Mr. Donkey Blog

[ChrisP]

I might have to stream a D2K 300K attempt in a bit... I am still weighing that option.

[ChrisP]

OK, let's do this shizz.

In about 20 minutes I will be streaming D2K. The audio entertainment will be the director's commentary of King of Kong.

http://www.twitch.tv/ChrisP_Kreme

[ChrisP]

207,200!

Not 300, but not bad.

Thanks for watching, Mr. Staal!

[ChrisP]

Just got kill screen #4!

Not streamed (recorded though), and I fell just short of my PB. but I'll take it.

I think I'll take a break until the tournament!

[stella_blue]

Just got kill screen #4!

Not streamed (recorded though), and I fell just short of my PB. but I'll take it.

I think I'll take a break until the tournament!

Congratulations, Chris!

Don't take too long of a break, as you're currently only 4 kill screens ahead of me.   

Any details you can share with us on the game?  Pace?  1 or 2-hammer? Deaths?  Harrowing near-deaths where you reached into your bag of tricks and survived?

[ChrisP]

So, like I said, I have had 4 kill screens in all: the first on MAME in December 2011, the second "live" at a nearby arcade in September 2012 (after dying on 1-1, which I've now mentioned here and there too many times and will stop mentioning it), the third on my machine about a month later in October, and now this one with the D2K/high save kit, which makes me happy, because now it's there forever.

I went with the same strategy I did for the other kill screen on my machine: start at million-point pace until the first death, then switch to top-hammer only.

My first death came on L6 conveyors and I said "what the heck, this run is so shallow at this point I might as well keep up the double-hammers for a while."

When I started 8-3, after a bad conveyor, I was only at 271K and decided that my pace was so bad (975K or so) that I might as well just run boards and try to get a 900K kill screen.

Nothing much else interesting to say. My conveyors were nasty (all 3 of my deaths were on conveyors - L6, L10, and L14), and my rivets were kind. I kept my last guy going for 47 screens so that's always nice.

I blew it on the kill screen. I wanted to do what Jeff did on his at the KO2, where he backjumped the first barrel before smashing it and the second and got 800 kill screen points (something that never even occurred to me as being possible until I saw him do it), and got so fixated on it that I didn't notice Kong throwing the last barrel! If I hadn't been screwing around I could have gotten THREE smashes for the super-elusive 1000 point kill screen. Oh well.

As it turned out, I only smashed the barrel I backjumped (because I forgot to steer the other one, like a bonehead), missed the wild barrel smash by a mile, and ended up with a 500 point kill screen. Tried to show off and got totally owned.

I'm looking forward to the tournament next month. At a Kong Off I know that I'd have no shot whatsoever of coming anywhere near the the top 5, even if I had a dedicated machine, but I think I'm right in the wheelhouse with the average level of skill in the wildcard field. I'll just have to break Ross's keyboard first.


EDIT: I changed "hands" to "keyboard." Even as a joke it just didn't sit right!

[mikegmi2]

Nice work Chris!  That's an impressive number of Kill Screen games!

[ChrisP]

And there he is, one of the top three guys I'm most afraid of in this... 

[mikegmi2]

Haha, well in all honesty I need to hop back on the DK train and play more...League of Legends has completely taken over my video game playing time...

[hchien]

I blew it on the kill screen. I wanted to do what Jeff did on his at the KO2, where he backjumped the first barrel before smashing it and the second and got 800 kill screen points (something that never even occurred to me as being possible until I saw him do it), and got so fixated on it that I didn't notice Kong throwing the last barrel! If I hadn't been screwing around I could have gotten THREE smashes for the super-elusive 1000 point kill screen. Oh well.

As it turned out, I only smashed the barrel I backjumped (because I forgot to steer the other one, like a bonehead), missed the wild barrel smash by a mile, and ended up with a 500 point kill screen. Tried to show off and got totally owned.
I changed "hands" to "keyboard." Even as a joke it just didn't sit right![/i]

Don't feel bad Chris!  That jump is not as easy as Jeff makes it look.  Reason being you have to control the barrel to the left while you are in the midst of the backjump (to the right).  That's a lot of jerking left/right.

Usually by the end of the game, I'm so tired (and celebrating so much) that I'll settle for the customary 700/400 points.  Also, I don't want to pull a Vincent Lemay (try to get 800 points and end up with 100 points because of missing the backjump).  If you want the extra 100, I'd actually suggest doing a forward jump/back smash (like we do with the top hammer) as it makes controlling that left barrel easier.

I've had probably 50-100 killscreens now, and I have yet to get 1000 points on the killscreen.  That's probably AGAINST the odds but DK seems to screw me in every way possible.

[ChrisP]

So what you're saying is, I got more points than Vincent on something he was attempting in Donkey Kong? Cool, you and I have that in common!

[Jeffw]

As it turned out, I only smashed the barrel I backjumped (because I forgot to steer the other one, like a bonehead)

Haha, I actually did that exact thing on my first killscreen at the kong off and ended up with only 500 points (I didn't have a wild barrel coming though for a potential 1k). Fortunately, I got it right the second time.

[up2ng]

Point pressing the kill screen?  Wow, SOME people are taking point pressing WAY too far ... 

[Xermon54]

Chris, yeah maybe you got more than me ONE TIME on the kill screen, but I still got 800 points on the kill screen!! haha (the kill screen means everything to me, and I want to be the champion on that screen! lol). But yeah, I got 100 points, and I'm proud to say that I'm probably the only one that died on the kill screen before dying on the kill screen (... anyway, it works when I say it in my head!)

But Dean got 1,100 (I think, or maybe it was 1k) on the kill screen when he was practicing for the Kong Off (back jump + 2 regular barrels smash + a wild barrel). Maybe he didn't do the backjump, though, I don't remember.

For the moment, Dean has the record of points on the kill screen... and the bad thing about that is that it's pretty hard to do attempts on the most points on the kill screen... each attempt takes 1h20, I don't think it's worth it! haha.

[mikegmi2]

Actually Vincent, I got 0 points on my kill screen.  My camcorder battery died, and I kinda went into a panic because I wanted to get the kill screen on tape...so I grabbed my phone and started taking video with my right hand...but when the time came to jump barrels I still had my phone in my hand and died trying to jump the first barrel.  Here is the video:

First DK Kill Screen

Looking back all I needed to do was move away from the oil can and then take my left hand off the controller and jump with my left hand...and I probably woulda been able to see the kill screen kick in.  Oops.