game. 

Im excited for the 2019 season. Thank you for all your help. 
  ]]> 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2019-01-19T19:48:54 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: mbd39
Took another shot at it. Scored a little more and got the capture card footage. No death. Best bert by 40,000

851700

https://youtu.be/SpbeW5mXjz0


https://imgur.com/gallery/BJaaHYV

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Also, we will be posting news about the 2019 contest in the next 2 weeks or so. Stay tuned!   ]]> 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2019-01-19T15:00:12 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: mbd39
 
Originally posted by: skinnygrinny
 
Originally posted by: mbd39


It’s done. Now I can take it out of the nes. I had it go to the capture card but the program crashed. Go figure. good thing I still took a picture. I’ll try to get it on the capture card again though. 

Been playing it a couple times here and there since the tourney needed. This week I put it a run or two a day and today I been playing since around 7 am. 

This is is an awesome game.

Congrats, man. Now go beat Battletoads!  

The original Japanese NG3 is much easier. I'm glad they made they increased the difficulty for the North American version. NG games should be tough.

Lately I've been obsessed with NES Bump n Jump. I'm already quite good at playing for score. I'll do fine the next time it appears in the contests. But I've been playing every day in the _hopes_ of eventually beating it. There are 16 stages and I've reached the end of 12. It's not that the game is super hard... mostly memorization. It's that it goes on forever with very limited lives and no continues. The rng can totally troll you as well.
  ThankHow did you know! While I’m beating NG3 I was already thinking “I have unsettled business with battletoads”. 

Bump n jump was a decent fun game. I only played a little bit but it seemed enjoyable. 

  ]]> 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2019-01-19T14:43:18 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: skinnygrinny
 
Originally posted by: mbd39


It’s done. Now I can take it out of the nes. I had it go to the capture card but the program crashed. Go figure. good thing I still took a picture. I’ll try to get it on the capture card again though. 

Been playing it a couple times here and there since the tourney needed. This week I put it a run or two a day and today I been playing since around 7 am. 

This is is an awesome game.
Congrats, man. Now go beat Battletoads!  

The original Japanese NG3 is much easier. I'm glad they increased the difficulty for the North American version. NG games should be tough.

Lately I've been obsessed with NES Bump n Jump. I'm already quite good at playing for score. I'll do fine the next time it appears in the contests. But I've been playing every day in the _hopes_ of eventually beating it. There are 16 stages and I've reached the end of 12. It's not that the game is super hard... mostly memorization. It's that it goes on forever with very limited lives and no continues. The rng can totally troll you as well.
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It’s done. Now I can take it out of the nes. I had it go to the capture card but the program crashed. Go figure. good thing I still took a picture. I’ll try to get it on the capture card again though. 

Been playing it a couple times here and there since the tourney needed. This week I put it a run or two a day and today I been playing since around 7 am. 

This is is an awesome game. ]]> 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2019-01-19T13:30:10 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: skinnygrinny
 
Originally posted by: bertsampson
 
Originally posted by: arnpoly

Don't look now guys but I'm in Act 7...



Figured somebody would pull some hijinks. I was planning on posting at 8, 11 NA time, but I had to put the 2 year old to bed. I'm posting with my phone now.

I’ve done it... 849700

https://imgur.com/gallery/PsIlPBV

  ]]> 2018 NA Weekly Contest Tournament : Final Round http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=184733 2018-12-02T17:16:19 -05.00 Bea_Iank 196 Originally posted by: skinnygrinny
 
Originally posted by: mbd39
 
Originally posted by: skinnygrinny
 
Originally posted by: mbd39

I'm glad Bert won now. It's good to go out while on top.

I have played a few times since this week. I just choked on the second form of the final boss, he had maybe two bars of health left. I didn’t realize how burnt out I was with this game. I have it a few runs after the tournament but I almost had to force myself to play today   it’s such a good game I hate having that type a feeling towards it. I have the same feeling towards battletoads after that week. Sometimes I grind a game so much trying to win that I start to dislike it   
 


I can usually get through the first six acts without dying and then mess up on act 7.

I knew going into the tournament that it's not an easy game to no-death. There were six of the best NES players in the finals and only Bert managed to do it. But I came frustratlingly close to beating arn's score and making top three.

My run this morning where I choked on the second form boss scored 652200. Better than arm and I skip some points from items and use nippo on stage 6. 

If I would have had any kind of experience with this game before the week of things might have been different. 
I'd say that anything over 600k is a great score for a one life run of Ninja Gaiden III. Over 500k is very good. Over 600k is great. Over 800k is an almost perfect run where you beat the game. 591k was the top score for the prior NG3 contest.

I had prior experience with NG3 but I was really rusty. I at least wanted to beat your score so that you couldn't brag about beating me at two different Ninja Gaiden games, heh.




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