Donkey Kong 3 Submissions

[NWnike]

Super cool badge Mr. Young, thank you so much! Glad I could inspire someone these days.

[CraigT]

Difficulty 3 - Marathon
1,980,000
WolfMAME 0.184
25/4/24

[homerwannabee]

Difficulty 3 - Marathon
1,980,000
WolfMAME 0.184
25/4/24

Great job
And another one!

[CraigT]

Finally gave difficulty 2 a try today.

Two submissions in one game:

Difficulty 2 - 5-man
586,400
WolfMAME 0.184
27/4/24

Difficulty 2 - Marathon
2,602,200
WolfMAME 0.184
27/4/24

Thanks!

[homerwannabee]

Finally gave difficulty 2 a try today.

Two submissions in one game:

Difficulty 2 - 5-man
586,400
WolfMAME 0.184
27/4/24

Difficulty 2 - Marathon
2,602,200
WolfMAME 0.184
27/4/24

Thanks!

Wow, I guess that's another two!

[xelnia]

Difficulty 3 - Marathon
1,980,000
WolfMAME 0.184
25/4/24

Finally gave difficulty 2 a try today.

Two submissions in one game:

Difficulty 2 - 5-man
586,400
WolfMAME 0.184
27/4/24

Difficulty 2 - Marathon
2,602,200
WolfMAME 0.184
27/4/24

Thanks!

All scores verified, DK3 HSLs updated, and DK3 Lover badge awarded! Congrats!

The first 5 deaths in the Diff 2 game were 139,800 - 294,200 - 349,200 - 452,700 - 586,400.

[Dk_madness]

Submitting pb for DK3 Difficulty 2 -

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2138282869

Marathon - 2,009,900pts

5-man - 250,500pts

so rusty and the vertical pot was causing chaos lol (sorry Jeremy)

Thank you!!

[homerwannabee]

Submitting pb for DK3 Difficulty 2 -

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2138282869

Marathon - 2,009,900pts

5-man - 250,500pts

so rusty and the vertical pot was causing chaos lol (sorry Jeremy)

Thank you!!

Love it! 

[Dk_madness]

Submitting for Donkey Kong 3 (5-man) PB

Difficulty 2 - 627,600pts

Link:  https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2140855741

Thank you good sir

[xelnia]

Submitting pb for DK3 Difficulty 2 -

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2138282869

Marathon - 2,009,900pts

5-man - 250,500pts

so rusty and the vertical pot was causing chaos lol (sorry Jeremy)

Thank you!!

Submitting for Donkey Kong 3 (5-man) PB

Difficulty 2 - 627,600pts

Link:  https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2140855741

Thank you good sir

dem pots 

Congrats, sir! These scores have been verified and the DK3 HSL has been updated! Since the DIPs for the 627k score were technically set on marathon, I'll point out that the deaths were at 141,700 - 298,800 - 476,700 - 609,300 - 627,600...and the rest of the lives were killed off. And even though it was quickly made obsolete, the first five deaths for the 250k score were at 121,300 - 141,600 - 224,800 - 226,700 - 250,500. But hey, that 250k score improved on your prior PB of 186k...from 2011. 

Now, just throw down any Diff 4 score you'll have the arcade world record!

Also, let me just answer your question here since it might be relevant to other players and they might see my response:

"Can you tell that it's Diff 2 just by gameplay or should I just keep opening the back and showing the DIP switches?"

Technically, yes, the difficulty/game settings can be determined from just gameplay video, with a couple caveats:

1) The only method I know to do this requires counting frames (how fast Kong descends the vines and how fast the timer ticks down)...so video quality is a huge factor.
2) This can be done on the very first board, but in the very, very edge case that someone might want to submit a partial video and we might consider accepting it, there a few boards with identical behavior...so we would need at least 4 boards worth of video.
3) Maybe there's another method I'm not aware of.

For the curious, the "duplicate" boards are:

Boards 3, 4, 5 in Diff 2 and Diff 3 (the timer ticks every 40 frames and Kong descends every 57 frames if he's not interrupted).
Boards 15, 16, 17 in Diff 2 and Diff 3 (timer 40, Kong 43).
Boards 24, 25, 26 in Diff 1 and Diff 2 (timer 40, Kong 26).

All that being said, I would really prefer people show the DIPs after every game.