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[roadrunner]

Mario Bros for the Game Boy Advance


  



Settings - Classic Mode


Any control setup is fine
Emulation is ok
No autofire/No save states
Screenshots are great but mandatory


Deadline to post scores is December 1st 2012

Edited by roadrunner, Thu Nov 1, 2012 4:58 PM.

[roadrunner]

Some game play footage. This guy did pretty good, he got to phase 32

[roadrunner]

I guess i'll set the bar

182,440


Beat it!!

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[toptenmaterial]

Oh right on dude! I'll offer a (shitty) prize to the 1st place winner.

[roadrunner]

Cool, let's see some scores people.

[toptenmaterial]

dude I know I've fallen off... give me the weekend to recoup.

PRIZE TO BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY

[TheGameCollector]

I've already maxed out this game on an original GBA the year it came out. Both the score and the level. I accomplished this feat 3 times on 3 different Super Mario Advance games (I skipped Yoshi's Island) so it is totally repeatable. Too bad I didn't notice this competition sooner but eventually I will post a video of me doing it again.

I have to say they really dumbed down the difficulty level in this remake. In the NES version, the farthest I have gotten was level 51. I was about 12. But in the GBA version I successfully completed Phase 99.

Edited by TheGameCollector, Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:07 PM.

[roadrunner]

I don't think you'll have to play to Phase 99 to win this competition.

[roadrunner]

I'm extending the deadline another month to give people more time to play.
This round now ends on Jan 1st 2013

[TheGameCollector]

roadrunner, on Sat Dec 1, 2012 1:21 PM, said:

I'm extending the deadline another month to give people more time to play.
This round now ends on Jan 1st 2013

Cool, maybe I should do it again on purpose just to show it can be done. I just hope playing it on a TV in order to capture the footage doesn't throw off my skill. Part of my reason for winning could have been because the screen was small enough to see everything at once, and I was using a real GBA controller instead of the Gamecube controller which usually is kind of hard to use for Game Boy sidescrollers. It is still worth a shot. I don't think I've had time to play any games seriously since April before I got this job and apartment.

The first time I accomplished maxing out the game was when I was sitting in my grandma's room at the hospital as my grandpa visited her. I don't remember if it was before or after she got out of her first coma.

[TheGameCollector]

My current high score is 754,060. Died on Phase 84 and decided not to count it if I use a continue. I will keep trying to do the max out. Sooo close. I have a strategy I developed but I kept trying to cut corners and didn't listen to myself resulting in this.

[TheGameCollector]

Hey guys I pulled it off. The high score is 999,990. It's maxed out and level 99 was beaten multiple times. There's no going past that as it won't get any harder and you keep getting bonus rounds with extra life chances every certain number of rounds.

This was played on Wii's Game Boy Advance emulator - VBA GX with the classic controller pro on a 4:3 big screen component CRT TV. Combined with the other day's efforts, I think I got this on my 7th or 8th try. My post above was the 3rd try.

Here's a screenshot taken from my video rip for now, I'm uploading this video to youtube for sure.

Edited by TheGameCollector, Tue Dec 4, 2012 3:01 AM.

[Shannon]

Cool... Love this game.. although I don't think I'll be hitting 999990...

[TheGameCollector]

Here is the video. It took all night while I slept to upload to youtube.


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAzkeEBGz5E&feature=youtube_gdata"]]

[roadrunner]

^^^ Great score!   Great video too.

[toptenmaterial]

Ok, so for a prize I will be posting a list of Game Boy games. My apologies for being asleep throughout this match.

[TheGameCollector]

toptenmaterial, on Tue Dec 4, 2012 9:11 PM, said:

Ok, so for a prize I will be posting a list of Game Boy games. My apologies for being asleep throughout this match.

very cool. can't wait to see the choices.

[Shannon]

174,760... probably could do a little bit better but kinda ran out of time.

[roadrunner]

Since i can't update the first post here's the current high scores -


TheGameCollector 999,990
roadrunner 182,440
Shannon 174,760

[Shannon]

192,540

[roadrunner]

About 2 weeks left

Edited by roadrunner, Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:13 PM.

[jblenkle]

When did this HSC start? I don't recall seeing it before...I'll jump in soon as I find the game...

roadrunner, on Sat Dec 1, 2012 1:21 PM, said:

I'm extending the deadline another month to give people more time to play.
This round now ends on Jan 1st 2013

[jblenkle]

Mario Classic - 32,410


First GBA play ever...

[roadrunner]

jblenkle, on Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:54 PM, said:

When did this HSC start? I don't recall seeing it before...I'll jump in soon as I find the game...

It started about 6 weeks ago.
These threads are below the HSC subforums.
Not too many people see these topics.

[roadrunner]

jblenkle, on Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:17 PM, said:

Mario Classic - 32,410
joe's mario classic - 32,410.png

First GBA play ever...

  


Thanks for playing.