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Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-10-31T03:11:51 -05.00

Was an offical emulator ever decided on? I wasn't sure since the first post didn't say one way or another. I was wanting to us the one on my phone call nesoid.

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-11T16:51:43 -05.00

I'm really glad emulators are being allowed. I actually picked up a retroport from bunnyboy last fall, so I'll be able to still test my mettle with a classic controller .

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-11T08:34:55 -05.00

Sounds like a good idea.

It might also be a good idea for people to devote themselves to ONE post that has a picture in it.
People can still post as much as they want to discuss the game and stuff, but each person only keeping a SINGLE picture posted will declutter immensely.

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-11T00:15:38 -05.00

One little small thing I'd like for people to do.
If people would write their score in the beginning of their post it would help me out a lot. Copying and pasting scores instead of typing them out would be great, and also more importantly it will make digging through the thread to see who got what scores much easier.
Now that we have 5 places and an unlimited # of particpation points, the task of score keeping is a lot more daunting.
So, the rule should state something to the effect of;
- When posting a new score, please begin your post by typing out your score. Larger font (18pt) preferred.
EX: If I'm about to post my pic of 5000, I start the post by typing 5000, hit return, then I can type or post the pic w/e.
That sound reasonable?

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-10T13:48:17 -05.00

We Decide each week if 1 life rule applys, i have the rules for this week and they will be posted at 9 PM central
Jeremy

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-10T02:19:09 -05.00

With 1943, you only get one life. If you die, you can continue, but the score resets, you are better off starting over anyway.

Nesrulers original post in this thread says nothing about one-life, so I hope he edits it to clarify. Maybe it depends on the Game?

Also can we use a GBA with the pocketnes emulator? I am looking to buy one.

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-09T22:41:24 -05.00

^With the one-life rule, I assumed it was simply going to be - yes, unless told otherwise.

Nesruler's Official NA 2010 Contest Rules

nesruler22 — 2010-01-09T20:17:01 -05.00

are we doing the one life rule? If its only for some games, will it be for 1943?

RULES FOR 2010 CONTEST

nesruler22 — 2010-01-09T09:44:29 -05.00

Originally posted by: dr.robbie

i really don't have an opinion on an "official" emulator. i don't believe changing the particular emulator is going to change the playing field at all. if people believe an official emulator needs to be designated, we could add it to the rules, but i thought we would only be doing that if we could find a cheat free or no save state emulator.

we have done some light gun games in the past and they were fun. didn't seem to be any issues with those as well, but guess we'll see.

Well, the "official" thing has to do with how I worded the question in the poll. Emulation eeked out a pretty thin win, and I don't want to piss people off that voted with some specific expectation.

I guess we'll call it a "pool" of official emulators that you can choose from, that will only include "accurate" emulators.

So "official" emulators:

Nintendulator

FCE Ultra

Nestopia

If your system can play some variant of those, you're golden.

On the light gun/peripheral topic...from the standpoint of participation, I really don't think we should do any game that requires the light gun this year. People who don't have a CRT would have to emulate...and at that point they might as well be playing a different game, due to the differences in input methods.

There is a deep enough library of non-zapper games that there is really no need to pick from them (and we played the only "good" ones last year anyway )

RULES FOR 2010 CONTEST

nesruler22 — 2010-01-09T01:30:43 -05.00

Nice. The rules look solid.