This month's competition is for 'Super Mario Bros 2' for the Famicom Disk System. You can play it here:
https://www.vizzed.com/play/super-mario-bros-2-fds-online-famicom-disk-system-36462-game


RULES: You MUST play the game using the RGR Plugin in 'Timetrial Mode' and take a screenshot of your top score from that by pressing F6. To play in 'Timetrial Mode', scroll down the page where the highscores would appear, you'll see a link that says 'Click Here to Compete for Highscore', click that. Once you've taken your screenshot, click the link near that one that says 'Click Here to Submit your Score' to submit your score.


Prizes:
1st = 10,000 Viz
2nd = 2,500 Viz
3rd = 1,000 Viz


About this game:
This is the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 which was originally released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. Super Mario bros 2 in America is a totally different game. Most people would say that this is the true sequel to Super Mario Bros. Since the new RGR Plugin now includes Famicom Disk System games (which is not the same as the famicom), I figured this would be a great way to introduce the system.


Competition begins now.

It seems the high score submission isn't working. The screen confirmed that my screen shot was taken successfully, but it does not show up in the "Submit Your Highscore" screen. 

rcarter2 : I'm working on fixing that. For some people it does work (it does for me anyway) but for others it doesn't. I'm pretty sure it's a directory permission issue, hopefully will have it fixed by tomorrow.

Are you able to take regular screenshots of it by any chance?

That is interesting. It does work when I take normal screen shots in the plugin. Looks like for me, it only doesn't work when on Time Trial for the high score mode. For me, it isn't a big deal. I got a pretty good score, but not one I was going to officially. I mainly only submitted it to see if it worked before starting on my real run for it Anyway, since the regular screen shots work, I think I will start making shots for other FDS games while I wait.

EDIT: Just noticed that I don't see the FDS on the Retro Game Room Index page's list of systems anymore.

rcarter2 : yeah it was causing problems where if you search for anything, it would automatically make your system fds. I spent like an hour trying to figure out why it was doing that but couldn't figure out anything so I just removed it for now until I have more time to look into it more thoroughly.

No worries. It's not like I don't still have plenty of screen shots to assign from that Screen Shot Hunter Competition I will just get back to working on those while you work on sorting it out. Also, I am really liking the plugin. The FDS games were working smooth as butter for me. 

rcarter2 : Yeah I'm confused why some people are having issues with the Plugin because it works so much better for me and many others. Btw, you can still find FDS games here, they're just not in the menu:
https://www.vizzed.com/playonlinegames/index.php?system=fds

rcarter2 : Are you able to submit a highscore now?

Yup. It is now working for me. The screen shots I submitted appear to be lost, but like I said, that wasn't important to me as they weren't my serious submissions. As for the people having plugin issues, could it be that their computers can't handle since it has more capabilities? (I don't know if it works like that or not. I am not too knowledgeable on things like this)

rcarter2 : Great, thanks for letting me know.

Not sure why the plugin doesn't work for some people, Tom will have to investigate. For some people I'm wondering if they didn't restart their internet browser after installing it.

Whew. This submission took almost 7 hours for me to do, but well worth the time! If anyone wants to know how to do that, there is a warp zone in world 3 that takes you back to world 1, allowing you to continue playing an endless loop to get as high of a score you want. It all depends on how long you are willing to play.

Well, since I'm pretty sure there is no possible way to get 1st at this point, I decided to just battle it out with anyone else for 2nd.

rcarter2 : Curse you for getting the highest possible score. =P

vizwiz123 : You can actually get 1st if you get rcarter2's score quicker than he did.

vizwiz123 : Sorry I did it so quickly. I was going to hold off on it as to not deter others from trying in the competition, but I really wanted to be the first one to win a competition for the new system Maybe if you get the score in about 6.8 hours instead of 7?

Someone has already gotten 9,999,950 in just 7 hours, I have this for virtual console, I have 2 million now, which means I wouldve been in 2nd place, but I don't have the time to do the completition, but always thank nintendo for putting this on the virtual console and being able to make suspend points.

rcarter7: Nah, that's OK. Wasting that much time just to get 1st isn't my thing really. I just get as high as a score I can get while beating the regular game.

Although I failed at beating the game. The emulator froze for a split second on some critical jumps, making me lose my momentum and die. I could do much better if I were playing this on my Wii.

vizwiz123 : I took a look at your screenshot, such terrible moments when you're doing so good, then all of a sudden, luck turns on you by freezing the emulator for 1/2 a second which caused you get almost 730k points. Were you doing this warplessly? I think you did. World 7 is painful, even if that doesn't happen, I had troubles with world 6! World 7's a pain by setting a wind section so that it is even harder to make it through alive, in world 5-1, with the wind part activated, don't go thurther than the wind point start, next to a block, tap left quickly, and you can go through objects, I think this is fixed in the SNES version. The lag is completly not in the virtual console because no virtual console games ever lag at all, runs at a full 60 frames a second speed.

I am glad to see that my submission hasn't seemed to reduce participation. I am still seeing people playing this game and I am still seeing scores being submitted. That is a relief. 

Are the classic infinite 1-up techniques considered fair game for this competition?  I would like to know before I try for a better score than my first try.

madison : There's no way to detect whether someone does that or not so we have no other choice but to allow it.